Posted: Mar 05, 2014
BEREA, Ohio – A trio of Baldwin Wallace University women's basketball student-athletes, seniors Jessica Lairson (Louisville) and Lexi Rohrbach (Tiffin/ Columbian) and junior Shari Mangas (Leipsic), have been named to the 2013-2014 All-Ohio Athletic Conference team.
The trio are part of this year's OAC regular season co-championship team that will be travelling to York, Pennsylvania to play this Friday, March 7 in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Division III National Tournament.
Lairson is making her third straight appearance on the All-OAC team. The honorable mention pick as a freshman and second-team choice a year ago is a first-team pick this year. Lairson is second on the team in scoring at 11.3 points-per-game and rebounding with 5.7 rebounds-per-game. She also has has 33 assists, 31 treys, 24 steals and 12 blocked shots. Lairson has 1,098 career points to rank ninth all-time in school history and has grabbed 510 rebounds to rank 13th.
The trio are part of this year's OAC regular season co-championship team that will be travelling to York, Pennsylvania to play this Friday, March 7 in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Division III National Tournament.
Lairson is making her third straight appearance on the All-OAC team. The honorable mention pick as a freshman and second-team choice a year ago is a first-team pick this year. Lairson is second on the team in scoring at 11.3 points-per-game and rebounding with 5.7 rebounds-per-game. She also has has 33 assists, 31 treys, 24 steals and 12 blocked shots. Lairson has 1,098 career points to rank ninth all-time in school history and has grabbed 510 rebounds to rank 13th.
Mangas, who earned OAC all-tournament team honors last week, is making her first appearance on the All-OAC squad as a second-team choice. Mangas is third in scoring at 10.8 ppg., grabs 2.0 rpg. and is second with 42 triples. She also has 39 assists and 17 steals.
Rohrbach is making her first appearance on the All-OAC squad and is an honorable mention pick. She fourth in scoring at 10.6 ppg., grabs a team-leading 7.3 rpg. and shoots 55.9 percent from the floor on 95 of 170 attempts. Rohrbach enters the NCAA Regional game versus Lebanon Valley with 591 career rebounds and is 10th all-time.
On Friday, March 7, the Yellow Jackets play Lebanon Valley (Pa.) College, 21-6 overall, at 5:00 p.m. In addition to BW and Lebanon Valley, host York, 25-2 overall, plays LaRoche (Pa.) University, 23-4 overall, in the other first round game at 7:00 p.m.
The winners meet in the regional championship/ second round game on Saturday, March 8. The winner of that game advances to the Sectional Round on the weekend of March 14-15. The Final Four is March 21-22 at Wisconsin Steven's Point. You can view the entire bracket at http://static.psbin.com/c/t/4wsc16c05rimk4/2014-wbb-bracket.pdf.
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