Georgia State

University has won the All-Sports trophies for the second consecutive

year and for the third time in four years, and several Fayette athletes

contributed to that success.

It was the

eighth time that the school has won the title in the past 15 years overall.

The school

won six Trans America Athletic Conference titles in men's and women's

basketball, men's soccer, women's volleyball, women's cross country and

men's golf. All of those teams, except the cross country team, earned

NCAA berths.

Georgia State's

men's basketball team finished in the final 32 of the NCAA basketball

tournament. Shernard Long was named conference Player of the Year and

Coach Lefty Driesell was named TAAC Coach of the Year and Georgia Division

I Coach of the Year by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.

The state of

Georgia helped produce these winners from Georgia State as 122 of more

than 200 athletes hail from the Peach State. Fayette County athletes contributed

to the success of several of these teams as well. James Bendetti and J.B.

Wood of Fayetteville and Justin Koehler and Micki Stone of Peachtree City

were all members of the soccer team which finished as TAAC champs.

The baseball

team also got a boost from Fayette County players. Jay Fields, a Sandy

Creek graduate, made the second team All-TAAC and was a team leader with

a .371 batting average. He had 73 hits, stole 19 bases and had a .525

slugging percentage. Fields hit four home runs this season as well as

11 doubles, and drove in 23 runs.

Ryan Patrylo,

a McIntosh graduate, had a 4-5 record with 40 strike outs this season.

He also had a 1.000 fielding average and was an academic award winner

on the dean's list.

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