Allen, Dudley enter local bowling hall

Two women whose roots are deep in the junior program have been inducted into the Spokane County United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame.

Kellie Allen, who started bowling in 1969 at age 10, and Patti Dudley, who started coaching in 1975, form the Class of 2008.

Allen, who met husband Jim when both bowled in junior tournaments in the 1970s, started coaching her sons in the junior program at North Bowl in 1987. As a bowler, she has had some memorable individual and team accomplishments.

In 1999, she bowled a 299 game at North Bowl, leaving a stubborn 10 pin, and that night she and four teammates compiled a 1,266 score that still stands as the women’s team single-game record in Spokane. Earlier this decade, she bowled a 300 game to highlight at 754 series at Lilac Lanes.

Dudley, the junior program coordinator at East Bowl and its successors from the 1970s until moving to Valley Bowl in 1992 and becoming the junior coordinator there, started the touring Junior Bowlers Tournament in the late 1980s. In the 1979-80 season, she was honored as the Washington State Bowling Proprietors Association coach of the year.

She started the Alycia Stevens Memorial Tournament in 1997 and it annually not only fills, but has a waiting list.

Dudley has been heard to comment that she will retire “as soon as this group of kids gets through the program.” She not only continues to head up the JBT, but is coaching three of her grandchildren.

College scene

A couple of sophomores are Community Colleges of Spokane scholar-athletes of the month for September.

Grethe Vogel from Pullman, a middle blocker on the volleyball team, is the female choice. She leads the team in hitting percentage, averages .89 blocks a game and carries a 3.5 grade- point average.

Brad Serdar from Reardan, a member of the cross country team, is the male selection. He ran a personal-best 26 minutes, 4 seconds for 8,000 meters in Portland and had a couple of top-six finishes in September.

•Fourteen former Spokane Chiefs are among 246 Western Hockey League graduates receiving scholarship money from a league program for the 2008-09 school year.

The former Chiefs and schools they are attending:

Derek Ryan (Shadle Park graduate), Chad Klassen and J.P. Szaszkiewicz, all University of Alberta; Steven Gillen, University of Saskatchewan; Jevon Desautels, University of Calgary; Kyle Howarth, University of Manitoba.

And brothers Scott, Jason and Jeff Lynch, all University of British Columbia; Judd Blackwater, University of Lethbridge; Chris Bruton, Acadia (Wolfville, Nova Scotia); Jim Watt, University of Windsor; Joel Rupprecht, Mount Royal (Calgary); and Curtis Kelner (Post Falls), Arizona State.

Also, Aaron Rodgers from Post Falls, who played for Portland in the WHL, is at Boise State on a WHL scholarship.

Marathon

Maja Rodell, a 2008 graduate of St. George’s and a freshman at the University of Oregon, finished sixth in her age group in the Portland Marathon, timing 4:11:36.

Wrestling

North Idaho College will hold its Red & Gray intrasquad match at Mead High School on Oct. 22 beginning at 6:30 p.m. following “sumo suit” wrestling at 6. Cost is $2.

•There will be a mandatory meeting for all current and prospective wrestling officials Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at West Valley High School.

Info: Rich Tschirgi, wrestling assignor, 448-5734.

Miscellany

Gonzaga University athletic director Mike Roth announced the addition of four members to the athletic department staff.

Regina Paolucci, director of capital support; Abbie Davis, administrative assistant; and Gillian Brooksmiller, program assistant, all join the development staff. Sonja Steele is the administrative assistant for basketball.

Steele has worked at GU since 2002, Paolucci since 2003.