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Southern Living suggests visiting this small Georgia town known for famous tv shows, movies

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February 5, 2025

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Southern Living suggests visiting this small Georgia town known for famous tv shows, movies

Southern Living magazine has highlighted this small town in Georgia as a place you need to go to.

“Few towns find the balance between sensationalized and sleepy, yet Senoia, Georgia manages to do just that,” the magazine wrote. “What started as a railroad town was eventually made famous thanks to the silver screen. Award-winning classics such as Driving Miss Daisy and Fried Green Tomatoes were filmed here, which eventually paved the way for cult favorites like The Walking Dead.”

The town, located southwest of Atlanta, is in Coweta County. Southern Living has listed out exactly how to plan your stay in this town, from things to do to where to stay.

Things to do in Senoia

Take a tour of the town: Start your visit at the Senoia Area Historical Society and Museum, which is located in the old home of the town coroner. You’ll find interesting exhibits about local history. Or, visit Georgia Tour Co. to partake a Senoia historic homes walking tour of over 50 stops

Browse the Senoia Farmers Market: This market is held on Travis St. on most Saturdays. It is in an old cotton warehouse.

Shopping: People can browse the many boutiques on Main St. and The Walking Dead Shop, where collectables can be purchased.

Where to eat in Senoia

This small town doesn’t sell its eateries short, here’s a few spots Southern Living suggests:

Where to stay in Senoia

Worried about finding the perfect place to stay? Don’t be. The magazine listed the perfect option for that too: The Veranda Inn.

“The hotel was built in 1906 as a way to encourage train travelers to stay a few days to experience Senoia,” Southern Living wrote. “It has remained an inn since its inception and has ten guest rooms.”

For more information about this town, visit enjoysenoia.com.

Vanessa Countryman is the Trending Topics Reporter for the the Deep South Connect Team Georgia. Email her at Vcountryman@gannett.com.

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Where is Georgia baseball ranked in USA TODAY Baseball Coaches top 25?

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March 17, 2025

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Where is Georgia baseball ranked in USA TODAY Baseball Coaches top 25?

Georgia baseball stayed comfortable in the top five of the latest edition of the USA Today Baseball Coaches Poll that was released Monday.

The Bulldogs haven’t been any higher than their current No. 5 ranking, but with their 21-2 record, haven’t dropped out of the top 10 either. The steadiness comes after they toppled Kentucky 2-1 to open SEC play at Foley Field over the weekend. Georgia took game one 12-6 and game three 17-10, but the Wildcats split the series in game two with a 10-7 win.

Georgia is one of 11 SEC teams in the poll: Tennessee (1), LSU (2), Arkansas (3), Texas (7), Oklahoma (9), Florida (11), Alabama (12), Auburn (16), Ole Miss (18) and Vanderbilt (19).

The Bulldogs return to the diamond Friday through Sunday at Condron Family Ballpak in Gainesville, Fla., against the No. 11 Gators. Games are slated for 6:30 p.m. Friday, noon Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. There will be no midweek competition for Georgia baseball this week.

USA Today NCAA Baseball Coaches Poll Top 25

Rank	Team	Record	PTS	1st	Prev	Chg	Hi/Lo
1	Tennessee	20-0	750	30	1	–	1/2
2	LSU	20-1	715	0	2	–	2/3
3	Arkansas	18-2	671	0	3	–	3/5
4	Florida State	18-1	653	0	4	–	4/6
5	Georgia	21-2	628	0	5	–	5/9
6	Clemson	19-2	588	0	6	–	6/11
7	Texas	17-1	555	0	9	+2	7/14
8	Oregon State	15-3	506	0	11	+3	7/11
9	Oregon	17-4	452	0	10	+1	9/15
9	Oklahoma	17-2	452	0	12	+3	9/25
11	Florida	16-5	442	0	7	-4	6/11
12	Alabama	20-1	434	0	16	+4	12/NR
13	Wake Forest	18-3	388	0	13	–	13/16
14	Stanford	15-3	329	0	18	+4	14/NR
15	North Carolina	16-4	322	0	8	-7	4/15
16	Auburn	16-4	217	0	23	+7	16/NR
17	Dallas Baptist	14-5	205	0	19	+2	17/23
18	Ole Miss	15-4	188	0	15	-3	15/NR
19	Vanderbilt	15-5	173	0	14	-5	12/19
20	Louisville	16-3	162	0	NR	+14	20/NR
21	UC Santa Barbara	15-4	152	0	17	-4	15/22
22	Virginia	12-6	147	0	20	-2	4/22
23	Southern Miss	14-6	124	0	25	+2	22/NR
24	West Virginia	16-1	120	0	24	–	24/NR
25	Coastal Carolina	15-5	80	0	NR	+2	25/NR

Schools Dropped Out

No. 21 Texas A&M; No. 22 Troy

Others Receiving Votes

UC Irvine 55; Troy 38; Arizona 37; UCLA 30; Georgia Tech 29; Kansas 23; Kentucky 19; Hawaii 11; Western Kentucky 10; Oklahoma State 7; Kansas State 7; Florida Atlantic 7; Arizona State 7; UCF 6; Richmond 5; Texas A&M 2; Purdue 2; Texas-Rio Grande Valley 1; Southeastern Louisiana 1

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Jackets Dancing In NCAA Tournament

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March 16, 2025

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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech women’s basketball will be dancing in the NCAA Tournament, as the Yellow Jackets received an at-large bid Sunday night when the field of 68 teams was announced during the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament Selection Show. This marks the third trip to the Big Dance under head coach Nell Fortner, first since 2022 and 12^th in program history.

The Yellow Jackets (22-10 overall, 9-9 ACC) earned the No. 9 seed and will face No. 8-seeded Richmond on Friday, March 21 in Los Angeles. Richmond, a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, posted a 27-6 overall ledger to go with a 17-1 conference record to claim the regular season conference title. The Spiders fell in the A-10 Tournament semifinals to Saint Joseph’s.

Georgia Tech looks to continue its storied year in the postseason. Coming off an ACC Tournament quarterfinal run where they took top-seeded NC State to the wire, the Yellow Jackets opened the 2024-25 campaign with the best start in program history at 15-0. They were the first ACC team to open a season 15-0 overall since 2017-18. Georgia Tech has faced 15 teams ranked in the top 50 NET rankings, recorded three wins over top-25 opponents and spent 11 weeks national ranked in the top 25.

The Yellow Jackets capped the regular season earning some prestigious honors as Kara Dunn was named all-ACC first team, while Tonie Morgan earned a spot on the all-ACC second team. Five-time ACC rookie of the week, Dani Carnegie was selected to the ACC all-freshman team and voted the ACC Sixth Player of the Year.

The trio of Jackets are all averaging double-figures on the season paced by Dunn’s 15.8 points per game. Morgan follows contributing 13.8 points, while Carnegie adds 13.1 points per game. Graduate transfer Zoesha Smith leads Tech with 6.0 rebounds per game.

The 2025 championship will be the fourth to have 68 teams. First Four games will be played Wednesday, March 19, and Thursday, March 20 at four of the top-16 host sites. First- and second-round games will be played Friday, March 21, through Monday, March 24, on the campuses of the top-16 seeds. The championship will be utilizing a two-site regional format, with eight competing teams playing at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala., and eight teams playing at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Wash. Regional play in Birmingham and Spokane will take place March 28-31, with each site hosting two regional semifinal games on March 28 and March 29. Each site will also host a regional championship game on March 30 and one on March 31.

The 2025 Women’s Final Four will be played April 4 and 6 at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla.

Game times and television coverage will be announced at a later time.

Below is the schedule of play for the tournament:

First Four                                        March 19-20
First Round                                     March 21-22
Second Round                                March 23-24
Sweet 16                                         March 28-29
Elite Eight                                        March 30-31
Final Four                                        April 4
National Championship               April 6

GEORGIA TECH’S NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY
Georgia Tech’s 2025 berth into the NCAA Tournament marks the 12^th appearance by the Yellow Jackets. Tech made its first appearance in 1993, but would not return again until 2003. From 2007-2012, the Yellow Jackets made six consecutive NCAA Tournaments, highlighted by the program’s first-ever run to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2012. Georgia Tech’s highest seeding in the NCAA Tournament has been No. 4 in 2012.

In 2021, Georgia Tech advanced to the Sweet 16 for just the second time in program history. As the No. 5 seed, the Jackets uprooted 12^th-seeded Stephen F. Austin in overtime and No. 4-seeded West Virginia to meet No. 1 South Carolina in the Sweet 16.

Tech has won five first round games dating back to its first NCAA Tournament victory in 2007.

GEORGIA TECH WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
Georgia Tech is celebrating the 50^th anniversary of women’s basketball on The Flats this season. Under the direction of coach Jim Culpepper, Georgia Tech competed its first year in the Georgia Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (GAIAW) in 1974-75 before joining the ACC in 1979-80. Tech has seen many highlights over 50 years, including playing in the NCAA Tournament 11 times, with two Sweet 16 appearances (2012, 2021), and producing nine WNBA draft picks, featuring first round draft picks Alex Montgomery and Sasha Goodlett. In its first postseason berth in school history, Georgia Tech captured the 1992 National Women’s Invitational Tournament. Currently in its sixth season under head coach Nell Fortner, the Yellow Jackets have reach postseason play three times in the last five years.

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.

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Tech Golf Goes West for Pauma Valley Invitational

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March 16, 2025

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Tech Golf Goes West for Pauma Valley Invitational

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s 21^st-ranked golf team makes its third Western trip in four spring events this week, competing for the first time in the Pauma Valley Collegiate Invitational. The two-day, 54-hole event begins Monday at Pauma Valley Country Club in Pauma Valley, Calif.

The tournament, being conducted for just the second time, features a 15-team field, including nine teams ranked in the Scoreboard Powered by Clippd Top-25 rankings and 13 squads in the top 50. Pauma Valley is just 35 miles East of Carlsbad, where the NCAA Championship is held at the Omni LaCosta Resort and Spa.

Head coach Bruce Heppler’s team, which has one victory (Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational) from the fall on its resume this year, finished 13^th out of 15 teams at its most recent event, the Southern Highlands Collegiate in Las Vegas, Calif. The Yellow Jackets also tied for fourth place in its last outing at the Watersound Invitational in Panama City Beach, Fla., after opening the spring with a 10^th-place finish (out of 20 teams) at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate in Hawai’i. Redshirt junior Benjamin Reuter (Naarden, The Netherlands) has been the Yellow Jackets top finisher in all three events.

Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), who won the NCAA individual championship last May at LaCosta, and Reuter, who had a pair of top-10 finishes in the fall, are among five players who helped the Yellow Jackets advance to match play at the NCAA Championship each of the past two years. Also back are sophomores Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) and Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and junior Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.).

The tournament will utilize a split-tee start format each day, playing 36 holes Monday and 18 Tuesday, with competition beginning at 10:40 a.m. Eastern time each day.

Benjamin Reuter has been Tech’s top finisher in all three spring events. (photo by Clyde Click)

TECH LINEUP – Reuter and Tai lead the five-man lineup for the Yellow Jackets in Panama City Beach, joined by Fontenot, Kim and freshman Albert Hansson (Fiskebäckskil, Sweden). Tran will compete as an individual.

Reuter has been Tech’s top player all year thus far, posting a runner-up finish at Olympia Fields and two other top-10s, including a tie for fourth at the Watersound Invitational this spring. He is ranked No. 28 in the Scoreboard NCAA rankings. Tai, listed on the Fall Watch List for the Fred Haskins Award and as a pre-season All-American by Golfweek magazine and Golf Channel, had three top-20 finishes this fall and is ranked No. 204 in the NCAA Scoreboard rankings. The junior won twice as a freshman prior to his NCAA Championship.

Hanson, ranked No. 174 nationally, finished 22^nd at Watersound for his best showing of the spring, while Fontenot (No. 139 in the Scoreboard rankings) has a top finish of 30^th place at Watersound. Kim earned the fifth spot in qualifying, also tying for 22^nd at Watersound.

Tech has a 56-44-2 head-to-head record through the Southern Highlands Collegiate, needing to be at .500 or better after the ACC Championship in April to qualify for a bid to an NCAA Regional. Following the Pauma Valley Invitational, the Yellow Jackets also have the Ford Intercollegiate April 13-14 in Richmond Hill, Ga.

EVENT DETAILS

Pauma Valley Collegiate Invitational

Dates: March 17-18 (54 holes of stroke play, low 4 of 5 scores count for team score each round)
Format: 36 hole Monday and 18 Tuesday, begins 10:40 a.m. EDT each day from No. 1 and No. 10 holes
Venue: Pauma Valley Country Club (par 72, 7,311 yards)
Participating teams (15): Loyola Marymount (host), Arizona State (2), Georgia Tech (21), Illinois (13), LSU (7), Oklahoma (6), Oklahoma State (5), Ole Miss (3), San Diego (33), San Diego State (15), San Francisco, SMU (28), Tennessee (30), Texas (4), Texas Tech (26)
Tech appearances (last appearance): first appearance

Full Steam Ahead

ABOUT GEORGIA TECH GOLF

Georgia Tech’s golf team is in its 30^th year under head coach Bruce Heppler, winning 73 tournaments in his tenure. The Yellow Jackets have won 19 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships, made 33 appearances in the NCAA Championship and been the national runner-up five times. Follow Georgia Tech Golf on social media by liking their Facebook page, or following on X (@GTGolf) and Instagram. For more information on Tech golf, visit Ramblinwreck.com.

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