Area briefs: Wrestling shrine to induct 3 locals
Three men with Spokane-area connections are among five who will be inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Oct. 30 in Wenatchee.
Scott Jones, who wound up a 21-year, four-stop career at Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls; Stan Opp, who started a 17-year career at Eastern Washington University; and Mark Perry, who spent time at East Valley in the mid-1990s, are among those in the association’s 27th class of inductees.
They will be joined by Lee Reichert of Enumclaw and David Mitchell of Tonasket. Al Rasmussen of Seattle, a member of the Mat Classic announcing crew for all of its 22 years, will receive the Joe Babbit Contributor Award.
Jones coached at Lakeside from 1990-2007, compiling a 165-39-2 dual-meet record. He led the Eagles to 15 top-10 state finishes, including five state championships and three runner-up finishes. Jones, who coached 94 state placers, 18 of them state champions, was twice the state coach of the year and received the first – and only – sportsmanship award from the Spokane Officials Association.
As a teacher, Jones was recognized by the Washington governor with the Christa McAuliffe Award.
Opp coached at EWU from 1977-82, leading the Eagles to second- and third-place finishes in the NAIA national championships. He moved on to Wenatchee High School in 1983, coaching there for 21 years. In one stretch, he had nine straight top-eight state finishes, including a second, third and fourth.
Perry was at East Valley in 1994-95, the third of five stops. He wound up his high school coaching career at Snohomish in 2002 but has coached at the middle school level there since.
Induction ceremonies will highlight the WSWCA coaches clinic at the Coast Wenatchee Center Hotel.
Info: washington wrestling.com/hall.
Basketball
David Johnson, who hasn’t played basketball since spending his sophomore season at North Idaho College in 2007-08, has signed a letter of intent with Lewis-Clark State College, Warriors coach Tim Walker announced,
Johnson, a 6-foot-5 forward, averaged 14 points and seven rebounds a game and earned all-conference honors for an NIC team that ranked 12th nationally.
• A mandatory rules clinic for North Idaho high school boys and girls coaches and referees will be held Oct. 25 in the Coeur d’Alene High School library. Registration is at 6 p.m. with the clinic at 7.
Info: John Posnick, (208) 512-3200, or e-mail at jposnick@usamedia.tv.
Bowling
Taylor Gamble, who surged from ninth to first in the final session of qualifying, maintained the hot hand to win the Junior Bowlers Tour stop at Zeppoz Bowling Center in Pullman last weekend.
Gamble, who won three of four matches and averaged 190 in the final four match-play qualifying games, defeated Dalton Shears, the No. 2 qualifier, 181-169 for the title.
Ryan Gately finished third, Cody Hurley fourth and Jesse Covington, who had the day’s high game, a 242, was fifth.
Charstie Saville had high game for the girls, a 221.
The next JBT is Oct. 24 at River City Lanes in Post Falls.
College scene
Kellie Zakrzewski, a freshman forward at Seattle Pacific from Cheney, was the Great Northwest Athletic Conference women’s soccer athlete of the week last week after scoring her fourth and fifth goals of the season in a 5-1 win at Central Washington.
Zakrzewski is the Falcons’ leading goal scorer and ranks third in the GNAC.
• Soccer players are the Community Colleges of Spokane’s scholar-athletes of the month for September.
Lateashea Currie, a freshman from Vancouver, Wash., who led the Sasquatch to an undefeated record in their first nine matches with nine goals and is second on the team in assists, is the female choice.
David Kenny, a sophomore defender from University High, is the male choice. Besides being a starter for a second season at CCS, Kenny has a 3.8 grade-point average.
• Two freshmen from Post Falls are making key contributions to the Walla Walla Community College volleyball team that had an 11-14 record last week, Warriors coach Tim Toon reported.
Danielle Meehan is starting left-side hitter who has 15 aces, second best on the team, with 133 kills, 180 digs and 14 blocks. Christine Deitz has started several matches at right-side hitter with 39 kills, 21 digs, 18 blocks and 11 assists.
High school scene
Kelsey Moser of Colton, a three-sport standout who was first-team all-state in basketball for the state-champion Wildcats, was selected the female athlete of the year by Lewis-Clark State College’s Warrior Athletic Association at the group’s fourth-annual awards banquet last week.
Moser, an all-district selection in volleyball, softball and basketball, won in a category that also included semifinalists Jordan Levenseller of Pullman and Kelly McCann-Smith of Clarkston.
Other winners: Kyler Shumway, Prairie of Cottonwood, track and football, male athlete of the year; Prairie boys basketball, team of the year; Krisi Pratt, Clearwater Valley girls basketball, coach of the year; and Bob Olive, Kamiah, meritorious award.
Powerlifting
Danna Snow of Spokane won a gold, two silver and a bronze medal at the International Powerlifting Federation Master’s World Championships this month in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
Snow, 41, who weighed 117 pounds, won the overall silver medal in her weight class with a total lift of 792.75 pounds.
Along the way she won the gold medal in the bench press with a lift of 186.25 pounds, a silver in deadlift with a personal-best 352.5 pounds and a bronze in squat with 253 pounds.
Running
Spokane-area runners won two divisions at the Le Grizz 50-mile ultramarathon last weekend at Hungry Horse Reservoir, Mont.
Gunhild Swanson, 66, of Spokane Valley, won the women’s senior division with a time of 9 hours, 24 minutes, 58 seconds. Mary Ann Clute, 58, of Spokane was fourth (11:01.40).
Brian Vandenburg, 27, and Charlie Toillion, 39, both of Spokane, were 1-2 in the men’s open division. Vandenburg timed 6:19.02, Toillion 6:33.40.
Three other area runners were in the top 15 of the open division, the largest division in the field of 87 total finishers. Benjamin Bucklin, 32, Spokane, was seventh (7:31.20); Lee French, 36, Nine Mile Falls, eighth (7:53.35); and Austin Reed, 27, Fairchild Air Force Base, 15th (8:50.34).