Thomas trades Briarcrest for prep school

Div. 2-AA Mr. Basketball will play senior season in W. Virginia

percent from the floor and 41 percent from 3-point range.

SMU, Tennessee, Baylor, Ole Miss, Alabama and UMass also have shown interest in Thomas.

RHODES HOSTS 7 ON 7

Rhodes College will host the Champions 7 on 7 Team Passing Camp on Tuesday and Wednesday at Crain Field on campus.

Team registration begins at 2 p.m. Tuesday with pool play games from 4-8 p.m. The action resumes at 9 a.m. on Wednesday with the championship beginning at 3:30 p.m. Games will be live streamed at gobleachers.com.

Northpoint, TiptonRosemark and Jackson Christian are confirmed for the tournament and event organizer Pete Cordelli said he expects to have the field finalized by Monday.

For more information, contact Cordelli at 901843-3019.

HARDING STAR COMMITS

Southeast Missouri State wasn’t really on Jake Criswell’s radar. But the Harding baseball standout says he’s found a home.

Criswell — the Lions’ 6-1, 190-pound righthander — has committed to play for the RedHawks, who have won the Ohio Valley Conference championship the last two seasons.

“I had never heard of SEMO but when I went there I just fell in love,” he said. “The campus is really nice, a lot nicer than I expected ... (and) they were very honest with me and my parents about my chances of coming in and playing as a freshman.”

Criswell — who earned all-state mention by the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association earlier this week — went 4-5 with a 2.18 ERA and 77 strikeouts. A regular since his eighth-grade year, he’ll head into the 2016 season with an 18-9 career record and a chance to become Harding’s career leader in innings pitched, strikeouts and wins.

Harding has reached the substate in each of Criswell’s four seasons, finishing state runner-up twice in Division 2-A.