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Friday, January 30, 2009
Weather messing with Witt training room
The snow and ice is not only messing with the area sports schedules, it’s having a trickle-down effect (literally) at Wittenberg’s HPER Center.
Multiple leaks in the roof forced physical plant workers to rig a tarp system in the training room. The water drops into the tarp and then runs into a funnel.
Head trainer Ellen Crosbie was spotted wearing a clear plastic rain poncho as she attended to athletes on Friday, Jan. 30.
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Weather postponing games on Jan. 30
Another day of bad weather is forcing area basketball games to be postponed.
The Tippecanoe at Shawnee boys basketball game has been rescheduled for Feb. 16th.
The Urbana at Greenon boys game has been rescheduled for Feb. 11th.
The Benjamin Logan at Northwestern boys game will be played on Feb. 14th. JV will start at 2 p.m. with varsity start scheduled for 3:30.
The Kenton Ridge at Stebbins boys game has been postponed for Feb. 17th.
The Mechanicsburg at Greeneview boys game has been postponed with no reschedule date announced.
The West Liberty-Salem at Southeastern game has been rescheduled for Feb. 14 with JV starting at Noon and varsity beginning at approximately 1:30.
The Bellefontaine at Tecumseh boys game has been rescheduled for Feb. 10th.
The Cedarville at Triad boys game has been rescheduled for Feb. 4th.
The Northeastern at Catholic Central game has been rescheduled for Feb. 7. They’ll have 5-game day starting with girls JV at 1:30 p.m., followed by girls varsity at 3. Freshman boys will start at 4:45, with JV at 6 and varsity boys at 7:30 p.m.
The Greenon at Kenton Ridge girls game postponed yesterday has been rescheduled for Feb 4th.
The Mechanicsburg at Catholic Central girls game postponed yesterday has been rescheduled for Feb. 16th.
The Beavercreek at Springfield boys game is still on as scheduled, according to Springfield AD Mark Stoll.
The Graham at Indian Lake boys game will be played as scheduled, according to coach Brook Cupps. The Graham wrestling team will also host a dual match with Lowell, Mich. this evening.
Check back here for more updates throughout the day.
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Where are they now: Dan Hipsher
Dan Hipsher coached the Wittenberg men’s basketball team for four season from 1989-93, winning four North Coast Athletic Conference championships. He followed the 13-season tenure of Larry Hunter and preceded current head coach Bill Brown.
Hipsher is in his second season as an assistant coach to Stan Heath at the University of South Florida. The Bulls are 7-12 this season.
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Wooster, OWU, Hiram stay in front of Witt
Wooster and Hiram are 8-1 in the NCAC. Ohio Wesleyan is 7-2. Wittenberg is 6-3.
Highlights from around the NCAC on Thursday on the jump.
From the Daily Record in Wooster:
WOOSTER — Any Div. III college basketball team would gladly welcome a 6-foot-7 recruit who can play. When that guy is also the best outside shooter on the team, as is the case with Wooster freshman Justin Hallowell, now that’s something https://mt.coxnewsweb.com/shared-cgi/mt/mt.cgi?_mode=view&type=entry&blog_id=18003pretty special.
Hallowell continued his torrid rookie season from beyond the 3-point line by knocking down 5-of-7 treys en route to a game-high 21 points, sparking a 93-76 rout of visiting Allegheny at Timken Gym Thursday night.
From the Delaware Gazette:
The Battling Bishops were just warming up on a cold wintry night …
Ohio Wesleyan turned a three-point halftime lead into a 75-63 North Coast Athletic Conference victory over Oberlin Thursday night at Branch Rickey Arena.
From Hiram’s Web site:
HIRAM, OHIO — Sophomore guard Chris Roberts (Cleveland/Kennedy) scored a game-high 24 points as the Hiram College men’s basketball team extended its winning streak to four games with a 66-55 win against Kenyon College tonight (Thursday, Jan. 29) in a North Coast Athletic Conference game at Price Gymnasium.
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On this date in area sports history …
Eighty-four years ago on this date, Jan. 30, 1925, Brooks Lawrence was born in Springfield. Lawrence, who died in 2000, played seven seasons in the big leagues with the Cardinals and Reds. He is a member of the Reds Hall of Fame.
On the jump, a News-Sun story on Lawrence.
Published April 28, 2000
SPRINGFIELD BASEBALL GREAT DIES.
BROOKS LAWRENCE CALLED AN ALL-AROUND ATHLETE
By Greg Billing, News-Sun Sports Writer
While most friends remember Brooks Lawrence for his ability to excel on the playing field, perhaps no one knows it better than former Springfield High School football teammate Jim Pinkerton.
“I’d have been first-string quarterback if it hadn’t been for Brooksie,” Pinkerton said with a laugh, referring to Lawrence’s size and talent. “He was a great guy.”
Lawrence, 75, died Thursday. The Springfield resident who went on to a seven-year career as a pitcher in the major leagues had been battling cancer. Family members could not be reached for comment.
“He was a nice guy and a hell of an athlete,” said Tom Conway, 75, who graduated from Springfield High with Lawrence in 1943.
“There was no question about (Lawrence becoming a success),” Conway added. “He was the best athlete in town. He could run, he could pitch, he could throw, he could play football, basketball, run track.”
Lawrence, Springfield High’s first black quarterback, spent two seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals (1954-55) and five with the Cincinnati Reds (1956-60). He retired with a 69-62 record and a 4.24 earned-run average. Lawrence’s best season came in 1956 when he opened with 13 straight wins for the Reds and made the National League All-Star team. He finished 19-10 with a 3.99 ERA that season.
“He was worthy of everything he did,” Pinkerton said of Lawrence, who often battled racism during his career. “I think he handled himself well and he was a gentleman.”
Don Rinker of Meek’s Sporting Goods in Springfield remembers Lawrence as someone willing to give back to the sport he loved to play. Rinker cited an incident when Lawrence was coaching the Wilmington College baseball team.
“He traded me a bat (Ken) Griffey Sr. had used in a game for three wood ones for his college team to use,” said Rinker. “He’s a good friend of (Joe) Nuxhall and the Griffeys.”
“He used to come in here all the time when major-leaguers had to buy their own stuff,” the 72-year-old Rinker added. “He had a pretty good career.”
Rinker, a 1947 Springfield High graduate, recalls the day Lawrence was called up from his AAA Columbus team in 1954.
“I was at his front door the day he was called up to St. Louis,” Rinker said. “My boss had heard and he told me to go over there. He was pitching for Columbus at that time and he said, `I don’t know why, they knocked me out in the first inning today.’ ”
If Lawrence had any doubts, they soon were erased. His major-league debut was on June 24, 1954, and he promptly went 15-6 with a 3.74 ERA for the Cardinals. A bleeding ulcer weakened him for the following season, when he went 3-8 with a 6.56 ERA. Lawrence was traded to the Reds during the off-season.
“He was a fine athlete,” Conway said. “He was really a friendly guy. I wish he hadn’t had this problem.
“I last saw him four months ago. I invited him to come to a coaches group. He said he would and then said he was on all that oxygen so he couldn’t come.”
After his retirement from baseball, Lawrence — a member of both the Reds and Ohio baseball halls of fame — worked 10 years at International Harvester in Springfield. He then spent 10 years in the Reds’ front office, the team’s first significant front-office minority hire, handling scouting, minor-league player development, radio and television work and season-ticket sales.
Lawrence was a member of the inaugural class of the Springfield High School Athletic Hall of Fame, which was inducted in 1998. He lettered in football, basketball and track and also played baseball. The summer baseball league for high school players — the Lawrence-Haddix League — bears his name along with that of former professional pitcher Harvey Haddix.
“He was a great guy and lot of people don’t know he was a great football player, too,” said former Springfield football teammate Jack Tuttle, 76. “When you get to be the age Brooks and I are, you get to expect the good Lord will take you somewhere along the line.”
Arrangements are pending at the Robert C. Henry Funeral Home in Springfield.
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