CAMPUS NOTES
CAMPUS NOTES
Area students
HUNTINGTON
HUNTINGTON, Ind. -- Jonathan Doyle, a Boardman High graduate and a member of the Huntington College track team, will make his fourth appearance at the NAIA track and field national championships Thursday at Louisville, Ky. He qualified for the event in the 110-meter high hurdles (14.9 seconds) and the 400 hurdles (54.9) and will compete in preliminaries, both races. Semifinals and finals are scheduled Friday and Saturday respectively.
MOUNT UNION
ALLIANCE -- Diane Snyder, a senior at Boardman High School, will continue her basketball career at Mount Union College. A 6-5 guard, she was a two-year letter-winner for the Spartans and tri-captain as a senior and a Northeast Ohio Inland All-District honorable mention.
Lauren Brobeck, a senior at Salem High School, will continue her volleyball career at Mount Union College. A three-year letter-winner for the Quakers, Brobeck, a 5-4 athlete, was a defensive specialist for Salem, which was Metro Athletic Conference champions (2001-03). She plans to major in biology, with a minor in music at Mount Union.
Christopher Curran, a native of Barrington, NH., has been named men's soccer coach at Mount Union College. In 2003-04, he was Mount Union's assistant men's and women's soccer coach. He will also serve as an assistant men's and women's swim coach, as well as continuing his duties as an instructor in the college's Human Performance and Sports Management Department.
Mount field athletes Andrew Blake (West Branch) and Ashley Kohler (Boardman) qualified for the Division III national meet. Blake will compete in the shot put and Kohler will compete in the discus.
EDINBORO
EDINBORO, Pa. -- Edinboro University sophomore Julie Nemergut, a South Range High graduate, recently placed second in the 5,000-meter run at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference track and field championships at Slippery Rock and has qualified to compete in the 5,000 and 10,000 at next week's Division II national meet in Pomona, Calif.
MOUNT VERNON NAZARENE
MOYNT VERNON -- Mount Vernon Nazarene University senior pitcher/outfielder Jason Irish, a Lakeview High graduate, earned National Christian College Athletic Association All-American honorable mention. Irish is batting .392 with 15 doubles, seven homers and 47 RBIs. He also has a 7-3 record with a 3.33 ERA.
MALONE
CANTON -- Malone College track and field athletes John Jeren (Poland), Adam Huffman (Crestview) and Tiffany French (Bristol) have advanced to this weekend's NAIA national meet in Olathe, Kan. Jeren and Huffman will run the 4x400-meter relay and French will compete in the shot put.
BOWLING GREEN
BOWLING GREEN -- Gina Rango, a sophomore third baseman for the Bowling Green State University softball team from North Lima and Boardman High, has been selected to the Great Lakes All-Region First Team for the second straight year. That marked the first time in school history that a BGSU softball player has made all-region twice.
Rango led Bowling Green in nine statistical categories -- batting average (.372) hits (74), doubles (18), home runs (9), RBIs (42), slugging percentage (.608), on-base percentage (.429), total bases (121) and game starts (64). Her doubles, home runs and RBIs were season school records. And she tied the school career record for homers (14). She has started all of the BG's 117 games so far in her career.
Rango helped the Falcons to a 34-30 record and to the Mid-American Conference Tournament championship for a berth in the NCAA Regional Tournament, where the Falcons were eliminated May 20 by two losses to Oregon State.
OHIO WESLEYAN
DELAWARE -- Michael Krieger, a sophomore pitcher for the Ohio Wesleyan University baseball team from Boardman High, has been selected to the All-North Coast Athletic Conference Second Team. Krieger posted a 5-3 record with a 3.31 earned average, and helped the Bishops to a 23-17 record, including 11-5 in the NCAA West Division for runner-up.