Roundup: Rangers draft Prince

Washington State University outfielder Jared Prince may spend his summer playing for the Spokane Indians.

Prince was selected in the 34th round of the Major League Baseball first-year player draft by the Texas Rangers Thursday.

The Rangers are the Indians’ parent club and often send first-year pros from college to Spokane’s Northwest League short-season Class A team.

Prince batted .343 this season with 21 extra-base hits and 38 runs batted in.

WSU pitcher Steve Harvey was also chosen in the third and final day of the draft. Harvey, a right-hander who struck out 28 in 24 innings this season, went in the 43rd round to the Los Angeles Angels.

WSU had five players drafted, its biggest total since 1995.

Gonzaga also ended up with five players drafted, a school record, as pitcher A.J. Proszek (Chewelah High) went to the San Francisco Giants in the 38th round.

The senior right-hander went 2-1 with three saves for the Bulldogs, starting four games.

Track and field

Washington State’s Jeshua Anderson won his semifinal and ran the day’s fastest time in the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.

Anderson was one of three area athletes to stay alive through the qualifying rounds – joined by teammate Matt Lamb, who was sixth in the discus prelims with a season-best throw of 192 feet, 11 inches, and Idaho’s Paul Dittmer, who advanced in the high hurdles in 14.12 seconds.

Anderson ran 49.27 in the second semi of the 400 hurdles, edging Georgia’s Justin Gaymon (49.49). South Carolina’s Johnny Dutch ran a strong race in winning the first semi in 49.48. The final is scheduled for today.

WSU teammate Barry Leavitt ran 50.55 in Dutch’s semi and did not advance, nor did Cougars Justin Woods in the 200 (21.01), Robert Williams in the high hurdles (14.74) and Lisa Egami in the 1,500 (4:23.15).

Mattie Bridgmon, an Eastern Washington transfer now running for Oregon, finished seventh in the women’s 10,000 in 34:18.20.

Golf

Kent Brown of Colville (219, tied eighth) and Doug Potter of Coeur d’Alene (220, 10th) finished in the top 10 at the Pacific Northwest Senior Men’s Amateur Championship played at the OGA GC in Woodburn, Ore. Chris Maletis of Portland won at 209.