4A girls: Mead wins, LC falls
Mead strolled to victory and Lewis and Clark fell in a heartbreaker in 4A state tournament openers Wednesday.Click the tab below to read my unedited game story.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010
WSU's weekend will determine seeding 4
COUGARS The weekend will decide the Pac-10 Tournament seedings – only Cal, the No. 1 seed, is locked in – with six teams trying to stay out of the Wednesday night game. We have a story for tomorrow's S-R about WSU and that game and…
Primer for Chiefs at Kelowna
A little primer for tonight's Chiefs' game at Kelowna from our friend Doyle Potenteau at The Daily Courier, read below.The Everett Herald took a look at the stretch run prior to the Silvertips win last night, when Shane Harper sent a franchise record with his…
4A girls: LC falls 51-49
Lewis and Clark led 49-41 with 3:51 remaining, but Issaquah rallied, taking advantage of three turnovers to trip the TigersMore later..The Seattle Times is doing live updates from the boys and girls tournaments. Click here to check it out.
Day after Cal State-Bakersfield
Back with the day-after post following Gonzaga's 78-59 (it wasn't that close) win over Cal State-Bakersfield. The links: S-R gamer, S-R photos and A.P.The rest below.
4A: G-Prep boys roll 4
Gonzaga Prep cruised past the Auburn Trojans 65-33 Wednesday morning.Click the tab below for more. And the Seattle Times has minute-by-minute updates. Check out the link in the comments.
Wednesday morning WSU post 3
COUGARS I had written an entirely different lead-in for this blog post, one that I felt was just the right blend of humor and newsworthy notes. Then I re-read it. The humor wasn't humorous enough, the news wasn't newsy enough. So we deleted it. Instead…
State 4A feature, notebook
UPDATED: Wednesday morningClick the tab below to read an unedited State 4A feature and a state notebook.I'm headed to the Tacoma Dome for the Gonzaga Prep boys' breakfast opener. Here are some links:Seattle Times: 4A boys capsules.Seattle Times: 4A girls capsules.Tacoma News Tribune: 4A girls…
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010
Zags send seniors out with easy win 2
Gonzaga made quick work of Cal State-Bakersfield, leading by 28 at half and 37 early in the second half before settling for a 78-59 victory Tuesday night, sending seniors Matt Bouldin, Chris Pontarolo-Maag and Will Foster out with a victory in their final home game.Bouldin…
WSU's Tuesday afternoon report
COUGARS With the trip to Oregon looming this weekend, Washington State coach Ken Bone held his usual teleconferences today, talking about last week, this week and the Pac-10 tourney in another week. For more on what he had to say, along with a practice report,…
Interesting weekend ahead for women
A nice week coming up for women's basketball. Idaho's game on Wednesday is on ESPNU, 8 p.m. tipoff and on Saturday afternoon Eastern Washington tries to add to its historic season. The Eagles, assured of a share of their first Big Sky title, try to…
Chiefs Johnson honored
Spokane Chiefs Tyler Johnson has beennamed the Western Hockey League Player of the Month for February after scoring 24 points (including 10 goals) as the Chiefs went 11-2.For more information on Johnson and the Chiefs, read the extended entry.
Eags will open 2010 football season at Nevada 1
Eastern Washington announced Tuesday morning that it will open its 2010 college football season on Thursday, Sept. 2, in Reno, where the Eagles will face Nevada.EWU was originally going to open the season against Oregon State on Sept. 4, but that meeting was postponed to…
Eastern extends Earlywine's contract 1
Eastern Washington's athletic director Bill Chaves announced Tuesday morning that the school has extended the contract of Kirk Earlywine, the Eagles' third-year head men's basketball coach.You can read more here.
State 4A boys and girls tourneys 25
UPDATED: Tuesday, 10 a.m.I'll be posting a 4A feature and state notebook tonight when I arrive in Tacoma.Continue the conversation about the tournaments.
Quality, not quantity, for WSU's Tuesday 2
COUGARS What were we doing? Oh ya, talking Washington State basketball. Well, not much to add this morning, but we did find some interesting items to share on the link, so read on.
MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010
Trio await GU Senior Night 1
Back with the final post of the day (I think), and this one is about Gonzaga's three seniors, who will play in their last game at the McCarthey Athletic Center tomorrow.Read on below for an unedited article that will run in Tuesday's S-R. Also, a…
More on Vandersloot, Gonzaga awards
When Kelly Graves took his turn on the West Coast Conference pre-tournament conference call he was asked to comment about all the honors his team swept.Not surprisingly he couldn't say enough about his players but on his fifth Coach of the Year award he joked,…
More on Bouldin, WCC awards 1
As promised, here's an expanded version of the All-WCC awards and the major individual awards that were announced Monday afternoon. One correction to the previous post: Elias Harris was newcomer of the year (not freshman). Read on for an unedited article.Also, Gonzaga stayed at No.…
GU women dominate WCC awards
All kinds of deja vu for the Gonzaga women and the West Coast Conference post-season honors.Courtney Vandersloot repeats as MVP, Vandersloot, Heather Bowman and Vivian Frieson repeat as first-team selections, Kelly Graves is Coach of the Year for the fifth time in 10 seasons, Katelan…
Bouldin named WCC player of year
Gonzaga senior guard Matt Bouldin was named the WCC player of the year, the league announced Monday afternoon. GU’s Elias Harris was selected freshman of the year and Mark Few was chosen coach of the year. Saint Mary’s center Omar Samhan was voted defensive player…
D3 bracket: Whits open at home
The Whitworth men's basketball team drew a first-round bye in the NCAA Division III Tournament bracket and will host the winner of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at Chapman game that will take place on Thursday night.The Pirates will play that winner on Saturday. You can read more…
SUNDAY, FEB. 28, 2010
One last look back at WSU's defeat
COUGARS We promised this morning to have some more today, so we do. We have quotes, notes and even a football item. We got started writing and couldn't stop, so what follows is pretty long. Read on.
Eags win; should Earlywine stay? 15
Eastern Washington closed its 2009-10 men's basketball season with a 79-71 home win over Idaho State Saturday night. It was a nice way to send off the five seniors on this year's roster, but it still left the Eagles with 21 losses and looking in…
CdA captures state grap title
Here's a link to the story about the Coeur d'Alene wrestling team capturing a State 5A championship with five finalists.
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