Harper women’s hoops coach resigns
Mark Smith helped put the Harper College women’s basketball program on the path to success in his three years as head coach.
Now it will be up to someone else to continue the program’s success. Smith resigned as head coach this week so he could spend more time watching his daughter Kelsey play for Michigan State, according to a release from Harper College.
Mark Smith was an assistant coach before taking over the Harper program in 2008-09. The 2009-10 team was 19-10 and reached the Region IV championship game and the 2010-11 team finished 15-13.
Smith was a Daily Herald All-Area player at Elk Grove and was the boys head coach at St. Charles North before coming to Harper.
Kelsey Smith will be a redshirt sophomore at Michigan State. She played in 22 games for the Big Ten champions last season.
Campanile earns golf honor: Prospect graduate Alexa Campanile, who will be a junior at Wisconsin-Whitewater, earned a spot on the National Golf Coaches Association Division III Scholar All-America Team for the 2010-2011 season.
Campanile’s 85.7 average was second-best on the team and her 259 in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship was the Warhawks’ fourth-best 54-hole score of the season.
Campanile is a biology major and psychology minor with a 3.914 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.
NGCA All-America team members must have at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA, attend the same school the entire year and play in 50 percent of their team’s matches.
IHSBCA summer baseball tourneys begin next week: The Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association summer baseball regionals start Monday.
Fremd is the top seed in the Palatine regional and will be begin play at approximately 4 p.m. Monday against the winner of the 2 p.m. game between No. 15 Barrington and No. 18 Buffalo Grove.
No. 3 Palatine hosts No. 14 Lake Forest at 4 p.m. and the winner of No. 16 Maine East and No. 17 Wheeling plays at No. 2 Niles West. Tuesday’s second-round games will also be hosted by higher seeds with Palatine hosting Wednesday’s semifinals (2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.) and Thursday’s 4 p.m. championship game.
In the Lake Park regional, Streamwood and Huntley got the top two seeds. No. 3 Schaumburg will host a Monday game at approximately 4 p.m. against the winner of No. 14 Rolling Meadows and No. 19 Hoffman Estates at 2 p.m.
No. 7 Hersey will host No. 10 Jacobs at 4 p.m. and No. 8 St. Viator and No. 9 Conant will play at 1 p.m. at Hersey. No. 12 Elk Grove is at No. 5 South Elgin and No. 13 Prospect is at No. 4 Bartlett.
Tuesday’s second-round games will be at Streamwood and Lake Park. The semifinals are Wednesday and the championship is Thursday.
No Frills cross country race: The 11th annual No Frills 5K cross country race and team challenge will be at 7 p.m. on Aug. 4 at Deer Grove East Forest Preserve in Palatine (northwest corner of Hicks and Dundee roads).
The cost to enter is $2 and is open to all student and adults. Registration is only on race day from 6 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Awards are given to the top 25 male and female finishers and the top five male and female finishers over age 40. For more information call Running Unlimited at (847) 991-9466.
Cavin commits: Conant’s Miranda Cavin has made a verbal commitment to Oklahoma State University.
This spring, the junior all-area catcher helped the Cougars to their first Mid-Suburban League crown since 1974.
She led the MSL champs with a .467 batting average, 34 RBI and 4 home runs.
Cavin did not have a single passed ball all season while catching for her all-area sister Briana.
Miranda was 3-of-4 throwing out runners trying to steal and no one tried in an MSL game.
Cavin’s sister, Briana, has already committed to Wisconsin-Green Bay.
“Miranda was a great battery partner for her sister (Briana) again this season,” said Cougars coach CathyAnn Smith. “She knows how to read the batter and call a good game.
“Miranda is very pleased to have committed and they (Oklahoma State) are eager to have her as their starting catcher for the class of 2013.”