Coyote Chatter
USD Ranks in NCAA Softball Stats
Tom Berg
USD Sports Information Coordinator |
The NCAA released its final softball statistical report for 2010, and several USD players are ranked. Senior Callie Roan ranked second in the nation in sacrifice hits per game (0.40). Roan finished the year with a team-high 19 hits and finished in the top five in USD history in that category.
Sophomore Alexa Rudeen finished tied for 34th in the nation with 0.31 doubles per game. She led USD with 16 during the season – leading the Great West Conference – and had a team-high 19 extra-base hits overall.
Junior Lexie Eversley ranked high in an unusual stat – being hit by a pitch. Eversley was tied for 38th in being hit by a pitch at 0.25 per game. She was hit by a pitch 12 times in 2010, leading USD by far in that category.
Junior Mel Johnson, the 2010 Great West Conference Pitcher of the Year, was tied for 115th in pitching wins with 16. That ranking is out of more than 300 collegiate pitchers. Johnson also led the conference with 135 strikeouts.
In the Great West Conference, senior Michelle Jones finished third with 32 RBI, while also tying for third with seven home runs. Roan led the Great West with 25 walks and 9 sacrifices as well.
USD Recruit Notes:
Katelyn Wudel, a 2010-11 USD softball signee, recently helped York (Ill.) win its first regional title since 2003. Wudel, a speedy outfielder, helped York upset two higher-seeded teams on its way to the regional crown.
Tempestt Wilson, a 2010-11 USD women’s basketball recruit, recently was named to the second-team All-Region XVI honors at Iowa Western Community College. Wilson, who will have three years of eligibility remaining, finished fourth in the Region XVI in scoring (14.8 points per game).
Updates on Former Coyotes
Former USD football player Brandon White has been named the head football coach at Harrisburg (S.D.) High School. White, who graduated from USD in 2009 and was a Great West All-Academic selection in 2008, is a math teacher at Harrisburg and was one of 29 applicants for the Harrisburg coaching position.
Three former Coyotes –Mark Blackburn, T.J. Simmons and Brooks Little – are members of the Sioux Falls Storm football team that competes in the Indoor Football League. Blackburn leads the Storm with 86 total tackles, while Simmons leads with five interceptions to go with 48 tackles. Little has 17 catches for 174 yards and five touchdowns.
Former USD men’s basketball standout John Hemenway, a member of the Coyote Sports Hall of Fame, was named the head men’s basketball coach at Berea College (NAIA) in Kentucky. Hemenway, who had a record of 115-49 in five years at Dakota Wesleyan, is also a former USD assistant.
Former USD basketball players Jeana and Jenna Hoffman, who are members of the Rock County Robins pro basketball team, are featured in an article linked at http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2010/06/14/sports/local_sports/sports1404.txt
Greg Lansing, a 1990 USD graduate and former Coyote men’s basketball player, has been named the head men’s basketball coach at Indiana State, which competes in the Missouri Valley Conference. Lansing spent the past four seasons as the associate head coach at Indiana State. Lansing replaces Kevin McKenna, who resigned to take an assistant coaching position at Oregon. Lansing was twice named USD’s Defensive Player of the Year and also served as a graduate assistant under Coach Dave Boots in 1992-93
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Coyote Chatter is the sports information blog put together by USD sports information coordinator Tom Berg. This will be updated periodically, If you have any submissions for updates on former athletes, coaches, etc., for this feature, please email tom.berg@usd.edu. We will also provide short tidbits on other former Coyotes.
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