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CINCINNATI, Ohio - Hernol Hall has made the University of Cincinnati's recruiting class larger.
Hall, a 6-10, 245-pound center who earned first team junior college All-American honors at Lon Morris College last season, has signed a grant-in-aid offer to continue his basketball career at UC beginning with the 2006-07 season.
Hall becomes the eighth member of new head coach Mick Cronin's first recruiting class, and tallest of the future Bearcats.
"Hernol is a great young man who has perservered throughout his life to reach his dreams of playing at the highest level of college basketball and earning his degree," stated Cronin. "He can score and rebound and plays hard at both ends of the floor. We obviously need his size, but his competitiveness will impress Bearcat fans as well. Hernol has played a lot of international ball and we need his experience given our circumstances."
Hall, from Limon, Costa Rica, was co-Player of the Year for NJCAA Region XIV while leading Lon Morris to a 22-7 record. He shot .618 from the field and .643 at the foul stripe. He was rated as the fourth-best junior college prospect nationally by both JucoJunction.com and Hoopmasters.
Hall, who averaged 10.3 points and 8.3 rebounds as a freshman in 2004-05, is a veteran of international basketball competition. He has been a member of the Costa Rica national team.
Hall is the third junior college All-American to join the UC recruiting class, joining John Williamson, a 6-6 forward who was a first team selection at Cincinnati State, and Jamual Warren, a 6-2 guard who earned second team honors at the Globe Institute for Technology.
Other previous signees are Tim Crowell, a 6-2 guard who averaged 7.5 assists at Midland College en route to first team all-league honors last season; Marvin Gentry, a 6-3 guard who was the conference's player of the year at McLennan Community College; Marcus Sikes, a 6-8 forward who averaged a double-double (13.1 points, 11.3 rebounds) last season at Mt. San Jacinto College; Deonta Vaughn, a two-time first team all-state performer from Indianapolis who finished his high school career at Harmony Community School in Cincinnati; and Mike Williams, a 6-7 former McDonald's high school All-American and transfer from the University of Texas.