Eagles’ Bridgmon 64th in NCAA
Eastern Washington junior Mattie Bridgmon placed 64th on Monday in her first appearance in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in Terre Haute, Ind.
Bridgmon, fifth in the Big Sky championships and 20th in the West Regional, covered the 6,000-meter course in 21 minutes, 16.3 seconds. She is the third EWU woman runner to finish 69th or better in the NCAA meet.
Texas Tech junior Sally Kipyego secured a second consecutive women’s title (19:30.9) and Stanford took home a third straight women’s team title with Oregon second. University of Washington had two runners earn All-America status, sophomore Katie Follett (19th) and junior Anita Campbell (20th), as the Huskies placed eighth.
Liberty’s Josh McDougal outran Oregon’s Galen Rupp in the final straightaway to win the men’s title, while Rupp’s top-ranked Ducks claimed their first championship since 1977. Ferris grad Justin Houck, a junior at the University of Portland, placed 130th, covering 10,000 meters in 31:22.6.
Football
The Spokane Shock and Spokane Indian Tribe announced they have entered into a three-year partnership that will give the Tribe exclusive naming rights to the field. The press release said the Shock will play on Spokane Tribe Field at the Spokane Arena.
•Devon Parks, a defensive lineman who set a Shock team record with six sacks last season in just eight games to earn second-team All-af2 American Conference honors, became the sixth member of the 2007 Western Division champions to sign with an AFL team, joining the Orlando Predators.
Softball
Shay Craig, a North Idaho College sophomore infielder who was named to the All-Scenic West Athletic Conference and National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Region second teams, has signed a letter of intent with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. In 75 games with NIC, she hit .358 with school records of 19 home runs and 63 RBIs.
Volleyball
Cora Kellerman from La Conner High School in Mount Vernon, Wash., a 6-foot middle blocker, has signed a letter of intent with Eastern Washington, Eagles interim coach Irene Matlock announced. Kellerman, daughter of former University of Idaho basketball standout Brian Kellerman, was an all-state selection and helped lead her team to the State 2B championship earlier this month after it had finished second the previous two years.
•Washington State has signed four players to letters of intent, three from within the state and Breann Nesselhuf, a 5-9 setter from Swink, Colo., who was all-state all four years, two on the first team.
From Washington are Meagan Ganzer, a 6-3 outside hitter from Tahoma of Kent, who led her league in kills this past season and is a two-time all-area selection by the Seattle Times; Alyssa Hilby, a 6-3 middle blocker from Life Christian in Tacoma, who missed her senior season with an injury after earning two first-team all-league selections; and Tangerine Wiggs, a 6-2 outside hitter from Holy Names Academy in Seattle where she led her team in kills, blocks and aces and was named to the prepvolleyball.com senior aces list.
•Region I champion Lewis-Clark State is seeded ninth in the NAIA National Championships Nov. 28-Dec. 1 in Columbia, Mo. The Warriors (25-6) are in a pool with No. 2 seed California Baptist, Texas-Brownsville and Virginia-Wise. The top four seeds are California schools, led by No. 1 Fresno Pacific.