One of the best and brightest multi-sport schoolboy athletes to emerge from the Twin Cities in recent years continues to reap awards even after graduating to the collegiate ranks.

Tyler Turgeon, who received his diploma from St. Dominic Regional High School in May, is the 2003 Northeast Regional American Legion Baseball Player of the Year.

Turgeon, a four-year veteran of Gayton Post 31, receives a $1,000 scholarship from the American Legion and a $1,000 Gatorade Leadership Award. Players from all six New England states were considered.

He is a freshman at Bowdoin College.

“He loves it there,” said Turgeon’s father, Allan, who was Tyler’s baseball coach at St. Dom’s his junior and senior seasons. “He’s playing soccer, and of course baseball is his No. 1 sport.”

Known for his acrobatic throw-ins on the soccer field, Turgeon was a driving force behind the squad that won the Class C state championship in November 2001 and reached the Western Maine soccer final before falling to North Yarmouth Academy.

Turgeon also was captain of his high school baseball team, as well as its Most Valuable Player and St. Dom’s Male Athlete of the Year.

Academically, Turgeon was senior class president and National Honor Society president as well as member of a state championship math team.

Majoring in biology at Bowdoin, Turgeon aspires to be a doctor.

To win the Legion awards, Turgeon’s name emerged from a thorough selection process. Baseball accomplishment is one category, but leadership, citizenship, character and financial need also are factored in.

Off the field, Turgeon opened the eyes of the committee with his mission to Mississippi in the spring. Turgeon helped a delegation from the school raise funds for a trip to aid a poverty-stricken section of the state. That trip occurred during the high school baseball season.

Maguire honored

Mount Blue graduate Kiley Maguire, now a senior tri-captain for the Clark University women’s soccer team in Worcester, Mass., recently was named NEWMAC Women’s Soccer Co-Player of the Week.

Maguire, a forward, scored three goals and added two assists in leading the Cougars to a 3-0 start. She set up a goal in a 4-0 victory over Anna Maria, chalked up a goal and a helper in a 2-0 verdict against Simmons, and tallied twice in a 10-0 triumph over Wheelock.

Clark’s wins over Simmons and Wheelock came in a tournament at the University of Southern Maine.

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