Holy Savior Menard alumnae Mackenzie Cox of Alexandria, a standout right fielder at Centenary College in Shreveport, was named to the 2024 All-Louisiana Softball Team selected recently by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.

Cox, who earned a spot on the second team, had a stellar senior season and career with the Ladies. She landed on the All-Louisiana Team for the second time in her career after earning honorable mention in 2022. She was one of only five players from a non-Division 1 school to make the team. She prepped at Menard from 2016-20.

Cox was named to the 2024 NFCA Division III All-Region Team by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association last month as she became the first Centenary player to be named All-Region since 2018. She was first-team All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, earned a spot on the 2024 SCAC Championship All-Tournament Team, and was named SCAC Hitter of the Week once during the season.

Cox was one of the top players this season in the conference and country’s Division III ranks as she led the SCAC in hits (61), runs (48), and triples (4), was second in total bases and walks, and third in batting average (.466), OBP (.541), and slugging (.618). She ranked in the top 20 in the country in hits and top 50 in batting average. Cox ranked second in the country in stolen bases (49) and was only caught four times. She posted 21 multi-hit games.

Louisiana Christian second baseman Olivia Coaker gave the Wildcats representation on the All-Louisiana second team, her second inclusion over the past three seasons.

Coaker, a senior from Orange Beach, Ala., can now lay claim to a quartet of honors that she has received since the end of the regular season, landing spots on the All-RRAC first team, RRAC All-Tournament Team, NFCA All-Region first team, and All-Louisiana.

The alum of Gulf Shores High School led the Orange and Blue with an OPS of 1.061, a .589 slugging percentage, as well as an .472 on-base percentage while occupying top 10 spots among the RRAC regarding double plays turned (7), on-base percentage, slugging percentage, plus sacrifice flies (2).

She logged ten multi-hit and nine multi-RBI outings in addition to a .389 batting average, 28 RBI, 16 walks, nine doubles, and a trio of homers during her 40-game campaign.

On the LSWA’s All-Louisiana Baseball Team announced recently, the RRAC Tournament champion LCU Wildcats received a pair of honorable mentions for standouts Braden Trull (designated hitter) and Tyler McKenna (catcher).

Trull, a redshirt freshman from Rosepine, was a member of the RRAC All-Tournament Team and was RRAC Player of the Week on March 11.

The six-foot, 235-pound slugger finished eighth in the league with 42 RBI and was ninth regarding both sacrifice flies (4) as well as hit-by-pitches (11).

He led the Wildcats on the base paths with a team-best 44 runs scored over 49 appearances (0.90 per game), collected multiple hits in 15 ballgames and multi-RBI outings 10 times while racking up an on-base streak of 14 in addition to a 12-game hitting string.

McKenna, a graduate student from Valrico, Florida, burst onto the scene in his debut season in Orange and Blue, winning RRAC Newcomer of the Year, landing on the All-RRAC first team and the All-RRAC Tournament Team capped by being named the RRAC Tournament MVP.

Falcon was one of the most feared hitters in the NAIA, ranking top-35 nationally in on-base percentage (.514) and batting average (.413) while pacing the Red River in the latter category.

Stealing on his powerful right arm proved to be a fool’s errand as he threw out the fifth-most base runners attempting to steal across the conference at a dozen.

Falcon topped the LCU clubhouse in nearly every offensive statistic including longest on-base streak (25), hitting streak (16), batting average, OPS (1.181), doubles (17), home runs (7), total bases (100), slugging percentage (.667), on-base percentage, and hit-by-pitches (13) while putting together 20 multi-hit affairs plus nine multi-RBI showings.