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COURIERftFREEMAN, POTSDAM, N. Y.-TUESDAY, MARCH » ,
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Babiarz: AU-American Guy
For the third consecutive year, a
Potsdam College men's basketball
player has been named first team
Division III Ail-American In
balloting of the National Association of Basketball Coaches
(NABC).
Junior guard Steve Babiarz, of
YorkvUle, N.Y., was named first
team Ail-American March 23.
Babiarz is the eighth basketball
Ail-American under coach Jerry
Welsh, Joining other Bears legends
Mike Deane (1974), Ed Jachim
(1980, 1981), Derrick Rowland
(1980,1981), Mo Woods (1982),
Leroy Witherspoon (1983, 1984),
Roosevelt (Pony) Bullock (1986)
and Brendan Mitchell (1986, 1987)
among the nation's elite.
Also named to the 1988 NABC
first team All-American squad
were Greg Grant (Trenton State),
Kermit Sharp (Clark), Lou Stevens
(Widener) and Scott Tedder (Ohio
Wesleyan).
Babiarz broke three longstanding Potsdam scoring records
this year while leading the Bears to
another stellar campaign (25-5).
He averaged 22.3 points a game,
breaking Rowlands 1978-79 21.1
mark. His 669 points also surpassed
Rowland's 655 points, set in 1978-79.
The 6'0" guard also broke Deane's
15-year single game scoring record
(42) when he poured in 43 points
Jan. 17 at Binghamton State.
Now the sixth-leading all-time
career scorer In school history with
1,341 points, Babiarz is 506 points
from tying career leader Rowland.
Welsh Named
Coach Of Year
Potsdam College men's basketball coach and Director of Athletics
Jerry Welsh has been named Small
College Coach of the Year by
Basketball Times magazine for the
second consecutive year.
Welsh guided his youthful (one
senior) Bears to a fine 25-5 record
in 1987-88, running his consecutive
20-win season mark upto10. The
Potsdam Bears won the SUNYAC
East regular season title for the
12th year in a row and earned an
NCAA Division III post-season
berth for the 11th straight time.
With his 19th year as head coach
of the Bears completed, Welsh's
career record stands at 422-124.
Basketball Times also named
Potsdam junior guard Steve
Babiarz to its first team Division
III AU-American list.
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Tara.im 2,557, Evalyn't Marktt 3.555
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TEAM HIGH THREE (Scratch): Crazy Paopla
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TEAM HIGH SINGLE (Handicap): Th» Handicaps 875.
INDIVIDUAL SINGLE GAME (Scratch): Tarrl
Kajchar 210. Frank Frary 245.
INDIVIDUAL THREE (Handicap): Sally Boslat
MO, Frank Frary M7.
INDIVIDUAL HIGH THREE (Scratch): Sally
Boslet540, Frank Frary 5ao.
was also named Player of the Year Mark Jones (Binghamton).
and first team all-star in the Willingham, a 6'3" Junior forSUNYAC, ECAC. Upstate New ward, was the second leading
York and NABC all-East District scorer (15.7) and the leading repost-season teams.
bounder (6.7) for the Bears this
The ECAC Upstate New York season. He is an All-American canAll-Star squad roster, released last didate, along with Babiarz, for the
week, listed Babiarz, fellow Bear 1988-89 season.
Rodney Willingham, Hamilton's
The Schenectady native was also
Mike Nelson, Rochester's Jonathon
Jones and Hartwick's Tim selected to the NABC All-East
team and was a first team AllMcGraw on the first team.
Earning second team spots were SUNYAC pick in his first year with
Jon Goodemote (St. Lawrence), the Bears. He was a Junior College
Rudy Burruss (Utica Tech), Kelvin AU-American at Champlaln Junior
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before
Carney (Hamilton), Kevin Joyce College hi
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(Ithaca), Jim Clar (Geneseo) and transferring to Potsdam Collage.
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ALL-AMERICAN — Steve Babiarz, above, was named Division III first
team Ail-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches
last Wednesday.
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This year, the fifth graders
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Pvt. Michael J. Bouchard, son of programs
the separate games provided
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player with plenty of playing
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record of 32 wins and no losses.
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