For Immediate Release
Contact: Greg Prouty, Longwood
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March 30, 2004

 

 

Call, Robbins Headline VaSID College Division All-State Men's Basketball Team

FARMVILLE, Va. – Emory & Henry College All-American Justin Call has been selected as Player of the Year, and Virginia Union University head coach Dave Robbins is the Coach of the Year, in voting by the Virginia Sports Information Directors Association (VaSID) for the 2004 College Division All-State Men's Basketball Team.

2003-04 VaSID College Division Men's Basketball All-State Team

Call, a 6-3 senior guard from Ronda, N.C., averaged 24.8 points and 4.9 rebounds while shooting 49% from the field, including 44% on three-point field goals (73), and 87% at the free throw line.  He led E&H to a 17-10 record while being named NABC Division III 1^st-Team All-America.  Call was also awarded the Jostens Trophy Division III Player of the Year, was named the ODAC Player of the Year and Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, as well as earning Academic All-America College Division 1^st-Team honors.

Robbins led Virginia Union to a 25-4 record and into the Division II National Tournament after the Panthers won the CIAA Tournament championship.  He has complied a career record of 609-168 through 26 years at Union, a winning percentage of .784 percent.

Joining Call on the VaSID 1^st-Team were Division III Bridgewater junior Ricky Easterling, Division III Hampden-Sydney senior Jeff Monroe, Division III Shenandoah junior Chris Rhone, and Division III Randolph-Macon sophomore Justin Wansley.  Easterling averaged 19.3 points and 3.6 rebounds for the Eagles (13-13).  Monroe scored 17.6 points along with 4.2 rebounds for the Tigers (25-5).  Rhone averaged 19.9 points and 5.1 rebounds for the Hornets (16-10).  Wansley posted 15.3 points and 7.8 rebounds for the Yellow Jackets (23-5).  Call was a first-team pick last year, while Easterling and Monroe were each second-team selections in 2003.

The VaSID 2^nd-Team includes Division III Virginia Wesleyan senior David Doino, Division III Christopher Newport junior Otho Hampton, Division II Virginia Union sophomore Darius Hargrove, Division II Virginia Union junior Luqman Jaaber, and USCAA Apprentice School senior Maze Toomer.

 

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