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SEBBEN RELAYS DRAWS HUGE FIELD
 
The 88th running of the Aldo Sebben Missouri State Relays took place on Tuesday, April 27 at the Plaster Sports Complex on the Missouri State nUniversity campus in Springfield. The event, the oldest such event in the nation featuring only high school athletes, drew a field of 47 teams and more than 1,000 athletes from through Missouri. The top performance of the meet came from Hillcrest High School sophomore Dorial Green. Green, the dominate sprinter in the region the entire spring season took first place honors in the 100 and 200 meter events and scored a third first, capturing the triple jump. Jessica Jackson of Neosho High School scored a double win, taking both the 800 and 1600 meter events.
Photos Courtesy Tom Mast
DRURY PLACES THREE ON ALL-GLVC SOFTBALL SQAUDS
Drury has placed three on the All-Great Lakes Valley Conference softball squads released by the league office on Thursday night.
Senior catcher Jessica Matlock and senior utility player Sadie Ball were honored with Second Team All-GLVC status, while junior pitcher Kelsea Garthoff was named a Third Team selection. Matlock led the Panthers with a .385 average to go with seven homers and 34 RBIs, while Ball hit .327 with team-highs of 10 homers, 37 RBIs and 17 stolen bases.
Garthoff set a new DU single-season record with her 16 victories and 192.2 innings pitched, fashioning a 2.83 earned run average along the way for the Panthers (22-30).
University of Indianapolis senior Megan Russell (Indianapolis, Ind./Franklin Central) and Quincy University junior Torie Bunzell (Utica, Ill./LaSalle-Peru) have been named the 2010 Great Lakes Valley Conference Softball Player and Pitcher of the Year, respectively.
Russell has paced the UIndy offensive attack this season and is hitting .324 with 41 RBIs, 31 runs scored, 14 doubles and seven home runs. She boasts a .574 slugging percentage and .408 on-base percentage. Russell leads the team in RBIs, doubles, slugging percentage, on-base percentage and second on the team in hits (48), home runs, runs scored and walks (19).
In league play, Russell upped her average to .398 with 30 RBIs, 23 runs, eight doubles, three home runs and a .614 slugging percentage. She has also posted a 19-7 record and a 1.91 ERA in the circle, while setting the school’s career, single-season and single-game strikeout records.
Bunzell was named the league’s top pitcher after pacing the Lady Hawks to the No. 2 seed in the GLVC Tournament with a 35-13 overall record and 20-7 league mark. She has posted a 24-6 overall record with a 0.68 earned run average. She has recorded 314 strikeouts in 185 innings pitched and has tossed 11 shutouts and 26 complete games.
In league competition, Bunzell was 16-4 with a 0.71 earned run average. She notched seven shutouts and 202 strikeouts in 118 innings pitched. Bunzell led the league in earned run average, opposing batting average (.139), strikeouts and wins.
Joining Russell and Bunzell on the All-GLVC First Team is Lewis’ Michelle Vucsko and Jayme Hefler, Missouri S&T’s Kristin Drage, Missouri-St. Louis’ Meaghan Bauer and JaCee Ellis, Northern Kentucky’s April Ehlers, Quincy’s Erin Gregory, Saint Joseph’s Brittnie Boerema, UIndy’s Jamie Keltz and UW-Parkside’s Christine Holthus and Krista Kelly.
Hefler, a centerfielder for the Flyers, has been named the 2010 GLVC Freshman of the Year. She has guided Lewis to the No. 3 seed in the upcoming GLVC Tournament with a 20-8 record. She is hitting .438 on the season with 49 runs, 10 RBIs and 32 stolen bases. She leads the Flyers in batting average, runs, hits (67), on-base percentage (.491) and stolen bases. In league play, Hefler hit .432 with 32 runs and 21 stolen bases.
UIndy’s Melissa Frost-Fisher has been selected the 2010 GLVC Coach of the Year in a vote of her peers. Frost-Fisher guided the Greyhounds to the top seed in the GLVC Tournament for the first time in school history. UIndy has an overall record of 34-13 and finished the conference season with a 22-6 mark, a school-record for GLVC wins in a sesaon. The GLVC Coach of the Year award is the first for Frost-Fisher who is in her sixth season with the Greyhounds.
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LADY BEARS ADD TRANSFER SNOW TO RECRUITING HAUL
The Missouri State women’s basketball team gained another newcomer Friday (May 7) with the addition of transfer Bry Snow, 6-1 forward out of Blue Springs, Mo. Snow, who played her freshman campaign at the University of Cincinnati, will have three years of eligibility remaining after sitting out the 2010-11 season per NCAA transfer guidelines.
At Cincinnati, Snow saw action in six games as a true freshman in 2009-10, averaging 1.3 points and 1.0 rebounds in just over four minutes of playing time per outing. The highlight of her year was a four-point, six-rebound effort in her UC debut against Furman on Nov. 15.
Snow was a four-year prep letterwinner at Blue Springs High School for head coaches Tony Armstrong and Mark Spigarelli. A four-time all-district and three-time all-conference selection, she was an all-state honoree her senior year and helped the Wildcats to four conference championships and a pair of district titles during her varsity career. Snow’s Blue Springs teams compiled a 73-11 record during her final three seasons, including a 28-3, Missouri Class 5 state runner-up finish in 2008-09. On the AAU circuit, Snow played for the Kansas City Select, one of the top AAU programs in the nation.
Snow also earned three letters in track and field and volleyball for the Wildcats. She comes from a family of athletes, as her father, Percy Snow, was an All-America linebacker at Michigan State and a first-round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in 1990. Her mother, Tyra, was also a student-athlete at Michigan State, competing on the Spartan track and field team, while her uncle, Eric Snow, played 13 seasons in the NBA.
Snow becomes the fourth addition to the Lady Bear roster this offseason, joining freshmen-to-be Karly Buer, Desiree Phillips and Hannah Wilkerson. The Lady Bears will also return 10 letterwinners and four starters from this year’s 22-11 squad that advanced to the third round of the WNIT after finishing third in the Missouri Valley Conference.
SBU’S BARNHART EARNS COSIDA FOR 2ND YEAR
SBU senior third baseman Justin Barnhart has been named to the CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Baseball First Team for the second straight season.
Barnhart, a native of St. Charles, Mo., carries a 3.96 GPA in biology and pre-dental. He has been accepted to the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry where he will attend following graduation from SBU in May. Earlier this week, Barnhart picked up the second All-MIAA honor of career when he was named All-MIAA Honorable Mention. He also earned All-MIAA Second Team honors as a utility player in 2008.
He hit .295 this year with two home runs and 26 runs batted in while starting all 50 games. Barnhart ranked among the MIAA leaders in walks (27 - 6th), plate appearances (218 - 4th) and at-bats (183 - tied 3rd). Barnhart had a team season high of six RBI against Lincoln in April.
He is a graduate of Francis Howell North High School and the son of Steve Barnhart and Susan Barnhart.
With his selection to the first team from District VII of the College Division, Barnhart is now eligible for the CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American team.
CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) was founded in 1957. There were 102 members at the original meetings; since that time, CoSIDA has grown to over 2,300 members in the United States and Canada.
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SBU’S BADERDEEN & 3 OTHERS EARN ALL-MIAA SOFTBALL HONORS
Bearcat third baseman Krysta Baderdeen was named to the All-MIAA Softball Second Team, as voted on by conference coaches, while pitcher Josie Rose, first baseman Nina Amaro-Garcia, and shortstop Latasha Baderdeen were given All-MIAA Honorable Mention honors.
Krysta Baderdeen, a junior from Marshfield, received her second All-MIAA award, after being named honorable mention last season. Baderdeen hit for a .386 average, sixth best in the MIAA. One of the most clutch hitters in the league this season, Krysta hit an impressive .476 with runners in scoring position, the third-best average in the MIAA. Baderdeen hit 11 home runs in 2010, which set a new school record as well as ranked her tied for sixth in the conference. Krysta was among the league leaders in a number of other categories, including slugging percentage (.654, 9th in MIAA), on base percentage (.430, 13th), hits (59, T-8th), RBI (37, T-14th), and assists (113, 4th). In her three seasons with the Bearcats, Krysta has set the all-time SBU records in hits (163) and home runs (22).
Junior pitcher Josie Rose has had similar success during her three years at SBU, becoming SBU's all-time strikeout leader. Rose, a native of Belton, Mo., was second in the league this season, punching out 176 batters. Rose was also in the top ten in the MIAA in wins (15) and opposing average (.251). Rose was arguably the hardest-working pitcher in the league, ranking second in innings pitched (194.2) while leading the league in appearances (39) and games started (29), all while pitching with a rib injury.
Nina Amaro-Garcia, a senior from Maunabo, Puerto Rico, earned her first All-MIAA award after a season in which she hit .316 with 10 home runs and 31 RBI. Amaro-Garcia ranked 10th in the league in home runs, as well as ninth with a near-perfect .995 fielding percentage. Amaro-Garcia also saw time as a pitcher, racking up 25 2/3 innings pitched, striking out 11.
Freshman shortstop Latasha Baderdeen becomes the first Bearcat freshman to win All-MIAA honors since McKenzie Mortimer in 2007. Baderdeen, also from Marshfield, Mo., led the team with a .440 average before missing the final 31 games due to injury. Latasha held a 12-game hitting streak throughout most of the month of March, the second-longest streak of the year for the Bearcats.
Emporia State third baseman Miranda Campbell was named MIAA Player of the Year, after taking the triple crown in the MIAA, with a .511 batting average, 13 home runs, and 61 RBI. The Hornets also had the 2010 MIAA Freshman of the Year on their roster, in pitcher Paige Ladenburger. Ladenburger posted a conference-best 1.54 ERA while collecting 15 wins on the year.
Beth Haley, a junior from Nebraska-Omaha, was named MIAA Pitcher of the year after her 20-win season. Haley had a 1.55 ERA with seven shutouts, 18 complete games, and 100 strikeouts. Kristi Bredbenner from Emporia and Jeanne Scarpello from Omaha share MIAA Coach of the Year honors after leading their respective teams to a first-place tie with 18-2 conference records.
Photo Courtesy Southwest Baptist University
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