BUTLER TWP — Two more legends are being welcomed into the Charles W. Dunaway Pioneer Hall of Fame.

Hal Koenemund and Tracy Pease just have to wait a year to be officially recognized for their athletic exploits at Butler County Community College.

Because the COVID-19 pandemic forced cancellation of the college's Hall of Fame ceremony this year, the two will be inducted along with the 2021 honorees during the induction ceremony slated for May of next year.

Koenemund, a 6-foot-3 guard and a Blackhawk High School graduate, played one year of basketball at BC3. He scored 918 points for the Pioneers — including 55 in one game — in the 1994-95 campaign.

“The best basketball player ever at Butler County Community College,” BC3 men's and women's basketball coach Dick Hartung said of Koenemund in a prepared statement.

Joining him in the Pioneers' Class of 2020 is Pease, a 1983 Butler High School graduate who was a tennis and women's basketball standout at the school.

Pease won the PCAA singles tennis championship in 1985, knocking off top-seeded Mary Ann Fagan of Montgomery Community College to set up her state finals match against Sue Reese of Westmoreland CC. Pease lost to Reese in the Western Pa. Collegiate Conference finals earlier that year after defeating her twice in the regular season.

Pease scored a 6-3, 6-3 victory in the state championship match.

“She had good fundamental skills. She was consistent every time out,” retired BC3 tennis coach Chuck Dunaway said of Pease in a prepared statement.

“I didn't know what to expect there,” Pease said of the state finals. “Dave Barnes was my (tennis) coach at Butler and he was great at establishing fundamentals, teaching us each stroke.

“Chuck provided great support at BC3. We had a joint team with the men and he would go on the court and work with us individually.”

A shooting guard in basketball, Pease averaged 10 points per game over two seasons. She made All-WPCC in tennis and basketball. She also made the conference's all-academic team in 1985, sporting a 4.0 grade point average.

Pease played tennis, basketball and paricipated in track and field at Butler. She was the Golden Tornado's girls tennis MVP in 1982, compiling a 17-1 record at No. 3 singles. She was a guard-forward and co-captain in basketball. A javelin and discus thrower in track, she placed fifth nationally in the javelin in Junior Olympics competitiion.

“I wasn't sure where I wanted to go, what I wanted to do coming out of high school,” Pease said. “BC3 gave me the opportunity to play sports and laid a foundation for me. I loved the environment there.

“The footwork in tennis, the short bursts of speed ahd side-to-side movements helped prep me for basketball.”

Pease went on compete in tennis, baskeball and track for two years at Robert Morris University. She is now a global product manager in protective and marine coatings for PPG.

Koenemund started on the 1992 Blackhawk team that finished 32-1 and won the PIAA Class AAA basketball championship. He began his college basketball career at West Liberty in West Virginia.

“I liked it there, but I wanted a chance to play Division I basketball,” Koenemund said. “I felt like I needed a year of junior college ball to get there.

“I had a buddy who ran a bar in Butler. He told me about BC3. It was between there and CCBC and once I met Coach Hartung, I had to go there.

“He was a great coach. He let us play,” Koenemund added.

Koenemund said his senior year at Blackhawk and his one season at BC3 “were the most fun I ever had playing basketball.”

He went on to be named the Pioneers' first NJCAA Division III All-American. His 32.8 points per game during that 1993-94 season led all of NJCAA Div. III and Koenemund led BC3 to the state title game, where the Pioneers dropped a 95-74 decision to the Community College of Philadelphia.

His 55-point game came against Niagara Community College and set a school record. Koenemund scored 41 points against Wayne College in his BC3 debut.

He hit the game-winning shot in a tournament title game against Cuyahoga Community College, hitting a “jump hook” over eventual Detroit Pistons star Ben Wallace.

“That was such a fun time,” Koenemund said.

Now the owner of Hal's Bar and Grille in Pittsburgh, Koenemund left BC3 and played a season at Robert Morris University, averaging 7.6 points per game coming off the bench for the Colonials in 1994-95.

He sees a lot of basketball coaches and former standout players in his place of business every year.

“During March Madness,” he said, laughing. “They all come in here. We have a ball ... of course, that didn't happen this year.

“It's an honor going into the Hall of Fame. I'll always love Butler County Community College. It's their own community on top of that hill.”

The Dunaway Pioneer Hall of Fame was established in 2015. Koenemund and Pease bring the number of total inductees to 14.