Duquesne coach Ron Everhart got signatures on national letters of intent yesterday from two more players who will join the basketball team next season, 6-foot-6, 175-pound Robert Mitchell and 6-6, 200-pound Scott Grote.
They will join 6-7 junior-college transfer Stuard Baldonado of Miami Dade College and 6-1 Destin Damachoua of The Master's School in West Simsburg, Conn., who both signed earlier this week.
"I guess we're done for a while, maybe until the middle of next week," said Everhart, who currently has two scholarships to offer. "We hit the ground running and worked extremely hard over the past month to get to this point."
A trio of recruits are still being targeted by Everhart and his staff -- 6-0 Corey Lowe, a guard from Newton North High School in Newtonville, Mass., who recently was released from the letter of intent he signed at Providence; 6-3 Stephen Wood from Monsignor McClancy Memorial in East Elmhurst, N.Y.; 6-10 Luis Colon from Dr. Michael M.Krop High School in Miami and a teammate of Baldonado's on the AAU Miami Tropics.
Mitchell, a native of Brooklyn, averaged 10 points and 4 rebounds at Notre Dame Prep, which has nine players headed to Division I. Mitchell committed to Northeastern out of high school when Everhart was the coach there.
"He is a late-bloomer," Everhart said of Mitchell, who chose Duquesne over Southern California, Cincinnati and Wichita State. "He has improved greatly over the past year."
Grote, who has grown three inches since he graduated from Centerville (Ohio) High School, averaged 18.2 points and shot 38 percent from beyond the arc at Massanutten Military Academy in Woodstock, Va.
Duquesne's fifth recruit is Hernol Hall, a 6-10 junior-college center from Lon Morris (Texas) College, who has asked for a release from the letter he signed last fall when Danny Nee was Duquesne's coach.
"I haven't given him his release," Everhart said. | 