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Stats, nominations due on Wednesdays

Individual player statistics for baseball, softball and soccer are due by 4 p.m. Wednesday, no exceptions.

The Augusta Chronicle will publish a listing of area leaders in the following baseball and softball categories: batting average, doubles, home runs, hits, runs batted in, on-base percentage and stolen bases. Pitching categories will be overall record, earned run average and strikeouts.

Soccer statistical listings will include goals and assists, plus keeper categories for saves and goals against average.

Nominations for players of the week also will be due at that time. Please include facts to support the nomination. The weekly stats and area players of the week will run each Friday.

Stats can be faxed to (706) 823-3408 or e-mailed to Matt Middleton at matt.middleton@augustachronicle.com. Call (706) 823-3425 with any questions.

Colleges

Pacers up 3 spots, rank 7th in new poll

USC Aiken moved up three spots to No. 7 in the latest Collegiate Baseball Newspaper NCAA Division II Top 30 poll.

The Pacers are ranked sixth in the latest Ping!Baseball NCAA Division II Top 30, which was also released Monday afternoon.

USC Aiken (20-8, 10-2 Peach Belt Conference) has won 17 of its past 19 games. The team will face rival Augusta State at Lake Olmstead Stadium on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

l The Augusta State women's softball team swept rival USC Aiken in a doubleheader Monday, winning the first game 4-3 and the second 3-2.

In the first game, after the Pacers took the lead in the top of the eighth, Jessica Thorton hit a game-winning two-run homer.

In the second game, Thorton was 3 for 3 with a run scored to lead the Jaguars.

Augusta State plays Armstrong Atlantic State at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Jaguar Field. The Pacers next face Georgia College & State in a road doubleheader Wednesday starting at 4 p.m.

Baseball

Dinner will feature former Brave Murphy

Former Braves star Dale Murphy will be the speaker at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Augusta Steak and Burger Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Christenberry Fieldhouse.

For more information, contact Kathy DeLoach at (706) 504-4071 ext. 13 or kdeloach@ bgcaugusta.org.

Golf

Tiger wears Buddhist bracelet in interview

Tiger Woods says a bracelet he is wearing on his left wrist is a Buddhist symbol for "protection and strength" -- and that he will wear it at the Masters Tournament and beyond.

Woods told the Golf Channel on Sunday that he's been wearing the bracelet since before he went into treatment after admitting repeated infidelity. The bracelet looks like a pale pink string, wrapped twice around his wrist.

Experts say wearing bracelets, necklaces or other reminders of their faith is fairly common for practitioners of Buddhism.

Buddhist scholars call it a "protection cord" that was likely blessed by a Buddhist monk or lama.

- The folks at the Tavistock Cup want spectators at their golf exhibition to be in uniform -- reporters, too.

The exhibition is two days of matches between touring professionals from Lake Nona and Isleworth, two gated communities in Orlando, Fla.. Ernie Els , Retief Goosen, Mark O'Meara and Augusta native Charles Howell are among the players.

To get on the course Monday, fans had to wear blue or red shirts.

- The USC Aiken golf team shot 610 through two rounds at the Bobcat Invitational at Cuscowilla on Lake Oconee and is tied for 14th place.

Kevin Grady shot 75 in the first round and 74 in the second for a two-round score of 149. He is the top Pacer in the field, tied with eight other golfers for 23rd.