Nic Assistant Coach Hospitalized

North Idaho College assistant baseball coach Tony Bevacqua said he’ll be back on the field for Sunday’s game after weathering a health scare.

Bevacqua suffered chest pains during practice Wednesday. Tests at Kootenai Medical Center determined Bevacqua has a partially blocked artery.

“It wasn’t a heart attack,” he said. “What it is, is I got a warning. I was lucky.”

He expected to be released from KMC Friday night or today.

College track and field

Eastern Washington University’s Ryan Cole placed fourth and Bob Omlin finished fifth after the second and final day of the decathlon competition at the Tri-Cities Sports Festival meet in Richland Friday.

Cole, a freshman, finished with 5,662 points and Omlin, a senior, scored 5,481. Omlin, third place after the first day, did not finish the final event, the 1,500-meter run, after spraining his ankle during the pole vault.

Jason Williams of Ricks College finished first with 7,274 points.

EWU freshman Marni McGregor finished eighth in the heptathlon with 2,668 points. Idaho’s Samantha Cooney won with 4,360 points, and teammate Kelly Hont (4,043) was third.

Prep softball

Kari Lenz had two RBIs, including the game-winning single in the bottom of the sixth, as Coeur d’Alene edged visiting Lakeland 5-4 in a non-leaguer.

CdA’s Cassandra Vig drove in two runs with a pair of sacrifice flies.

Kristy Alberts and Gabby McClintock combined for 11 hits as visiting West Valley swept Moscow 8-2, 10-1 in a non-league double-header.

Prep baseball

Lakeland defeated visiting West Valley 6-5 in a non-league game that was suspended after six innings because of darkness. No other details were reported.

College baseball

Jeff Pritchard’s leadoff homer in the ninth tied the game, and Josh Goldfield highlighted a three-run 11th with a two-run double, as visiting San Francisco (20-8, 8-2) defeated Gonzaga 12-9 in the West Coast Conference.

GU (2-17, 0-7), on a 15-game tailspin, led 9-5 after seven innings. Zags designated hitter George Arnott singled home a run during a five-run first and hit a solo homer, his fourth, in the two-run third.

The Dons rallied for three runs in the eighth, on a hit batter, sacrifice fly and infield single.

Boys golf

Mead’s Brian Fong finished as medalist and Ferris won the team competition at the 28-team Kennewick Invitational at Tri-City Country Club in Kennewick.

Fong shot a 2-under-par 63 for a two-stroke margin over Ferris’ Corey Prugh. Reid Hatley, also of Ferris, finished third with a 66.

Ferris finished at 10-over 270, 11 strokes ahead of Mead. Lewiston placed third with a 285, one less than Central Valley.

, DataTimes