PREP NEWS AND NOTES
AROUND THE AREA
Gatorade honor: Catholic Memorial senior baseball player Ben Dragani was named the Gatorade state player of the year earlier this week.
The 6-foot-5 left-handed pitcher was 5-0 with a 0.18 earned run average and 59 strikeouts in 37 2/3 innings entering the week. At the plate, he was hitting .436 with 21 runs and a 1.190 on-base plus slugging.
The honor recognizes not only athlet- ic accomplishments but an individual’s academic performance and community involvement.
Change for Red Knights: Monica Siebarth resigned as Milwaukee Lutheran’s softball coach after 14 seasons. The school’s new coach is Kyle Barth, who was the school’s junior varsity baseball coach.
Bay View football camp: Milwaukee Bay View is hosting its third-annual College Exposure Camp Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The camp is open to football players entering grades 10-12. Cost is $10. Registration begins at 9.
College coaches from UW-Whitewater, Concordia, Wisconsin Lutheran College and Carroll will be among the college coaches providing instruction. For more information contact Bay View coach Jeff Wallack at 414403-3865, coachwallack@gmail.com or on Twitter at @coachwallack. WHERE THEY ARE NOW
All-American: Former New Berlin West standout Mallory Klotz earned first-team Division III All-American recognition from National Fastpitch Coaches Association. A junior outfielder at UW-Whitewater, Klotz ranked fourth in Division III in hits (71) and total bases (116) and set a single-season school record for hits.
She finished the year with a .470 batting average, .531 on-base percentage and a .768 slugging percentage.
Gagne ends drought: Wauwatosa East graduate Dan Gagne became the first Bradley athlete in 40 years to represent the school at the NCAA Outdoors Track and Field Championships. He’ll run the 1,500 meters at the meet which begins June 7. At regionals, Gagne ran the race in 4 minutes, 0.36 seconds to finish fourth in his heat; the top five automatically qualified.
Hired: Isaac Wodajo, a 2010 Milwaukee Riverside graduate, has been hired as a graduate assistant at the University of Texas, according to former Riverside coach Tyrone Lewis.