Cougar, Zag Earn Conference Honors

Gonzaga’s Scott Snider and Washington State’s Jenni Ruff were named players of the week by their basketball conferences.

Snider, a 6-foot-9 senior center, averaged 13.3 points and 8.6 rebounds in three wins to earn men’s honors for the West Coast Conference.

Ruff, a senior forward, pumped in 29 points in WSU’s 90-86 win over USC on Sunday. She also had 19 points and 12 rebounds in Friday’s loss at UCLA to earn women’s recognition in the Pacific-10 Conference.

The Whitworth men (8-2) climbed to 12th from 18th in the NAIA Division II poll.

Three other Northwest schools are in the top 15: Albertson, third; Willamette, eighth; and Oregon Tech, 14th.

Bowling

Sandy Reynolds of Spokane, averaging 204 for 18 games, finished fifth in the second annual Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour Sam’s Town Northwest Region Bay Bowl Open during the weekend in Bremerton.

Reynolds, who shared the second best won-lost record (5-3) in the match-play finals, won $270. Cindy Whiteman of Portland averaged 215 and had a 6-2 record to claim first place and the $750 winner’s check.

Prep basketball

In the first Associated Press Washington poll of the season, Chewelah (Class A) and Almira/ Coulee-Hartline (B) have No. 1 rankings among the boys and St. John-Endicott (B) among the girls.

Four other area boys teams and 10 other girls teams are ranked.

See complete rankings in Stat sheet in adjoining columns.

Boys

Davenport 73, Bendigo 71 (OT)

Josh Fitzpatrick’s rebound basket with 5 seconds to go in the extra period gave the Gorillas a hard-fought win over the tourists from Australia.

Bendigo, which led by five going into the fourth quarter, was unable to get off a shot in the final seconds.

Tom Turnbough of Davenport led the scoring with 27 points, including 11 in the fourth quarter and overtime. Cliff Swain added 17 and Tyson Deal had 12 rebounds and five assists. Adrian Cleeve led Bendigo with 25 points.

Bendigo 12 20 15 19 5 - 71

Davenport 15 15 12 24 7 - 73

BENDIGO, AUSTRALIA Kelly 4, Boundy 12, Burton 9, B.Cleeve 7, Lutting 4, A.Cleeve 25, Saunders 10, Carnie 0, Silverstin 0, Moore 0.

DAVENPORT Buchanan 5, Deal 10, Swain 17, Parsons 2, Fitzpatrick 12, McClure 0, Hammond 0, Turnbough 27.

Girls

Bendigo 56, Davenport 48

The quickness of Bendigo, Australia, gave Davenport problems as the tourists from Down Under ran away with the non-league victory.

Felicity Quartermaine led Bendigo with 12 points. Jamie Mikelson had 11 points for Davenport, tied for eighth in the first Washington AP poll, and Jennifer Pauls and Christy Cowdrey had 10 each.

Bendigo 19 13 7 17 - 56

Davenport 11 13 13 11 - 48

BENDIGO, AUSTRALIA Lea 2, Medrum 10, Quartermaine 12, Snowden 9, Egan 8, Cook 9, Reynolds 6.

DAVENPORT Wagner 0, Marriott 8, Dickson 0, Pauls 10, Emery 4, Jacobson 5, Mikelson 11, Cowdrey 10.

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