Huckleberries: Fan finds only one dark lining in Zags postseason clouds
Huckleberries Thursday:
Season ticket holders Naomi and Sean Boutz, of Liberty Lake, are ha-huge Gonzaga fans.
In 2003, Sean graduated from Gonzaga Law School. They were engaged in Hawaii, where they had traveled to watch the Zags play in the Maui Invitational. They attended eight straight West Coast Conference Tournaments in Las Vegas.
Until this year.
They passed on the 2017 WCC tourney in anticipation of the Zags’ deep run into the Sweet 16 in San Jose and now the Final Four in Phoenix. That’s faith. The only dark lining to the postseason silver clouds this year occurred in San Jose where Naomi came down with the crud, after the best weekend of basketball in Gonzaga Bulldogs history. To date.
The former GM of The Cellar at 317 Sherman (downtown Coeur d’Alene) held it together during the plane ride home from San Jose, which she described as “torture.” In fact, she made it to the baggage claim at the Spokane Airport, within sight of the women’s restroom, before she hurled.
Naomi was thankful that she was holding her husband’s black Nike hat at the time. He wasn’t. Now, she hopes she can replace it in Phoenix with a 2017 NCAA Tournament championship cap. So do we. Full Huckleberries column here.
