Saturday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes
Saturday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
SATURDAY SCOREBOARD
College
Cross Country
W-Middle Ga. State, fourth, SSAC championship meet
M-Georgia College, fourth, Peach Belt championship meet
Volleyball
Mercer def. Samford 20-25, 25-20, 21-25, 26-24, 15-12
USC Aiken def. Georgia College 23-25, 25-17, 25-21, 26-21
Pro
NBA
SPHL
Bleckley County, GMC defend titles, ACE girls second
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Honor Roll
Ashlee Graham, Unnbjorg Omarsdottier, and Amanda Bartholomew were named to the Peach Belt's all-conference women's soccer teams.
Graham, a senior goalkeeper, was a first-team pick while Omarsdottier and Bartholomew were second-team choices.
Graham is first in the PBC in minutes and shutouts, second in saves, third in saves percentage, and fourth in goals-against average in making her second all-conference team.
Omarsdottier is a leader on a defensive line that helped get 10 shutouts, but also played offense and scored four goals with three assists.
Bartholomew missed time with an injury, but still finished 10th in goals and 13th in points. She was an All American last year as well as PBC player of the year.
The Bobcats face Young Harris at 3 p.m. on Friday in the conference tournament semifinals in Evans. ...
Fort Valley State's Nia Bell is the SIAC's volleyball Newcomer of the Week.
With four double-figure kill matches and two double-doubles, Bell had 71 kills (3.74 kills/set), 46 digs (2.42 digs/set), 11 blocks and five service aces in 19 sets covering four matches. She put the exclamation point in a road win over Benedict with 28 kills, 22 digs and three aces to lead the way.
In a doubleheader, she had 16 kills and 11 digs followed by 12 kills and nine digs. ...
The Georgia College volleyball team swept the Peach Belt Conference weekly award.
Senior Kayla Brockway is the specialist and Libby Bochniak the player of the Week.
Brockway had a record-setting week, becoming the first player in program history to post 4,000 assists, pushing her to third on the PBC’s all-time career assist list. She led the Bobcats to three wins, averaging 12.10 assists and 2.70 digs per set. Brockway is ranked second in assists per set and fourth in total assists in the PBC.
Bochniak had her fourth straight match of double-digit kills, to go with only nine attack errors in 102 attempts, and four assists, five blocks and three aces. She averaged 4.30 kills in three games.