Wednesday's Report: GHSA playoffs, Upson-Lee dumped, spring sports, Mercer, Lamar County; UGA arrests, Braves, Falcons, Hawks/Young, Tech stunned; Olympics, betting, colleges, NBA, NFL, MLB, NASCAR
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High Schools
(Teams: Please post first and last names, and names are preferred over social media handles (they know who they are, most people don’t) and post team names, not mascots)
(Basketball: Postseason tournament scores/pairings on www.centralgasports.com)
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GHSA playoffs
Ranking or region and seed are next to the teams
Class 5A
River Ridge, 6/2, 62, Northside, 3/2, 29
Sequoyah, 6/1, 74, Veterans, 2/4 34
Class 4A
Warner Robins, 1/1, 59, Cedar Shoals, 7/2, 25
Jones County, 2/1 53, Westminster 6/4, 29
North Oconee, 8/1 77, Perry 1/4, 37
Class AAA
No. 26 Cedar Grove, 16-10, at No. 7 Baldwin, 17-10
No. 6 Pickens 68, No. 27 Upson-Lee 39
No. 5 Luella 64, No. 28 West Laurens 14
Class AA
No. 8 Westside 57, No. 25 Shaw 42
No. 1 Josey 83, No. 32 Rutland 21
Class A/Division I
No. 3 East Laurens 56, No. 30 Dade County 38
No. 5 Lamar County 58, No. 28 Gordon Lee 44
No. 25 Chattooga, 15-13, at No. 8 Putnam County, 18-2, no score posted on MaxPreps as of 1 a.m.
No. 22 Banks County 46, No. 11 Northeast 35
Northeast had a pair of 7-point leads in the first half, which Banks County cut to 2 at halftime. The visitors gained control early in the third quarter and opened up a double-digit lead against the cold-shooting Raiderettes, who lost in the final game of head coach Heavenly Whitehead. Kassidy Davis had 13 points and Jada Smith 12 for Northeast.
No. 14 Brantley County 58, No. 19 Central 46
No. 12 Elbert County 59, No. 21 ACE Charter 39
No. 20 Commerce 49, No. 13 Washington County 42
No. 10 Model No. 23 Bleckley County 38
No. 6 Bacon County 47, No. 27 Dublin 43
No. 4 Vidalia 52, No. 29 Southwest 41
No. 1 Bremen 59, No. 32 Jasper County 9
Class A/Division II
Bryan County, 3/2, 68, GMC Prep, 5/3, 26
Screven County, 3/3, 61, Hancock Central, 5/2, 54
Macon County, 6/1 62, Turner County. 2/4 31
Taylor County, 6/2, 53, Atkinson County, 2/3, 37
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ACE Charter 15, Jefferson County 0; ACE 10, Jefferson County 0
Aquinas 15, Baldwin 0
Bleckley County 12, East Laurens 2
Dublin 24, Southwest 0
Gatewood 11, Harvester Christian 1
GMC Prep 7, Brentwood 1
Jackson 6, Lamar County 3
Johnson County 12, Crawford County 5
Mount de Sales 16, Crisp 1
Peach County 7, Perry 6
Pike County 10, Upson-Lee 0
Putnam County 6, Commerce 4
Rock Springs 12, Central Fellowship 0
Rutland 20, Twiggs County 0
Tattnall 10, Athens Christian 0
Taylor County 3, Jasper County 2
Tiftarea 10, Westfield 4
Trinity Christian 3, David Emanuel 2
Veterans 12, FPD 9
Washington County 12, Northeast 1
West Laurens 16, Hephzibah 1; West Laurens 15,Hephzibah 0
Windsor 16, Wilkinson County 1
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Girls
Bleckley County 5, Swainsboro 2
CFCA 10, Windsor 0
East Laurens 1, Washington-Wilkes 0
Jackson 10, Westside 0
Jasper County 9, Putnam County 0
John Milledge 9, Lake Oconee 5
LaGrange 3, Upson-Lee 0
Lamar County 10, Utopian 0
Peach County 4, GMC Prep 1
Boys
Bulloch 4, CFCA 0
East Laurens 5, Washington-Wilkes 0
GMC Prep 4, Peach County 1
Jackson 10, Westside 0
LaGrange 3, Upson-Lee 0
Mary Persons 4, Jones County 0
Putnam County 2, Jasper County 0
Swainsboro 4, Bleckley County 3, PKs
West Laurens 5, Baldwin 2
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G-Dublin 4, Jefferson County 1
B-Dublin 5, Jefferson County 0
G-Stratford 3, Augusta Prep 2
B-Stratford 5, Augusta Prep 0
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ABAC 14, Middle Georgia State 2
Mercer 7, Florida A&M 0
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GMC JC 13, Chattahoochee Valley 2; GMC 14, CVCC 2
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M-Oldfield Classic, Georgia College
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Honor Roll/Alumni Update
Honor Roll
SoCon baseball: Mercer’s Kersey
Peach Belt WBKB: Georgia College’s Gaither
Around/About Central Georgia
Upson-Lee boys bumped from GHSA basketball tournament
Not keeping up properly with something as simple as reporting scores properly has ended the Upson-Lee boys basketball season less than two days before the first round of the GHSA state playoffs.
It’s a tough shot for a program that less than a decade ago reeled off a staggering two-year 56-0 run and consecutive state titles.
The postseason format for some classes in GHSA sports involves a ranking system, which relies on teams simply report scores to MaxPreps on a timely basis. The GHSA’s program seeds teams based on the reported information.
Upson-Lee made the postseason – based on available and reported information – as the No. 27 seed and was ready to visit No. 6 Pickens.
The Knights record on MaxPreps – it’s the responsibility of schools to report scores each night to the website, which has no control over whether teams do or don’t do that properly – is 13-13, as of 2 a.m. Wednesday.
One of the state’s foremost basketball websites and social media accounts, www.sandysspiel.com, had the Knights listed at 15-14 entering the state tournament.
Teams in all sports have trouble properly posting scores to MaxPrep, or updating them when the schedule changes.
Once the GHSA got all of Upson-Lee’s scores, the postseason rankings equation bumped the Knights from the state playoffs.
As per MaxPreps information – again, submitted by teams, coaches, and athletics directors – this is Upson-Lee’s first time not making the state postseason since going 8-18 in 2013-14.
Hephzibah’s girls and Westside-Augusta’s boys – schools in the same AAA region Baldwin, Howard, and West Laurens – had the same stumble. Those teams remained in the 32-team playoff bracket.
Cairo, which hadn’t played since Feb. 10, replaced Upson-Lee. The changes in seeds for the other teams had a trickle-around impact on several games with teams not finding out until late Monday night that adjustments were necessary.
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