Yellowjacket Athletics to Add Five to Hall of Fame on Saturday (Feb. 11, 2004)
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BILLINGS, MT – Montana State University-Billings will induct five new members into its Hall of Fame and Distinction on Saturday.  The brunch and induction ceremony will be held in the SUB ballroom on the MSU Billings campus.  Check in will run from 9:15 to 9:30.  A limited number of tickets are available to the public.  Call 657-2369 for more information.

The five inductees represent four different sports and competed for the Yellowjackets in four different decades.  The 2004 Hall of Fame and Distinction inductees will be Dr. Rick Billstein, Cal Crawley, Megan Dickerson, Michelle (Taylor) Lipp, and Dr. Ronald Sexton.  The five new inductees will bring the Yellowjacket Hall of Fame to 100 members.

Billstein played baseball for the Yellowjackets from 1963 to 1966.  A Billings native and Billings Central graduate, Billstein was a four-year letter winner for the Yellowjackets.  He started as a second baseman and leadoff hitter all four years.

Crawley was a gymnast from 1971 to 1976, competing for Hall of Fame coach Jay Shaw.  He was one of the Jackets’ top performers during his four years, leading the team in season average in at least one category each year.  In his final season, Crawley led the Yellowjackets in season average for floor exercise, rings, parallel bar, high bar and all around.  His 44.66 all around average in 1976 is the twelfth-highest single season average in the program’s history.

Dickerson is being inducted in her first year of eligibility.  A women’s basketball player from 1995 to 1998, she is one of the most decorated Lady Yellowjackets in the program’s history.  In 1998, she was the Pacific West Conference player of the year and earned Division II Bulletin and Kodak All-America honors.  She was also a first team All-West Region selection as a senior and earned first team all-conference honors twice.  Dickerson is still in the top ten in school history for seven statistical categories, including third for scoring with 1,502 points.

Lipp ran cross-country for the Yellowjackets from 1993 to 1995.  She was a two-time All-Pacific West Conference runner, finishing in the top ten at the PacWest Conference Championships in 1994 and 1995.  Lipp set the school record for the 5,000 meters in 1994 with a time of 18:47 and placed sixteenth at the NCAA North Central Regional.  She becomes the first female cross-country runner to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Sexton played baseball from 1956 to 1959 and was a member of two Frontier Conference Championship teams.  He went on to play one year of minor league baseball after graduating from Eastern Montana College and also played on the U.S. Army baseball team.  Sexton is currently the Chancellor of Montana State University-Billings.