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14 The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Bryant, Butts, Jackson, Johnson, Morris and Pelote To Receive West Savannah Pacesetter’s Award Local Reader Submission nflDFTQI La’Don William Bryant Congratulations to La’Don Bryant, Antonio Butts, Houston Jackson, Billy John son, Jr. Quentin Morris, Jr. and Brianna Pelote for being trend setters and making a difference while balancing academics, sports and community service. La’Don, Antonio, Houston, Billy, Quentin and Brianna have risen to become examples to their peers and others in the community. The West Savannah Pacesetter’s Award recognizes positive attributes of our youth and showcases their talents and outstanding achievements. This contributes to the devel- Antonio “AJ” Butts Quentin “Que” Morris, Jr. Houston Aislee Jackson Brianna Pelote Billy Johnson, Jr. opment of the West Savannah community’s future leaders. The award serves as an incen tive and motivational tool for youth to aspire towards excel lence. The students selected have gone above and beyond to demonstrate excellence in ac ademics, athletics, community service and leadership among their peers in the Greater West Savannah community. Follow Us On Our Social Media Accounts! FVSU Wins Men’s Regular Season Volleyball Title Fort Valley State completed its perfect Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Confer ence men’s volleyball schedule with a 3-0 sweep at Benedict College and claimed its first regular season title. For the first time in the three-year program exis tence, the Wildcats are SIAC regular season champions. FVSU finished its regular sea son with a record-win total at 15-8 and completed the per fect SIAC mark of 10-0. In fact, FVSU won 30 of 31 sets played and dropped only the second set on Friday night at Edward Waters stopping it from 10 match sweeps. Taking away the opening California trip against Pepperdine, UCLA and USC, the Wildcats won 15 of the 20 matches or a .750 win percentage. 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Heard, a graduate student from West Point, Mis sissippi, averaged 13.9 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.3 steals and 1.4 assists per game this season while helping SSU to the SIAC regular season Eastern Divi sion title. The 6-foot-guard scored a season-high 25 points and six steals on February 7 against Miles, pulled down 13 rebounds on January 29 against Allen, four assists on January 8 against Morris and two blocks on January 15 against Albany State. Heard led the Lady Tigers in points (348), made held goals (153) and steals (58) and was second on the squad in rebounds (193). Among the SIAC cat egory leaders, Heard was sec ond in the conference in held goal percentage (.453), fifth in scoring average, sixth in re bounds and ninth in steals. Heard earned First Team All-SIAC honors in 2023-24 and made the All-SI- AC Second Team in 2022-23. In early March 2024, Heard was named to the HBCU All-Stars LLC inaugural Na tional Women’s Basketball List for seniors and graduate students from Division I and Division II HBCUs with no re maining eligibility. Savannah State end ed the 2023-24 season with a 20-6 record and made it to the semi-finals of the SIAC Tournament where they lost to Miles in overtime. Heyward Named Freshman of the Year Savannah native and USC Beaufort women’s bas ketball standout Janiyah Hey ward was named the Freshman of the Year in the Peach Belt Conference. Heyward started all 25 games for USC Beaufort in their first season of women’s basketball, leading the team with 13.1 points per game. The 5-foot-7 guard was 10th in the PBC in scoring and ninth in rebounding with 6.9 per con test. The PBC Player of the Week on Dec. 11, she had three games with 20 or more points, including a 31-point outing against Regent on Dec. 9, the most in a game for the Sand Sharks this season. 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