The University of Maine-Presque Isle will honor four alumni Saturday at 6 p.m. during its annual Owls Athletic Hall of Fame dinner at the Campus Center.

Soccer goalkeeper and wrestler Laughn Drillen, soccer player Robert Dyer, field hockey player Lisa Ronco and coaching standout Jeannette Peters are this year’s hall of fame inductees.

Peters, a 1966 UMPI graduate, participated in athletics while women’s teams were mostly at the intramural or club level. In ’66, she won the Gold Key Award, the highest given for athletic participation at the school.

Peters began her teaching and coaching career in Caribou and worked briefly in Baltimore, Md., before arriving at Fort Fairfield High. There, she was instrumental in starting up girls field hockey, basketball, softball and soccer.

Peters coached Fort Fairfield field hockey to a regional championship in 1980, guided the basketball squad to an Eastern Maine runner-up finish in 1983, and led the softball team to a state title in 1988.

Drillen, a 1970 graduate, was in goal for all but one soccer game from 1967-70. Those teams won two Northeast College Conference titles and Drillen was a three-time all-conference pick.

Drillen also wrestled for two years at UMPI, where he was named the Outstanding Male Athlete in 1970.

Dyer was a good soccer player for the Owls prior to his graduation in 1972. The middle school phys ed teacher spent several years as the Katahdin High School girls soccer coach, leading the Cougars to two state championships.

Dyer, a two-time teacher of the year in phys ed, is now the athletic director at Katahdin.

Ronco was a talented field hockey player from 1981-84, earning All-NAIA District 5 honors two years in a row. The 1986 UMPI grad holds the school record for goals in a season (14).

Ronco, who was named UMPI’s top female athlete in ’85, teaches phys ed in Bangor.

Jamie Beaudoin and Troy Norton of the University of Maine-Farmington, both starters for the Beavers basketball team, have been honored as 1994-95 All-America Scholar Athletes by the NAIA Men’s Basketball All-America Scholar-Athlete Committees.

Beaudoin, a senior elementary education major from Orono, le Beaudoin, a senior elementary education major from Orono, led UMF in assists last season. Norton, a senior out of Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, led the Beavers in free-throw percentage.

Beaudoin and Norton will serve as captains for the team during the 1995-96 season.

To be considered, candidates must have attained junior standing and must have a minimum grade point average of 3.50.

UMaine women’s soccer player Renee Bussell set school records over the weekend, becoming the first to score three goals in a game and the first to get six points in a single game against a Division I opponent. Maine beat Fordham 5-2 and Central Connecticut 3-0.

Bussell’s 13 points is the most in a season since 1992 and she is three points shy of tying the school mark.

COLLEGE SHORTS: The UMaine-Presque Isle men’s soccer team has recorded four straight wins, including Sunday’s 4-3 overtime victory over Maine Maritime Academy. David Hamel of Bangor had a hat trick for the Owls, now 6-2 overall and 2-1 in the Maine Athletic Conference….

The UMaine women’s tennis team won its first match of the season Saturday, sparked by Amy Morang of Ellsworth. Morang won two singles matches last week and teamed with Marie Hansen of Bangor for a doubles victory.

Laura Smith of the University of Southern Maine made an outstanding college cross country debut Saturday, finishing 19th overall at the UMass-Dartmouth Invitational in Dartmouth, Mass. Winterport’s Smith ran the 3.1-mile course in 19 minutes, 21 seconds while setting the pace for the University of Southern Maine, which placed 10th….

Aaron Clark of Bangor has been named the captain of the USM golf team, while Jen Poliquin of Brewer is the Huskies’ women’s soccer captain.