The Knoch high school Hall of Fame will honor its 10th group of inductees Friday prior to the Knoch basketball game with Valley. Five student-athletes and one championship team will be recognized including:
–Bob Blumling, a member of the Knoch Class of 1975, who earned three letters in football and track. Blumling was considered a key contributor to helping the Knoch football program into becoming a winning sport. He would go on to play for Ivy League school Princeton in College.
–Jeff Woller was a multi-sport athlete, earning letters in football, basketball and was captain of the track team in his senior year of 1988. Woller was a baseball standout prior to the Knights fielding a team. After pitching a no-hitter in the 1987 American Legion Championship game, Woller was selected to play in the Pennsylvania Keystone State Games as both a pitcher and centerfielder. He earned a tryout with the Pittsburgh Pirates, before lettering all four years at the College of Wooster. He is a past inductee into the Butler County Sports Hall of Fame.
–Steve Hall, also a past inductee of the County Sports Hall of Fame, is a 1991 Knoch grad. He was the Knights baseball team captain and MVP in 1990 & ’91. He was named to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette North Baseball All-Stars his senior season and went on to earn three letters at Grove City College. Steve was also a two-year letterman in football at Knoch. He has served as an assistant baseball coach at Knoch for the last 23 seasons, including with the 2015 State Championship team. He also officiates football at the NCAA and PIAA levels.
–1998 graduate Steve Graff, who earned a total of 10 letters in soccer, basketball and baseball while at Knoch. He was team captain and MVP of the Knights soccer team in 1997. Graff earned four letters in basketball, ending his career as the Knights all-time three-point leader. He went on to play baseball at Duquesne University for four years.
–The final individual honoree this weekend is Samantha Logan, who earned eight letters in her Knoch athletic career. She was team captain for the Knights basketball team in her senior season of 2013, but currently holds or shares seven Knoch school records in track. She won the WPIAL 800-meter championship in 2012 and was a state finalist. She went on to compete collegiately at Robert Morris.
–The team being recognized is the 1990 boys golf team, which won the WPIAL championship that season. The group, led by Coach Jerry Sefton, won 41 section matches oer a three-year period, while losing only one match. After a 27-stroke victory in the WPIAL semi-finals, they won the team title by five strokes to claim Knoch’s first golf title since Jim Simons won the individual title in 1969. The Knights six-man squad was made up of two current Knoch Hall of Famers in Jeff Dickson and Rob Voltz.
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