College notebook: UIndy’s Rees named All-American

University of Indianapolis softball player Lexy Rees was named second team All-American by the NFCA and earned third-team status from the D2CCA.

The junior catcher, a Greenwood product, started all 58 games for the Greyhounds this season, leading the squad in home runs (14), RBIs (63) and slugging percentage (.672). She finished the season with a .367 batting average, ranking second on the team in hits with 66.

Her teammate, sophomore leadoff hitter and fellow Greenwood alum Dominique Proctor, was named Academic All-District 4 with a 3.92 grade-point average as a nursing major.

Whiteland

Lipscomb freshman high jumper Bella Jackson placed 19th with a top effort of 5 feet, 9¼ inches at the NCAA East preliminary track and field meet at Indiana University.

Franklin softball player Addison Csikos was selected to the HCAC academic all-conference list.

Indiana Wesleyan senior Danielle Munn pitched the final inning, giving up three hits and three runs, in the Wildcats’ 6-1 loss to Oklahoma City in the NAIA softball World Series in Columbus, Georgia.

Center Grove

Southern Indiana sophomore first baseman Lexi Fair hit a pair of solo home runs in the Eagles’ 7-2 loss to Rogers State at the NCAA Division II Championship in Denver, Colorado. USI was then eliminated by No. 1 Texas Tyler, 12-5, with Fair contributing a double.

Duke junior Erica Shepherd was named honorable mention All-American by the Women’s Golf Coaches Association after scoring a team-best 18-hole average of 72.24 and placing in the top five four times during the Blue Devils’ season.

Alabama second baseman Bryce Eblin singled, doubled and drove in two runs as the Crimson Tide lost to Texas A&M, 12-8, at the SEC tournament in Hoover. Eblin doubled in the team’s final game of the season, an 11-6 loss to Florida.

Garret Hill and Jackson Young were among the seven Franklin College baseball players selected to the HCAC academic all-conference list. Also selected was women’s lacrosse player Baleigh Riddle.

Freshman Ashlee Fisk is one of four Indiana Wesleyan women’s tennis players making the NAIA All-American team. She earned second-team status after going 30-3 in singles competition, mostly playing the No. 3 spot.

Franklin

Freshman Liv Parramore helped Savannah College of Art & Design finish third out of 30 teams as it competed in the NAIA women’s golf championship in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Parramore tied for 78th place individually, carding scores of 75, 84 and 80.

Sophomores Brayden Devenport, Wyatt McCullough and Eli Cochrane, members of the Franklin College men’s track and field team, were among those on the HCAC academic all-conference list.