Travis, Agner, Coates make All-MACCC
PERKINSTON — Three Mississippi Gulf Coast players earned All-MACCC First Team honors, and three more received honorable mention.
Shortstop Rakeya Travis (So., Poplarville/Poplarville), first baseman K.K. Agner (Fr., Horn Lake/Magnolia Heights) and pitcher Emaleigh Coates (Fr., Lucedale/George County) got top honors.
Caroline Moore (So., Maryville, Tenn./Maryville), Alexis Laughlin (So., Hurley/East Central) and Kristian Jones (Fr., Southaven/DeSoto Central) were named to the honorable mention list.
Travis led the Bulldogs, who finished fourth at the NJCAA Division II Softball Championship, with a .437 batting average, 17 home runs and 70 RBI. Her homer total was third-best in the MACCC, and she finished second in RBI.
Agner finished second on the team with 14 home runs, tied for fourth-best in the league. She batted .390 with 52 RBI.
Coates went 8-3 in the circle with a 3.53 ERA. She struck out 71 batters in 85.1 innings, walking just 37.
Moore played left field, batted .335 and drove in 14 runs. She was hit by a pitch 13 times, the most in the MACCC and tied for seventh in the country. That helped lift her on-base percentage to .471.
Laughlin roamed center field and hit .384 with a .448 on-base percentage. Batting leadoff most of the season, she still had 24 RBI.
Jones played third base and finished third on the team with 12 home runs. She batted .394 and her 62 RBI were second-most on the team.
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