As the recruiting info continues to cross our screen, we’ll make sure it crosses yours. For the previous recruiting recap, click here for an earlier Daily Dose post.

As always, if you want to contribute a name, you must provide the published confirmation. (Unless you are an SID or coach, of course, in which case your word is sufficient.) You can either post the info here on the blog or e-mail to info@d3hoops.com.

Shawe HS guard Brandon Lauster will play at Mt. St. Joseph next season, according to The Madison (Ind.) Courier. (This is their photo, as well.) There’s a lengthy story on the newspaper’s Web site.

Delaware Valley is getting Bryan Connors from Epping HS in New Hampshire. The Exeter News-Letter story doesn’t mention what position he plays in basketball, but that’s OK. It’s a story about Epping’s baseball team but it doesn’t mention Connors’ baseball position either. All we know is he can hit.

Cincinnati Elder HS product Brian Hamrick is heading to Thomas More. He averaged 9.8 points and 5.1 rebounds, according to The Cincinnati Post.

Transylvania has a lot of holes to fill, with a rather large senior class graduating. One of the spots will be filled by LaBradford Rollins of Webster County (Ind.) HS, according to The Gleaner of Henderson, Ky.

Covington (Ky.) Catholic HS forward Danny Noll will attend Centre, according to The Cincinnati Post.

The Northbrook Star in suburban Chicago reports Glenbrook North’s Tyler Cullitan will head to Lawrence next season. He’s 6-4 and averaged 7.3 points and 2.7 rebounds. Washington U. reports that Cullitan’s teammate, Zach Kelly, will attend the UAA school. A team captain, he averaged 11 points and nine rebounds per game while shooting a team-high 54% from the field.

Maryville (Tenn.) is getting the following players, according to the Maryville Daily Times: Michael Santiago (Miami, Fla., area), Michael Meckler from Ohio, McMinn Central HS forward Blake Derrick and Anderson County point guard Jared Laverdiere.

And Newsday continues to track Long Island seniors’ post-graduation athletics plans:
Tommy Brown, Bayport-Blue Point, Ithaca
Kyle Charters, Greenport, Ithaca

Women
K.C. Blahnik signed one of those fictional letters of intent to play at Lakeland, according to the Daily Press of Escanaba, Mich. She’ll also play softball. No basketball details were given.

Leonard (Texas) HS senior Macy Boggs has committed to play at East Texas Baptist. No mention of her position either, but the Herald Democrat of Sherman, Texas, mentions she averaged 15.2 points, 3.1 assists, and 2.6 steals per game, so put her in the backcourt somewhere.

Brittany Fuller will play basketball at Stevens, according to Newsday. She had 16 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks for East Rockaway (N.Y.) in the state Class C final.

The Maryville Times says Maryville (Tenn.) has commitments from Seymour (Tenn.) HS senior Brittany Mikels and former Seymour post player Gina Owenby, a transfer from Walters State. The school also got Rachel Draper and Haley Williams from Farragut HS, both guards.

And the Newsday list:
Kasey Agostinacchio, Kellenberg, Cabrini
Kelly Dunne, Northport, Nazareth
Katie Tolan, Island Trees, Muhlenberg

(Glad we didn’t name any of our kids Katie. Lots of Katies on the Newsday list for all sports.)

Although most coaches who have won titles have told us that you don’t typically see the results of a national title until the second recruiting class comes in, Hope has some names to point to for 2006-07. At least, so says The Holland Sentinel.

In next year’s freshman class, (Dexter HS point guard Jenny) Cowens will be joining Philana Green, Grandville High’s second-best player behind MSU-bound Alyssa DeHaan, and Megan Mejeur out of St. Joseph, a 5-9 post player and sister of Jason Mejeur, who played for Glenn Van Wieren on the Hope men’s team a few years back.

Hersey HS (Arlington Heights, Ill.) point guard Sean Dwyer wanted to play for Scott Trost. He won’t get a chance to, but The Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.) reports Dwyer is still sold on Illinois Wesleyan.

Alan Jaziri, from Norwich (Conn.) Free Academy, will attend Suffolk.

Justin Strickland of East Davidson (N.C.) HS will play at Guilford, says The Dispatch of Lexington, N.C. Coach Matt Ridge said something to the paper that all basketball recruits should take to heart:

“Most high school kids dream of playing Division I basketball, and sometimes they turn down a better fit just to walk on, and it’s a mistake. But Guilford has been to a lot of our games and shown a lot of interest, and they said all along he was their number one recruit.”

Jake Hollifield of Pisgah HS will be heading to Emory and Henry, his coach told the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times. He averaged 10 points per game this past season.

Matt Mihalich, son of Niagara coach Joe Mihalich, will attend John Carroll. He’s a guard at St. Joe’s in the Niagara area.

The Jackson Sun says University School of Jackson (Miss.) is sending Alex Kovalic to Rhodes. The paper doesn’t mention Kovalic’s position.

Oglethorpe is getting Eddie Buckley from Lecanto (Fla.) HS, says the St. Petersburg Times.

The (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reports Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial guard Jesse Van Sickle has committed to Gustavus Adolphus.

Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy guard Colin Cubit is attending the University of Rochester in New York next fall. He averaged 16.4 points, 3.7 assists and four rebounds for a team that went 26-3 last year, according to the Public Opinion of Chambersburg, Pa.

Women’s
South Kortright guard Jessica Laing will attend Cortland State, says the Oneonta Daily Star, after leading her team to New York’s Class D state championship. She scored 1,841 points in four high school seasons.

Cassie Lyles of Benjamin (Texas) HS is staying close to home (in Texas terms) and heading to McMurry. The Abilene Reporter-News describes her as a 6-0 post player with a shooter’s touch. That’s her at right.

Mountain Valley (Rumford, Maine) guard Kristen Arsenault is heading to Southern Maine, says the Bangor Daily News. The paper also has Skowhegan HS point guard Nicole Paradis joining Arsenault, Dexter HS forward Sabrina Cote and Rockland’s Caitlin Hynes heading to Bowdoin while Winslow’s Stephanie Bossie is off to Maine-Farmington.

Sherando (Winchester, Va.) HS all-time assist leader Brooke Davies will play at Mary Washington, according to The Winchester Star.

The Northfield News reports Northfield (Minn.) HS’s Ann Eckhoff turned down a scholarship to play volleyball at Northern Iowa and will play both volleyball and basketball at Carleton.

Greenfield’s Becky Atnip will play next season at Rhodes, according to The Jackson Sun. Again, no position.

As always, if you want to contribute a name, you must provide the published confirmation. (Unless you are an SID or coach, of course, in which case your word is sufficient.) You can either post the info here on the blog or e-mail to info@d3hoops.com.

To take a look at last year’s recruiting info, click here or on the Recruiting link on the right-hand menu rail of the Daily Dose.

The New York Times ran a story in today’s editions regarding parents’ rage towards coaches (NYT requires registration). While the incident that inspired the story, which involved a Connecticut high school softball player’s dad bashing a coach’s skull six times with an aluminum bat, isn’t related to Division III, that doesn’t mean it can’t happen here.
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Keene State men’s coach Rob Colbert announced his 2005 recruiting class, which contains three freshmen and a transfer:

Tyler Kathan, a 6-5 small forward from Springfield (Vt.) High who was named to the Vermont Dream Dozen, the top 12 underclassmen in the state.

Nate Anderson of Westminster, Mass., a 6-6 power forward, was Oak Mont Regional’s all-time leading scorer with over 1,200 points.

Eric Malkowski, a 6-7 center from Warwick, R.I., averaged 18.2 points and 10 rebounds a game for The Prout School last season.

The transfer is Stanley Chamberlain of Chelsea, Mass., who played two seasons at Hesser.

Marion (Ill.) Crab Orchard HS guard/forward Ray Kissing, who was named second team all-state by the Associated Press, is heading to Millikin.

Community School’s (Naples, Fla., area) Jesse Greenberg is heading to NYU. Casey Berry will play at Sewanee.

Jason Murphy, from Charleston (Ill.) HS, will play both basketball and football at Illinois College.

National Trail (Ind.) forward Tim Beck will play at Wittenberg, along with Barron Collier (Fla.) point guard R.T. Murphy.

A pair of Potomac (Md.) HS forwards, 6-4 Daniel Boettger and 6-2 Dominique Kizer, will attend Capital Athletic Conference schools. Boettger is headed to Mary Washington, and Kizer will “walk on” at Marymount, according to The Washington Post.

Warwick (Pa.) 1,000-point scorer Chris Fairbanks will attend Elizabethtown.

And a handful of Colorado natives from CoHoopsTracker.com:
Colorado College picks up Lincoln Deffenbaugh, 6-2, G, Strasburg
Coe gets Marc Gorenstein, 6-9, P, Silver Creek

In women’s recruiting news, Burke Catholic High School (Monroe, N.Y.) post player Jaimie McFarlin is heading to Washington U. “We are excited about Jaimie joining us for the next four years,” said WU coach Nancy Fahey. “Her success both on the court and in the classroom make her an ideal fit for the program and the Washington University community.”

A four-year letterwinner and team captain, McFarlin garnered team MVP honors three times and led the Eagles to three division crowns, two section championships and one region title. She averaged 14.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 4.0 blocks per game during her career.

She’ll be joined by Riverdale Country School’s Zoe Julian (Teaneck, N.J.).

Arundel’s Jessica Head is heading to Hood.

Finlandia’s recruiting class:
Republic-Michigamme High School guard Lindsey Antilla
Iron Mountain guard Casey Luke
Sault Ste. Marie forward Lindsey Andrews

And from CoHoopsTracker.com:
Laura Burtner of Skyview HS to DePauw
Tina Liskof Monarch HS to St. Benedict
Hannah McKelvin of Jefferson Academy to Carnegie Mellon