BirminghamWatch contributor Solomon Crenshaw Jr. recently received an award for a story he wrote about the Birmingham-Southern College baseball team coming home from the College World Series to a campus that had closed days before.

BSC Baseball Players Savor Final Bus Ride as Panthers won a second-place prize in Best Baseball Story Without a Deadline at the annual meeting and awards banquet of the Alabama Sports Writers Association.

That story previously was named a runner-up in the feature story online publication category by Alabama Media Professionals, which also awarded Crenshaw 10 other prizes in this year’s competition.

Crenshaw also received a first-place award from the ASWA for a story that ran in the Hoover Sun about four orphans from Uganda who were adopted by metro-area families and excel in track and field.

The ASWA awards were presented during a banquet June 8 on the campus of Jacksonville State University.