Honor Roll update (Mercer men's hoops and Middle Georgia State women's hoops)
Honor Roll
Middle Georgia State's Joy Sadler and Kianna Delas earned Southern States Athletic Conference all-conference honors Wednesday.
Salder made the first team and Delas the second.
Salder, a junior from Birmingham, Ala., closed out the regular season with two player-of-the-week honors, and was 35th in NAIA with 15.2 points a game. She grabbed 9.6 rebounds a game, 20th nationally and first in the conference.
Delas averaged 12.8 points and 1.8 steals a game, both in the top 10 in the SSAC. She finishes with 1,017 points, 347 rebounds, 242 assists, and 143 steals. ...
To the surprise of nobody, Ross Cummings earned Southern Conference's player of the week for last week.
He averaged 30 points in helping the Bears past Samford and Chattanooga, dropping a career high 37 on the Mocs. Cummings was 19 of 40 from the floor and 12 of 27 on 3s, plus 10 of 14 at the line.
He entered the week fourth in the SoCon at 17.9 points a game. ...
To the surprise of about nobody, R.J. Yeager is the Southern Conference baseball player of the week.
He hit .444 with four homers and nine RBI in Mercer's four wins, with three homers coming in Sunday's win over Alabama A&M, including a game-tying dinger.
The Lynn Haven, Fla., native scored seven runs with a steal during the week.
The Bears host Florida A&M Tuesday and Wednesday. ...
Alumni update I: Former Bleckley County girls basketball standout Jahnaria Brown is the state's top junior college women's freshman basketball player.
The GCAA Division I freshman of the year averages 12.1 points and 7.6 rebounds in 17.2 minutes a game.
Central Georgia Tech's Fredricka Sheats is the player of the year after averaging 17.4 points, 3.7 assists, and 2.2 steals in 27 games. She was last year's freshman of the year and all-region first-team, and made all-star or All-American teams for the NJCAA and Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
Baldwin grad Courtney Butts of East Georgia State made the second team. ...
Alumni update II: Former Rutland standout Ty’lik Evans continues to produce for USC Aiken, and is the latest Peach Belt Conference men’s basketball player of the week.
He averaged 27.5 points in two wins, shooting 47 percent overall and 42 percent from 3. Evans was good for six rebounds, five assists and 5.5 steals a game, entering USC-A’s all-time top 10 in steals. …
FVSU junior Alicia Franklin has earned All-SIAC women's basketball honors for the second straight year.
The honorable mention pick a year ago made the second team this year after averaging 14.6 points with 2.6 3-pointers a game, plus 4.5 rebounds.
Jaylon McMillian of the Wildcat men made the second team. The preseason pick led the league with 505 points and 87 3-pointers, finishing third at 18 points a game. ...
Middle Georgia State’s Zach Cornell is the SSAC baseball player of the week after batting .333 with four hits, two homers and eight RBI in a series win over No. 20 Reinhardt.
The Knights' Madison Bivins is the conferece softball honoree after hitting .556 with five hits, three runs and three RBI in a sweep of Coastal Georgia.
And Jo Sadler's two double-doubles earned her the SSAC women's basketball player of the week.
This week's signings
Upson-Lee soccer standout Chase Winters has made it official.
The Knight will become an Eagle, signing with Georgia Southern. Winters has been among the top players in Central Georgia for a few seasons, earning region offensive player of the year honors as a junior.
Last week's signings
Veterans' A'Mira Askew has signed with Missouri State for track. ...
Jones County's Brenay Howard has signed with Claflin for softball.
Last week's Honor Roll
Six basketball players from Georgia College have made the Peach Belt Conference's basketball all-academic teams, two from the men and four from the women.
Senior Isaac Thomas makes his third appearance, with a 3.46 in accounting, It's the debut for sophomore Chapin Rierson and his 3.84 in accounting.
Thomas joins the elite group of Ryan Blumenthal (2016) and Josh Hurst (2011) as the only three-time selections.
Senior Sydney Cleveland has the Bobcat women's top ns the team's top GPA with a 3.53 in mathematics in her third appearance.
Erin Drynan is on for the first time with a 3.32 in exercise science with a minor in physical education. Sophomore Keyonna Wesley has a 3.44 in accounting with a management information systems minor. Sophomore DeLayne Rotolo also debuts with 3.43 in exercise science with a physical education minor.(2017) and Christina Thomas (2017) as the only three-time winners. ...
Mercer's Amanda Thompson has made the College Sports Information Directors of America academic all-district team for the second straightyear.
Thompson made the District IV team, and is one of five women's basketball players from Division I programs in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Puerto Rico, and is joined by Georgia State's Jada Lewis.
The star forward, an electrical engineering major, is now eligible for academic All-America honors to be announced next month.
Candidates must have a least a 3.30 GPA. ...
Cam Hill hit .500 in four games last week with six RBIs and three runs scored to earn honors as the PBC's baseball freshman of the week.
The outfielder went 2-for-3 against West Georgia, then was 3-for-4 in the conference opener against Georgia Southwestern. He drove in three in that game and had five of his six RBIs against the Hurricanes on the week. He also stole a base in his only attempt and was error-free in center. ...
Tattnall alum Allie Gordon of Belhaven is the National Christian College Athletic Association student-athlete of the week for softball.
She was dominant on offense for the Blazers, with a walk-off home run to beat NCAA Division I Jackson State University. The freshman batted .556 (10-for-18) and with five runs and seven RBI. ...
Middle Georgia State's Joy Sadler is the Southern States Athletic Conference women's basketball player of the week.
The junior forward averaged 20 points, 12.7 rebounds and 1.3 blocks while posting double-doubles in all three games. She shot 51 percent percent from the floor and 87 percent from the line.
She has 12 double-doubles on the season. ...
GMC had a pair of softball players take weekly honors in the GCAA last week.
Lauren King is the player of the week and Sarah Middleton the top pitcher.
King hit .714 with three doubles, two steals and four runs in two games, while Middleton was 1-0 with a 10-strikeout, one-walk shutout win. ...
Georgia College's women's cross country team placed some members on the the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's end-of-season academic awards and a spot on the Division II All-Academic Individual list.
Junior Rachel Boulineau and junior Maddy Howe are first-time honorees, while sophomores Tessa Allen and Sydney Brown (Canton, Georgia) are repeat honorees.
Qualifications: a cumulative GPA of 3.25 or better, and finish among the top-30 percent of total eligible runners at his regional championship and/or the top half of the field at the NCAA Championship meet.