.jpg "Image") J’Quandra Hickman of Meridian High School has become the 12th softball signee of the current recruiting period for head coach Kate Neely’s EMCC Lady Lions.
A five-year starter for the Lady Wildcats, Hickman batted .327 this past fast-pitch season for head coach Susan Frazier to earn All-Division 5-5A honors for the third consecutive season. Last fall during the slow-pitch season, Hickman hit .422 with a team-high 32 runs batted in and club-most 13 extra-base hits to help pace Meridian to the Class 5A South State championship and state runner-up finish for the second consecutive year.
Having played catcher, short stop, second base and third base at various times throughout her high school career, Hickman enjoyed a productive junior campaign by hitting at a .522 clip during the fast-pitch season with team-high totals in RBI (34) and extra-base hits (15). Her numbers were equally impressive during the fall’s slow-pitch season, as the versatile right-hander batted .513 with club-best marks of 49 runs batted in and 16 extra-base hits. In helping lead the Lady Wildcats to the team’s first of two straight Class 5 South State championships and state runner-up finishes in slow-pitch competition, Hickman collected MHS’s Offensive MVP Award as a junior in 2007.
Along with former prep teammate Stribling, Hickman joins previously announced EMCC softball signees Nashedra Barry (Columbus HS), Leigh Ellen Barefield (Neshoba Central HS), Megan Ladner (Poplarville HS), Chelsea Theriot (Poplarville HS), DeShuni Sanders (Hew Hope HS), Mallory Pace (Northeast Lauderdale HS), Justine Jenkins (Caledonia HS), Katie Newman (Oak Hill Academy), Courtney Castleberry (Clarkdale HS), and Celeste Fontenot (Brusly [La.] HS).
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 May 2009 )
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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. – EMCC sophomore Hal Larkin shot a 5-over-par 77 in Tuesday’s opening round of the 2009 NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship being held at the par-72, 7,100-yard Goose Pond Colony Golf Course.
A former standout at Caledonia High School, Larkin stands in a tie for 58th place with 14 other golfers.Individually, David Griffin of Rend Lake (Ill.) College fired a 6-under-par 66 to take a 2-stroke lead over Ryan Cyplik of St. Clair County (Mich.) CC and Mississippi Gulf Coast’s Corey Ward.
In the team standings after the first day, Darton College (Ga.) owns a 1-stroke edge over Grand Rapids (Mich.) CC after totaling a 2-over-par 290 on Tuesday. Stone Mountain (Ariz.) CC and Mississippi Gulf Coast stand a close third and fourth at 292 and 293, respectively.
The tournament continues Wednesday through Friday.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 May 2009 )
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.jpg "Image") First baseman Hilton Gibson of New Hope High School has become the most recent addition to head coach Tony Montgomery’s EMCC baseball program.
A 6-foot-1, 190-pound right-hander, Gibson batted .377 this past season to help lead head coach Stacy Hester’s Trojans to a 25-11 record and runner-up finish in the Class 4A North State playoffs. In earning all-district honors for the second straight year, Gibson led New Hope with three home runs and a dozen doubles as a senior, while ranking second on the team with 35 runs batted in and 38 runs scored. He also repeated as the recipient of the Trojans’ Most Valuable Offensive Player Award this year, in addition to being tabbed second-team all-state.
Though primarily playing first base as the team’s senior captain, Gibson also notched a 2-0 record on the mound without allowing an earned run and giving up just three hits in seven total innings of work. Having hit .385 as an all-district first baseman his junior year, the three-year starter helped pace the New Hope Trojans to a three-year composite mark of 71-31.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 May 2009 )
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.jpg "Image") EMCC sophomore Hal Larkin of Caledonia will compete in this week’s NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship in Scottsboro, Ala.
A sophomore on head coach Dale Peay’s regional runner-up Lions squad, Larkin qualified as one of 37 individual golfers set to compete in the national tournament by finishing in a fifth-place tie at the EMCC-hosted NJCAA Region 23 Golf Championship held three weeks ago at the MSU Golf Course in Starkville. A total of 17 Division II teams will also be competing at this week’s championship event.
Larkin, a product of Caledonia High School, is ready to become the fourth golfer in East Mississippi Community College history to participate in the NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship. Most recently, Gary Sheppard tied for 58th place (77-78-72-82=309) at the 2004 national tournament held in Arizona. Currently working as a professional golf instructor in Texas, former New Hope High School standout Matt King finished in a 72nd-place tie (83-74-78-78=313) at the 2001 event played in Texas. Currently teaching and coaching at New Hope, former EMCC linkster Drew McBrayer competed in the 1999 national tournament held in North Carolina.
A 2009 MACJC All-State Second Team member, Larkin completed the spring’s regular-season slate ranked 10th among Mississippi’s community college golfers with a composite 76.7 stroke average. Larkin was joined on this year’s all-state squad by EMCC freshman teammate Jordan Jamar of Bossier City, La. Prior to his fifth-place tie in the regional tournament, Larkin capped the regular season by earning all-tournament honors with a second-place showing at Shiloh Ridge Golf Club in Corinth. He also tied for seventh place at the MACJC event held at Wolf Hollow Golf Club in Wesson.
The previous site of the NJCAA Division II Men’s Golf Championship for three straight years (2005-07), Goose Pond Colony Golf Course is a George Cobb design that opened in 1971. With a four-star rating by Golf Digest magazine, the course is located on the banks of the Tennessee River’s scenic Lake Guntersville and nestled into the Cumberland Mountains. Daily results from this week’s NJCAA Division II Golf Championship will be available online at www.goosepond.org/njcaa.html.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 18 May 2009 )
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.jpg "Image") EMCC soccer coach Junior Noel (middle) is joined by his most recent signees Mike Hayward (left) of Columbus High School and Tyler Pounders (right) of Caledonia High School.
A midfielder/defender, Pounders scored five goals and had four assists to collect all-district and team MVP honors as a senior for the 14-5 Confederates. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound performer becomes the fourth member off head coach Morgan Mansfield’s Class 4A North State runner-up squad to sign with EMCC, joining Taylor Chisolm and Seth Wood along with Lions baseball signee Tyler Aldridge. The three-year soccer starter also hit .380 with four home runs and 18 runs batted it as Caledonia’s starting shortstop this past spring.
A four-year starter at Columbus, Hayward led head coach Richard Martin’s 11-10 Falcons with 13 goals and 11 assists as a senior in claiming the team’s Most Valuable Offensive Player Award for the second straight year. The 5-foot-9, 150-pound midfielder/forward tallied nine scores as a junior. Hayward also lettered four years in tennis for the Falcons.
In addition to Pounders’ Caledonia teammates Chisolm and Wood, EMCC has also previously signed Eduardo Fumo of Starkville, Steven Geraci of DeSoto Central, Brandon’s Brian Meza, James Nichols of Northwest Rankin, Saltillo’s Josh Harden, Justin Knight of Quitman, and Heidelberg Academy’s Corey Devun.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 15 May 2009 )
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