Athletics

AUGUSTA, Ga. | The Peach Belt Conference has announced that Georgia College & State University has won the 2025-26 Women's Basketball Team Sportsmanship Award.The program presents an award following each championship season to the team in that sport that best exemplifies the spirit of sportsmanship and generally conducts themselves with a high degree of integrity, character and class. The team award is selected by other teams who compete in that sport. Points are awarded based on how...

Georgia College & State University's Keaton Prior has been named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association NCAA Division II National Pitcher of the Week ending March 2. Prior, a junior from Milledgeville, Georgia., tossed a no-hitter as the Bobcats took the series opener against the University of South Carolina-Beaufort 11-0 in seven innings. It was the first no-no for the Bobcats since Michael Joyce twirled his in a 7-0 (7 innings) win against Kennesaw State University...

SALISBURY, N.C. | Georgia College & State University's Keaton Prior has been named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Pitcher of the Week ending March 2.Prior, a junior from Milledgeville, Georgia, tossed a no-hitter as the Bobcats took the series opener against the University of South Carolina-Beaufort 11-0 in seven innings. It was the first no-no for the Bobcats since Michael Joyce twirled his in a 7-0 (7 innings) win against...

AUGUSTA, Ga. | Georgia College & State University women's basketball senior guard Deshona Gaither has been named to the All-Peach Belt Conference second team.It's the third consecutive year that a Bobcat has been named to one of the three all-conference teams and the second straight year that GCSU has had a player named to the second team.Gaither, who is from Commerce, Georgia, started 26 of the 27 games she has played. She leads the Bobcats and is ninth in the Peach Belt in scoring...

AUGUSTA, Ga. | The Peach Belt Conference has announced that Georgia College & State University's Aidan Kudlas has earned the league's Elite 18 Award for men's basketball.The PBC Elite 18 Award, which is modeled after the NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete Award (formerly known as the NCAA Elite 90 Award), is given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average at the championship.Kudlas, a senior guard from Dawsonville, Georgia, is the second Bobcat to earn an Elite...

AUGUSTA, Ga. | Georgia College & State University men's basketball sophomore guard C.J. Jones has been named to the All-Peach Belt Conference first team.Jones, who is from Suwanee, Georgia, is the first Bobcat named to an all-conference team since 2023-24 and the first first-team selection since Jordan Thomas was named during the 2021-22 season.Jones, who has started all 25 games he has played, leads the Bobcats and is ninth in the Peach Belt in scoring (16.6). Jones led the Bobcats...

AUGUSTA, Ga. | The Peach Belt Conference has released the bracket for the 2026 men's basketball tournament championship, which begins with the quarterfinals March 4.Georgia College & State University (16-12 overall, 11-9 PBC), tied for fifth place and earned the No. 6 seed and will face No. 3 seed University of North Georgia (20-6, 14-6) Wednesday (March 4) at 7:30 p.m. at the Lynn Cottrell Arena at the UNG Convocation Center in Dahlonega, Georgia.The Nighthawks won both meetings against...