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12 The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Bass Enters Evans, Williams
Transfer Portal Earn Basketball
D’Ante Bass, who
just finished his freshman sea
son at Georgetown, has entered
his name into the transfer por
tal.
The 6-foot-6,
200-pound forward played in
just eight games during the
2022-23 season. He finished
the year with logging 28 min
utes and getting five rebounds,
two points, two assists, one
block and one steal.
Bass’ best game
came on November 12 against
Green Bay where he scored
two points, two assists and one
rebound in just three minutes
of action. He played ten min
utes against Marquette on Jan
uary 7 and had one block and
one steal.
During his senior
year at Windsor Forest High,
Bass averaged 13.3 points and
seven rebounds a game and
was tabbed the Region 3-AAA
Player of the Year while lead
ing the Knights to the Class
AAA state championship
game.
Georgetown finished
the 2022-23 season with a
6-25 overall record while go
ing 2-18 in Big East play. The
Hoyas were ousted in he first
round of the conference tour
nament which led to the bring
of head coach Patrick Ewing.
Madison Evans
Savannah natives
and Brewton-Parker basketball
players Madison Evans and
Sy-Marieona Williams were
recently honored by the South
ern States Athletic Conference
for their play on the basketball
court during the 2022-23 sea
son.
Evans was a First
Team SSAC all conference se-
Sy-Marieona Williams
lection while Williams earned
Second Team honors. In ad
dition, Williams was selected
as the 6th Woman of the Year
Award winner.
A graduate of Beach
High School, Evans, she aver
aged 13.3 points per contest,
shooting for 50 percent on
the season from the boor. She
dished out 50 assists and had
33 steals as well, during the
regular season. Evans notched
17 contests with double-digit
points and bve games with 20-
plus points.
As the 6th Woman
of the Year, Williams aver
aged 12.8 points per contest
this season while shooting for
36.5 percent from the boor
and 32.8 percent from three-
point range. She gathered 29
steals and dished out 27 assists
during the regular season .Wil
liams graduated from Johnson
High School and started her
collegiate career at College of
Coastal Georgia before trans
ferring to BPC.
The duo helped
Brewton Parker earn a trip
to the 42nd Annual NAIA
Women’s Basketball National
Tournament where they lost to
Texas Wesleyan 104-87 in the
brst round. The Lady Barons
bnished the season with a 22-8
record.
Jackson To Coach
With NFL’s
Seahawks
Donovan Jackson
Former Savannah
State offensive line coach
Donovan Jackson was recently
hired as a offensive assistant
with the Seattle Seahawks.
Jackson comes to the Seahawks
organization after spending the
2022 season as a pro scout with
the Minnesota Vikings.
Prior to that he
worked with the Green Bay
Packers as a scouting assistant
and before that logged a few
years as a offensive line intern
with the Chicago Bears (2020)
and Miami Dolphins (2019).
Jackson worked at
Louisiana State as their offen
sive analyst/assistant offensive
line coach during the 2018-19
seasons and served as an offen
sive line intern with the San
Diego Chargers (2017) and
New York Jets (2016).
Jackson was the Sa
vannah State offensive line
coach during the 2015 season
and before that was an offen
sive line assistant at Norfolk
State (2014). Before that, he
spent eight years coaching on
the high school level.
The Winston-Salem, NC native
was a four-year starter on the
offensive and defensive lines
at Norfolk State (2003-07) and
was a team captain during the
junior and senior years.
After college, Jack-
son played on the professional
level in the Arena League with
the Laredo Lobos (2007) and
Chicago Rush (2008).
Jackson earned his
B.A in psychology from Nor
folk State in 2007 and his M.A
in teaching physical education
from North Carolina A&T
State University in 2012.
SCAD Men’s
Bowling Team
Wins SSAC Title
The Savannah Col
lege of Art & Design men’s
bowling team went undefeated
to win the Southern States Ath
letic Conference Champion
ship on February 25.
The SCAD Savannah
Bees earned the top spot after
the 15 qualifying baker games,
along with favoring in regular
season RPI.
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'At the conclusion of baker
play, teams competed in the
best of seven, double elimina
tion match play to determine
the champion.
After earning the bye
in the brst round, SCAD Sa
vannah defeated Mobile 4-1
(180-146, 199-132, 179-133,
155-208, 268-135) to advance
to round four.
In round four, SCAD
Savannah defeated SCAD At
lanta 4-3 (208-178, 178-184,
190-162, 190-213, 208-190,
204-257, 203-179) to advance
to the bnals where they faced
SCAD Atlanta again and won
4-0 (170-168, 194-182, 242-
167,187-167).
With the win, the
Bees automatically qualify
for the 2023 NAIA National
Championship.
Savannah State Baseball Sweeps Three-
Game SIAC Series With Benedict
Enrico Peele
by Savannah State Athletics
Savannah State base
ball swept a three-game South
ern Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (SIAC) series with
Benedict this past weekend on
the Tiger Baseball Field.
Savannah State im
proved to 14-5 overall and 10-4
in SIAC action with the three
wins. They are holding steady
in second place in the confer
ence standings, trailing only
Albany State (14-1).
In a doubleheader on
Friday, Jose Santiago and Enri
co Peele pitched two excellent
games leading to two shutout
wins, 10-0 and 4-0. Savannah
State is ranked No. 1 in the
SIAC and No. 2 in NCAA Di
vision II in shutout wins this
season with a total of bve.
The Tigers closed the
series against Benedict with
14-4 on Sunday after weather
delayed the series on Saturday.
Santiago worked 7.0
innings in game one on Friday,
allowing bve hits, with one
walk and bve strikeouts against
26 batters. Peele pitched nearly
the same line in game two with
7.0 innings on the mound, al
lowing four hits, no walks with
six strikeouts against 24 bat
ters.
Peele improved to
5-1 on the season with a 2.51
ERA in six appearances. He
leads the SIAC in victories this
year and is ranked No. 13 in
NCAA Division II. Santiago
earned his brst win of the year,
improving to 1-1.
Game one began with
a bve-inning pitching duel
between Santiago and Ken
yan Conner. After a full bve
innings, Benedict had no hits,
while SSU only registered
three hits and a run—a rarity
for an SSU team that was av
eraging 10 hits a game this sea
son coming into the series.
Benedict shook it up
in the top of the sixth, with
three straight singles. With
loaded bases and one out, Jus
tin Murry got a pitch, sending
a hard-hit grounder to short
where Gabriel Patxot made a
laser throw home to catch the
lead runner and save the run.
Santiago got some
help on the third out when Fa-
reed Mizelle was called out on
a 2-2 pitch for batter’s interfer
ence, stranding the go-ahead
run at second and ending the
scoring threat from the visitors.
Savannah State
tacked on another run in the
sixth for a 2-0 lead into the sev
enth. Kenyan opened the sev
enth, but after walking Patxot,
was replaced on the mound,
ending the stalemate.
The Tigers took ad
vantage of the new pitcher
and the only error in the game,
which put Desmore Joseph on
base, opening a scoring bonan
za in the inning.
Joe Smith, Hakem
Smith, Champion Robbins,
Jake Grbesic, Patxot, Joseph
and Omar Almodovar all bat
ted runs in, platting eight runs
with four hits in a long inning.
In his second at-bat,
Almodovar singled to right
center, scoring Joseph for the
10th run, ending the game due
to run-rule. Patxot was 3-for-
4 at the plate with an RBI on
the day while Joe Smith went
2-for-4 with two RBI to lead
SSU on offense.
Benedict again strug
gled in game two of Friday’s
doubleheader, bghting against
some stellar pitching from
Peele. The visitor’s didn’t get
their brst hit until the fourth in
ning.
On the other side, Sa
vannah State hit about half as
well as they usually do, record
ing only bve hits in the game.
They scored one run in the brst,
third, bfth, and sixth for the h-
nal 4-0 win in the seven-inning
game. Mason McLeod led the
Tigers at the plate in game two,
going 2-for-2 with a double.
Savannah State
closed the series on Sunday
with huge 10-run rout and some
stellar work on the mound from
ace Jared Showalter. Showalter
earned his bfth win of the sea
son with 5.0 innings of work.
He allowed two
earned runs on four hits with
two walks and a season-high
eight strikeouts. Showalter
leads the Tiger bullpen and is
ranked No. 2 in the SIAC in
ERA with a 1.74 after six ap
pearances.
As a team, the Sa
vannah State bullpen leads the
SIAC in ERA with a combined
3.52. They are ranked No. 14 in
NCAA Division II in the stat.
Benedict struck brst
in Sunday’s game, putting up a
run in the top of the brst inning,
their brst of the three-game se
ries. SSU bred back with one
run in the brst and second for
a 2-1 lead into the third. Ben
edict put up two more runs in
the third for their brst lead of
the series.
But SSU tied it up
in the bottom of the third and
held Benedict off with two runs
in the fourth, three in the bfth
and bve in the seventh. They
capped it off with one more run
in the eighth, for the 10-run ad
vantage, ending the game early
due to the run-rule.
Joe Smith bnished
2-for-3 at the plate on Sunday.
Robbins was 2-for-2 on the
day while Tyler Green and Ja
cob Rushin each went 2-for-3.
Zion Roland was 2-for-4 as the
Tigers racked up 15 hits in the
game.
Savannah State will
play a mid-week, non-confer
ence game against NCAA Di
vision II South Region rival
Embry Riddle (Sunshine State
Conference) on Tuesday. First
pitch in the nine-inning single
game is set for 3 p.m. on Tiger
Baseball Field.
The Tigers return this
weekend with a three-game
SIAC series against Edward
Waters, also on their home dia
mond. First pitch for that series
is set for Friday at 2 p.m.
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