Report for April 22, 2002
Cole & Deters Receive MIAA Player/Pitcher of the Week Honors
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - A pair of Calvin athletes have earned MIAA Player of the
Week accolades for their performances last week.
Named MIAA Player of the Week for the first time in her career is sophomore
Keri Cole of the Calvin softball team while freshman Jim Deters of the Calvin
baseball team has been named MIAA Pitcher of the Week for the second time this
year.
A sophomore from Fountain and a graduate of Mason County Eastern High School,
Cole doubles as a pitcher and first baseman for the Calvin softball team. This
past week, she helped Calvin post a 5-3 record including a 3-3 mark in league
play. At the plate, Cole collected four hits during the week including a pair
of RBI doubles in a doubleheader against Hope Saturday afternoon that saw the
Knights suffer a pair of defeats in extra-innings. In the opener of
Saturday's doubleheader with Hope, Cole delivered a dramatic two-out
two-run RBI double that tied the game at three and sent the contest into extra
innings. In game two, Cole suffered a heart-breaking 3-2 loss on the mound as
she scattered seven hits over 10.2 innings of work. Defensively, Cole was
charged with just one error in 11 fielding chances over the course of the week
for a fielding percentage of .909.
Overall, Cole has a .315 batting average with 15 RBI's and 13 runs scored
along with a fielding percentage of .973. On the mound, Cole has a 6-4 record
with a 4.08 ERA. She is also second on the Calvin staff in innings pitched with
70.1 innings of work along with 28 strikeouts on the season. The Calvin
softball team is currently 17-11 overall and in fourth place in the MIAA
standings with a 4-4 conference mark. The Knights return to action on Tuesday
when they travel to Albion for a conference doubleheader slated to start at 3:30
p.m..
Deters hails from Portage and is a graduate of Kalamazoo Christian High School.
A right-handed pitcher, Deters is receiving MIAA Pitcher of the Week accolades
for the second time in the last four weeks after hurling a three-hit,
complete-game shutout in a 6-0 win over Kalamazoo Saturday afternoon. In the
victory, Deters struck out 14 Kalamazoo batters, one short of a career-high. The
victory over Kalamazoo was the third of the week for Deters as he picked up a
win in relief in an 8-4 win at Adrian Monday and then proceeded to pitch a
seven-inning complete-game win that same afternoon in an 8-5 triumph over the
Bulldogs. The trio of pitching victories last week raised his season won-loss
record to 7-1 and lowered his overall earned run average to 2.82. Deters also
has 75 strikeouts overall and is among the NCAA III leaders in
strikeouts-per-nine innings. In conference play, Deters is 5-0 with 48
strikeouts and a 1.71 earned run average.
The Calvin baseball team is currently 21-7 overall and in second place in the
MIAA standings with an 11-1 conference mark. In winning two of three games this
past weekend against Kalamazoo College, Calvin reached the 20-win plateau for
the third straight year. Ranked eighth in the latest Division III Mideast
Regional poll, Calvin returns to action on Tuesday when it hosts Division II
Saginaw Valley State at 4:00 p.m.. The Knights then travel to Alma on Friday
and Saturday for a three-game conference series.
BASEBALL
Calvin remains in the latest set of NCAA III regional rankings as the Knights
are part of a three-way tie for eighth in the latest Mideast Regional poll
released this afternoon.
Calvin shares the number-eight slot with Otterbein (OH) and Baldwin-Wallace
(OH). Wooster (OH) is the top-ranked team in the region followed by Marietta
(OH) in the number-two spot. Calvin is one of two MIAA schools in the regional
rankings as Hope is ranked fourth in the regional poll.
This past weekend, Calvin reached the 20-win plateau by winning two of three
games against Kalamazoo. The Knights will host Division II Saginaw Valley State
University Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. and will then open a three-game weekend series
at conference rival Alma Friday at 4:00 p.m..
NCAA III Mideast Regional Poll (Released 4-22-02)
1. Wooster (26-2)
2. Marietta (25-3-1)
3. Ohio Wesleyan (25-6)
4. Hope (22-6)
5. Franklin (22-6)
6. Allegheny (18-4)
7. Hanover (20-8)
8. Calvin (21-7)
8. Otterbein (18-8)
8. Baldwin-Wallace (20-7-1)
BASKETBALL
Calvin College sophomore Kevin Broene was one of the finest free throw shooters
in NCAA III men's basketball during the 2001-2002 season. A native of Grand
Rapids and a graduate of Grand Rapids Christian High School, Broene finished
fourth in free throw shooting in the final NCAA III men's basketball
statistics released today. Over the course of the year, the 6-3 shooting guard
connected on 81 of 89 attempts for a 91.01 percent free throw clip. Broene was
surpassed only by Jason Luisi of Suffolk (92.6); Shawn Mccormick of
Baldwin-Wallace (92.5) and Kyle Vogt of Lakeland (91.02) in free throw
percentage in the final NCAA III standings.
Broene's father Greg - a 1974 graduate of Calvin, holds the Calvin
single-season free throw percentage record with a 92.0 percent free throw clip
established during the 1973-74 season when he connected on 46 of 50 free throw
attempts.
Broene's free throw shooting this past year also helped Calvin shoot 75.8
percent from the free throw line as a team - good for 16th place on the NCAA III
team list. In addition, Calvin finished 38th in scoring margin as the Knights
outscored their opponents by 9.8 points a game.
Calvin finished the 2001-2002 season with a 20-7 overall record, reaching the
20-win plateau for the 13th time in school history. The Knights also finished
9-3 in the MIAA regular season to capture their fourth straight MIAA title and
27th overall.
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