College Sports

For the third time in four seasons, the Piedmont College softball team sealed a USA South regular season conference crown.

A combined 19 hits and seven stolen bases along with two solid outings from Courtney Poole propelled the seventh-ranked University of North Georgia softball team to a doubleheader sweep of USC Aiken, 6-0 and 6-1, Sunday afternoon in UNG's final road games of the regular season.

The way fans poured over the railing, you would have thought Donald Trump or Pope Francis were in town...

Jessica Bagwell once again got it done offensively for the Piedmont College softball team, as she had six RBI Saturday with a three-run home run and a three-run double leading the Lady Lions in a pair of victories over LaGrange 6-3 and 6-2.

In Piedmont's final USA South regular season contest of the year, the Lions were red hot against the Covenant Scots putting up 14 runs on 17 hits in a 14-7 victory.

Sam Tidaback crushed a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth but it was not enough to pull off the comeback over Young Harris as the University of North Georgia baseball team fell, 8-6, in game two of the Peach Belt Conference series.

Third-ranked Texas A&M improved to 18-1 at home this year with a 5-0 win over Georgia Friday in front of a Blue Bell Park crowd of 6,322.

The NCAA announced Friday it was barring football coaches from participating in camps on other campuses, siding with the Southeastern Conference in its high-profile dispute with Michigan's Jim Harbaugh and others holding so-called satellite camps.

Greatness is fleeting. Which is why on Saturday I will be at Death Valley in Clemson, S.C., to watch one of our own, Deshaun Watson, now a junior, begin what is could be his last season of amateurism...

Georgia Tech hired Josh Pastner from Memphis on Friday to become its next men's basketball coach.