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At Stanford
Delavan 001 002 1 - 4-7-1
Olympia 503 000 x - 8-5-2
Wildenradt (L), Mammen (4), and McCoy; Alex Frantz (W, 1-0), Ross
Thompson (5), and Rush Olson.
Hitting stars - Olympia - Tyler Thornton (triple, two RBIs), Neil Birkey (two RBIs).
Pitching star - Olympia - Frantz (10 strikeouts, two walks).
Record - Olympia 3-3 |
At Riverton
Illini Central 081 1(10) - 20-17-0
Riverton 000
00 - 0-1-0
Called because of 10-run rule.
Chris Norton (W, 2-0) and Travis Scott; Pappas (L) and Williams.
Home runs - Illini Central - Scott, Adam Williams.
Hitting stars - Illini Central - Williams (4 hits, 2 doubles, 4
RBIs), Bryce Cunningham (4 hits, double), Scott (4 RBIs).
Pitching star - Illini Central - Norton (one-hitter, 8 strikeouts).
Records - Illini Central 4-3, Riverton 2-5. |
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Boys
At Pontiac
Bloomington 127, Pontiac 114, Olympia 64, Normal Community 56,
LaSalle-Peru 15
100 METER DASH - 4. Dillonburg (O), 11.13.
400 - 5. Willard (O), 55.69.
800 - 4. Rees (O), 2:09.82; 5. Slager (O), 2:10.69.
1,600 - 3. McClain (O), 4:43.64.
3,200 - 5. Dietrich (O), 10:57.
110 HIGH HURDLES - 5. Myers (O), 16.83.
300 INTERMEDIATE HURDLES - 4. Myers (O), 44.31.
HIGH JUMP - 2. Rees (O), 5-8
SHOT PUT - 1. Schultz (O), 50-4 3/4.
DISCUS - 3. Schultz(O), 143-3; 4. Schmingall (O), 133-9.
POLE VAULT - 4. Hish (O), 10; 5. Slager (O), 9-6.
400 RELAY - 2. Olympia, 44.8.
800 RELAY - 3. Olympia, 1:37.89
1,600 RELAY - 1. Olympia, 3:33.65; 4. Olympia, 3:48.96.
3,200 RELAY - 2. Olympia, 8:45.99
Junior varsity - Pontiac 140, Normal Community 91, Bloomington 65,
Olympia 37, LaSalle Peru 35.
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Girls
At Stanford
University High 74, Olympia 58
200 METER DASH - 1. Stasia Prater (O), 27.8.
800 - 3. Jessica Lindgren (O), 2:51.4.
1,600 - 1. Melissa Johnson (O), 6:28.0; 3. Amy Wade (O), 7:02.9.
110 HURDLES - 2. Kassandra Hish (O), 17.7.
300 HURDLES - 1. Britt Fredericks (O), 52.0; 2. Hish (O), 54.6.
TRIPLE JUMP - 1. Prater (O), 29-7 1/2.
HIGH JUMP - 1. Michelle Rader (O), 5.
SHOT PUT - 1. Hollyann Decker (O), 24-6.
DISCUS - 1. Decker (O), 75-9.
400 RELAY - 2. Olympia, 57.
800 RELAY - 1. Olympia, 1:54.9; 3. Olympia 2:01.3
800 MEDLEY - Olympia, 2:01.1.
1,600 RELAY - 1. Olympia, 4:28.2.
3,200 RELAY - 1. Olympia, 10:36.9.
At Normal
Normal West 126, Lincoln 110, Urbana 53, Rantoul 52, Decatur
Eisenhower 31
100 METER DASH - 1. Dorsey (L), 12.71
200 - 1. Dorsey (L), 27.18.
400 - 3. W. Smith (L), 1:07.49.
800 - 3. Presswood (L), 2:36.99.
1,600 - 3. Presswood (L), 6:08.0.
100 HURDLES - 3. Podbelsek (L), 19.12.
300 HURDLES - 3. Humbert (L), 56.75.
LONG JUMP - 2. Whalen (L), 14-5, 3 Paulus (L), 14-3 1/2.
TRIPLE JUMP - 2. Whalen (L), 30-11 1/2.
HIGH JUMP - 2. Bunch (L), 4-10; 3. Cartwright (L), 4-10.
SHOT PUT - 3. O'Brien (L), 27-6 1/2.
Discus - 2. O'Brien (L), 90-10.
400 RELAY - 1. Lincoln, 52.57.
800 MEDLEY - 1. Lincoln, 2:01.52.
1,600 RELAY - 2. Lincoln, 4:45.25.
3,200 RELAY - 2. Lincoln, 12:23.09. |
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Along with three years of head coaching
experience and a 54-34 (.614) record at Arkansas-Little Rock, Moser,
a native of Naperville, served 10 years as a Division I assistant
and competed in the Missouri Valley Conference as a student-athlete.
"Basketball has been a part of my life
since I was 5 years old, and to think that I'm going to be coming
back to coach at Illinois State is a dream," Moser said. "I have a
vision for what I want for Illinois State basketball. There is no
one that is going to work harder to make that vision become a
reality than me. I've experienced the Missouri Valley. I've won a
championship in this league, and I want to bring that back to
Illinois State."
In his first season as a head coach,
Moser inherited a 4-24 Trojan team. He responded by guiding UALR to
an 18-11 mark, which was the largest turnaround in Sun Belt
Conference history and tied for the biggest reversal of fortune at
the Division I level that season.
When Moser took over the program, the
Trojans ranked last in several defensive categories in the Sun Belt,
and their winning percentage was not the only turnaround. After that
first season, UALR finished tops in the conference in field goal
percentage defense and 3-point field goal percentage defense and
second in scoring defense.
Heading into his second season, Moser
had lost four starters and the top three scorers but still managed
to post an 18-11 record while again leading the league in 3-point
field goal percentage defense. In 2002-03, the Trojans finished with
an 18-12 mark that included an 84-75 win over Western Athletic
Conference Tournament champion Colorado State.
Through three seasons at
Arkansas-Little Rock, Moser molded Trojan basketball into one of the
biggest tickets in town. He looks to create the same type of
atmosphere at Illinois State.
"Redbird Arena is one of the best
arenas in the country," Moser said. "It is right there on campus,
surrounded by all the residence halls and apartments. We have to get
the student body ‘jacked up,' and that is a priority of mine. I know
they can be because they yelled at me when I played there for
Creighton. I know how loud it can be and what kind of great
atmosphere it can be there. It is exciting for me to go to a
basketball-rich school."
His hands-on approach and enthusiasm
impressed Illinois State Director of Athletics Perk Weisenburger.
"We are extremely pleased to have
attracted a coach of Porter's ability to Illinois State,"
Weisenburger said. "He has rebuilt a program at UALR with energy,
passion, enthusiasm, hard work and the recruitment of good, solid
players. He's a meticulous student of the game, who has a proven
blueprint for success that he brings to Illinois State."
Prior to becoming the Trojans' head
coach, Moser served two seasons as an assistant at UALR under Wimp
Sanderson and current Dallas Maverick assistant Sidney Moncrief.
After his playing career ended at
Creighton, Moser stayed with the Bluejays as a graduate assistant
coach on Tony Barone's staff during the 1990-91 season. That year,
the Bluejays won the Valley and advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
The following season, Moser left
Creighton to rejoin Barone for his first of two stints at Texas A&M.
Moser served as an assistant coach with the Aggies from 1991-95 and
was instrumental in their 1994 National Invitation Tournament bid.
Texas A&M finished the season with a 19-11 record and advanced to
its first postseason appearance in seven years.
Moser's tenure at Texas A&M was
interrupted by a one-year stint as an assistant at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he was a key part of the Panthers'
highest-ranked recruiting class in the Midwestern Collegiate
Conference.
After one season at UW-Milwaukee, Moser
returned for two more seasons at Texas A&M under Barone before
landing in Little Rock.
A 1986 graduate of Benet Academy in
Lisle, Moser was a two-year starter for Creighton as a guard,
including the Bluejays' 1989 Missouri Valley Conference championship
team. As a senior, Moser was named to the Missouri Valley Conference
Scholar-Athlete Team. He graduated in 1990 from Creighton with a
degree in business management.
The 34-year-old Moser, born Aug. 24,
1968, is married to the former Megan Lewis. They are the parents of
a daughter, Jordan, age 1, and a son, Jake, 2 months.
What they say
about Porter Moser
Tony
Barone, director of player personnel for the Memphis Grizzlies and
former Creighton and Texas A&M head coach:
"This guy is a superstar. He has
stepped up to the table as a coach in a period of time that is very,
very difficult to coach college basketball. The student-athlete is a
different type of student-athlete, and the relations that you build
with your players are critical. Porter, beyond the X's and O's, is a
tremendous family builder. I think that he will build a family at
Illinois State within the community and within his team that
everyone will be very proud of. It kind of went unnoticed, but he
took a team that won four games and the next year won 18 games.
That's not a rebuilding process -- that's a miracle. I think
Illinois State deserves a quality basketball coach who is also going
to unite the community (student and Bloomington-Normal) and Porter
is going to do that."
Perk
Weisenburger, Illinois State director of athletics:
"We are extremely pleased to have
attracted a coach of Porter's ability to Illinois State. He has
rebuilt a program at UALR with energy, passion, enthusiasm, hard
work and the recruitment of good solid players. He's a meticulous
student of the game, who has a proven blueprint for success that he
brings to Illinois State. Porter has tremendous relationship skills
that have allowed him to be a relentless recruiter, an adept
motivator and a solid teacher of the game. His infectious
personality and work ethic give him the ability needed to build a
championship program. Our players will learn to play hard, and the
basketball fans of Bloomington-Normal and the state of Illinois will
thoroughly enjoy him as a leader and coach."
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Dr. Al
Bowman, Illinois State University interim president designate:
"I was extremely impressed with both
his enthusiasm for Illinois State University and his level of
professionalism. I am optimistic that he will bring great success to
the Illinois State basketball program and he will help advance the
stature of this great institution."
Doug
Elgin, Missouri Valley Conference commissioner:
"Porter has a great deal of energy and
enthusiasm. He has a passion for the game that he had as a player
and has carried over as a coach. He is a strong motivator, not just
of student-athletes but also the student body. Porter will bring a
great deal of community support to the program. I'm convinced that
he will be very successful in our league. I'm really excited for the
Illinois State program and that it's in the hands of Porter Moser."
Wright
Waters, Sun Belt Conference commissioner:
"He is an outstanding young coach.
Porter has a tremendous passion for the game of basketball, and I'm
sure that he'll be successful no matter where he goes."
Dave
Odom, South Carolina head coach:
"Porter is one of the finest young
coaches in the game today. He has accomplished a great deal in a
short amount of time. He has proved to be a great teacher of the
game and a strategist, but perhaps his finest quality is his ability
to relate to student-athletes. Not only does he motivate
student-athletes to become great basketball players, he helps them
become great people as well."
Dennis
Felton, Western Kentucky head coach:
"Porter has great energy and
enthusiasm. He's an excellent coach that gets his teams to compete
at a very high level. Porter and his staff are always well-organized
and a challenge to compete against. His teams have the one thing
that any good team has to have, and that's the desire to compete.
Porter's team comes to play every time out."
Kelvin
Sampson, Oklahoma head coach:
"I think it's a great hire by Illinois
State. Porter took over an Arkansas-Little Rock program that was
down, and he put his stamp on it. Not only is he a bright coach, but
he represents what's right in this profession. He does it with
integrity, he's got a great work ethic, and he does what's best for
young people."
Bill
Self, Illinois head coach:
"Porter is a great hire. He has had
experience of pumping energy into a program. With what I know about
Illinois State, it is one of the best jobs in the Missouri Valley
Conference with a vibrant community, a great facility and a quality
product. Porter is a great choice to direct it."
Eddie
Sutton, Oklahoma State head coach:
"Porter is a very good basketball coach
and an even better person. He will do a tremendous job representing
Illinois State, and he will make them a winner. This was a very good
hire for the program."
Quoting coach
Moser
On
choosing Illinois State...
"I know the Missouri Valley Conference,
and I look at Illinois State as the premier job in that league. I
played in Horton Field House when I was a freshman, and I can
remember how vocal and educated the crowd was. The atmosphere was
chilling. I know that with the history of this program and the
enthusiasm that I bring, there is an environment to create a
championship atmosphere."
On
coming back to the state of Illinois...
"Basketball has been a part of my life
since I was 5 years old, and to think that I'm going to be able to
come back and coach at Illinois State is a dream. I have a vision
for what I want for Illinois State basketball. There is no one that
is going to work harder to make that vision become a reality than
me. I've experienced the Missouri Valley. I've won a championship in
this league and I want to bring that to Illinois State."
On the
potential at Illinois State...
"Redbird Arena is one of the best
arenas in the country. It is right there on campus surrounded by all
the residence halls and apartments. We have to get the student body
‘jacked up,' and that is a priority of
mine. I know they can be because they yelled at me when I played
there for Creighton. I know how loud it can be and what kind of
great atmosphere it can be there. It is exciting for me to go to a
basketball-rich school."
On
recruiting at Illinois State...
"It's a hotbed. There is no doubt.
Illinois State is essentially located among a lot of recruiting
hotbeds. My age is a positive in recruiting. I have a passion for
recruiting, and I think it is going to be a vital part of building
this program. I've always approached recruiting as building
relationships, and you have to work at it. As a head coach, I have
an assistant coaches' mentality when it comes to recruiting. I'm on
the phone, I'm writing letters, I'm in the car, I'm working it.
There will not be one recruit or prospect that won't know what is
going on at Illinois State."
On his
style of play...
"I coach with a lot of passion and my
teams play with a lot of passion. In my first year at
Arkansas-Little Rock, we turned around the program (at UALR) with
defense. We went from last to first in team defense. I think people
that watch us play are going to see us play with an incredible
amount of passion."
On the
Missouri Valley Conference...
"This is one
of the most respected leagues in the country. The teams in this
league have had a lot of success. The coaches in this league are
phenomenal, the recruiting is top-notch, and the tradition is
strong. I played in this league for four years, and I have firsthand
knowledge on how great this league is. I'm so excited to once again
be a part of this great league."
[Todd Kober, director of
media relations,
Illinois State University]
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