Chris Derrick

The first time a defender yelled, “Shooter!” when Christina Salvatore had the ball, it caught the budding basketball star by surprise. It happened during a middle school game in Anaheim, Calif. Salvatore has never shed the label.

A bad situation has put Luke Lee-Knight in a good situation. Lee-Knight, the former Spokane Chief, made 39 saves Saturday night to highlight the Tri-City Americans’ 4-3 overtime win over the Chiefs at a sold-out Arena.

In late October, the Kelowna Rockets were slogging along with a 7-6-1-1 record and looked like an average team in the Western Hockey League.

Much of the pregame talk focused on how Gonzaga’s inside players, Shelby Cheslek and Sunny Greinacher, planned to defend Brigham Young’s 6-foot-7 center, Jennifer Hamson. As it turned out, BYU could have used a plan on how to defend Cheslek and Greinacher.

Much of the pregame talk focused on how Gonzaga’s inside players, Shelby Cheslek and Sunny Greinacher, planned to defend Brigham Young’s 6-foot-7 center, Jennifer Hamson. As it turned out, BYU could have used a plan on how to defend Cheslek and Greinacher. Greinacher (17 points) and Cheslek (16) scored career highs Thursday night to power the Bulldogs (14-5, 4-1) into first place in the West Coast Conference after a 74-59 basketball win over BYU at sold-out McCarthey Athletic Center. GU entered the night in third place, behind BYU (12-5, 3-1), which had won nine consecutive games, and Saint Mary’s (11-5, 3-1), which dropped a 73-70 home game to San Diego.