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• Football roundup: Royal ends Colville’s season

  November 13, 2011 in Sports on Page C4 Colville’s unlikely run to the state playoffs ended Saturday night. Alex Myrick scored on a 1-yard run with 3 minutes, 22 seconds left in the fourth quarter, giving Royal a …

• CdA steps up when needed

  November 5, 2011 in Sports on Page C5 Top-ranked and unbeaten Coeur d’Alene got the kind of high school football game it has been looking for all season in Friday night’s quarterfinals of the Idaho 5A state playoffs. …

• Ferris clinches playoff berth

  October 22, 2011 in Sports on Page C5 Everyone knows what Ben Goodwin can do when he’s behind center. But Ferris’s senior quarterback made his biggest impact with his foot. Goodwin’s 64-yard punt with less than 2 minutes …

• Tigers continue workmanlike ways

  October 15, 2011 in Sports on Page C6 The blue-collar Lewis and Clark Tigers did it again Friday. “We’re not flashy like Ferris and Mead and we’re not blowing any teams out, but we find a way to …

• Offense dominates as Mead defeats rival Mt. Spokane 48-24

  September 24, 2011 in Sports on Page C7 In a game in which neither defense could contain its opponents’ offense, it was left for Mt. Spokane to stop itself. Neither team punted, but Mead parlayed two Wildcats turnovers … 1

• Post Falls tops East Valley with second-half surge

  September 17, 2011 in Sports on Page C7 Through two quarters, East Valley responded every time Post Falls scored. The second half was a different story. The Trojans gained control after halftime and beat the host Knights 49-35 …

• Colfax running back Li hopes to make big splash for rebuilding Bulldogs

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O17 Speedy Chace Bell of Reardan has graduated. So Northeast 2B football coaches can breathe a sigh of relief. While Alvin Li won’t be doing any Bell impersonations, longtime Colfax coach …

• Wide-open 8-man game plays into the hands of talented ACH and speedy Derek Isaak

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O18 With three fewer people per side on the football field in eight-man football, speed is what separates the contenders from the pretenders. Almira/Coulee-Hartline, which went 11-1 last season, losing only …

• NE 2B story lines

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O17 The vaunted 2011 Colfax senior class that went 35-3 has finally graduated. That’s the good news for NE 2B opponents. The bad news? Things aren’t going to change much at …

• NE 1B/South story lines

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O18 The two-division Northeast 1B League last year had five of eight play-in game participants and ultimately all four quarterfinalists. One of those, Almira/Coulee-Hartline has made five playoff appearances, including a …

• North Star League football schedules

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O14 Clark Fork Kootenai Lakeside Mullan Wallace Aug. 26: Lakeside 50, Clark Fork 0 Aug. 26: Wallace 54, Kootenai 14 Aug. 26: Lakeside 50, Clark Fork 0 Aug. 26: Bye Aug. …

• Tekoa-Oakesdale/ Rosalia schedule

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O15 Sept. 2: Springdale, 7 p.m. Sept. 9: Liberty, 7 Sept. 16: at Asotin, 7 Sept. 23: at Soap Lake, 7 Sept. 30: Bye Oct. 7: DeSales, 7 Oct. 14: at …

• SEB football schedules

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O16 Colton Garfield-Palouse LaCrosse-Washtucna St. John-Endicott Pomeroy Touchet Sept. 2: at Wilbur-Creston, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: Bye Sept. 2: Salmon River, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: Odessa-Harrington, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: at …

• Great Northern League schedules

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O11 Cheney Clarkston Deer Park East Valley Pullman West Valley Medical Lake (Independent) Sept. 2: Kelowna, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: at Lewiston, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: Chewelah, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: …

• Northeast 1B South football schedules

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O18 Wilbur-Creston Odessa-Harrington Almira/Coulee-Hartline Easton-Thorp Mansfield Sept. 1: Colton, 7 p.m. Sept. 1: at St. John-Endicott, 7 p.m. Sept. 1: Cusick, 7 p.m. Sept. 1: Bye Sept. 1: Bye Sept. 9: …

• Mt. Spokane speedster Naccarato sports improved burst

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O9 Every year the Greater Spokane League has a football player like Chase Naccarato. The type of player who makes an impact at multiple spots. That stands to reason why a … 2

• Staying between lines

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O10 Don’t look for Calvin Connall on the Chewelah sidelines this football season. The Cougars senior doesn’t plan to be there. Not for a single play.

• Use your speed any way you can

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O2 Speed is a valuable intangible in any sport, especially football. If an offense’s skill players are quicker than the defense’s skill players, a team has a measurable advantage.

• After busy summer in the field, Payton Boxleitner looks forward to autumn nights on the field

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O15 Excuse Payton Boxleitner if his 2011 football season gets off to a touch of a slow start. The Tekoa-Oakesdale/Rosalia senior has been preoccupied since Aug. 3 working the harvest. He’s …

• Cusick’s Sample excels wherever he lines up on the football field

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O19 When Ryan Sample was a ninth grader, the multifaceted Cusick athlete was named best 1B freshman in the state by an 8-man football web site. That was as a defender.

• Colfax’s Hodges runs for sheer pleasure

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O16 For a bigger athlete, Garfield-Palouse junior Riley Hodges has wheels. The 185-pounder may not be the Southeast 1B League’s best running back – there are several vying for that distinction.

• NE 1B/North story lines

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O19 In their third straight semifinal appearance, the Cusick Panthers reached the state finals, uncharacteristically fumbling six times in a title loss to Lummi. The experience was worth it. “For the …

• NEA story lines

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O10 No NEA team has reached the first round of the state playoffs the past two seasons, snapping a run of nine straight years. In seven of those nine straight years, …

• NSL story lines

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O14 The more things change, the more things remain the same in the North Star League. Since Wallace dropped to 1A Division I 8-man football in 2004, the Miners have earned …

• Intermountain League football schedules

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O12 Bonners Ferry Kellogg Priest River St. Maries Timberlake Aug. 26: Grangeville 48, BF 0 Aug. 26: Bye Aug. 26: Bye Aug. 26: Coeur d’Alene JV Aug. 26: Timberlake 49, Libby, …

• NEA football schedules

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O10 Colville Chewelah Freeman Lakeside Newport Riverside Sept. 2: Lakeland, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: at Deer Park, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: at Bonners Ferry, 7 p.m. Sept. 2: Pullman, 7 p.m. …

• Burst on the scene

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O11 Adam Talley was a soccer player masquerading as a tentative sophomore running back for the East Valley junior varsity last fall while the varsity was masquerading as a football team. …

• IML story lines

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O12 Bonners Ferry, Priest River and Kellogg have new head coaches and St. Maries’ Craig Tefft is in his second year. “Everything changes when a new coach comes in,” said Timberlake’s …

• Lakeside’s Stivers switches from creating gaps to running through them

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O14 After three years blocking for others, Jeremy Stivers hopes the other way around works for him. The Lakeside (Plummer/Worley) senior is switching from left guard, where he’s been a starter …

• Cda Vikings’ Carlos Martinez has always had the speed, now he has matured as a person

  September 1, 2011 in Sports on Page O13 The best move Coeur d’Alene senior running back Carlos Martinez has ever made or will ever have made hasn’t come on the football field. It came the summer before his …

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