Tuesday, May 02, 2006
The Washington Post reports 6-2 guard Michael Gruner of Whitman (Md.) High School has committed to Lafayette.

The Post reports Gruner was lightly recruited before the season, but "bolstered his profile among Division I suitors with a senior campaign in which he led Montgomery County with 19.9 points per game and scored a game-high 23 points during Whitman's 39-38 win over Eleanor Roosevelt in the Maryland 4A title game."

It is not certain that Gruner will actually be a scholarship kid at LC. We previously reported that Marek Koltun, a 6-foot-10 center from Caravel Academy in Delaware, has committed to Lafayette and Corky Blake of the Express-Times previously reported Lafayette already had three commits, listing 6-8 Jesper Anderson of Sweden and 6-7 post-graduate Andre Hines of Solebury School in New Hope, Pa as two of those.

Since Lafayette's new scholarship policy allows Fran O'Hanlon to give out three per year, that would seem to indicate Gruner may be a need-based kid.
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