Thomas McCormick

HUNTINGBURG, Ind. -- University of Missouri-Rolla baseball player Thomas McCormick had a hit in three at-bats Monday night and drove in a run to help lead the Central Illinois Collegiate League to a 7-2 win in an all-star game over the KIT League All-Stars.

Playing as a representative of the Quincy Gems, McCormick's hit was an RBI double that capped a four-run third inning for CICL that broke a 1-1 tie in the contest.

McCormick, who will be a junior outfielder at UMR next spring, currently leads the CICL -- a summer league which uses wood bats -- in hitting with a .343 batting average, six home runs and 29 runs batted in.

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Tyrone Smith

RIO DE JANIERO, Brazil -- Former University of Missouri-Rolla track and field standout Tyrone Smith finished 14th Monday in the long jump competition during the preliminary rounds of the event in the Pan American Games.

Smith, who was competing for his native Bermuda in the international event, had a top jump of 24-0 1/4 (7.32 meters) to end up in 14th place. The top 12 finishers advanced to Monday's finals.

After fouling on his first jump, Smith had a leap of 23-6 in the second round and his top mark of the afternoon in round three.

The 12th-place finisher was Jorge McFarlane of Peru, who finished just ahead of Smith with a mark of 24-2 1/2 (7.38 meters). The leader through the preliminary rounds is Panama's Irving Saladino at 27-6; the top American competitor at the moment, Bashir Ramzy, currently sits in ninth place at 24-7.

Smith earned three All-America awards in the long jump while competing at UMR and holds the national record in the long jump for Bermuda, which he set at the North America-Central America-Caribbean Games held in the Dominican Republic last summer.

At UMR, Smith finished second in the long jump at both the 2006 NCAA Division II Outdoor Championship and the 2007 indoor national meet, while placing fourth in the event at the 2006 indoor nationals. He won the Great Lakes Valley Conference championship in the event in three straight league meets, doing so at the 2006 and 2007 indoor meets as well as the GLVC Outdoor Championships.

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Thomas McCormick

Thomas McCormick, an outfielder for the University of Missouri-Rolla baseball team, was named as the most valuable player for the first half of the season in the Central Illinois Collegiate League.

McCormick, the league's leading hitter with a .353 batting average, is playing this summer for the Quincy Gems and has six home runs and 27 runs batted in for the Gems in 31 games. He also leads the CICL with a .588 slugging percentage as 15 of his 42 hits on the season have been for extra bases and has scored 25 runs on the year.

McCormick leads the Gems in hitting, home runs, runs batted in, doubles and runs scored. Earlier this season, he was the recipient of a weekly award from the CICL.

The outfielder will be a junior at UMR next spring; he batted .286 with a team-high 20 runs batted in during the Miners' 2007 season.

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