New additions to the Wall of Fame
On Monday, the 2002 Penn Relays Wall of Fame inductees were announced. All in toll, there are 16 new members, including four individuals and four four-person relay squads.
The four individuals selected as new members of the Wall of Fame are: Dave Patrick, (Kenwood '64, Villanova '68), Larry Black (North Carolina Central '74), John Trautmann (Monroe-Woodbury, Central Valley, N.Y. '86, Georgetown '91, Team adidas '95) and Diane Guthrie-Gresham (St. Elizabeth Tech, Santa Cruz, Jamaica '90, George Mason '95).
The group of individuals join four honored relay teams --1902 Harvard mile relay, the 1983 Willingboro (N.J.) High School and Bernards (Bernardsville, N.J.) High School distance medley relays, and the 1991 Vere Tech (Hayes, Jamaica) High School girls 4x400-meter relay.
A record setting group of relay squads, each of the teams set Penn relays records which lasted atleast 10 years.
There are now 51 individuals in the Wall of Fame and 41 relay teams.
This is the eighth group to be added to the Wall of Fame. The tradition began in 1994, at the 100th running of the Penn Relays.
-Lance Stier
Baseball's McCreery named Ivy Player of the Week
Junior Andrew McCreery, of the Penn baseball team was named the Ivy League Player of the Week yesterday.
The Quakers (9-21, 4-8 Ivy League) who haved struggled thus far this season, claimed two impressive victories against Harvard last weekend.
McCreery led the Quakers last week in their games against the Crimson and Darmouth.
The junior batted .542 last week and notched a team-high 13 hits over the course of the week. He also tallied eight runs, hit two doubles, one triple, a homerun and six RBI's.
In the Red and Blue's third Ivy win of the season -- a miracle, 19-11, win against rival Harvard -- McCreery pitched eight innings. The win was his first of the season on the mound.
The Quakers came from behind in the seventh innings, when four Penn players hit homeruns. McCreery was the third man to launch a hit over the fence. The homeruns tied the game at 10, and the Quakers went on to claim victory in extra innings.
In all six games last week, McCreery hit safely, extending his hit streak to nine games. Against La Salle on April 11 and Harvard on April 13, McCreery notched four-hit games.
McCreery is the second member on the Penn squad to be honored this season. Junior Nick Italiano was named Ivy League Player of the Week for the week of April 2.
-- Amy Potter
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