Sunday Locals: EWU goaltender honored by B.C. hockey league
Jason Greenwell from Spokane, a sophomore at Eastern Washington, was named Goaltender of the Month for October by the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League.
As EWU opened its inaugural season in the BCIHL with an unbeaten October, Greenwell had a 2-0 record, a 2.0 goals-against average and a .952 save percentage.
Greenwell, the top goaltender in the KIJHL his final junior season in 2009 playing for the Fernie (B.C.) Ghostriders, divides time in goal for the Eagles with Cash Ulrich. A fellow sophomore who played his junior hockey for the Spokane Braves, Ulrich also has a 2-0 record and 2.00 GAA.
Bowling
Jesse Covington was center stage when the day started, but he took a back seat to Nik Gosselin when all the firing subsided at the Junior Bowlers Tour stop at River City Lanes in Post Falls last Sunday.
Covington got what turned out to be a high-scoring day started by rolling a perfect 300 in his first game to highlight a 946 four-game series and carried the hot hand through the second qualifying set to enter the final roll-off top seeded.
But Gosselin, the third seed in the finals, first beat Nick Harris then toppled Covington 230-210 to claim his first JBT championship. Harris finished third.
Anthony Stedeford, placed fourth, while Bryan Brown and Taylor Gamble tied for fifth. Stedeford and Gamble had tied for the fifth and final spot that necessitated a unique playoff to get the roll-off started.
Karl Fencl, with a 289 game and 917 series; Stedeford (919); and Gosselin (909) also had 900 series. Heather Lundgren was high for the girls with a 246.
The next JBT is Nov. 20 at North Bowl.
College scene
Chelsea Small, a junior on the Idaho women’s soccer team, was recognized for the second year in a row on the Capital One Academic All-District VII team.
Small, from Solana Beach, Calif., who has a 3.96 grade-point average in secondary education, was a repeater on the first team. She was a second-team Academic All-American in 2010.
• Mike Jarrett of the football team and Jamie Walker from women’s soccer, are the Eastern Washington athletic department scholar-athletes of the month for October.
Jarrett is a senior kicker from Puyallup, Wash., with a 3.46 GPA in communications. He scored 45 points in October, making 9 of 10 field goals and 18 of 19 extra points.
Walker, a junior goalkeeper from Graham, Wash., with a 3.14 GPA in English, earned the first postseason accolade of her career, being named All-Big Sky honorable mention after finishing the year ranked second in the conference in saves per game (5.33) and save percentage (.816).
Prep scene
Two schools from the Greater Spokane League and two teams each from neighboring communities Pullman and Colton are among the nine teams from area schools that were crowned fall academic state champions by the WIAA.
Ferris earned the 4A football award with a 3.268 team GPA while Lewis and Clark was the 4A volleyball winner at 3.713
Pullman won in 2A girls cross country (3.880) and girls soccer (3.780) while Colton’s winners in 1B were in football (3.566) and volleyball (3.920).
Other area academic state champions: St. John-Endicott, 1B girls cross country (3.840); St. George’s, 2B boys soccer (3.567); and Davenport, 2B volleyball (3.826).
The awards are sponsored by the Dairy Farmers of Washington and Les Schwab Tires.
Marathon
Kjell Schioberg of Moscow, Idaho, and James Richman of Spokane finished second and third, respectively, to lead a large contingent of area runners in the Tri-Cities Marathon last Sunday.
Schioberg covered the 26.2-mile course in 2 hours, 52 minutes, 24.3 seconds, about 6 minutes behind the winner, and Richman timed 2:54:58.7.
Eleven area runners had top-three age-group finishes, with four winning their age groups.
The top-three finishers (Spokane unless otherwise noted):
Women – Rachel Toor, fourth female overall, first 45-49 age group; Monica Eschenbacher, fifth female, first 25-29; Lisa Sunderman, seventh female, first 35-39; M. Lisa Bradley, ninth female, first 50-54; Amanda Ross, Post Falls, third 25-29; Jennifer Davis, Pullman, second 30-34; Tammy Douglas, Post Falls, third 50-54; Janelle Wagnild, Spokane Valley, second 29-and-under; and Kathy Semmler, third 60-64.
Men – Brian Ringle, Lewiston, third 50-54; and Lew Persons, third 60-64.