Tickets for the 12th annual AT&T Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame Banquet are on sale now.

Eight former athletes are part of the 12th class of inductees slated for induction at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14, in Ted Wilson Gymnasium after that afternoon’s Linfield-Pacific Lutheran football game.

The event includes a social hour and dinner, followed by the awards presentation. Individual tickets, or entire tables or larger groups, may be reserved by calling Travis  Olson at 503-883-2530. All tickets must be purchased in advance as there will be no tickets sold the day of the event. Individual tickets are $25, or $200 for a full table.

The Hall of Fame class of 2009 includes:
•Basketball great Roger Baker ’69 of Hood River, who led Linfield to the 1968 Northwest Conference title. Baker also competed internationally in the sport of team handball in the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games. He won gold medals in the Pan Am Games;

•Football and track & field standout Doug Dean ’89 of Beaverton, a member of two NAIA championship football teams and school record holder and sixth-place national finisher in track in the hammer;

•Four-year football starter Bob Ferguson ’65 of Vancouver, Wash., who earned NAIA All-America honors as a senior on the 1965 Champion Bowl team. His teams were 32-5-2 during his career. He went on to earn a Purple Heart during combat duty in the Vietnam War;

•Clackamas resident Brad Gilbertson ‘83, a four-year football letterman and NAIA All-America center as a member of Linfield’s 1982 national championship team;

•The late Pat Martindale ’77, an All-American and school record holder in the javelin in track. He also competed one season in football;

•NAIA national high jump champion Kerrie O’Sullivan ’98 of Sequim, Wash. The two-time NAIA All-American and one-time Academic All-American was Linfield’s first individual national champion in track;

•Cornelius resident Joe Salta ’78, a starter on four consecutive NWC championship teams who was voted a NAIA All-American and Linfield’s best defensive player as a senior. His teams went 30-8 over the course of his career; and,

•Ken Weinberg ’92 of Portland, a school record holder and national runner-up in the decathlon. Weinberg set school records in the decathlon, javelin, pole vault and 4x100-meter relay. His shared school and conference record in the 4x100 relay still stands.

The Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 1998 as a means to honor outstanding former athletes, coaches, staff and contributors, and to preserve the memory of their past achievements. Nomination forms can be downloaded from the Linfield Athletics Web site and are due by April 15 in order to be considered for the current year’s class.