College Sports

The Peach Belt Conference announced that 774 student-athletes have been named to the Presidential Honor Roll from the league

Jace Windom, a 2006 graduate of Gainesville High, was recently named a National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Honorable-Mention All-American after his 19th place finish at the NJCAA National Championship in Huntsville, Ala.

Four Hall County natives were among the 261 University of Georgia student athletes to earn a 3.0 GPA or higher this past semester.

WASHINGTON -- Georgia's Mark Richt was among five NCAA head coaches who met with President Bush yesterday after recently returning from a week-long visit to military bases in the Middle East.

To advance to the College World Series, rivals Georgia and Georgia Tech will first have to find a way past each other in the NCAA regional round.

The University of Miami sent 10 batters to the plate during a four-run first inning and went on to defeat Virginia, 8-4, Sunday afternoon to clinch the championship game of the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville.

The LSU Tigers once seemed a longshot to even make the Southeastern Conference tournament, and were snubbed when the postseason honors came out. Tournament MVP Blake Dean hit a two-run homer and the Tigers scored the final seven runs to beat Mississippi 8-2 on Sunday, win a school-record 20th game in a row and claim their first SEC tournament title since 2000.

The Southeastern Conference champion Georgia Bulldogs were selected to serve as one of the 16 host sites for an NCAA Baseball Regional as part of the 62nd annual Division I Baseball Championship, the NCAA announced Sunday.

Jemile Weeks hit a three-run homer in the third inning and Enrique Garcia threw seven scoreless innings to lead top-seeded Miami into the 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Championship title game, defeating North Carolina State 5-2 on Saturday at the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. The Hurricanes will play Virginia in the title game at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Ben Paulsen broke a 3-3 tie with a grand-slam in the seventh inning and Clemson went on to rout Georgia Tech 10-4 today in the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball tournament.