Gonzaga had already taken Idaho behind the woodshed in the first half of their women’s basketball game Friday night. The Bulldogs were up 18 with the basketball as time was winding down when the Vandals tipped a pass to Courtney Vandersloot into backcourt. Vandersloot, who already had 10 points and nine assists, raced back for the ball, wheeled around and saw there wasn’t much chance to make anything happen.
There are a number of excuses the Spokane Chiefs could use for their 5-4 Western Hockey League overtime loss to Seattle at the Arena Wednesday night. They’ve been playing at a high level for a long time, proud owners of a six-game winning steak. They beat the Thunderbirds 8-2 the night before. They jumped to a 3-0 lead in this game.
Heidi Heintz didn’t hesitate when discussing why she left San Francisco after two seasons to play at UC Davis, although it’s old news by now. The senior from Central Valley has been with the Aggies three years, one on the bench while she redshirted and two as a starter. She’s now a captain for a team predicted to win the Big West Conference and make its first NCAA tournament appearance.
Heidi Heintz didn’t hesitate when discussing why she left San Francisco after two seasons to play at UC Davis, but she admitted, “I haven’t had to think about that in a while.”
Don’t look now, but the team that once squandered 23-straight power-play chances now sits second in the Western Hockey League with a 24.1 percent success rate. That would be the Spokane Chiefs, who have scored at least one in 13-straight games when they have a man advantage and notched four against Kamloops in a 10-5 thrashing on Saturday.
When Hardy Sauter was fired as coach of the Spokane Chiefs in May he took the high road. He never uttered a negative word despite the fact he was released five weeks after his second season as coach of the Western Hockey League team and he had won 91 games – almost two of every three games – in the regular season.
Don’t look now, but the team that once squandered 23-straight power-play chances now sits second in the Western Hockey League with a 24.1 percent success rate.
When Hardy Sauter was fired as coach of the Spokane Chiefs in May he took the high road.
He never uttered a negative word despite the fact he was released five weeks after his second season as coach of the Western Hockey League team and he had won 91 games – almost two of every three games – in the regular season.
It sure seems like a long time ago – and it was just the third weekend of the Western Hockey League season two months ago – that the Spokane Chiefs’ power play went powerless in 23 attempts. Going into Saturday’s game with Kamloops the Chiefs had worked their way up to fourth in the power-play rankings by scoring a power-play goal in 12 straight games.
Washington State got Gonzaga’s attention in Hawaii and paid for it in Spokane. Exactly eight years after their previous scheduled meeting and 13 days after they met at a tournament, the Bulldogs’ big guns bagged the Cougars 93-75 Saturday afternoon in a nonconference women’s basketball contest before 3,908 fans at the McCarthey Athletic Center
The Chiefs connected on 4 of 7 extra-man chances, including two by Dominik Uher, who had a hat trick in a 10-5 rout of the Blazers for their fifth straight win before 5,460 fans at the Arena.
Washington State got Gonzaga’s attention in Hawaii and paid for it in Spokane. Exactly eight years after their last scheduled meeting and 13 days after they last played, the Bulldogs’ big guns bagged the Cougars 93-75 Saturday afternoon in a nonconference women’s basketball before 3,908 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center
Washington State and Gonzaga chose to renew their women’s basketball rivalry exactly eight years after their last meeting. What they didn’t expect was a dress rehearsal.
It was a dominating performance, worthy of a first-place team – except it was the first-place team that was dominated. The Portland Winterhawks, with the most points in the Western Hockey League and a healthy 13-point lead in the Western Conference and U.S. Division, fell behind 5-0 in the first period and were drubbed 9-3 by the Spokane Chiefs before 3,564 fans at the Arena Wednesday night.
The Portland Winterhawks, with the most points in the Western Hockey League and a healthy13-point lead in the Western Conference and U.S. Division, fell behind 5-0 in the first period and were drubbed 9-3 by the Spokane Chiefs before 3,564 fans at the Arena Wednesday night.
When the basketballs stop bouncing for most of the Class of ’07 next spring it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say Saint Martin’s made out as well as any school that snagged players from that group.
It would have been easy to have a different outcome, but the Spokane Chiefs stuffed the Portland Winterhawks on Teddy Bear Toss night 4-3, in the process ending a 10-game home losing streak to the team sporting the best record in the Western Hockey League. “We beat the first-place team,” Chiefs coach Don Nachbaur said. “You can’t find fault with anything we did. We did everything we had to in order to win the hockey game.”
It would have been easy to have a different outcome, but the Spokane Chiefs stuffed the Portland Winterhawks on Teddy Bear Toss night 4-3, in the process ending a 10-game home losing streak to the team sporting the best record in the Western Hockey League.
Thanks to a few veterans, and an overtime goal by Anthony Bardaro, the Spokane Chiefs stole away with a 3-2 victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers on Friday night. Chiefs coach Don Nachbaur summed up the Western Hockey League game succinctly.
Thanks to a few veterans, and an overtime goal by Anthony Bardaro, the Spokane Chiefs stole away with a 3-2 victory over the Medicine Hat Tigers on Friday night.
The Class of 2007 was pretty special around here – as far as girls basketball was concerned. Seven Greater Spokane League players earned Division I scholarships and a handful of others went to smaller schools.
Don Nachbaur wasn’t going to throw his team under the bus, maybe because they’ve spent so much time on a bus. The Spokane Chiefs played tired for two periods before rallying, only to lose to Kelowna 3-2 when Geordie Wudrick scored his second goal 42 seconds into overtime of the Western Hockey League game.
The Spokane Chiefs played tired for two periods before rallying, only to lose to Kelowna 3-2 when Geordie Wudrick scored his second goal 42 seconds into overtime of the Western Hockey League game.
