GU ready to open WCC baseball

COLLEGE SPORTS UPDATED: 8:40 A.M.

Gonzaga opens West Coast Conference baseball play this weekend hosting the University of San Diego at Washington Trust Field. Do you think Bill Grier will be there rooting for USD?

All this and more from the local college baseball scene can be found in Steve Bergum’s notebook.

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WSU’s spring football practice was postponed yesterday (Glenn Kasses talked about it on his blog), though that didn’t stop the Times’ Craig Smith from running this story on Alex Brink.

• UPDATE: Ivory Clark waited until the season was over, then he let loose in this Daily Evergreen story. Read it, and see if your feelings about Clark, coach Tony Bennett and/or the season, have changed.

• In the same vein, last fall, Kerry Maddox was seen as a future star in the WSU defensive backfield. Then he transfered to Txas State. In this story he gives his reasons why, and he’s not all that kind to the coaching staff.

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Two former Greater Spokane League golfers, the University of Washington’s Alex Prugh (Ferris) and Washington State’s Amy Eneroth (Mead) finished first in their respective sides of the Oregon Duck Invitational.

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The University of Washington women’s basketball coaching search is heating up, with athletic director headed to the Final Four. He is expected to talk with a few candidates in Cleveland.

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Speaking of women’s basketball, North Carolina’s 12-point win over Purdue in the Dallas Regional on Tuesday was the tightest of the four regional final games.

Tennessee routed Mississippi by 36 pointsTuesday, following Rutgers’ 19-point defeat of Arizona State and LSU’s 23-point blowout of Connecticut on Monday.

The men’s Elite Eight games were all tight, but the women … not so much. So why is that? Heck, Connecticut and LSU played earlier this year in Louisiana and it was a one-point game. But with a Final Four berth on the line it’s a rout.

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The News Tribune has this story on Eastern Washington’s tennis program.

For more on EWU, check Dave Trimmer’s blog.

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West Virginia, which defeated UCLA this season, will face Clemson in the finals of the NIT after both survived one-point semifinal games.