Liske Interviews For Virginia Job
University of Idaho athletic director Pete Liske interviewed for the University of Virginia’s vacant A.D. job on Monday, UI sources said.
Liske met with Virginia president John Casteen, apparently in California. A member of Casteen’s family said Casteen was in California and due back on Friday.
Liske is reportedly one of four finalists. The others are Davidson A.D. Terry Holland, Arizona State A.D. Charles Harris and Virginia interim A.D. Craig Littlepage. It’s believed Tulane A.D. Kevin White is no longer involved in the search.
Liske couldn’t be reached for comment.
Chris Zenner, who has been regional development director for the Idaho athletic department in Coeur d’Alene the last six months, will move to Boise later this month in the same capacity to replace Rance Pugmire, who has accepted a fund-raising position at Utah State.
Basketball
Washington State head coach Kevin Eastman filled the final spot on his coaching staff with Scott Duncan, an assistant from Northern Illinois University.
Duncan has 16 years of Division I coaching experience as an assistant, the last four at NIU of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, where he was responsible for recruiting.
“Scott is a guy I have known for quite a while,” said Eastman, who was an assistant at Colorado State (1980-83) while Duncan was at New Mexico. “I have observed his work and have been very impressed with his results. He’s always been in winning programs and top-rated recruiting classes.”
Soccer
Cheney’s Ledi Luhn scored two first-half goals and assisted on another as the Blackhawks took a 4-0 Frontier League win over Clarkston.
Football
Washington State linebacker Ron Childs is one of eight rookie free agents to sign with the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL.
Track and field
Community Colleges of Spokane athletes are far off the pace midway through the NWAACC multi-events championships at Mt. Hood College in Gresham, Ore.
Kristen Peterson of CCS is seventh with 1,887 points after four events in the women’s heptathlon and Heather Wolfe is 11th with 1,557. Nikki Sichting of Lane CC in Oregon leads with 2,366.
In the men’s decathlon, Eric Swanson and Jed Palmer of CCS are ninth and 10th, respectively, with 2,775 and 2,685 points. Tom Pappas of Lane leads with 3,638.
Golf
Arizona State sophomore Scott Johnson, a high school star at Kamiakin, fired opening-day rounds of 69 and 68 for a 137 Monday to take a one-stroke lead into today’s third round of the men’s Pacific-10 Conference Championships at Meadow Springs in Richland.
Johnson’s Sun Devils have a 10-stroke lead - 720-730 - over USC. Host Washington State and pre-tourney favorite Stanford share eighth at 738. Washington is last at 742. The 72-hole tourney runs through Wednesday.
The Colville girls won a second consecutive Frontier League championship as they defeated East Valley 294-317 at Colville Oaks. Colville is 10-0 in league the last two seasons.
Baseball
Lakeside (13-3) clinched the Northeast A League title and a spot in the regionals by sweeping Riverside 8-3 and 13-1 on Monday.
xxxx Olympic tickets Tickets to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games are on sale today through mail order forms at Spokane and Coeur d’Alene Pay Less Drug Stores, a Spokane Coca Cola spokeswoman said. Mail orders received in the first 60 days will be put in a pool and selected in random order. Even though the sessions are awarded randomly, the seats will be assigned in the order the applications are received. So there is advantage in getting your order in early.