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Monday, January 9, 2012

Contact:  Robert Preston, Jr.,
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Former SGC Head Coach Elected to NJCAA Baseball Hall of Fame

Former South Georgia College head baseball coach Scott Sims has been elected to the National Junior College Athletic Association Baseball Hall of Fame as recognition of his 21 years as head coach of the Tigers. Coach Sims retired at the end of the 2011 baseball season, in which he led the Tigers to the Junior College World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado, after winning the East Central District Championship in Tennessee.

The 2011 season was one of the most memorable of Coach Sims’s career. The Tigers endured a season of adversity and came out of the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Region XVII state tournament with a second place finish. They advanced to the East Central District championships, and rolled through the four-team, double-elimination tournament undefeated by winning three games in a row to clinch a berth in the World Series for the first time since 1970. By winning the East Central District title, Sims received the Coach of the Year award for the district.

The Tigers played their first World Series game less than a week after winning the district championship. SGC went 1-2 in Grand Junction, finishing ahead of three teams that exited the tournament after losing two straight games. After the World Series ended, Coach Sims, received the W. Homa Thomas Sportsmanship Award to go with his district coach of the year trophy.

In 2010, Coach Sims was named GCAA Coach of the Year after the Tigers went 40-21 and finished third in the conference. This season, SGC ended the season 34-33. Coach Sims leaves SGC with 585 career wins.

This year, Sims will return to Grand Junction, where he will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at the 2012 JUCO World Series.

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