Acadia basketball coaches continue to recruit, right to the wire

BY JOHN DECOSTE

jdecoste@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

Under a mandate from athletic director Brian Heaney to continue recruiting actively until the very eve of the new school year, Acadia varsity basketball coaches Steve Baur and Bev Greenlaw are doing just that.

Baur confirmed Friday he has secured commitments from two additional players, both point guards, to attend Acadia and join the Axemen roster this fall.

Steve Jones, a 6’1” point guard originally from Mississauga, Ontario has post-secondary experience at Minot State in North Dakota and more recently at Seattle Pacific, an NCAA- Division 2 school in Washington State.

“Steve is a great athlete,” Baur said Friday; “very athletic, goes to the basket well and is a strong defender.”

More importantly for the Axemen, who are thin at point guard after losing Andrew Kraus and Paulo Santana in the off-season, Jones “has played some post-secondary basketball, which should provide us with both experience and composure” at the position.

The other point guard recruit is Brian Magann, an American from Nevada who, according to Baur, “should be a good complement to Steve Jones.” Magann, who also has previous post-secondary experience, “shoots well and has great court savvy.”

Baur said he feels pretty good with the most recent additions, especially given that point guard “is a position where we wanted more depth after losing two high-profile players. I feel it should help us at least maintain the status quo if not move a step forward.”

As for Greenlaw, when contacted Friday he had nothing concrete to report, but he did suggest he was still working on “a possible very late development which, if it comes to pass, would be a very positive thing for Acadia women’s basketball.”