Brooks Hatch

First, while you’re reading, here’s a tricky trivia question to consider: Who was the most recent OSU graduate to start in a Super Bowl?Put your thinking cap on.

We’ll have the answer at the bottom of the The Blog.

Now, more stuff from the world of local sorts:

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Oregon State junior reliever Kevin Rhoderick has been named to the preseason Watch List for the sixth annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Stopper of the Year Award, it was announced Thursday.

The award is given to the nation’s top collegiate closer. Players were nominated by sports information directors; finalists will be named on June 2 and the winner will be named on June 19, the opening day of the College World Series.

Rhoderick has 21 saves in two seasons at OSU, the second-most in school history behind Kevin Gunderson’s 37.

Rhoderick was 3-3 with nine saves in 2009 and 0-1 with 12 saves in 2008. He has allowed two extra base hits in 50 innings over 43 appearances and opponents have hit .187 against him.

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Speaking of Pac-10 baseball, ESPN blogger (and fellow University of Richmond graduate) Ted Miller reports that former Cardinal quarterback Tavita Prichard has rejoined the baseball team.

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Got an e-mail from the Tualatin Hills United Soccer Club the other day announcing that four of its women’s players will sign with the Beavers on Wednesday.

They are Marissa Kovac of Crescent Valley High in Corvallis; Brandi Dawson of Gaston, who played at Forest Grove;  Brittney Oljar of Camas High in Camas, Wash., and Julia Sattler of Beaverton and Jesuit High.

More particulars will be available on Thursday (most Olympic sports don’t announce their signings until a day after LOI day, so they don’t get lost inthe football shuffle).

And speaking of OSU women’s soccer, here’s a Beaverton Valley Times story on ex-Beavers coach Steve Fennah, who once again is the head girls coach at Jesuit, the job he held before coming to OSU.

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We know you’re dying for news on competitive cheerleading. This should slake your thirst for about 20 years: an update from Quinnipiac University on the formation of the National Competitive Stunts and Tumbling Association (NCSTA), which will act as the governing body and coaches association for competitive cheer’s evolution into an NCAA emerging sport.

G-R-E-A-T!  G-R-E-A-T!  G-R-E-A-T! (clap clap clap).

And please, no e-mails or calls about how competitive cheerleaders tumbling skills are equal to college gymnasts. Any Level 8 10-year-old, much less a collegian, would tumble circles around any competitive cheerleader.

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OK, here’s the trivia answer.

The player who most recently graduated from OSU, and also started in a Super Bowl, is Crescent Valley High School math teacher, and former New York Giants offensive tackle, Doug Riesenberg.

He started against Buffalo in Super Bowl XXV on Jan. 27, 1991.

Riesenberg played at California from 1983-86. But he actually graduated from OSU, with degrees in electrical engineering and education, in 2005 after he returned to school for three years to complete his unfinished undergraduate degree work.

So he’s the most recent OSU grad to start in a Super Bowl. Like I said, trick question.

We’ll have a story on Riesenberg’s Super Bowl experience in Monday’s print and online versions of the G-T.

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