Central Georgia Sports ReportMarch 10, 2026Comment

Tuesday's Report: CGTC/Fitch, Jasper County, Upson-Lee; Georgia Southern, Falcons, Braves, Hawks, UGA; NCAA hoops, betting, NBA, MLB/WBC, college football, NFL, NASCAR, golf, tennis

Central Georgia Sports ReportMarch 10, 2026Comment

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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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ACE 17, Southwest 0; ACE 19, Southwest 3

Northeast 20, Baldwin 1

Howard 9, Rutland

Johnson County 3, Dublin 2

Locust Grove 7, Jones County 5

Mary Persons 7, Treutlen 1

Montgomery County 7, Hawkinsville 6

Windsor 15, TCSG 5

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G-Bleckley County 2, Fitzgerald 1, PKs

B-Fitzgerald 3, Bleckley County 2, PKs

B-Howard 1, Baldwin 0

B-Trinity Christian 4, FPCA 3

G-Windsor 4, Vidalia Heritage 1

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(Colleges: Please post links to stories with social media posts, and team names instead of logos in graphics)

⛳⛳⛳Golf⛳⛳⛳

M-Cleveland Golf Palmetto Intercollegiate, Mercer

M-Lander Tournament, Georgia College

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Honor Roll

CGTC cleans up in GCAA awards, led by Westside grad Fitch

Central Georgia Tech men’s head coach Gerald Fitch, a Westside grad, is the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s coach of the year.

The Titans are 22-6 and the second seed entering the state junior college tournament.

Kaziaes Hemphill was named the state’s top defensive player and freshman, and Roosevelt Brown is the player of the year.

Brown made the first team and Hemphill the second.

Around/About Central Georgia

Job filled: Jasper County snags veteran Pinkins as new head football coach

Jasper County went barely a month without a head football coach, and got one with four region titles in 13 seasons and a nifty winning percentage.

Plus some legit experience in the SEC.

The county board of education announced Dondrial Pinkins as the Hurricanes’ new coach, nearly five weeks after Ashley Henderson left for East Jackson.

Pinkins takes over a program with the momentum of playoff wins the past two seasons and its first 10-win season since 1992. Jasper County improved every year under Henderson, who took over after an 0-10 season and won four, five, eight, and 10 games I the next four seasons.

Pinkins was a star at Mitchell-Baker, graduating in 2000 and going on to South Carolina, where he played under Lou Holtz.

Pinkins’ teams have made the playoffs 11 times in his 13 seasons as a head coach at Mitchell County twice and Pelham, winning a game six times. Pelham reached the Class A semifinals in 2018-19, going 23-3 in those two seasons.

He started out at Mitchell County in 2009, going 19-13 in three seasons. Pinkins was an assistant at Valdosta and Thomasville, preceding six seasons, four region titles, and a 53-15 record at Pelham.

Pinkins returned to Mitchell County in 2021, after going 6-2 at Pelham in the COVID-19 season.

Mitchell County went 5-5 in 2025, losing 36-30 to Warren County in the first round of the playoffs. The Eagles had two losing seasons under Pinkins in his second stint, 5-6 in 2022 and 2-8 in 2023.

He was released by Mitchell County in early January, the school deciding to go “in a different direction.” It hired Kaream Hess – who went 4-16 in two seasons at Montgomery County – in late January.

Upson-Lee among teams fined for score-reporting snafus

Three high school teams’ failure to adequately report scores that led to re-working of the GHSA Postseason Rankings are paying again.

Upson-Lee paid first by losing its Class AAA boys playoff spot, wile Westside-Augusta and Hephzibah paid by dropping in the rankings, changing their seeds and opponents.

Now, the GHSA is fining the three $2,000 each for the errors, which forced the group to re-seed on the Sunday before the state tournament started.

The GHSA relies in part on scores posted by teams to MaxPreps, and when it found out that scores were missing, it had to rework the playoff brackets.

Around/About Georgia

Falcons are adding QB Tua Tagovailoa and receiver Jahan Dotson

NBA cancels the Hawks’ plans to celebrate the strip club Magic City

Braves’ Wentz to miss 2026 season after tearing ACL in his right knee

Callahan brings vast experience to Falcons: 'He's the best in the business'

What Georgia baseball learned about itself during its first 18 games

Dubón in groove after chatting with childhood idol Chipper Jones

State college basketball

Troy ends 5-day run of Georgia Southern with 77-61 victory in title game of Sun Belt Tournament

March Madness loses its first Cinderella after 6 games in 6 days