SAN DIEGO – The National Football League has once again reached that sacred point on the calendar when it looks at America and, in its best the Rock-as-Maui voice, says: You’re welcome.
HILLSBORO, Ore. – Alberto Barriga had a big day, going 3-for-4 with three RBIs, and the Hillsboro Hops beat the Spokane Indians 4-2 in the finale of a High-A Northwest League series at Hillsboro Hops Ballpark on Sunday.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association released the state tournament brackets for baseball, softball and boys soccer on Sunday. Here’s a look at the seeds and matchups for the Spokane-area teams that qualified for state.
A GRIP ON SPORTS • Where were we? Oh, yes. Thinking about the Mariners’ season. A major horse race that was anything but. And a major golf tournament that is, despite being played on a postage stamp.
PULLMAN – Mostly, WSU baseball head coach Nathan Choate remembers the feeling in the dugout, the spirit that reignited the Cougars’ season. They had raced to a big early lead on UNLV, one of the conference’s top programs. They were looking to clinch the series, looking to climb the Mountain West standings, to stay on pace for the program’s first postseason appearance since many of the players were in kindergarten.
The back-and-forth nature of success then failure, winning a series and then dropping a series, which includes intermittent appearances of above-average offensive production then replaced by frustrating droughts of production and competence, continued for the Seattle Mariners.
He has been in Spokane maybe 10 months, and in that time, Napela Naihe has bought and sold so many used cars you’d expect him to show up in a cowboy hat on late-night TV commercials.
HILLSBORO, Ore. – Bryson Hammer, making his second career start in the minors after 93 relief appearances, dominated for six innings and the Spokane Indians outlasted the Hillsboro Hops 5-2 in the fifth of a six-game High-A Northwest League series at Hillsboro Hops Ballpark on Saturday.
Colville and Lakeside baseball both play difficult nonleague schedules to prepare for the potential of postseason play. So it should have come as no surprise that when the teams met in the 1A district title game on Saturday – the fourth time the teams played each other this season – it would take more than seven innings to decide it.
MONTCLAIR, N.J. – Whitworth's baseball team hadn't won multiple games at an NCAA Division III Regional in 14 years. The Pirates snapped that streak in one day.
SEATTLE — When the U.S. women’s national team made its first stop in Seattle in nearly a decade last month, the return was lauded by everyone involved. There was excitement about playing inside Lumen Field. There were raves for the quality of the installed grass surface. And there was appreciation for the support of the more than 36,000 fans that showed up on a drizzly weeknight in April.
The Spokane Zephyr earned their largest margin of victory in the team’s history after they shut out Brooklyn FC 4-0 in their USL Super League regular-season finale at ONE Spokane Stadium on Saturday.
SEATTLE – The ongoing “criticism” about the Mariners’ usage/reliance on platoons as a strategy has been a popular topic on the yelling halls of the social media platform X.
