“It’s good,” Bradbury said. “If you’re going to have them here, you might as well be able to do something with them, and it occupies their time. In summer, you only have a couple of classes. There seems to be a lot of free time. With free time comes bad decisions. It’ll keep them out of trouble.”
Bradbury’s roster got a boost Monday when Wright State announced the signing of three women’s basketball players: Sarah Hunter, a 5-foot-5 guard from Mason; Jeralyn Williams, a 5-6 guard from Carmel, Ind.; and Richelle van der Keijl, a 6-5 center from the Netherlands.
Hunter’s name might stand out for Wright State fans because she played with the team two years ago as a freshman, but then left to play at a junior college, the College of Central Florida in Ocala.
“After Sarah’s freshman year, both me and her, as well as her parents, thought it would be a good idea for her to get away, go to a JUCO for a year where she could play a lot of minutes and gets some more experience and grow up on the floor and off the floor a little bit,” Bradbury said. “It was always going to be like that. She got to play a lot of minutes. She got a lot of experience. She wasn’t having to sit behind the players we already had.”
Williams was ranked the 35th-best point guard in the country in the 2013 recruiting class by ESPN. She averaged 7.5 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 2.4 steals as a senior.
“She’s a high-energy, ultra-quick athletic combo guard,” Bradbury said. “She’s got real potential.”
Van der Keijl is the first European player Bradbury has recruited. Assistant coach Keith Freeman discovered her on a recruiting trip last September.
Baseball: The Raiders lost two out of three games at Missouri State last weekend, falling to 21-26. They began a three-game series, the last of the regular season, against Illinois-Chicago on Thursday at Nischwitz Stadium.
The Horizon League tournament begins May 22 at Youngstown State.
Softball: Senior outfielder Lindsay Barrett and sophomore third baseman Reagan Stofcheck were each named to the All-Horizon League tournament team. Barrett went 3-for-8 in four games, and Stofcheck went 4-for-11.
The Raiders finished the season 19-37. They won their first two games in the tournament, but lost 1-0 to Youngstown State and 10-2 to eventual champion Valparaiso on Friday and were eliminated.
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