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M-Club Hall of Fame
Alumni inducted into By Dave Rebstock M-CLUB HALL OF FAME
The 2015 M-Club Hall of Fame inductees are Jake Stevenson 2008 (left), Craig Fobbe 2006 and Lonnie MacPeek 1994. Morningside’s 1980 North Central Conference championship baseball team also was inducted into the M-Club Hall of Fame during Homecoming 2015. Photos by Dr. Gene Knudsen 1971.
Morningside College inducted athletes Craig Fobbe 2006, Lonnie MacPeek 1994, Jake Stevenson 2008 and the 1980 North Central Conference (NCC) championship baseball team into the M-Club Hall of Fame during Homecoming weekend. Fobbe was a four-year starting quarterback for the football team. He graduated as the most prolific passer in Morningside history with school-record career totals of 11,623 yards passing and 89 touchdown passes. He owned three of the top four single-season passing yardage totals in Morningside history at the time of his graduation. He was a two-time Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Player of the Year, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) honorable mention All-American as a junior, and a second-team All-American as a senior. Fobbe quarterbacked the Mustangs to their first-ever NAIA playoff berth in 2004. As a senior, he passed for an NAIA national record 4,885 yards and led the Mustangs to their first-ever GPAC championship and the semifinals of the 2005 NAIA playoffs. MacPeek was a standout sprinter for the track team. He earned National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II All-America honors as part of a 1600-meter relay team that placed eighth at the 1990 NCAA II Outdoor Track & Field National Championships. MacPeek ran the anchor after Kevin Freeman 1992, Chad Libby 1993 and Brad Bartlett 1994 ran the first three legs. MacPeek was the 1990 NCC champion in the 400-meters with times of 50.12 seconds at the NCC indoor championships and 48.77 seconds at the NCC outdoor championships. That year he also anchored Morningside to NCC championships in the 1600-meter relay at both the indoor and outdoor championships. Stevenson, now the Mustangs’ head wrestling coach, is Morningside’s only four-time NAIA All-American in the sport of wrestling. He posted a 130-25 record during his career for the most victories in Morningside history. Stevenson had a 23-1 record as a junior and won the 2007 NAIA 184 lb. National Championship with a 3-1 decision against No. 1-ranked Jeffrey Lander of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to become Morningside’s first-ever NAIA national champion. Stevenson set a school record with 45 victories as a sophomore, was a three-time GPAC champion, and was named the Mustangs’ Most Valuable Wrestler in each of his four seasons. Morningside’s 1980 baseball team won the NCC title with a 12-4 record to earn a berth in the NCAA II Midwest Regional Tournament. The team had an overall record of 18-16, of which 10 of the losses came against NCAA Division I opponents. The team was guided by longtime Morningside skipper Don Protexter 1949, who was named the NCC Coach of the Year. The team featured a dominant pitching staff that led the NCC with a 2.25 earned run average. Mike King 1982 and Royce Schultz 1982 each pitched three shutouts in NCC competition to tie a league record and were both named to the All-NCC team. King was also named the NCC’s Most Valuable Pitcher, was a first-team All-American, and was eventually selected by the Oakland Athletics with the fourth overall pick in that year’s Major League Baseball draft. King and Schultz were joined on the All-NCC team by catcher Jay Rehnstrom 1981 and shortstop Greg Smith 1982, while second baseman Ron Stabile 1980 and outfielder Terry Meyer 1980 received honorable mention All-NCC recognition. Tom McCann 1983 was the team’s leading hitter with a .313 batting average, and Smith led the NCC in both doubles and runs scored.
