Johnson continues basketball
career at Albany Tech

Published 4:42 pm Saturday, January 4, 2025

MOULTRIE – Carliss Johnson has taken her collegiate basketball career closer to home this season.
After spending her freshman season at St. Petersburg (Fla.) College, she has transferred to Albany Technical College and in a recent game scored 14 points in a win over Lurleen B. Wallace (Ala.) Community College.
Johnson was a four-year starter at Colquitt County and when she graduated in 2023, she had scored 1,387 points, fourth-most in Lady Packers history.
She averaged 11.3 points for St. Petersburg last season and is scoring 12.5 points a game in the early going for Albany Tech.
Of this and that:
Le’Meke Brockington started at wide receiver and caught two passes for 55 yards in the University of Minnesota’s 21-10 victory over Virginia Tech in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl.
Brockington finishes his redshirt junior season with 18 pass receptions for 282 yards and a touchdown.
In two years with the Golden Gophers, he has 23 catches for 355 yards and two touchdowns.
He also was named an All-Academic Big 10 player last fall.
Beating the Hokies gave 8-5 Minnesota its eighth-straight bowl victory. The Gophers are 6-0 in bowl games under head coach P.J. Fleck.
• Duke lost 52-20 to Ole Miss in the Gator Bowl with Tyshon Reed Jr. being credited with a half-sack during his time on the field.
Duke finishes 9-4.
Reed, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound true freshman defensive end, played in 12 games for the Blue Devils and had five tackles.
• South Carolina starting left guard Kamaar Bell finished his college football career in the Gamecocks 21-17 loss to Illinois in the Citrus Bowl.
Ranked No. 14, South Carolina finishes 9-4.
The 6-foot-2, 319-pound Bell spent two years at Auburn before playing three seasons at Florida Atlantic, where he earned his degree in criminal justice.
He started all season on the offensive line for the Gamecocks this year.
• North Carolina State linebacker Kamal Bonner started the season as a backup.
But as the season went on, the former Packer earned a starting position and finished with 56 tackles, including seven for losses, including a sack.
Bonner, a redshirt freshman who was an early enrollee in January 2023, started and had one solo and five assisted tackles in the Wolfpack’s 26-21 loss to East Carolina in the Military Bowl, played Dec. 28, in Annapolis, Md.
• The University of Buffalo defeated Liberty 26-7 in Saturday’s Bahamas Bowl to finish 9-4.
Redshirt sophomore Pershaun Fann has played in 10 games for Buffalo this season, including the Bahamas Bowl victory.
He was credited with three tackles this year.