Keeping Up

• Updates on local athletes competing at the next level

By Barbara Boxleitner, Special to Gulf Coast Newspapers
Posted 4/22/17

Updates on local athletes competing at the next level

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Keeping Up

• Updates on local athletes competing at the next level

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Freshman Sophia Hyderally became a part of history for the University of Alaska Anchorage women's gymnastics team.
The Bayside Academy graduate tied for the balance beam individual title at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship. She is the first in school history to win a title on the balance beam.
Hyderally scored a school-record 9.925, becoming just the third in program history to achieve that mark on any apparatus. The score tied the MPSF Championship record, according to the MPSF online site.
She helped the team break the school's balance beam record for a meet.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Freshman Taylor Hurst is in the starting lineup for Spring Hill College. The Gulf Shores High graduate and Catherine Milwee entered the week with an 11-10 record. They have played in the third through fifth spots, posting a 7-9 mark at No. 5.

SOFTBALL
Peyton Grantham batted .296 with a team-high seven home runs in 42 games for University of Alabama. The Daphne High graduate drove in a team-best 39 runs.
Another former DHS Trojan Kaitlyn Blubaugh hit .268 in 31 games for Belhaven University. The junior outfielder had five RBIs.
Samford University senior pitcher Grey Adams was 8-11 with a 3.12 earned run average in a team-high 28 appearances. The right-hander prepped for the Pirates at Fairhope High.

BASEBALL
Troy University junior pitcher Corey Childress, who played at Fairhope High has five wins so far this season. As a sophomore the right-hander made 26 pitching appearances in relief and recorded 10 saves, which tied for the second-most in Troy’s single-season history and third in the Sun Belt in 2016. He pitched 49.0 innings and recorded 46 strikeouts, the most of any relief pitcher for the Trojans last year.

Former Daphne pitcher Tyler Lowery has made seven appearances on the mound for Coastal Alabama Community College in Bay Minette. The sophomore right hander has recorded 10 strikeouts for the Sun Chiefs in 15.2 innings of work.

Another Sun Chief, Dayton Cook of Spanish Fort is batting .459 overall and .456 in conference play. The sophomore infielder has 19 RBIs with two home runs and six doubles among his 39 hits so far.

Sun Chief freshman outfielder Peyton Galich is hitting .333 with a .500 on-base percentage. The former Fairhope Pirate has delivered 12 singles and a double with nine RBIs and scored 14 runs in 2017.

Chad Broussard out of Robertsdale High is the fourth locally-grown Sun Chief helping CACC in their 2017 campaign. The sophomore infielder has 29 hits as of April 18 with three homers, six doubles and 21 RBIs while hitting .340 and slugging .489 in conference play with 90 overall at bats. He is fielding .996 through 37 games this year and was named an All-ACCCA Player of the Week in March.

WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
University of Mobile freshman Kelsey Canan finished fifth in the javelin at the Mike McMillan Invitational. The Gulf Shores High product also placed fifth in the event at the Emory Invitational.

MEN'S LACROSSE
Midfielder Greg Wallace had six goals and four assists in 14 games for Birmingham-Southern College. The sophomore competed for Bayside.
Spanish Fort High alumnus Harry Dismukes had a 5-6 record as a goalkeeper for Point University. The freshman started nine of 11 games.

— Send updates about area athletes to Barbara Boxleitner at jdanddoc@gmail.com.