Shelly Morris, an assistant to head field hockey coach Mary Milne since July 1997, will take over as head coach immediately, the Ohio Athletics Department announced yesterday.

Milne resigned Feb. 5 after 10 seasons as Ohio head coach.

Morris, a native of Feeding Hills, Mass., graduated in 1994 from Northeastern University where she was selected to the Northeast Regional All-America Field Hockey Team in 1992.

She was the head coach at Simmons College in Boston in 1996 and assisted at Northeastern in 1994 and 1995.

Women's golf team 10th at Ohio State

Despite a 10th-place finish in a field of 15 teams at Ohio State last weekend, Ohio head women's golf coach Nicole Hollingsworth is satisfied with the team's performance this spring and is very optimistic about the future.

"The scores weren't bad," said Hollingsworth about Ohio's performance on the long and wet Scarlet Course. "The NCAA Championship doesn't even play that long."

Hollingsworth said it would have been nice to finish on a more positive note, but the tournament wasn't a total loss.

With three promising recruits and with every player that traveled this season returning, the future looks bright for Ohio's fourth season next fall.

Men's golf team seventh at Kent

The Ohio men's golf team, shooting the best score of the field in the second round, finished in a tie for seventh at the Cobra Collegiate at Kent last weekend. In a tie with Notre Dame, the Bobcats shot a three round score of 866.

Joe Hill finished with a 212, including two rounds of 70, finishing in eighth place at the Windmill Lakes Golf Course. A.T. Spires finished the tournament in a tie for 25th place with three rounds of 72. Jay Spargrove, Eric Herberth and Mark Van Houten finished in ties for 35th, 42nd and 87th respectively.

Wrestlers win All-MAC academic awards

Four Ohio wrestlers received 1999 Academic All-Mid-American Conference honors.

Junior chemical engineering major Dan Bednar was named to the first team.

Senior physical education major Adam Whitlach, senior sports industry and business major Neal Harvey and junior health sciences major Shane Hartzler received honorable mentions.

Schimdt makes All-Star team

Collegiate Baseball, a national baseball magazine, named its 22-man, Centennial All-Star team in its April 16 edition. One of those honored is Ohio's own Mike Schmidt.

Schimdt, a Hall of Fame third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, led the 1970 Bobcats to a 33-6 record and the school's only College World Series appearance, where they finished in fourth place. He was a two-time All-America while at Ohio.

The Centennial All-Star team was created by Lou Pavolich, the publisher of Collegiate Baseball. It is meant to honor college baseball players who went on to achieve success in the major leagues.

Other notables on the list include: Sandy Koufax (Cincinnati), Lou Gehrig (Columbia), and Jackie Robinson (UCLA).

-David Jablonski, Jeffrey Arra, Amanda Metcalf, and Jon Greenberg contributed to this story.