The Ohio University (OU) Zanesville drafted members of the 1993 state and conference champion baseball team into its Athletic Hall of Fame to mark the 20th anniversary of the team's remarkable accomplishments.
The event, held in the last week of April, was sponsored by the Century National Bank, in the Campus Center.
Doug Pollock, the OU-Z Athletic Director and an established baseball coach, called the team one of the best college teams of the 1990s and the best team he ever coached.
"They had an old-school mentality about them in that they worked hard in practice and games mattered to them," Pollock said. "They were confident, but not overconfident, and believed that they were not going to lose."
The team finished with a score of 18-1 and was named the Ohio Regional Campus Conference co-champion and the Ohio Regional Campus state champion.
Apart from the team members, assistant coaches Kevin Krumlauf and Tom Checkush, and scorekeeper/groundskeeper Floyd Pollock were honored posthumously.
One of the team members, Shane Dickinson from Zanesville who served as a pitcher and outfielder on the team for two years, said that nobody expected that they had the potential to clinch the title since they belonged to a branch campus.
Dickinson also said that the team could have outplayed some Division II and Division III programs.
"We were a bunch of different personalities coming together to play baseball and we did it very well," Randy Gilbert, another team member said.
Other fellow members of the winning team include Eric Fusner, Casey Vallee, Nate Worthington, Chad Orecchio, Chad Gibson, Craig Stoneburner, Bryon Bonkowski, Dan Wamer, Shon Bender, Jon Ward, Paul Kimble, Woody Fox and Tim Scholl.
