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GSL sends strong contingent to state

YAKIMA – When Ferris senior Natalie Kyllo stepped into the discus for her last throw of the 4A/3A Eastern Regional track meet Saturday afternoon, four competitors were ahead of her. When she stepped out she was in third, a trip to the state meet next week in her pocket because she finally broke loose, improving about 6 feet to 129 feet, 10 inches.
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Success all around

YAKIMA – A big dose of speed, a lot of endurance, some strength and some hops. The Greater Spokane League had it all as the two-day 4A/3A Eastern Regional track championship got under way at Eisenhower High School’s Zaepfel Stadium on Friday.
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Cheney’s Ham bounces back

Shaley Ham turned out for track as a freshman to high jump, but in her senior year the high jump had turned on her. A consistent 5-footer and a state placer for Cheney as a sophomore, Ham’s senior year started out just fine with a 5-2 clearance in the Blackhawks’ jamboree.
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Two Baileys scorch 200s

A double shot of high-octane Baileys steamed around the corner at the Spokane Falls Community College track Friday night, highlighting an outstanding finish to the District 8 Track and Field Championships. In back-to-back 200-meter races, Rogers’ Cor’de Bailey and Mead’s Wes Bailey both broke 22 seconds, putting the sprinters on equal footing with record-breaking distance runners as Greater Spokane League athletes took advantage of ideal conditions.
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LC’s Cunningham wins javelin on last throw

Finally, someone broke tradition at a track meet and said doing your best wasn’t the only thing that mattered. “I was bummed, I’m not going to lie,” Gonzaga Prep’s Jaz Crum said after losing the 4A girls javelin title on a last throw at the District 8 track meet at Spokane Falls Community College Thursday night.
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Cheney sweeps GNL track titles

There is no guarantee that Darez Meriwether is going to make it to state, but the way the Cheney senior performed Wednesday afternoon the odds are good. With Meriweather among those coming up big, the depleted Blackhawks captured the Great Northern League track championship by turning back hopeful West Valley and Pullman at Tom Oswald Field in Cheney.
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Mead hurdles to GSL track titles

To figure out why the Mead boys and girls wrapped up undefeated Greater Spokane League seasons Thursday afternoon, check out the hurdles. With the postseason beginning next week, some of the Panthers’ biggest guns were either doing workout races or taking it a little easy because of injury or illness.
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CdA’s Shae Carson born to throw the discus

Shae Carson became a discus thrower when she was about five weeks old, but the Coeur d’Alene senior didn’t know it until last spring. In between, she was just another multitalented young athlete doing a bit of everything and enjoying it all. But a couple of track guys, Bart Templeman and Bud Rasmussen, saw so much more in the young lady with the long limbs of a 6-footer and nimble feet.
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Chiefs sack Sauter

Hardy Sauter embraced the high expectations of the Spokane Chiefs, even after failure to meet them cost him his job. Five weeks after the Chiefs were eliminated in the first round of the Western Hockey League playoffs, Sauter was effectively fired as the team declined to pick up the club option on his contract.
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Chepkurui defends title, sets world record

The quick feet of Lineth Chepkurui, Emily Chebet-Muge and Mamitu Daska beat a rhythmic click on the pavement up Cemetery Hill as they broke open the women’s race of the 34th annual Bloomsday run Sunday morning. It was really taps.
News >  Spokane

Olympic gold medalist won over by race

There isn’t much Joan Samuelson hasn’t seen as a runner, and that includes Bloomsday, but the 1984 Olympic gold medal marathoner admitted she was a little awestruck Sunday morning. “Hey, just the fact I can get out here and compete and run, I’m not complaining,” the 54-year-old Maine native said. “This is only my second time here. It’s like sleep deprivation as a young parent: You forget what it’s all about until the second one comes around.
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Booth, Norris light up IEL track meet

Kadie Booth wore an ear-to-ear smile. The leak in the clouds was about to burst but Booth, still breathless from her third race on a cold Thursday afternoon with her hardest race still to come, didn’t seem to notice.
News >  Spokane

WIAA reworks state tourneys

There are more questions than answers, but the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association executive board voted on Friday to restructure the state high school basketball tournaments, beginning next season. The move paves the way for all the Class B schools to again play in Spokane, although that is not official.
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CV track trio focuses on improving solid marks

There really wasn’t much for the Central Valley girls track team to worry about, so the Bears focused on what they did best. Led by a trio of junior leaders, CV rolled past Lewis and Clark and University on U-Hi’s home turf on a blustery Thursday afternoon for Greater Spokane League track and field.
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Seattle Storm sign Bowman

College basketball: Heather Bowman, Gonzaga’s and the West Coast Conference’s all-team leading scorer, has a chance to continue her career close to home. The Lewis and Clark graduate has signed a free agent contract with the Seattle Storm.
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Locals prosper in Pasco

PASCO – Baylee Mires has a harder time getting to the starting line than the finish line. She’s hoping that her performance Saturday can fix that.
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Wright’s PRs guide Mead’s win over NC

Sam Wright wasn’t too worried about doing his part for the Mead track team Thursday afternoon. Wright had little competition in the presumed Greater Spokane League showdown between the reigning State 4A champions and 3A champ North Central.
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Tough going the distance

In four years of high school, Andrea Nelson has gone from one of the most successful distance runners in Spokane to homecoming queen. That is not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination, but it isn’t necessarily as good as one might imagine.
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Not a breeze

Cold and wind aren’t good for track and field, and Thursday Mother Nature went a bit too far. The Greater Spokane League meet season opened, but when those openers end is another matter. The pole vault and high jump competitions were postponed because of the high – and biting – wind.
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Tulsa chooses GU’s Frieson

Hope became a reality for Vivian Frieson Thursday afternoon when she became the first Gonzaga Bulldog drafted by the WNBA. The Seattle native was taken in the third round by the Tulsa Shock, the 31st pick overall.
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It’s their house: Hawks oust Chiefs

It couldn’t have played out any other way. With Portland and Spokane reaching the last game of their best-of-7 Western Hockey League playoff series with 19 goals apiece it’s not surprising overtime was needed to decide Game 7.
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Winterhawks put Chiefs on ice

It couldn’t have played out any other way. With Portland and Spokane both having reached Game 7 of their Western Hockey League playoff series with 19 goals apiece, it’s not surprising overtime was needed.
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Chiefs’ season over

Ty Rattie scored at 17:29 of overtime as the Portland Winterhawks defeated the Spokane Chiefs 5-4 at the Arena to win their first-round Western Hockey League Series.