Georgetown sophomore TaShauna “Sugar” Rodgers continues to break new ground for her collegiate basketball team in the same way she did during her King’s Fork career.

Rodgers is the second Lady Hoya basketball player to earn a spot on the first-team All-Big East Team twice as the conference awards were announced ahead of the Big East Tournament in Hartford, Conn.

Rodgers, a 5-foot-11 guard, was a unanimous selection on the first team. She’s averaging 18.2 points per game, putting her second in the Big East behind only Connecticut’s Maya Moore.

Still less than halfway through her Lady Hoya career, Rodgers has already eclipsed 1,000 career points and holds all sorts of GU records, especially in the categories of scoring and three-point shooting.

This season, she’s second in the conference in steals at 2.5 per game and third in the Big East in free throw shooting at 83.2 percent. Rodgers is on the watch lists for two prestigious national awards, the Wooden Award and Naismith Award.

Among some of the individual highlights for Rodgers so far this season, she was the MVP of the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands as the Lady Hoyas went 2-1 including a win over Tennessee. Rodgers scored 30 points in GU’s 65-60 win vs. West Virginia in a battle of two nationally-ranked teams in January.

Georgetown (21-9, 9-7) dropped four of its last five games going into the conference tourney. The Lady Hoyas, as the No. 8 seed, go a bye through the first round and will start their tournament Saturday at noon against the winner of Syracuse vs. Seton Hall.

Former King’s Fork teammates JaQuon Parker and Davante Gardner saw brief action off the bench for their collegiate teams Wednesday night as Cincinnati beat Marquette 67-60 Wednesday night at Marquette.

Parker is a sophomore guard for Cincinnati (23-7, 10-7). The win for the Bearcats solidified their entry into the NCAA Tournament. With a winning record in the Big East, Marquette (18-12, 9-8) is still in good shape for the Big Dance. Gardner is a true freshman forward for the Eagles.

Cincinnati hosts Georgetown Saturday and Marquette plays at Seton Hall Saturday on the last day of regular season play in the Big East.

St. Mary’s edged Randolph-Macon 3-2 on the baseball diamond Wednesday in St. Mary’s, Md.

Seahawk senior Barrett Enix (Nansemond-Suffolk) got the win on the mound going 6.2 innings and allowing seven hits and one run. Enix is 1-1 with a 3.86 ERA. St. Mary’s improved to 6-4.

Former Nansemond River softball standout Maddi Ridenour is leading UVA-Wise’s squad with a .382 batting average through the early part of her senior season.

Ridenour, a centerfielder and leadoff hitter for the Highland Cavaliers, also has eight runs and seven stolen bases in 11 games. Ridenour’s earned NAIA All-American honors and all-conference awards in the Appalachian Athletic Conference through her college career.

UVA-Wise (3-10) is playing in the Beach Blast Tournament in Virginia Beach this weekend.