MGCCC leads Academic All-MACJC winners

PERKINSTON — Mississippi Gulf Coast had 94 student-athletes named Academic All-MACJC, including 40 who earned Distinguished distinction for having GPAs of 3.80 or better.

Gulf Coast led the state in overall honorees, and there were 16 more honorees from the school than last year.

The Distinguished award winners were: softball's Katelyn Baker (So, Seminary/Seminary), women's tennis' Megan Bankston (Fr, Gulfport/Gulfport), women's soccer's Curissa Beatty (Fr., Biloxi/Biloxi), women's basketball's MiMi Bishop (So, Madison/Madison Central), baseball's Ryan Blackburn (Fr, Oak Grove/Oak Grove), women's tennis' Bianca Buie (So, Baia Mare, Romania/Gheorghe Sincai National High School), baseball's Austin Cates (Fr, Ocean Springs/Ocean Springs), women's soccer's Tekiyah Cooper (Fr., Stone/Wiggins), men's soccer's Caleb Counselman (So, Pass Christian/Pass Christian), men's tennis's Reid Cudd (So, Wiggins/Stone), baseball's Trevor Davis (Fr, Vancleave/Vancleave), softball's Lanae Davis (So, East Central/Hurley), baseball's Dustan Dille (Fr, Brookwood/Tuscaloosa, Ala.), women's basketball's Eden Duckworth (So, Heidelberg/Heidelberg), golf's Colby Entriken (So., Hancock/Pass Christian), softball's Tori Gum (So, Ocean Springs/Ocean Springs), softball's Lauren Hall (Fr, Nettleton/Nettleton), women's soccer's Kaitlyn Harwell (Fr., Stone/Wiggins), baseball's Nicholas Hertz (Fr, St. Stanislaus/Long Beach), softball's Kailey Hilderbrand (Fr, Hernando/Hernando), softball's Mya Hopson (Fr, Madison Central/Madison), golf's Miles Jackson (Fr. Biloxi/Biloxi), men's soccer's Misael Jaimes (So, Olive Branch/Olive Branch), women's soccer's Bailey LaFontaine (Fr., Pearl/Pearl), women's soccer's Casey LaFontaine (So., Pass Christian/Pass Christian), baseball's Castor Lee (Fr, Gulfport/Gulfport), women's tennis' Margarita Lopareva (Fr, Moscow, Russia/School No. 1101), women's tennis' Jenna Lyons (So, Pascagoula/Pascagoula), baseball's Cody Marshall (R-Fr, Fontainbleau/Mandeville, La), women's soccer's L.T. Massey (So., Oak Grove/Hattiesburg), baseball's Logan McGrew (So, Sumrall/Sumrall), men's tennis' Austin Moore (So, Petal/Petal), baseball's Fisher Ray (Fr, George County/Bruce), baseball's Jacob Roberts (Fr, Gulfport/Gulfport), men's tennis' Noah Rowell (So, Wiggins/Stone), baseball's Preston Stringer (Fr, Stone/Perkinston), men's tennis' Austin Vos (Fr, Perth, Australia/Applecross), men's tennis' Hieu Vuong (So, Pass Christian/Pass Christian) and golf's Brice Wilkinson (Fr. Madison Central/Madison).

Academic All-MACJC honors go to student-athletes with a GPA of 3.25-3.79. The honorees were: football's Derrick Beckom (Fr,  Columbus/Columbus), men's soccer's Owen Betz (So, Pass Christian/St. Stanislaus), football's Dominic Blankenship (Fr,  Gautier/Gautier), women's soccer's Aniadria Bounds (Fr., Biloxi/Biloxi), women's soccer's Riann Brock (So., Oak Grove/Hattiesburg), men's basketball's Michael Burbridge (Fr, Biloxi/Biloxi), men's basketball's Dedoch Chan (Fr, Rochester, Minn./John Marshall), women's tennis' Jillianne Craft (So, Gulfport/St. Patrick), golf's Damien Dhossche (Fr. Madison Central, Madison), baseball's Alden Davis (Fr, Pascagoula/Pascagoula), men's basketball's Abdul Dial (So, West Palm Beach, Fla./Cardinal Newman), men's soccer's Mathew Edwards (So, Pass Christian/Pass Christian), golf's Graham Evans (Fr., Presbyterian Christian/Hattiesburg), baseball's Chase Fagan (R-So, Hancock/Poplarville), men's soccer's Darren Farris (Fr, Gulfport/West Harrison), softball's Kaylynn Garrett (Fr, Oxford/Oxford, Ala.), baseball's Chandler Gunn (Fr, Presbyterian Christian/Hattiesburg), men's soccer Jordan Hall (So, Manchester, England/Royton and Crompton), baseball's Bailey Hargrave (R-So, Madison Central/Madison), baseball's Hayden Harrell (So, Stone/Wiggins), football's Jacobi Hearn (Fr,  Clinton/Clinton), softballs Hannah Hembree (Fr, Pascagoula/Pascagoula), women's tennis' Tierney Holmes (Fr, Greenwood/Greenwood), men's basketball's Evan Howard (So, D'Iberville/D'Iberville), football's Mason Hunt (Fr,  Stone/Wiggins), softball's Alexa Landenberger (Fr, D'Iberville/D'Iberville), baseball's Josh Lewis (So, Theodore/Mobile Ala.), women's soccer's Erin Longsden (So., Droylsden Academy/Manchester, England), softball's Bailey Massey (Fr, Bruce/Bruce), women's basketball's Alexis McBeath (Fr, Pascagoula/Pascagoula), men's soccer's Austin Miller (So, Bay St. Louis/St. Stanislaus), men's basketball's Jonte Moultrie (So, St. Martin/St. Martin), men's tennis' John Murphy (So, Mobile, Ala./McGill-Toolen), golf's Carter Nicholson (Fr., Pearl River Central/Carriere), baseball's Brandon Parker (Fr, West Harrison/Saucier), softball's Avery Sanders (Fr, E.D. White/Thibodaux, La.), baseball's Ethan Saucier (Fr, Gulfport/Gulfport), football's Justin Scott (Fr,  Gautier/Gautier), softball's Megan Sexton (Fr, West Harrison/Gulfport), women's soccer's Alyssa Silvas (Fr., Pass Christian/Pass Christian), men's soccer's Case Sloan (So, Wiggins/Stone), baseball's Truitt Smith (Fr, Stone/Wiggins), football's Dayreke Snow (Fr,  Newton/Newton), football's DJ Stevenson (Fr,  Gulfport/Gulfport), women's soccer's Tamara Thomas (Fr., Pass Christian/Pass Christian), football's James Washup (Fr,  Clarksdale/Clarksdale), golf's Jackson Wedgeworth (So., West Jones/Soso), football's Sidney Wells (Fr,  Clinton/Clinton), men's soccer's Windham Whatley (So, Florence/Florence), baseball's Ike Williams (Fr, St. Martin/Biloxi), women's basketball Keiara Williams (So, New Orleans/Warren Easton), softball's Katie Beth Williams (Fr, Smithville/Smithville) and women's basketball's Deboney Wilson (So, Jackson/Amite County).

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