Honor Roll and This Week's Signings (and last week's Honor Roll and signings): Wednesday PM update
This Week's Signings
A pair of central Georgia Tech women's basketball players have decided on their next step.
Former Warner Robins standout Victoria Brown isn't heading far away, having signed with Fort Valley State.
And Fredricka Sheats is headed to Emporia State, a Division II program in Kansas.
Coming up, I: Stratford is holding a signing ceremony on Thursday at 11 a.m. in the gym for Christian Palmer (basketball, Georgia Southwestern) and McKinley Thompson (track, Georgia Tech).
Coming up, II: Perry will have spring signing ceremony on April 17 in the theater, for football, baseball, soccer, softball, and basketball.
Honor Roll
Rutland alum Carol Pyon is the Southern Conference women's golfer of the week.
The Mercer freshman won the Brickyard, shortened by rain, on Tuesday with a 36-hole 138, topping some top-100 golfers.
Pyon and Mercer are up next in the conference tournament next week in Hilton Head. S.C. ...
GMC grad Dixie Raley is the latest Central Georgian to take weekly honors.
The senior at South Carolina is the SEC softball pitcher of the week, become the first such Gamecock honoree since 2017.
Raley (10-2) was 2-0 on the week with both wins coming over No. 4 Alabama, helping USC to its first series victory over the Crimson Tide since 2009.
She threw 12 innings Saturday and Sunday, allowing just one run against one of the top offenses in the nation. ...
Georgia College won the Peach Belt Conference women's basketball sportsmanship award for 2018-19. This is the Bobcats' second win, the first coming in 2013-14. Overall, Georgia College teams have won 15 sportsmanship awards, tied for third in the PBC. ...
Eight Mercer football players have made the Nation Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's Hampshire SOciety, for those who maintained a 3.2 GPA or more throughout their careers.
Honored Bears: LeMarkus Bailey, Bradley Earnest, Cole Fisher, Brandon Gurley, David May, Tee Mitchell, Matt Shiel and Austin Wysor. ...
A pair of Central Georgia Tech basketball players have some All-America honors to add to their resume.
Fredricka Sheats was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association's women's second-team, while Anyeuri Castillo was an honorable mention pick for the men.
Alyssa Nieves of South Georgia Tech and Savanna Walker from East Georgia State were HM picks for the women, Andrew's Jalin Wimberly for the men made third team. ...
Former John Milledge standout Harrison Bryant is the Florida Atlantic male student-athlete of the year.
The rising senior tight end was second on the team last year with 45 catches for 662 yards and four touchdowns. He led C-USA tight ends in yards and was 13th among all receivers in yards per game.
The first-team all-conference pick also made the conference all-academic football team.
The health administration major has a 3.688 GPA. ...
Houston County grad Tony Locey is the SEC co-pitcher of the week, joining Alabama's Sam Finnerty.
The 6-3, 235-pounder combined on a one-hitter in a 3-1 series-clinching victory over No. 5 Vanderbilt on Sunday, matching a seven innings pitched in shutting down one of the nation's top offenses, giving up only a fifth-inning double.
Locey fanned five and held the Vandy to a .045 batting average in improving to 5-0 with a 2.18 ERA.
Locey has been a part of two combined one-hitters this season for the Bulldogs, pitching seven innings in both.
Locey is eighth nationally in fewest hits allowed per nine innings at 4.17. ...
Mercer senior infielder Megan Lane is the Southern Conference softball player of the week, for the second time in her career.
She hit .462 (6-for-13) with six RBI, four runs and two homers as part of Mercer's 4-0 week.
She got at least one hit in all four games, including three on Sunday along with two homers against ETSU, improving to .325.
Georgia College's Cam Hill is the Peach Belt baseball freshman of the week for an unprecedented fourth time.
Hill went 5-for-11 (.455) with six runs and an RBI to go with an on-base percentage of .600. He went 4-for-6 with four runs in Saturday's doubleheader opener against Lander.
It's the first time anybody in conference history of the award - back to 2009 - has earned four freshman of the week honors. ...
Georgia College's Darby Pinkard is the Peach Belt softball player of the week.
She went 5-for-9 (.556) in four games with five runs and three RBI and two steals, with a .636 on-base percentage. She had multi-hit games against Emmanuel and Lander. ...
Zach Cornell of Middle Georgia State earned his third SSAC baseball player of the week awrd.
He batted .667 and slugged 1.389, with 12 hits, 10 runs, four homers, and 12 RBI in five games. Against Faulkner, he went 9-for-13 with eight RBI, seven runs, and three homers.
Last week's Honor Roll
Graduate senior Kel Johnson of Mercer is the Southern Conference player of the month for March.
He was brutal on pitching in a 20-game streak, belting 10 homers with 27 RBI on 25 hits. Johnson hit .325 and got on base in every game, extending that streak to 28 straight games. ...
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) named Georgia College's Wesley Wommack as last week's top player in the Southeast Region Player of the Week.
He went 10 for 14 with nine RBI and fiver uns, with two homers and a 1.214 slugging percentage. He also wasn't struck out in 14 at-bats.
Wommack is third in the Peach Belt with a .409 batting average. ...
Hunter Meadows of GMC is the GCAA softball player of the week after batting .600 with a .636 OBP, three runs, and five steals in four games.
Teammate Sarah Middleton is the pitcher of the week. She went 2-0 with one earned run in 14 innings, 18 strikeouts and a walk.
Middle Georgia State's Zach Cornell is the SSAC baseball player of the week for the second time this season.
The junior outfielder hit .533 with an .800 slugging percentage, nine RBI and three multiple-hit games, plus two walk-off hits. ...
Caroline Newton of MGSU is the SSAC's pitcher of the week after going 3-0, including a win over No. 6 Mobile. In 22 innings, she gave up one earned run and 13 hits against 11 strikeouts.
She had an eight-inning, three-hit shutout along the way.
Last Week's Signing
Rutland's TaLiyah Slocumb signed Thursday to play basketball at Wesleyan. She joins teammate Bre'Asia Davis, who signed recently with the Wolves.