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The 1995 National Championship Softball Team
led by Coach Greg
Tanner began its season plagued with injuries and was down two players by
the time the Fillies made it to the national tournament.
 Tanner said his
1995 team's experience helped it win the state tournament and move on to the
national tournament that was hosted in Tifton that year. The Fillies
won the national title in an 8th-inning rally for a 5-4 victory over
Meridian Community College. Tanner was named the Region XVII Softball
Coach of the Year and National Invitational Women's Softball Slow Pitch
Championship Coach of the Tournament in 1995.
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A.B. Malloy
was an avid fan and supporter
 of the ABAC
Fillies softball team for 20 years. He served as a dugout coach and mentor
to both the coaches and the players. He drove the ABAC van to away games and
was present at every home game. He was at every practice helping out the
team, and he and his wife, Dot, hosted cookouts for the Fillies for years.
Malloy supplied the Fillies with boiled peanuts for every game and a cooler
of drinks for the coach. His experience in the sport of softball was
limitless. He umpired for the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) for over 60
years, umpired with the South Georgia Umpire Association from 1985 – 2002,
played for the men’s fast pitch softball team, Sing-Oil, for 25 years, and
served on the Tift County Board of Recreation.
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 Coach
Benny Dees
served
as coach of the ABAC basketball team from 1962 – 1967. In the 1966-67
season, ABAC was ranked 13th in the nation and was undefeated in league
play. He was also successful as a coach at the NCAA Division 1 level,
coaching at Virginia Commonwealth, the University of New Orleans, the
University of Wyoming, and Western Carolina. He was also an assistant coach
at the University of Alabama, Georgia Tech, and Western Kentucky.
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Harley Stewart played for the
 Stallions basketball team from 1968 -
1970. Under the coaching direction
of Van Bracken and Lowell Mulkey, he received the Athlete of the Year award
and was named as ABAC Basketball’s Most Valuable Player in 1970. Outside of
the campus, he was selected as part of the National Junior College Athletic
Association (NJCAA) District 17 All Tournament 1st Team, the Georgia Junior
Collegiate Athletic Association (GJCAA) 1st Team All Tournament, and the
GJCAA All State Team in the same year. After completing his ABAC career,
Stewart was recruited to West Georgia College, where he played in two
national tournament games and averaged 24 points and 15 rebounds per game.
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 Kyle
Farnsworth
played
baseball as an ABAC Stallion in 1994 and 1995. Farnsworth went on to
become a major league baseball relief pitcher and is currently playing for
the Tampa Bay Rays. He graduated from Milton High School near Atlanta.
During high school, he played baseball, basketball, and football. Farnsworth
was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the 1994 amateur draft and signed with
them in 1995. He has also played
for the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, Kansas City Royals, and Atlanta
Braves.
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