April 3, 2006

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . The Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today that Central College baseball player Shea Stamp (Lisbon, Iowa/Lisbon) and Wartburg College softball player Amy Daniels (Cedar Falls, Iowa/Cedar Falls) have been named the IIAC Male and Female Athletes of the Week for the period ending Sunday, April 2. The Conference also announced the Performers of the Week for each of the Conference’s six sports in competition during the week.

Baseball – Shea Stamp, Central College, Lisbon, Iowa/Lisbon
Stamp, a senior outfielder, tied a school record with seven hits in Central’s doubleheader sweep of Cornell. He hit .778 (7-for-9) with a triple, home run, four RBI and four runs scored. In the opener, Stamp went 2-for-3 in a 4-0 Dutch win. In the nightcap, a 15-14 11-inning win, he went 5-for-6 with two extra base hits, four RBI and four runs scored.

Softball – Amy Daniels, Wartburg College, Cedar Falls, Iowa/Cedar Falls
Daniels, a freshman third baseman, hit .632 (12-for-19) and slugged 1.432 in six games during the week. She had three doubles, four home runs, 14 RBI and scored nine runs leading #7-ranked Wartburg to a 6-0 week. She had four multi-hit games including a 2-for-2 performance in game two of a doubleheader against Wisconsin-LaCrosse, a 3-for-3 performance in game two against Wisconsin-Platteville, and 2-for-4 and 3-for-4 performances against Coe. Daniels also had four multi-RBI games including three RBI in game one against LaCrosse and Platteville, two RBI in game two against Platteville and four in game two against Coe.

Men’s Golf – Derek Deminsky, Central College, Rogers, Minn./Elk River
Deminsky, a sophomore, finished second of 103 golfers at the Loras Duhawk Spring Invitational with a 1-under-par 71. The top finishing Iowa Conference golfer at the tournament that featured all nine Conference schools, he finished one stroke behind the Medalist, Brock Ferry of Mount Mercy and led Central to the team title in the 20-team tournament.

Men’s Tennis – Nick Cochrane, Central College, Fort Dodge, Iowa/Fort Dodge
Cochrane, a senior, went 3-1 during the week and extended his singles win streak to 11 straight matches. At #1 singles, Cochrane, the #25-ranked player in the Central region defeated the #22-ranked player William Holmes of Carleton (6-4, 2-6, 13-11) and Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Tim Eisele (6-1, 6-2). Cochrane and partner Ryan Dierks posted a #1-doubles win over Eau Claire (8-4) but fell to Carleton (8-6).

Men’s Track & Field – Jeanriles Metezier, Univ. of Dubuque, Pompano Beach, Fla./Coconut Creek
Metezier, a freshman, won three events, provisionally qualifying for the NCAA Championships in one at the Coe Kohawk Open. He was a member of the NCAA qualifying 4x100 relay team that won the event in a time of 41.59 seconds. He also won the 100-meter (10.97 seconds) and 200-meter (22.00 seconds) dashes.

Women’s Track & Field – Caroline Capper, Simpson College, Washington, Iowa/Washington
Capper, a senior, registered three top-3 finishes and one NCAA provisional qualifying mark at the Coe Kohawk Open. She won and provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in the hamemr throw with a school-record throw of 50.84 meters. She also placed second in the shot put (12.13 meters) and third in the javelin (34.64 meters).

Other Outstanding Weekly Performers
The IIAC also recognized the following outstanding athletic performances from the past week.

• Buena Vista University senior infielder Derek Fink (Deloit, Iowa/Denison) hit .625 (5-for-8) with a double, home run, three RBI and four runs scored in a doubleheader split with Wartburg. He also made a diving catch at third base in the bottom of the eighth of game one to preserve a 7-6 Beaver victory.

• Luther College junior outfielder Christina Gaard (Decorah, Iowa/Decorah) hit .583 (14-for-24) with two doubles, three RBI and 11 runs scored in eight games during the week. She led the Norse to a perfect week with three multi-hit and three-multi-run scored games.

• Wartburg College senior Josh Hauser (Union, Iowa/BCLUW) provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 400-meters (48.3 seconds) and 4x400 relay (3:16,32) at the Missouri Relays.

• Wartburg College sophomore Heidi Porter (Manson, Iowa/Northwest Webster) finished third in the 800-meters at the Missouri Relays in an NCAA provisional qualifying tie of 2:12.3, three-tenths of a second shy of an automatic qualifying time.

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