A couple of small college moves around the state that could have big impacts next season, with a pair of 6-foot-7 forwards finding their college homes.
Region VI champ Garden City Community College made a big splash — quite literally — by signing 6-foot-7, 240-pound Ronald Cobb out of Wichita Southeast. Cobb is a nice player who seemed to be playing his best basketball at the end of the year in the Buffs’ run to a Class 6A runner-up finish and averaged 8.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game. He put together a nice string of double-doubles at th eend of the year and showed that he’s got a great upside. GCCC coach Kris Baumann thinks Cobb can develop into a mid-major Division I player.
“He’s not an above the rim guy, but he’s got a high basketball IQ,” Baumann told me Sunday night. “We feel like he’s a great addition.”
Goddard’s Ryan Chippeaux (10.7 points, 5.7 rebounds) picked Tabor — which also beat out Garden City, amongst others. He’s another player with a lot of upside — don’t think that he won’t be one of the top players in the KCAC someday. 6-foot-7 and can run. That’s all I’m saying.
I’m out.
TA
A sad story out of the KCAC:
MARCUS PATRICK MANNY
Tabor kicker dies in car accident
Eagle staff
A Tabor College football player died in a one-car crash on I-35 near Tonkawa, Okla., on Sunday.
Marcus Patrick Manny, 23, a senior from Dallas, was driving northhbound Sunday evening when his car ran off the road and overcorrected, hitting an embankment and flipping the car.
Manny kicked the game-winning field goal in Tabor’s 32-29 win over Southwestern last season.
Tabor coach Mike Gottsch called Manny “a competitor in every sense of the word.”
In addition, Manny played in 27 games for Tabor, made 62 of 82 extra-point attempts, and 16 of 34 field goal attempts, with a career-long field goal of 41 yards. He earned Honorable Mention All-KCAC honors this past season.
Here’s the link to Tabor’s web site.
And here’s the link to his guest book, where people can send their condolences.
-TA
Big Props to Tabor College’s Ashley Cohlmia, A Maize product, for making the All-Tournament team last weekend at a tournament in Point Lookout, Mo. Cohlmia was also an all-league softball player for
the Eagles and also plays softball at Tabor. What a stud.
Here’s the release from Anthony Monson out of the Tabor College athletic department:
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