A pair of highly-successful coaches and two long-time officials round out the selections for the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022.

Legendary Magnolia High baseball/football coach Dave Cisar and football coach Terry Depew of The Linsly School will be joined by basketball official Mike Coyne and baseball umpire Ed DiBacco.

These four will be honored later this year at the OVAC’s 18th annual induction ceremony on Saturday, August 13. The event has been relocated to Belmont College west of St. Clairsville due to construction planned at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling.

Previously announced HOF inductees include Dr. Diana Vargo (OVAC ‘Family’); Henry “Hen” Healy (OVAC ‘Contributor’); Seth Staskey (Media); Jim Capito of Bellaire and Roger Holdinsky of Moundsville (1950s); Bob Bruney of Martins Ferry and Gary “Tony” Marvin of Wheeling (1960s); Courtney Snyder of Steubenville and Richard Summers of Sistersville (1970s); Lori Heady of Buckeye Trail and Jeff Woofter of Oak Glen (1980s); Darin Ford of Cambridge and Curtis McGee of Wheeling Central (1990s); D.J. Duke of River and Stephanie Morgan of Barnesville (2000s); and Teddy Jo Maslowski of Steubenville Catholic (2010s).

The OVAC Hall of Fame is sponsored by the Robinson Auto Group. The “Hall” and the OVAC Museum are located inside WesBanco Arena.

Next week, this year’s selections in the “Legends of OVAC Schools” category will be announced. Those individuals, who played or coached either before the OVAC began (1943) or before their school joined the conference, will also be honored at the HOF Banquet.

Here’s a look at the latest OVAC Hall of Fame inductees:

Dave Cisar (Coach)

(Bishop Donahue High School,

Class of 1964)

Cisar enjoyed a historic coaching career at Magnolia High School in New Martinsville, W.Va., collecting an incredible 1,051 combined victories in baseball and football – the most in OVAC history.

In 48 years as head baseball coach, Cisar posted an 893-440 record (most wins in OVAC history; second all-time in West Virginia) with nine OVAC tournament or regular season titles (1976, ’80, ’82, ’94, ’98, 2000, ’01, ’02, 09), 10 regional championships, one West Virginia Class AA State Championship (2006 with 24-7 record) and three state runner-up finishes (1984, 2003, 2013). His teams enjoyed nine 20-wins seasons and five 30-win seasons.

Cisar was the 2007 West Virginia State High School Baseball Coach of the Year.

He went 158-107 in 24 seasons as head football coach with four OVAC titles (1981, ’91,’92, ’98); seven WVSSAC playoff appearances (1978, ’81, ’83, ’86, ’88, ’92 and ’93) and three state runner-up finishes (1981, ’92 and ’93). He coached in the 1979 OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football Game and he also coached in the 1982 West Virginia North-South All-Star Football Classic. He was the 1981 and 1988 Intelligencer/Wheeling News Register Football Coach of the Year.

Cisar is a member of the West Virginia Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame (2012), the Ohio Valley Football Coaches Hall of Fame (2003), the Bishop Donahue Hall of Fame (2006) and the West Liberty University Athletic Hall of Fame (2021). He received the Carl R. Hamill Award from the Dapper Dan Club of the Upper Ohio Valley in 1993 and was named that group’s Co-Man of the Year in 2009.

A second team all-state baseball player as well as the quarterback in football at Bishop Donahue in 1964, Cisar transferred to West Liberty State College after one year at Miami-Dade Junior College and was a three-year standout pitcher on the diamond (1967-69) and two-year captain. The Hilltoppers were 1969 WVIAC champions and went 30-5 in league play during Cisar’s three years on the diamond.

New Martinsville named the road near the athletic fields “Dave Cisar Way”.

Terry Depew (Coach)

(Juniata (Pa.) High School, Class of 1969)

This versatile coach spent more than a quarter century patrolling the sidelines of Lockhart Alumni Field on the Linsly campus in Wheeling and he was also the valuable right-hand man to a fellow Hall of Famer with the highly-successful Cadet baseball program.

Depew served as head football coach at Linsly for 26 seasons (1980-2005), putting together a 156-96-1 career record. That included the first three perfect record teams in the history of the private school which has a football history dating back to the late 1890s – 10-0 in 1986, 9-0 in 1987 and 10-0 in 1996.

Depew-coached squads had two lengthy winning streaks – a school record 26 straight (1986-88) and then 19 in a row (1989-90).

He guided for teams to Ohio Valley Athletic Conference titles, winning in three different divisions – Class 3A in 1987, Class 2A in 1989 and Class 1A in 1996 and 2004.

He coached the West Virginia squad in the OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football Game five times (1984, ’87, ’92, ’97 and 2005).

Depew – who coached three Hall of Fame gridders in Willie Clay, Eddie Drummond and Dan Stephens – received the Carl Hamill Award for coaches from the Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dan Club in 1993. He was succeeded as Linsly’s head football coach in 2006 by his son, B.J. Depew, who led the Cadets to their fourth unbeaten season (10-0) in 2011, meaning a member of the Depew family has led Linsly’s football team for more than four decades.

In the spring, Depew served as an assistant coach under Hall of Famer Gary Sprague, helping lead the Cadets to 13 OVAC championships.

In addition to his coaching, Depew – a native of Mifflintown (Pa.) and a 1973 graduate of Bucknell University where he was a three-year

letterman on the Bison football team – served as Linsly’s business manager and later as the assistant headmaster.

Mike Coyne (Official)

(St. John Central, Class of 1967)

For more than four decades, the easily-recognizable and highly-regarded Coyne made his way up and down the basketball court as an official before finally hanging up his whistle following the 2020-21 season at the age of 71.

A 42-year member of the Ohio Valley Board of Approved Basketball Officials (he’s was awarded honorary lifetime membership upon his retirement), Coyne worked primary in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference but called games throughout Ohio and West Virginia.

All told, Coyne worked a total of 24 state basketball tournaments (17 in Ohio and seven in West Virginia) as well as countless sectional/district/regional level contests, OVAC Tournament games and OVAC Samuel A. Mumley All-Star Basketball Games.

Coyne also refereed the highly-publicized match-up featuring LeBron James and Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary against Carmelo Anthony and Oak Hill in Columbus in 2002.

Coyne was honored with induction into the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s Officials Hall of Fame in 2008. He was named the OHSAA Official of the Year in 1990; the District 12 Basketball Coaches Association Official of the Year in 1989 and the District 5 Basketball Coaches Association Official of the Year in 2019.

He was the first inductee into the Cancer Research Classic Hall of Fame in 2020, having worked at least one game in each of the first 12 years of the prestigious hoops event.

He received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Upper Ohio Valley Dapper Dan Club in 1992 and was the recipient of the OVAC Robert Dawson Officials Award in 2021.

Edmund DiBacco (Official)

(Follansbee High School, Class of 1969)

He began calling balls and strikes right out of high school and became a fixture on high school and college baseball diamonds for 34 years (1969-2002).

DiBacco worked at the highest level in West Virginia prep ranks, umpiring six WVSSAC State Tournaments in either Parkersburg or Charleston. He also had 31 West Virginia Sectional games and 20 Region 1 Tournament games to his credit along with eight Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Tournament games.

DiBacco also spent 31 years working college baseball contests, including the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament in Marietta and home games for countless teams including Bethany, West Liberty, Washington & Jefferson, Pitt, West Virginia, Kent State, Duquesne, Point Park and LaRoche.

He also had 32 years with American Legion action, including eight West Virginia State Tournaments, six National Legion Regional Tournaments and the 1991 American Legion World Series in Boyertown, Pa.

DiBacco umpired at the U.S Olympic Trials in 1992 in Millington Tennessee.