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Issue date: 5/11/09 Section: Sports
Dyer All-District
Junior Kelly Dyer earned second team CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 honors for softball, it was announced Thursday. Dyer is the first player since 2007 to earn All-District honors for the Beavers.
Dyer, a human development and family sciences major, is a returning All-Pac-10 selection at pitcher. She is currently sixth all-time for career saves with six and seventh all-time for career strikeouts with 317. Dyer currently has 10 wins on the season, four complete game shutouts and five saves, which ranks her third in the nation.
She earned the Beavers' only Pac-10 All-Academic First Team honors last season as a sophomore, and she is the Oregon State athletic department Everyday Champion for the week of May 5 through 10.
In order to be nominated for Academic All-District and All-America honors, a player must be a starter or significant reserve, must have a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average and must have completed at least one full academic year at her institution. Voting is done by members of CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America).
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Masterson finishes fifth
EUGENE - Freshman Casey Masterson led the way for the Oregon State women's track team at the Oregon Twilight, running the fourth-fastest 800-meter time in school history on Saturday at Hayward Field.
Masterson finished fifth in a 13-runner field with a time of 2:11.29, a personal best.
In the 5,000-meter, sophomore Hayley Oveson finished ninth in a field of 23 runners with a time of 17:05.17. Oveson's time was good enough for the fifth-fastest time in school history. Oveson previously held the fifth spot but improved her time by two seconds at the Twilight.
Other Oregon State results included Sylvia Veal, running unattached, finishing sixth in section A of the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:29.98, Abby Chesimet finishing third in section B of the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:41.26, and Holly Thomson finishing 13th in the 800-meter with a time of 2:16.31.
Junior Kelly Dyer earned second team CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 honors for softball, it was announced Thursday. Dyer is the first player since 2007 to earn All-District honors for the Beavers.
Dyer, a human development and family sciences major, is a returning All-Pac-10 selection at pitcher. She is currently sixth all-time for career saves with six and seventh all-time for career strikeouts with 317. Dyer currently has 10 wins on the season, four complete game shutouts and five saves, which ranks her third in the nation.
She earned the Beavers' only Pac-10 All-Academic First Team honors last season as a sophomore, and she is the Oregon State athletic department Everyday Champion for the week of May 5 through 10.
In order to be nominated for Academic All-District and All-America honors, a player must be a starter or significant reserve, must have a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average and must have completed at least one full academic year at her institution. Voting is done by members of CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America).
- Sports Information
Masterson finishes fifth
EUGENE - Freshman Casey Masterson led the way for the Oregon State women's track team at the Oregon Twilight, running the fourth-fastest 800-meter time in school history on Saturday at Hayward Field.
Masterson finished fifth in a 13-runner field with a time of 2:11.29, a personal best.
In the 5,000-meter, sophomore Hayley Oveson finished ninth in a field of 23 runners with a time of 17:05.17. Oveson's time was good enough for the fifth-fastest time in school history. Oveson previously held the fifth spot but improved her time by two seconds at the Twilight.
Other Oregon State results included Sylvia Veal, running unattached, finishing sixth in section A of the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:29.98, Abby Chesimet finishing third in section B of the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:41.26, and Holly Thomson finishing 13th in the 800-meter with a time of 2:16.31.
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