HALL OF FAME \ Westminster College NEW WILMINGTON — Three former Westminster College athletes from the Youngstown area — Jim Goske (Boardman), Craig Villwock (Champion) and Ray Cebula


Jim Goske — was the leading scorer on the 1993-94 Westminster basketball team that went 25-3, and was the last Titan squad to win 25 or more games. Goske (6-4) averaged a team-high 17 points that 1993-94 season as a junior while leading the team in 3-point goals with 77. Then as a senior in 1994-95, Goske averaged 14.6 points per game to rank No. 2 on the team in scoring behind Booker Newberry. For his career, he scored 1,202 points to rank No. 19 in school history.

Craig Villwock — was a defensive end for Westminster and played in two of the Titans’ NAIA national championship games in the mid-1990s under coach Gene Nicholson. In fact, Villwock (6-2, 220), as a sophomore in 1994, was voted the most valuable player in the Westminster’s win over Pacific Lutheran in the NAIA national championship game. He completed his sophomore season with 18 sacks. The after missing the 1995 season with a hip injury, Villwock made a strong comeback and played two more seasons and won several honors. He made Football Gazette All-American, NAIA All-American honorable mention and first-team all-conference. In the four years he played, Westminster compiled a 40-10 record. He ranks No. 15 in career tackles at Westminster with 364.

Ray Cebula — a native of Campbell who competed in football, baseball and track and field under coaches Harold Burry, Buzz Ridl and Fran Webster, respectively, won eight letters. During his junior year in 1964-65, all three teams won championships with the football team going undefeated (8-0). As a senior, Cebula won the school’s Athlete of the Year award. Cebula was an end and outside linebacker on the football team, and won four letters and all-district and all-conference honorable mention as a sophomore in 1963, before earning all-conference first team in 1965. Cebula and his wife, Sondra, have three children — Janie, Suzanne and Leslie. Cebula’s father, George, also played football for Westminster from 1928-32.