Three Earn All-GAC Honors

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Southeastern softball placed three players on the league's all-conference teams and had five earn academic honors as announced on Thursday night on the eve of the Great American Conference Softball Tournament in Bentonville, Ark.
 
Elexis Watson, Symphoni Shomo, and Katie McCullar were each second team All-GAC picks, while Destiny Riddle was a GAC Elite Scholar Athlete, with Shomo, Brittany Chatellier, Hope Deanda, and Mykaela Wallace each earning GAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete recognition.
 
Watson, a native of Muskogee, Okla., picks up her second All-GAC honors after earning first team recognition a season ago on her way to freshman All-American honors.  She comes into the tournament hitting .353 with 11 home runs and 17 doubles while driving in 36 runs. She carried a team-best .653 slugging percentage and a .452 on base percentage.
 
Shomo, a native of Tahlequah, Okla., is a three-time All-GAC honoree in all three years she has been with the Storm.  Shomo leads the team in average with a .355 mark on 61 hits with a .393 on base percentage and she has blazed the base paths over the final month of the season as she has taken over the lead in the GAC in stolen bases with 41. Shomo also added academic recognition for her work in the classroom as a psychology major.
 
McCullar, a native of Red Oak, Okla., picks up her first honor as a designated player after splitting her time as the team's DP and a starting pitcher.  At the plate she posted a .310 average and was second on the team in home runs with seven and tied for second in RBI with 33.  In the circle she posted a team-high 16 wins and three saves in 144.1 innings pitched with 898 strikeouts.
 
Riddle, a native of Muskogee, Okla., earned Elite Scholar Athlete honors for the second season in-a-row as a psychology major in the classroom. Previously a two-time All-GAC pick she leads the league in sac hits with 17 while batting .252 overall on the year with six doubles and 28 RBI.
 
Chatellier, a native of Foyil, Okla., earned Distinguished Scholar athlete honors as a psychology major and has played primarily in the defensive flex while patrolling the outfield. Despite just six plate appearances she has scored nine runs and stolen a base in a pinch running role and has a pair of sacrifice hits.
 
Deanda, a native of Odessa, Texas, also earned Distinguished Scholar Athlete honors, doing so as a marketing major.  On the diamond she posted a .280 average in 39 games played with six doubles and a home run while scoring 12 runs of her own and driving in seven.
 
Wallace, a native of Henryetta, Okla., is a two-time Distinguished Scholar Athlete as an accounting major, while on the field she hit .302 with a pair of doubles and six home runs.  She drove in 18 runs and scored 25 runs while adding seven sac hits and stealing two bases.