Here’s a look at Rebel senior athletes who stepped up their game for unforgettable moments.
Ryan Wells, baseball
Despite committing to play football at Army, Wells never abandoned his baseball brethren and had a spring to remember during the Rebels’ best season since 2019.
No one was better in the clutch. He had three hits against South Effingham on March 8 and drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning of the 4-3 win.
In the postseason, Wells’ two-run triple put the Rebels ahead and highlighted the seven-run sixth inning in a come-from-behind 13-8 thrilling victory over Brunswick on April 15 in the semifinals of the Region 1-5A championships.
Two days later, Wells broke a scoreless dual with an RBI hit in the region championship game against Greenbrier.
The next time out, you guessed it, Wells’ two-run double in the sixth inning led to a 3-1 win over East Paulding on April 23 in the first game of a first-round state tournament series.
Kyjana Jordan, girls basketball
The 5-foot-6 point guard didn’t have many wins to celebrate but capped a memorable career with another solid season.
Jordan, who signed to play at Motlow State Community College in Lynchburg, Tenn., averaged 13.7 points a game to capture the Region 1-5A North Offensive Player of the Year honor.
She scored a season-high 27 points in the season-opener against Savannah Country Day and hit the 1,000-point career milestone. She finished with 1,275 career points.
A highlight moment for Jordan during the season came in a 63-59 win over South Effingham on Feb. 5. Her team-high 18 points helped snap a 17-game losing streak and ended an 11-game losing skid to the Mustangs dating back to Jan. 5, 2019.
Luke Edwards, baseball
The righthander threw only 11 innings in 2024, but emerged not only as the Rebels’ pitching leader, but compiled numbers among the best in the state while capturing the Region 1-5A North’s Pitcher of the Year honor in 2025.
Edwards, who is headed to Valdosta State, posted a 9-1 record with an 0.64 earned run average. In 65.2 innings, he allowed just 18 hits and six earned runs with 42 walks and 112 strikeouts.
He throttled high-powered Greensbrier twice – striking out 14 in a 2-1 win on March 13 and a one-hit performance over six innings in a 3-0 victory to win the Region 1-5A championship on April 17.
Edwards overpowered Evans, striking out 16 in 6.2 innings in a 1-0 win on March 27. He also threw a seven-inning no-hitter against Statesboro 10-2 on April 3 in the quarterfinals of the region tournament.
Bella Teston, volleyball
The 5-foot-9 big hitter stepped up as a leader to help the Rebels to a school-record 30 wins and advancement to the Sweet Sixteen at state.
Teston, who had a team-best 293 kills (2.6 per set), played all-around for ECHS and captured the Region 1-5A North’s Offensive Player of the Year honor.
She had a personal-best 11 kills four times.
During the season, Teston and her teammates posted a 10-game winning streak and defeated rival South Effingham three times after losing to the Mustangs twice the previous year.
Teston signed to play volleyball at Brewton-Parker.
Dakaria Walker, Joseph Esco, track
Walker and Esco saved their best for the final weeks of the track and field season. Walker ran a blazing 20.93 in the 200-meter dash on April 3 in Claxton in a hand-timed race to break Toot Johnson’s 2017 school record by almost a second.
Esco, who showed marked improvement from his junior to senior year during the cross country and track seasons, posted a time of 4:33.09 in the 1600 at the Region 1-5A track and field championships in Statesboro on April 24 to unseat Theron Claridge’s previous 2024 school record by about nine seconds.
Esco ran a personal-best 16:09.4 in cross country’s 5-kilometer race at Sectionals, shaving off more than three minutes from his previous best as a junior.
Walker, who also runs a sub-50 in the 400-meter run, will be attending Columbus State for track. Esco will be running cross country for Georgia Southwestern.
