Georgia sports for Monday, April 14th

There is a new champion at the Masters. Trevor Immelman earned the green jacket Sunday, becoming the first South African to win a Masters title in 30 years. Immelman faltered a bit with a '75' in the final round, but it was enough to hold-off a gaining Tiger Woods. For his day, Woods carded a '72' Sunday to finish 5-under-par for the tournament--Immelman finished 8-under. Stewart Cink and Brandt Snedeker tied for 3rd place, finishing 4 shots off the pace.

From major league baseball, after wins in the first 2 games of their series in Washington D-C, the Braves faltered in the finale Sunday with a 5-4 loss. Made tougher was the exit of starting pitcher Tom Glavine in the 1st inning after facing only 4 batters. Glavine left the game with a right hamstring strain, and hopes to avoid the disabled list for the first time in his career.

Georgia Tech has cancelled its Tuesday baseball game against Georgia Southern in Statesboro. The Yellow Jackets are dealing with the death of their teammate, junior pitcher Michael Hutts. The team will attend the funeral for Hutts on Tuesday. Michael Hutts' body was discovered Friday afternoon in his apartment in Atlanta. The initial report from the coroner found there was no obvious violent cause of death. A full report may not come for a few weeks. Tech expects to face Georgia Southern in a scheduled game Wednesday. Over this past weekend, Georgia Tech lost all 3 games to visiting Miami. Tech had postponed their Friday night game upon news of Hutts' death.

Immelman enters final round atop leaderboard at Masters in Augusta

Trevor Immelman enters the final round of the Masters Tournament in Augusta on Sunday atop the leaderboard again at 11-under par 205.

It's a huge comeback for the South African golfer, who was plagued with illness, and a stay in a hospital, during Masters Week in 2007. He managed to play that year, but ranked 55th.

Brandt Snedeker was second by the end of the third round on Saturday, scoring a 9-under-par 207.

Tiger Woods played better on Saturday, scoring 68. That comes after lackluster play in the first two rounds. He tees off in the final round on Sunday with a score of five-under-par 211.

Lightning interrupted the tournament for about 45 minutes during a thunderstorm on Saturday. The forecast for Sunday calls for sunny skies and a high of 68, but wind gusts up to 23 mph are predicted.

Georgia sports for Friday, April 11th

Round-2 of the Masters is on tap today from Augusta. Out of Thursday's round-1, it was a tie atop the leaderboard, as Justin Rose and Trevor Immelman led the field. Both fired opening-round 68's to go 4-under-par. There was a group of 3 golfers 1 stroke back at 3-under. The 2-under group, 2 shots off the top included defending champ Zach Johnson. The group 3 strokes off the lead included 2-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson. For Tiger Woods, he carded an opening '72' to start the tournament even-par, 4 strokes off the lead.

The Atlanta Braves will look to snap a 3-game losing skid when they open a weekend series at Washington tonight. The Braves' 4th game to close their series in Colorado yesterday afternoon was snowed-out--the contest will be made up in June. Tim Hudson is expected to get the starting pitching call against the Nationals this evening.

Tiger plays even in Masters tournament in Augusta

British golfer Justin Rose and South African Trevor Immelman are currently atop the leaderboard at the Masters Tournament in Augusta.

Today was the first of four rounds in the tournament.

Tiger Woods ended up behind the leaders, playing even and finishing with a par 72.

But the tournament is still early, and Woods is still favored to win.

Woods has set a major goal for himself. He has publicly stated that he wants to win all four championships this year.

British golfer Ian Poulter took an early lead tied for second during the day, but was bumped a bit down the leaderboard by the end of the day. He's tied for fifth.

In a celebrated play, Poulter scored a hole-in-one at the 16th hole.

Poulter had set his own goal. He said recently he thought he could be Woods's main challenger. His comments had been met with laughs and controversy.

"Amongst the guys, it was friendly banter," Poulter told reporters after finishing the first round. "But to open the newspaper and see the comments in there, and see what people think and compare you to Tiger, I wasn't comparing anything to Tiger."

Fog delayed the first round Thursday by an hour.

There are three more rounds in the Masters. The second round is Friday.