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Heading into the 2008-09 academic year, Sinclair athletic director Jack Giambrone proclaimed it was going to be a big year for the college\u2019s athletics.<\/p>\n
All in all, the Pride didn\u2019t let Giambrone down.<\/p>\n
The athletic department supports five programs consisting of men\u2019s baseball and basketball and women\u2019s basketball, tennis and volleyball.<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s baseball<\/strong><\/p>\n Head Coach Steve Dintaman entered his second season with a mix of sophomore leadership and talented freshman. The combination turned out to be successful.<\/p>\n The Pride landed a spot in the NJCAA Region 12 Tournament after sweeping through the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference tournament.<\/p>\n Led by sophomores Kyle Hopwood, Dan Marsh, Taylor Hoisington and Ricky Masson, the Pride landed a spot in the NJCAA Region 12 title game for the first time in school history while finishing with a 36-12 record.<\/p>\n Freshman catcher John Lydic provided some much-needed offense after losing catcher Corey Throckmorton early in the season to injury. Lydic worked opposing pitchers while leading the team in average, extra base hits and second in RBIs.<\/p>\n Another freshman made a splash with his speed. Outfielder Clay Ragland cracked the lineup half way through the year and led the club with 26 steals.<\/p>\n Women\u2019s basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lady Pride wrapped their season with a 12-13 record. Head Coach Jeff Dillon returned only two of his players from a squad that won 22 games in 07-08.<\/p>\n Sophomore guard Amanda White led Sinclair in scoring with a 16.3 average and earned a spot on the OCCAC First Team All-Conference, while 6-foot freshman Jessica Pierre grabbed 7.9 rebounds a game and earned OCCAC Honorable Mention.<\/p>\n Freshman guard Jana Gross led the NJCAA in assists with 9.3 per game.<\/p>\n Men\u2019s basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n Hopes were high for the Pride at the beginning of the 08-09 year. With the return of offensive machine Mark Anderson, guard Jonathon Tate and forward British Alexander, Sinclair was looking to improve upon a 24-6 record.<\/p>\n Injuries stepped in the way, though, as the Pride lost Alexander early in the year. Sinclair finished with a 19-11 record and 7-7 in the OCCAC.<\/p>\n The Pride hosted the NJCAA Region 12 Tournament, but fell in the first round to Lakeland Community College, 81-72.<\/p>\n Women\u2019s volleyball<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lady Pride finished their season third in the OCCAC going 14-12 and reaching the NJCAA District II Tournament. Head Coach K.C. Gan sends off six sophomores including two OCCAC First Team All-Conference selections in libero Jessica McCann and outside hitter Lindsey Bruns and OCCAC Honorable Mention outside hitter Brittiney Wilburn.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heading into the 2008-09 academic year, Sinclair athletic director Jack Giambrone proclaimed it was going to be a big year for the college\u2019s athletics. All in all, the Pride didn\u2019t let Giambrone down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[556,55,1392,1272,150,14,25],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-joseph-stueve","tag-pride","tag-sinclair","tag-volleyball"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-zj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}