Eastern men sign three players
Two high school forwards and a junior college point guard have signed with the Eastern Washington University’s men’s basketball team, bringing next season’s recruiting class to five.
The Eagles signed 6-foot-7, 215-pound Jack Loofburrow from Eisenhower in Yakima and 6-8, 220-pound Chris Sprinker out of Curtis in Tacoma.
The third player is 6-3, 190-pound guard Marcus Hinton from Centralia Community College. He is a 2004 graduate of Wilson in Tacoma.
Last fall the Eagles signed a pair of guards, 6-3 Michael Taylor out of Brewster and 6-0 Omar Krayem from Lower Columbia Community College in Longview, Wash.
The three high school players were on the Washington team that played against Oregon in the Northwest Shootout earlier this month. Loofburrow had 10 points, Taylor five and Sprinkler three.
College baseball
Community Colleges of Spokane moved into third place in the East Division of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges Conference via Wednesday’s doubleheader sweep of conference foe Walla Walla at Spokane Falls CC.
Luke Farden struck out 12 and went the distance in the early game, helping the Sasquatch to a 3-1 win. Chris Bozo (Ferris) hit a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the third inning, and John Whiteside added an insurance run with a single in the seventh.
Stefan Malkuch’s pinch-hit, bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 15th scored the tying and game-winning runs to cap off a 3-2 late-game win for CCS. A.J. Proszek (Chewelah) didn’t pick up the win, but delivered a 10-inning, 10-strikeout performance for CCS. Mike Campo tied the game in the fifth with an RBI double.
Women’s golf
EWU freshman Chloe Nelson fired a final-round 73 for a third-place finish at the Big Sky Conference championship in Goodyear, Ariz.
The Las Vegas native also had matching rounds of 75 at the 6,160-yard par-72 Palm Valley Golf Club, giving her the second-best total in school history. Classmate Eva Yoe finished tied for 10th with rounds of 74, 80 and 76, helping the Eagles to a fourth-place finish. Montana bettered Northern Arizona by eight strokes to win the team title, and Montana’s Jasi Acharya edged Nelson by four strokes to earn medalist honors.