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Frostburg State Boasts 11 All-Americans In 1982By BOBSHREVE Proattxrg State College Sport* Information DirectorCombine a winter/spring program boasting ll All Americans with a fail program featuring nary a losing team and two more All-Americans, and you come up with an outstanding year of intercollegiate athletics Notre Dame can’t make this claim, nor can Penn State or Pitt, but Frostburg State can. The Bobcats exhibited phenomenal success in athletics during 1982.During the winter Laura Schlegel, a member of the women’s swimming team, captured the National Championship in the 200-yard backstroke. She also placed third in the 100-yard backstroke and ninth in the 50-yard backstroke. She garnered All-American honors for the second straight year Bob McFarland coaches the swimming teams.Spring saw the men’s and women’s track teams finish among theleaders in the NCAA meter relay team, along Russ Lindsay (OG),Division III National Wilbert Allen, Bill John Gray (S) and Greg Championships. The McKinney and Allan Fuhrman(DE). women’s team, coached Pleasants, which placed For the secondby Barb Surgent, rode fifth. The final All- straight year Chris the swift feet of four American was Duane Lottes’ women’s field runners to a second- DeVance, the fifth place hockey team earned a finisher in the high jump, berth in the NCAA The success generated Tournament Although by the spring the girls fell in the first sports followed over into round, the glimmer of the fall, as the Bobcats the record setting 15-4 posted their most sue- finish and 6th place cessful fall campaign nationally cannot be ever. FSC posted win- tarnished. Making the ning records in all five Mitchell-Ness Allsports, a feat which had American team were last occurred in 1972. Barb Barrett, PamPerhaps the most Shriver and Kelly Hyde, surprising development Mary Hain joined this was the Frostburg trio on the All-State football fortunes. Dean team.Peterson, in just his After two consecutivesecond year at the losing seasons, theschool, led the team to a women’s tennis team,6-2-2 record, the second turned in a 7-6 record! best in the school’s Nancy Crawley’s netters history, and the first showed a great deal of winning season since improvement, in par 1979. ticular, Tina Pinocci,SHOOTINGMATCHEVERY SUNDAY 1:00 PMHAYSTACKSPORTSMENCLUBoff Vocke M. LaVale Mmmts ( Casts ftlctatKITCHEN OPENwho recorded a 12-1 winners, tops being team sweeperback and in the Nationals and could claim Top Ten record in singlesplay. Kutler himself. Not only Weber the second team leading Frostburg on an finishes in both track and If one sport had a did the 14 year coach goalie Freshman Dostal 8th place finish overall cross country, and disappointing season, it capture his 100th career also earned second team It marked the best finish Lewis' Frostburg State was soccer, although win, but he was named honors ever in the event runners were one of thenone of it was by their the Maryland “Coach of While no word as yet After finishing second four own doing In fact, the the Year .” Helping has been released last year, the Bobcats As for the Bobcats as a Bobcat booters set a Kutler get his award concerning the All left no doubt who the top whole, with both men's Frostburg record, were players like Noel American soccer team, cross country team in and women’s basketball winning ten games A 10- Cyrus, Mark Weber, the talented Cyrus has a the Mason Dixcn Con- off to a good start, and 3-3 record was not Skip Dostal and good shot at becoming ference was. With the men’s and women’s deemed good enough by Lawrence Sagel. All Frostburg’s third fall Hoffman taking first swimming teams both the NCAA Selection were named to the All- All-American place, FSC easily out undefeated, the winningCommittee, and Maryland team, Cyrus The second All distanced Towson State just keeps going on. It isFrostburg’s hopes of and Weber earning first American** That honor to win the event for the a tribute to the coachesjoining the select field team honors goes to cross country ’s third time and the administrators,for the second straight For the second Rich Hoffman Hoffman For coach Bob Lewis, but most of all, to the fine year were shattered straight year both also became the FSC it was a great conclusion athletes who have madeKen Kutler’s team was made the All-South harriers’ first All- to a very satisfying Frostburg a power innot without its award- team, Cyrus as the first American finishing 13th season Only four teams Division III athleticsgarnered a National team tight end on the Championship in the ECAC All-South Team heptathlon, Pearce Additionally, nine finished third in the 400- Bobcats earned All-State meter hurdles recognition, while fiveThe men, coached by more gained Honorable Bob Lewis, took sixth Mention. The nine were: place in the Nationals Prather (RB), Waldt Six athletes won All- (QB), Forsythe (WR),American recognition, Greg Shockey (OG), led by Tim Street and Mike Lippold (K), Kevin Lorenzo Waters, both Walsh (DE), Howard National Champions. Blank (LB), Terry Bell Street won the 100-meter (DB) and Charles Harris dash, while Waters (Ret. Specialist) The placed first in the 400- Honorable Mention meter hurdles Street selections were: Theis also anchored the 400- (TE), Happy Hall (LB)place finish nationally. Gail Glave, Pam Phillips, Val Pearce and Melissa Hill formed a quartet that captured the National Championship in the 4X400-meter relay. Hill was a five-event All-American, while the other three were All-Americans in three events.Hill captured the National Championship in the 400-meter dash, finished fourth in the 100 and 200-meter dashes and fifth in the 400-meter relay Phillips placed third in the 400-meter dash, while Glave alsoThe Cardiac Cats, as they came to be known, specialized in exciting, down-to-the wire victories. Paced by a high powered offense featuring the passing of Jobie Waldt and the running of Rich Prather, the Bobcat attack was virtually unstoppable Wide-receiver Steve Forsythe became Frostburg’s second Kodak All-American, grabbing a school-record 59 passes for 773 yards. Tight end Kevin Theis chipped in with 42 receptions for 609 yards and was named first-
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Cumberland Sunday Times
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Sun, Jan 02, 1983
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