Honor Roll and This Week's Signings (and last week's Honor Roll and signings)

Honor Roll and This Week's Signings (and last week's Honor Roll and signings)

Honor Roll

          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 yweek.

          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.

 

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. ...