Georgia sports for Friday, September 21st

The Braves beat the Milwaukee Brewers last night 3-1 in Atlanta, in the opener of the Braves' final home series of the season. With the victory, the Braves have a 5-game winning streak for only the third time this season, and first time since June. It was a strong starting pitching effort from Jeff Bennett, just called from the minors. In his first major league start, Bennett struck out 8 and allowed only a run in 5-and-two-thirds innings of work. Chipper Jones at the plate had 3 hits in 4 trips, pushing his season average to .342. That leads the National League, as he looks to chase down the batting title. Teammate Edgar Renteria was hitless in 3 at-bats, dropping his average to .336. The Braves with only 9 games remaining, trail the NL-East division leading Mets by 4-and-a-half games.

The college football weekend includes Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Georgia Southern all in action. The Bulldogs have an SEC-clash at Alabama tomorrow night--kickoff set for 7:45. The Yellow Jackets of Georgia Tech are on the road Saturday for a noon kickoff at Virginia. For Georgia Southern's Eagles, its a home game in Statesboro facing Chattanooga at 7 o'clock tomorrow.

High school football action revs-up tonight with multitude of games across Georgia.

Georgia sports for Thursday, May 31st

The Braves used their biggest scoring inning of the season to beat the Brewers yesterday afternoon in Miwaukee, 9-3.

Down 2-1, the Braves erupted for 7 runs in the 8th, led-off by catcher Brian McCann's 3-RBI double. Kelly Johnson had one of the RBI-hits in that inning, to go along with a solo home run earlier in the game. Andruw Jones also was part of the mix in that 8th inning with an RBI-double. The pitching win went to Tim Hudson. He allowed 6 hits and 2 runs across 7 innings of work to improve his record to 6-3. The Mets lost their game last night, so the Braves are now 4 games behind New York in the NL-East.

Off today, the Braves start a weekend series against the Cubs in Chicago Friday afternoon.


A Virginia prosecutor says informants have come forward to say Atlanta Falcons' quarterback Michael Vick was involved in dogfighting. Commonwealth Attorney Gerald Poindexter told a Virginia TV-station there is evidence that links Vick to dogfighting, which is a felony in Virginia. The investigation into Vick's property began in late April. No charges have yet been filed in the case.