Capital’s Stahl and Heidelberg’s Lemmon Named to NABC All-Great Lakes Region Team

      Kansas City, Mo. - Capital junior Nate Stahl (St. Henry) and Heidelberg senior Andrew Lemmon (Port Clinton) were named to the All-Great Lakes First Team by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).

     The all-district teams are selected by the member coaches of the NABC. A total of 88 student-athletes, from eight districts, were recognized. Those honored are now eligible for the State Farm Division III All-America teams which are selected by the NABC.

 D3Hoops.com Men’s and Women’s All-Great Lakes Region Teams

     Sterling, Va. – Wilmington senior Katie Streck (Dayton) was named to the D3hoops.com Women’s All-Great Lakes Region First Team.

      Capital junior Nate Stahl (St. Henry), Heidelberg senior Andrew Lemmon (Port Clinton) and John Carroll senior Terry Walsh (Lakewood) were named to the D3hoops.com Men’s All-Great Lakes Region Second Team. Earning second team honors on the women’s side was Otterbein junior Laura Roth (Cincinnati) and Muskingum junior Jessica McKenzie (Hopwell).

      Capital senior Steve Kyser (Sylvania) and Otterbein senior Ross Banaszak (Delaware) earned Men’s All-Great Lakes Third Team honors.

      John Carroll freshman Lee Jennings (Stow) earned third team honors on the women’s side, in addition to being named the regions Rookie of the Year.

Heidelberg Falls in NCAA First Round

-Story provided by the Heidelberg Sports Information Department

    (Danville, Ky) - All great things must come to an end, and unfortunately for the 2007-08 Heidelberg College men’s basketball team, and head coach Duane Sheldon, its season concluded in the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championships First Round. The Berg suffered an 83-62 setback to Ohio Wesleyan University in the program’s third trip to the NCAA Tournament. Heidelberg faced OWU in Alumni Gymnasium on the campus of Centre College in Danville, Ky.

     The setback concludes Heidelberg’s record-setting season at 23-6 overall, while OWU improves to 21-7. The 23 wins stands second all-time for wins in a single season at the Berg. En route to the NCAA Tournament, Heidelberg compiled a regular season mark of 20-5 to tie for the best regular season in the history of the program. Within the Ohio Athletic Conference the Berg stood at 14-4 and finished second in the final league standings, which ties for the best league mark and finish. In its second-straight post season appearance in the conference tournament, Heidelberg went on to claim the program’s first OAC Tournament Title and earned the leagues automatic bid to go dancing.

     After an early back and forth battle, Ohio Wesleyan held a slim 9-8 lead with 15:15 on the clock in the opening half. OWU went on to extend its lead to double digits at 22-12 with just over 10 minutes to play. The Berg answered with a 7-0 run capped off by a Andrew Lemmon (Port Clinton, Ohio / Port Clinton) jumper to cut its deficit to three points, 22-19, with eight minutes to go before the break. OWU answered with a lay up on its ensuing possession and went on to hit four three-pointers over the final minutes of the first half to hold a 44-30 advantage at the intermission.

    The 30 first half points was a result of shooting just .382 percent (13-of-34) from the field, while the Bishops hit nearly 60 percent of its attempts at .581 (18-of-31).

     Heidelberg came out in the second half and continued its cold shooting spell, which was evident with its first field goal not coming until a Lemmon lay up 2:30 into the second half. OWU extended its lead to 57-38, but the Berg did not quit, battling back to pull within 13 points, 70-57, with a Brian Schmidt (Hinckley, Ohio / Brunswick) lay up with 2:48 left in the game. Over the final minutes, Heidelberg was forced to foul and the Bishops hit 13 of its 14 attempts at the charity stripe to extend the final score to 83-62.

      Lemmon led the Berg with his 14th double-double on the year, finishing with 13 points and a game-high 15 rebounds. Schmidt also registered double figures with 16 points, to go along with nine rebounds. Greg Tyson Jr. (Lima, Ohio / Lima Senior) and Chad Szalay (Lorain, Ohio / Clearview) each finished with eight points, while Shawn Shriver (Bellevue, Ohio / Western Reserve) added seven.

     Shriver concludes his career with 1,260 points, which ranks 10th all-time at Heidelberg, while Schmidt recorded 1,183 points over his four years and stands 13th. Lemmon rounds out three graduating seniors with at least 1,000 points with 1,149 to his credit and ranks 20th.

Hope Ends Tournament Run For Capital

Crusader Topped 90-72 Bethany in First Round to Advance

-Story provided by the Capital Sports Information Department

      (HOLLAND, Mich.) – Capital University’s men’s basketball team saw its season end with a 92-72 loss to No. 1 Hope College in the second round of the NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship. 

      The Crusaders, ranked No. 20 in the country, finished with a record of 24-6, while Hope advances to sectional play with a mark of 25-3.
Capital trailed by just four points, 58-54, with 12:37 when Hope went on a decisive 17-2 run over the next five and a half minutes. The Crusaders turned the ball over five times in that stretch and missed both of their field goal attempts as well. Turnovers plagued Capital the whole game, as Hope scored 28 points off of 19 Capital miscues, a season-high for the Crusaders.

      Junior guard Nate Stahl (St. Henry/St. Henry) scored a team-high 23 points for Capital, and senior forward Steve Kyser (Sylvania/Southview) added 12. Jesse Reimink had 28 to lead Hope and Marcus Vanderheide scored 26 points, hitting 21 of 27 shots from the field.
"They showed their maturity and their toughness and they picked up their defensive effort," Damon Goodwin, head coach, said. "That's what good teams do. And when guys shoot the ball well as they did, it's tough to win games."
Hope drilled its first three shots of the contest and led 8-2 early before the Crusaders answered, scoring seven straight points to take the lead. The Flying Dutchmen continued their hot shooting from the perimeter, though, connecting on five of their first six 3-pointers to take a 27-21 lead at the 9:21 mark.

       But Stahl hit back-to-back 3-pointers, converting the latter into a four-point play after getting fouled on the shot, and the Crusaders took their biggest lead of the first half at 34-30 on a Ross Niekamp (St. Henry/St. Henry) layup with just over five minutes to go before half. Hope came right back though, keeping Capital scoreless for almost four minutes and going on an 11-0 surge to regain the lead at 41-34.

       The Crusaders trailed 43-38 at the break despite outrebounding (23-12) and outshooting (53 percent to 48.5) the Flying Dutchmen in the first half, as 11 turnovers resulted in 15 Hope points.