High school sports

Eugene starting pitcher Hunter Dryden had a lot of folks out to the game last week at Avista Stadium for his Spokane homecoming. They cheered so loudly when he struck out one of the hometown Indians batters that it drew looks from others in the crowd.

Three Hall of Fame inductions in the span of a month would be an extraordinary accomplishment for most athletic departments.

Two baseball programs that were once rivals have combined to do something no team from the state of Washington has done before.

Wescott narrowly got the job done with a pair of terrific two-putts from long distance on the last two holes, putting the final touches on a bogey-free, 8-under 63 for a one-shot win over Von Lossow and Robbins.

Andrew Von Lossow and the Rosauers Open Invitational leaderboard don’t need a formal introduction.

Amateurs and past champions occupied most of the top spots on the leaderboard after Friday’s opening round of the 39th annual Rosauers Open Invitational.

Schield, wrestling for Team Washington, topped Wisconsin's Aspen Tritz in an 8-3 decision to claim the title. Schield won via technical fall in his five matches leading up to the final.

When identifying favorites for this weekend’s 39th Rosauers Open Invitational at Indian Canyon Golf Course, last year’s final leaderboard offers a reasonable place to start. Daniel Campbell hoisted the Rosauers’ trophy last July for the second time, becoming the seventh player with multiple titles at the major tournament on the PGA Pacific Northwest Section circuit.

For more than two decades, basketball kept Tara and Randy Groves on the road. The couple logged countless miles driving to games, practices and tournaments for their sons Tanner, Jake and Dylynn.

Gerry Lindgren, Ryne Sandberg and wrestlers Libby Roberts and Dalton Young are among 15 athletes to make an initial poll list as USA Today looks to crown its best Washington high school athletes. The final results will be revealed on July 4.

Simon Rosselli closed one chapter and had a satisfying start to the next season of his throwing life.

The Ferris High School football team has suffered through some tough times in the last decade-plus. The Saxons hope they have the right man for the job of rebuilding a once-proud program back into a contender.

Instrumental in two Basketball Congress International (BCI) national championships for the Spokane Stars, two State 4A championships and one runner-up finish for Central Valley and NCAA Sweet 16 and Elite Eight appearances for Arizona State, Love is being inducted in the Hooptown Hall of Fame 2026 class on June 24.

Two decades after coaching the best stretch of big school boys basketball in state history, Don Van Lierop had an apt way to summarize the experience.

The annual Spokane Youth Sports Awards took place Tuesday evening as elite high school teams and individual athletes from around the city and region packed into the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox.

Ridgeline’s Caden Andreas went 2-for-3 with two runs, a double, an RBI and a stolen base and the “National” team beat the “American” team 7-5 in the 2026 Eastern Washington all-state feeder game at Avista Stadium on Tuesday.

Longtime Mead girls basketball coach Quantae Anderson recently stepped down from the position in order to spend more time with family. This season, Anderson completed his 18th season as a head coach – 15 of those seasons were at Mead.

I got my first round of golf in for the season on Saturday – if you can call it that – so that must mean high school sports have wrapped up and I’m down to just one beat for the summer.

Spring 2026 high school sports all-league teams for the Greater Spokane League, Northeast A, Northeast 2B, Northeast 1B and Southeast 1B leagues.