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Spokane Chiefs defy logic at home

Sooner or later, the Spokane Chiefs have to win a home game against the Portland Winterhawks. Well, sooner is here, as in now or never for this season.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Loss doesn’t spoil Zags’ record season

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Too many amazing things happened this season to feel too bad for the Gonzaga women’s basketball players just because their season ended before they wanted it to. You can’t make history, blaze trails and reach new heights, whatever this season might be called, and remain disappointed for long.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Bulldogs leashed

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Gonzaga Bulldogs may have survived Xavier’s 1-2 punch of 6-foot-6 Ta’Shia Phillips and 6-5 Amber Harris, but not the knockout punch of a freshman. Katie Rutan scored 15 points, hitting four 3-pointers, as a perfect complement to the Twin Towers’ 36 points and 24 rebounds as the third-seeded Musketeers snapped seventh-seeded Gonzaga’s 20-game winning streak 74-56 Saturday night in a Sweet 16 game at Arco Arena.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Bulldogs’ magical season reaches end

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Gonzaga Bulldogs may have survived Xavier’s 1-2 punch of 6-foot-6 Ta’Shia Phillips and 6-5Amber Harris, but not the knockout punch of a freshman. Katie Rutan scored 15 points, hitting four 3-pointers, as a perfect complement to the Twin Towers’ 36 points and 24 rebounds as the third-seeded Musketeers turned back seventh-seeded Gonzaga 74-56 in the Sweet 16 game Saturday night at Arco Arena.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Gonzaga’s magical season reaches end

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Gonzaga Bulldogs may have survived Xavier’s one-two punch of 6-foot-6 Ta’Shia Phillips and 6-5Amber Harris but not the knockout punch of a freshman. Katie Rutan scored 15 points, hitting four 3-pointers, as a perfect compliment to the Twin Towers’ 36 points and 24 rebounds as the third-seeded Musketeers snapped seventh-seeded Gonzaga’s 20-game winning streak 74-56 Saturday night in the Sweet 16 game Saturday night.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Zags, Xavier vie for Elite Eight

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – At first glance, it might appear tonight’s game between seventh-seeded Gonzaga and third-seeded Xavier in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament should be a duplicate of last year’s matchup. Combined, 17 of 20 players who participated in the 12th-seeded Bulldogs’ 74-59 first-round upset of the fifth-seeded Musketeers are back for this Sweet 16 showdown at Arco Arena.
Sports

Winterhawks beat Chiefs; now 5-0 in Spokane

If Portland can duplicate its regular-season success in the playoffs, this Western Hockey League series is far from over. The Winterhawks improved to 5-0 at the Arena this series with a 2-1 win over Spokane Wednesday night, slicing the Chiefs advantage in the best-of-7 series to 2-1.
Sports

Chiefs fall to Portland

If Portland can duplicate its regular-season success in the playoffs, this Western Hockey League series is far from over.
Sports

Chiefs seek complete game

The Spokane Chiefs played a great game of hockey over the weekend, which was enough to give them a 2-0 lead as their best-of-7 Western Hockey League playoff series with Portland comes to the Arena. The Chiefs rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third period of Saturday’s opener for a 5-4 win, and then controlled the final two periods on Sunday for a 4-2 win.
Sports

Ex-Chiefs star happy with a cup of coffee

Maybe it was the short time Trevor Kidd spent in Spokane, you know, the proverbial cup of coffee. Anyway, after 14 years of playing professional hockey, Kidd retired to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 2006 and started Mountain Bean Coffee.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

GU advances to first Sweet 16

SEATTLE – What, you thought it would be easy? After a no-doubt-we’re-better first half, seventh-seeded Gonzaga used a remarkable performance by refuse-to-lose senior Vivian Frieson to advance to its first Sweet 16 with a scintillating 72-71 upset over second-seeded Texas A&M in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament Monday night.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Gonzaga women land second shot at Texas A&M

SEATTLE – Texas A&M women’s basketball coach Gary Blair knows he has an excellent team, which is a good thing – otherwise there would be no reason to play the second-round NCAA tournament game tonight at Hec Edmundson Pavilion. He has that much respect for Gonzaga.
Sports

Zags adjust for Aggies

SEATTLE – Watch the Gonzaga women play defense tonight against Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAA tournament and get a sense of how basketball coaches make adjustments from game to game. In the Bulldogs’ opening win over North Carolina on Saturday, the Tar Heels consistently got the ball to someone around the foul line for open jumpers.
Sports >  Gonzaga athletics

Texas A&M wears down PSU

SEATTLE – Ninth-ranked Texas A&M, the second seed in the Sacramento Regional of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, had too many weapons on offense and too much commitment to defense, overwhelming 15th-seeded Portland State 84-53 in a first-round game Saturday night. Tanisha Smith, a 6-foot senior guard, led the way with 17 points, 10 rebounds, nine assists and three steals.
Sports

Back winning

SEATTLE – Sherri Murrell’s smile negated the need for television lighting at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on Friday. The Portland State coach was enjoying every second of the school’s first NCAA women’s basketball tournament berth.
Sports

Hawks’ early success no predictor

Mention the old cliché about throwing records out the window come playoff time and Spokane Chiefs coach Hardy Sauter has a mixed reaction. He doesn’t mind forgetting that Portland, the Chiefs’ first-round opponent for the best-of-7 Western Hockey League series that begins tonight, went 5-3 against the Chiefs, winning all four games in Spokane.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Result is what’s relevant

SEATTLE – Like a game of musical chairs, Gonzaga and North Carolina are trying to occupy the same seat at the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The Bulldogs and Tar Heels square off at 7:30 tonight at Hec Edmundson Pavilion and apparently both of them are underdogs.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Bekkering gets second chance

So many good things have happened for Janelle Bekkering in the last year the “woulda, coulda, shoulda” moment was almost forgotten. But because of that split second, all the good things mean more.
Sports

Chiefs’ Spurgeon succeeds with on-ice savvy

When Jared Spurgeon skates off the ice for the final time as a Spokane Chief, he’s going to have quite a collection of memorabilia. But it’s the memories that have made his five Western Hockey League seasons exceed his expectations.
Sports

EWU women eye different outcome

Eastern Washington may have been surprised by its first-round opponent in the Women’s NIT basketball tournament, but it does give the Eagles a unique opportunity to gauge their progress. EWU heads to Oregon tonight for a game against the Ducks, a repeat of a game in Eugene the first week of the season.
Sports

North Carolina lost top player last May

Sylvia Hatchell is matter-of-fact about her basketball team. To casual fans, North Carolina’s 19-11 record and 10th seed in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament is unseemly.
Sports

Local products helped steer Vikings to Big Sky crown

There was no magic when Portland State coach Charity Elliott recruited the Greater Spokane League a few years ago. She just sold a dream. “They were looking to improve their program and it seemed like a great opportunity for me,” Shadle Park graduate Lexi Bishop said. “I really didn’t know much about the program.”
Sports

Eagles to face Ducks

Eastern Washington makes its second postseason women’s basketball appearance, and first in 23 years, with a bittersweet trip to Oregon. The Eagles (19-11) face the Ducks (16-15) in the first round of the Women’s NIT on Thursday night, a rematch of an opening week game in Eugene.