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BALDWIN WALLACE
Tara Gruskiewicz and Nicole Drouhard, juniors on the outdoor track team from Pymatuning Valley and Austintown Fitch Highs, respectively, helped B-W to win their seventh straight OAC championship, and 14th in the last 15 years.
Gruskieiicz won the 800-meter run in the OAC meet, and made the All-OAC team.
She also qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championship Meet at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and placed ninth (2:21.19) in her heat but did not qualify for the finals.
Drohard placed second in the 10,000-meter run at the OAC meet, and also made the All-OAC team.
In baseball, Jason Elias from Warren Harding High climaxed his junior baseball season at B-W with a .394 batting average (15-for-38), with nine runs, six RBIs and three doubles.
Elias saw duty at both first base and designated hitter, playing in 19 games and starting six of them.
He helped the Yellow Jackets to tie a single-season win record (25-12-1). Last season as a sophomore, Elias played in nine games, starting three of them, and batted .389 (7-for-18).
The son of Paula and Thomas Elias, Jason is majoring in business administration. While at Harding, he was a three-year letterman on the baseball team and a two-time pick to the All-SVC squad.
He made All-SVC first team as a senior with a .451 batting average with two homers, 24 RBIs and 11 stolen bases. He also made the Tri-County All-Star team.
Also with the B-W team this year was B.J. DeCerbo, an infielder from Fitch High who played on the junior varsity.
THIEL
Libby Hauser, a freshman on the women's track team from Reynolds High, won three Presidents' Athletic Conference championships in the shot put (32-11/4), discus (98-1) and javelin (135-6).
She also placed third in the javelin at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Track and Field Championships with 133-5.
Hauser qualified for the NCAA Championships with a 137-7 on April 6 at the Case Western Reserve Invitational.
That 137-7 throw was the fifth-longest throw of the year in the nation in NCAA Division III.
-- John Kovach