Red Brown Cup

Red Brown Cup

By Phil Caskey for MSNsportsNET.com
May 8, 2008

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Senior swimmer Nick Delic and volleyball senior Kailee Goold have been selected as the recipients of the 2008 Red Brown Cup, presented annually to West Virginia University’s most outstanding all-around student-athlete. The Red Brown Cup encompasses the student-athlete’s athletic, academic and civic achievement. The WVU Athletic Council voted this year to annually award the top male and female student-athletes.

A native of Avon Lake, Ohio, Goold helped the Mountaineer volleyball team to a 16-14 overall record in 2007, an improvement of 13 victories from the previous season. Goold finished her Mountaineer career with 3,337 career assists, good for fourth all-time in WVU history. She also tallied 1,225 assists in her senior campaign which ranked her third in single-season assists.

Goold will graduate with a dual major in history and political science and has plans of attending law school. She is a BIG EAST Academic All-Star and a member of WVU’s Athletic Director’s Academic Honor Roll. She was a three-time ESPN The Magazine academic first-team All-District II honoree.

In the community, Goold was a member of the WVU Student Athlete Advisory Committee for two years and volunteered her time at the Ronald McDonald House and with Adopt-A-Highway. A member of Pi Sigma Alpha and Golden Key International Honor Society, Goold has also been a teacher’s aid at Eastview Elementary and Bay Village High Schools.

A four-year letterwinner, Delic garnered six All-America distinctions during his Mountaineer career, the first coming after his 13th-place finish in the 100-breast stroke and as a member of the 200-freestyle relay in 2006. In 2007, he earned All-America honors as a member of the seventh place 200-free relay team, and honorable-mention honors for his contributions on the 11th place 400-free relay, the 16th place 200-medley team and on the 11th place 400-medley relay team. Delic leaves WVU with or as part of four school records, one WVU Natatorium record and three BIG EAST Conference records.

A native of Split, Croatia, who will graduate this spring with a degree in finance, Delic is a member of WVU’s Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and is a BIG EAST Academic All-Star. He also mentored many young swimmers during his career.

The award is in memory of Robert “Red” Brown, former WVU coach and athletic director. Past winners of the Red Brown Cup: Jim Bishop, rifle (1988); Tracey Thompson, volleyball (1989); Don DeCarlo, track (1990); Scott Collins, wrestling (1991); Rosemary Kosiorek, basketball (1992); Mike Compton, football (1993); Rich Braham, football (1994); Lajuanda Moody, gymnastics (1994); Bob Donker, track (1995); Lisa Szymczak, basketball (1996); Kristen Quackenbush, gymnastics (1996-97); Charity Wachera, track (1998); Eric deGroh, football (1999); Rebecca Burbridge, basketball (1999); Greg Robinette, football (2000); Steve Bohan, track (2001); Krista Smith, volleyball (2002); Amanda Halovanic, gymnastics (2003); Chrissie Abbott, soccer (2004); Greg Jones, wrestling (2004-05); Kevin Pittsnogle, basketball (2006); Karrie Hutchins, soccer (2006); Janáe Cox, gymnastics (2007); Jay Henry, football (2007).

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Morgantown, Monongalia County

Mountaineer Head Basketball Coach Bob Huggins was said to be back in Morgantown on Friday after a precautionary trip to a hospital in the Charlotte, North Carolina area on Thursday.

Huggins was admitted to the hospital after he fell and hit his head while exiting a plane in Charlotte. He and other athletic staff members were in North Carolina for a Mountaineer Athletic Club event.

WVU Athletic Department officials say Huggins was checking his cell phone messages when he tripped on the tarmac. Reports indicate he was released from the hospital within hours on Thursday.

Mountaineers Host Louisville

MetroNews Sports
Morgantown

The sixth place Mountaineer baseball team looks to secure a bid in the upcoming Big East Conference post season tournament as it hosts Louisville for a three game series this weekend.

WVU fell to 11-10 in conference play as it was swept at St. John's last weekend. Louisville will come to town playing it's best baseball of the season. The Cardinals have won nine in a row and they are two spots ahead of WVU in the standings. Louisville will begin the weekend at 13-8, tied with Seton Hall for fourth place.

"Neither team has a playoff spot secured yet," WVU head coach Greg Van Zant pointed out. "This is our final home series, so we want to win it and solidify our spot (in the playoffs.) We don't want to have to go to Cincinnati next week having to win that series to get in."

The Mountaineers will start Josh Whitlock in game one of the series Saturday. Van Zant says the rest of the rotation for the weekend is to be determined. West Virginia and Louisville will play a double header Saturday starting at 3 p.m. Saturday is dollar day at Hawley Field as admission and selection concessions are just $1. The series concludes with a single game Sunday at 1 p.m.

Louisville is a team that reached the college world series last year.

"They've got most of their pitching back," said Van Zant. "They do have a lot of new position players. Their big third baseman (Chris Dominguez) is back. We have heard their catcher (veteran Derek Alfonso) broke his hand and has been out for a while. The best information we have on that is that he could be back for the Big East tournament."

The Mountaineers are down to their final seven games of the season. The next four are at home. The Louisville series will be followed by a non conference game against Youngstown State Monday night. Then it's the final series of the season at Cincinnati next Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

West Virginia State Baseball Team Awaits Regional Assignment

MetroNews Sports
Morgantown

The West Virginia State baseball team will find out it's regional assignment Monday. The Yellow jackets captured the school's 16th WVIAC tournament championship last weekend to grab the automatic bid to the Division II NCAA tournament. The regional site and the first round pairings will be set early next week.

The Yellow jackets are 36-12 which is a suprise to veteran coach Cal Bailey.

"We didn't know we had the talent to be a championship team," Bailey admitted. "We had only one returning starter from last year's team. We brought in guys that we thought would play certain positions. The way it ended up, only one guy is playing the position we brought him in to play. Most of those guys are playing but they are at other positions.

"Pitching wise, we brought in a lot of young guys and a couple of junior college guys. One of the junior college pitchers ended up being our starting left fielder and our #4 hitter. "

"It took us about 20 games to get things squared away. But we are 20-2 in our last 22 games. We are getting good pitching and good hitting and we are fielding the ball. Things just came together ."

West Virginia State is currently ranked second in the North Atlantic Regional behind 41-14 West Chester. 35-13 Concord is third with Pitt Johnstown fourth, Shippensburg fifth and Kutztown sixth.

Dent Earns Rimmington Nod

Morgantown

WVU senior center Mike Dent was one of 42 players named to the Rimington Trophy 2008 Spring Watch List , today, as selected by the Rimington Trophy committee.

Former WVU consensus All-American center Dan Mozes was selected as the recipient of the Rimington Trophy Award in 2006.

Dent, a second-team All-BIG EAST performer last year, started all 13 games at the center position and helped pave the way for the Mountaineer offense to produce two 1,000-yard rushers. The offense averaged 6.2 yards a carry, 297.2 yards a game rushing and 456.2 in total offense. The Mountaineers ranked No. 3 nationally in rushing offense, tied for No. 5 for fewest sacks allowed (13), No. 9 in scoring offense and No. 15 in total offense.

Dent finished with 35 knockdowns, including four against East Carolina, Louisville and Connecticut.

The Mountaineers finished 11-2 last season, won the BIG EAST Conference championship, defeated No. 3 Oklahoma, 48-28, in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and finished the season No. 6 in both polls.

This year’s list includes two finalists from the 2007 Watch List, as well as the 2007 winner of the Rimington Trophy, Arkansas' Jonathan Luigs. The Trophy has not had a repeat winner in its history.

In all, there are 42 players on the Watch List. A total of seven players represent the Big-12 Conference. The PAC-10 Conference is represented by six players, while the ACC, BIG EAST and SEC have five players each on the Watch List.