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Updated at 9:42 a.m., Thursday, March 5, 2009

Preps: 12 elected to National High School Hall of Fame

Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — St. Anthony High School basketball coach Bob Hurley and high school strikeout king David Clyde are among a class of 12 that will be inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame.

Hurley, in his 36th year at the tiny parochial school in Jersey City, N.J., has won 24 state championships and more than 900 games. His program has also become a recruiting hotbed — six seniors from last season's undefeated team accepted Division I basketball scholarships.

Clyde, who went on to pitch for the Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians, set 14 national records at Houston Westchester High School from 1970-73. He was 18-0 with an 0.18 ERA as a senior, and his 842 career strikeouts and 29 shutouts are still national high school records.

The class will be inducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations at its annual meeting July 1 in Chicago.

Also selected to the hall of fame were Dana Miroballi, who won 10 state cross country and track and field titles at Wheeling (Ill.) High School in the 1980s, and Billy Bye, who won 21 letters in six sports at Thief River Falls and Anoka high schools in Minnesota in the 1940s.

Coaches joining Hurley include Dick Dullaghan, who won eight Indiana football championships at Carmel and Ben Davis high schools; Catherine Lempesis, who's won 15 state titles in cross country and track and field at four South Carolina schools; Harry Breland, who won 824 games and nine state baseball titles at Hattiesburg (Miss.) Oak Grove High School; and Guy Anderson, who has won 822 games in 39 years at Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

Two administrators were selected for the 2009 class: Clair Muscaro, commissioner of the Ohio High School Athletic Association for 14 years; and Ruth Rehn, a leader in the development of girls sports programs with the South Dakota High School Activities Association.

Also selected was George Ford, who's in his 41st season as a swimming and diving referee in Connecticut, and 96-year-old Himie Voxman, the former director of the Iowa School of Music whose compositions and arrangements are part of high school band repertoires across the nation.