Probably a long shot, but we offered early, he visited and was at our elite camp.....that being RJ Sunahara leaving Fairmont State on a transfer. He was awfully good and was offered immediately by Greg Zimmerman the day of the elite camp. Sunahara's dad is the volleyball coach at WVU (about an hour away).
Fairmont's coach left to take a bench coach position with the Boston Celtics. The kid that transferred to Findlay so before the coach left.
Oddly enough, I thought the coach they just brought in from Notre Dame College is a far better coach than Mazzulla. Mazzulla could recruit, but I thought his coaching has lost some close games especially this season against Mercyhurst in the NCAA tournament. These transfers do happen with coaching changes these days.
We have also removed the interim tag from Luke Shamblin as softball coach. This is a good hire. The team improved when he took over after a disastrous 5-win season in 2018. They only won 11 but the scores were much more competitive. Another move in the athletic department in the right direction. He has good experience prior to ABU.
Dasilas Jones, a guard from Fairmont Senior's talented team, has signed to play with ABU. He lived in the shadows of two players going D-I but was still productive. He had an awfully good state tournament.
The women have released their basketball schedule. Two D-I exhibitions against Towson and Marshall. The OOC is pretty much against old WVIAC schools: https://gobattlers.com/schedule.aspx?path=wbball
Randy Dobnak had a good outing in AAA ball last night. He pitched six innings giving up 0 runs. He gave up 4 hits, 2 BB and 6 Ks. 54 of his 87 pitches went for strikes. He lowered his ERA in AAA ball to below 2.00. He got the win and it is his 9th total win of the year.
Wow...are there circumstances involved that aren't being publicized? Kind of like what happened with Happy Osborne - health related, etc? Because this is a REALLY bad time for a coach to quit what with the semester right around the corner. Really puts the school in a difficult position for replacing him!
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