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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Locally: Hyde and Parker named to coaches all-region team

University of Findlay guards Nathan Hyde and Marcus Parker earned spots on the National Association of Basketball Coaches all-Midwest Region team Wednesday.

Hyde, a former Liberty-Benton standout, averaged 18.4 points per game during a breakout year. He pulled down 4 rebounds per game and averaged 2.1 steals and 1.9 assists per game. He was the 2010 Great Lakes Intercolegiate Athletic Conference Tournament MVP and has 1,117 points in his career. His 580 points in 2009-10 is UF's ninth highest single-season total.

Hyde also set a UF single-season record with 95 3-pointers, including 15 during a record-breaking performance in the conference tournament. His 84 points in the league tourney was a record as well.

As for Parker, the four-year starting point guard wrapped up his career averaging 15.1 points per outing. He finished with 1,490 points, ranking him 13th all-time. Parker dished out 3.3 assists, pulled down 2.4 and tallied 1.9 steals per outing.

The Oilers, who won the 2009 NCAA Division II national championship, finished 24-7 this season, won the GLIAC regular season and tournament titles and made a ninth consecutive appearance in the Midwest Regional. The Oilers ended their season with a 68-56 loss to Grand Valley State.

First Team All-Midwest

Justin Keenan, Ferris State; Jamar Smith, Southern Indiana; Desmond Stephens, Kentucky Wesleyan; Nathan Hyde, Findlay; Marcus Parker, Findlay; Justin Ringler, Grand Valley State.

Second Team All-Midwest

Aaron Hill, Rockhurst; David Palmer, Northern Kentucky; Scott Perkins, Lake Superior State; Billy Baptist, Quincy; Avery Stephenson, Saginaw Valley State.

Leppelmeier is favored

AKRON -- McComb's Jackie Leppelmeier will be the favorite in the Division II-III girls shot put at the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Indoor state track and field championships Saturday at the University of Akron.

A total of 14 area girls and eight boys are scheduled to compete in the meet, which gets underway with the field events at 9:30 a.m.

Leppelmeier posted the top qualifying mark in the shot put with a throw of 43-7.

Two Division III returning outdoor state champions are seeded second in their respective events. Liberty-Benton senior Seth Butler has the second-fastest time in the boys 800 (1:59.96) and North Baltimore sophomore Amanda Hotaling is No. 2 in the pole vault (11-0).

Area Girls Qualifiers

PV -- Amanda Hotaling (NB) 11-0; Shea Barnett (HN) 9-6; Reagan Briggs (Elm) 9-0.

60 -- Katie Reiser (Elm) 7.76.

200 -- Reiser (Elm) 26.1.

SHOT -- Jackie Leppelmeier (McC) 43-10; Kendra Averesch (Leip) 40-1½; Alyssa Gary (L-B) 37-11¾.

WEIGHT THROW -- J. Leppelmeier (McC) 43-7½; Gary (L-B) 40-8½; Averesch (Leip) 35-2½; Becca Leppelmeier (McC) 32-5½.

3,200 RELAY -- Liberty-Benton (Halle Frey, Brooke Larson, Rachel Muckenstrum, Hannah Quinlan) 10:38.61.

1,600 -- Larson (L-B) 5:43.27.

TJ -- Zoe Thompson (L-B) 29-6¼.

400 -- Brittany Lee (NB) 1:03.11.

Area Boys Qualifiers

200 -- Ray Foster (Fos) 23.4.

800 -- Seth Butler (L-B) 1:59.96.

3,200 RELAY -- Liberty-Benton (Jacob Clagg, Brian Giangiordano, Zach Johnson, Joseph Sherrieb) 8:43.5.

TJ -- Sherrieb (L-B) 38-5; Dakota Conkle (L-B) 38-7¾.

PV -- Brad Keller (L-B) 14-0.

On the Net: http://oh.milesplit.us/meets/55332

Krauss sees action

Patrick Henry graduate Marc Krauss got his first taste of life in the Major Leagues when he played in the Arizona Diamondbacks' 13-5 win over Seattle in a spring training game Monday.

Krauss saw action in leftfield and went 0 for 1 at the plate with a walk and a strikeout.

It's Krauss' second season in professional baseball after being drafted No. 64 pick in the second round of last year's amateur draft.

The 6-foot-3, 235-pound former Ohio University standout played 32 games with South Bend, Ind. of the Class A Midwest League before his rookie season was cut short with injuries. The 22-year-old hit .304 with two home runs and 17 RBI for South Bend.

Arcadia graduate Jerry Blevins, in his fourth season with the Oakland Athletics, has struggled in spring training.

The 6-foot-6 lefty has appeared in five games allowing six earned runs on seven hits in 52/3 innings. He's walked one batter and struck out four.

For his career, Blevins has made 62 appearances, all in relief and has a 1-4 record with a 4.18 ERA.

ONU's Meyer named

ADA -- Ohio Northern senior forward Kyle Meyer has been selected to play in the inaugural National Association of Basketball Coaches Division III men's basketball all-star game.

The game will be played as part of the 2010 NCAA Division III men's basketball championships at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va.

In his 90-game Polar Bears' career, Meyer ranks 18th all-time in scoring (1,216 points). Meyer is also ONU's all-time career field goal percentage leader (538 of 898, 59.9 percent).

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