Trojans To Play Huskies In Ecl Baseball Tourney
Perennial national power Southern California, which came within a game of advancing to this year’s College World Series, will be among four teams competing this weekend in Gonzaga University’s second annual Evans, Craven & Lackie College Baseball Invitational at August/A.R.T. Stadium.
The Trojans will face Washington at 2:30 p.m. Friday in a rematch of last spring’s Pacific-10 Conference playoff series, which was won by USC. Host Gonzaga will play Oregon State at 11 a.m. in the opening game of the threeday, round-robin event, which has been moved from the spring to fall to take advantage of better weather and avoid scheduling conflicts.
Saturday’s schedule pits UW against OSU at 11 a.m. and GU against USC at 2:30 p.m. The tournament concludes Sunday with an 11:00 a.m. matchup between OSU and USC and a 2:30 p.m. showdown between UW and Gonzaga.
Games will count against the 56-game limit the NCAA has placed on Division I teams during each school year. But GU coach Steve Hertz hardly seems bothered by that fact. The opportunity to play against such strong competition in the fall is vitally important to his program.
“It’s huge,” he said, “because you only have 22 weeks during the year where you can be with your team, and 17 or 18 of those have to be set aside for the spring.”
Day passes are $5 and tournament passes are $10, with proceeds to go to the Spokane Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Center. A free youth clinic will be held Saturday morning at 9, with all registrants receiving tournament passes.
Women’s soccer
Joy Cullen’s first goal of the year was first rate.
Cullen took a pass from former Mead High teammate Jennifer Dunford, turned her defender and hit from 10 yards out to lead Whitworth over visiting Whitman 1-0 Wednesday.
The goal, nearly 12 minutes into the second half, kept the 16th-ranked Pirates (9-2, 4-1) one game behind Willamette in the Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges standings.
Whitworth’s Jennifer Peterson made six saves.
Katie Snow scored twice and added an assist to vault Community Colleges of Spokane to a 3-0 lead during a 6-0 win over visiting Columbia Basin at Spokane Falls CC.
Danay Anderson added two second-half goals, and Heidi Simmons had one goal and one assist for the Sasquatch (8-1-2, 6-0-1 Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges.)
Prep volleyball
Angie Shirley had 13 kills and seven blocks, and Jamie Meek added 10 consecutive service points in the middle game as Coeur d’Alene (11-1) earned a 13-15, 15-7, 15-4 non-league win over visiting Moscow (3-7).
Jessica Janke added nine kills and Kimi Towery 25 assists for the victorious Vikings.
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