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News >  Spokane

She’s on the sidelines, and loving it

Emily Boone’s basketball career has taken another turn. A heart defect ended her playing days after she helped Garfield-Palouse High School win a state championship her sophomore year. Next, she turned to coaching, sitting alongside head coach Steve Swinney and her father, Tim Boone, as the Vikings reached the State 2B tournament at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena last March.
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Zags bring back mixed bag in losses

Kelly Graves didn’t sugarcoat the results, but given a little time he preferred to accentuate the positive of his basketball team’s foray into the land of the giants – literally and figuratively. The Gonzaga women’s basketball team lost 70-49 to Baylor (now ranked fifth) on Saturday night and trailed No. 10 Texas A&M by 20 with less than 10 minutes to go Sunday before losing 80-76 in the Las Vegas Holiday Hoops Classic.
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Life of veteran coach to be celebrated Monday

When Pat Pfeifer retired as the Ferris football coach in 1994, he and assistant coach Bob Crabb went to dinner with their wives, where Crabb learned something new about his mentor. “I didn’t know he went to school to be an architect,” Crabb said. “That’s when I figured it out. He could see patterns. After a play he knew what the guards did and what the quarterback did.”
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Chiefs lose, but get point

While the 5,569 fans at the Arena may have been disappointed, the Spokane Chiefs got an early Christmas present Friday night. Despite being extremely short-handed and trailing late, the Chiefs earned a point in a 3-2 overtime loss to Seattle. It’s the first win for the Thunderbirds in five tries against Spokane, which lost its third straight one-goal game at home.
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Seattle nips Chiefs

While the 5,569 fans at the Arena may have been disappointed the Spokane Chiefs got an early Christmas present Friday night. Despite being extremely short-handed and trailing late, the Chiefs earned a point in a 3-2 overtime loss to Seattle, the first win for Thunderbirds in five tries against Spokane, which lost its third-straight one-goal game at home.
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Chiefs fall to Portland at home

Rumor has it the Spokane Chiefs can beat the Portland Winterhawks, hard as that may be to believe with the way their three Western Hockey League games have unfolded at the Arena. The Hawks (22-13-1, 45 points) leapfrogged past the Chiefs (21-10-2, 44) in the U.S. Division standings with a late power-play goal for a 3-2 win before 3,766 fans Wednesday night.
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Portland edges Chiefs

Rumor has it the Spokane Chiefs can beat the Portland Winterhawks, hard as that may be to believe with the way their three Western Hockey League games have unfolded at the Arena. The Hawks (22-13-1, 45 points) leap-frogged past the Chiefs (21-10-2, 44) in the U.S. Division standings with a late power play goal for a 3-2 win before 3,766 fans Wednesday night.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Zags look to show they belong

Finals weeks may be almost over, but the tests aren’t. Starting with No. 7 Duke at No. 2 Stanford Tuesday night, there are some pretty impressive women’s basketball matchups before Christmas. No. 3 Tennessee treks across the country to face Stanford on Saturday.
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Ex-EWU star has become biggest cheerleader for sons

Information about Eastern Washington women’s basketball from way back when – that being the days the Eagles transitioned to Division I – is sometimes hard to come by, but in 1978-79 Bill Smithpeter’s team set a school record with 28 wins. Right in the middle was freshman Maria Loos.
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Broncos snap Chiefs’ win streak

All good things come to an end. Unfortunately for the Spokane Chiefs it wasn’t their 0-fer in coming from behind to win when trailing after two periods or the Swift Current Bronco’s perfection in keeping opponents from coming from behind in the third period.
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Cougs’ loss mystifies

June Daugherty has been a head basketball coach for two decades and was an assistant at Stanford after an All-American career at Ohio State. Yet she was surprised by what she saw last week in Beasley Coliseum when her Washington State team lost to Saint Mary’s 80-70.
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Chiefs pitch shutout

Hard as it may to believe by what transpired at the Arena Tuesday night, the Spokane Chiefs lost to the Prince George Cougars earlier this season. Granted it was a 2-1 overtime game in PG the second game of the Western Hockey League season but it was a loss – one of just five the Cougars have administered this season.
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He was a stand-up guy

Don Dirk was Kyle Beach before Kyle Beach. That was back in the days of the senior Spokane Flyers, before there were the junior Spokane Chiefs.
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Chiefs capitalize, drive past T-Birds

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. And it took a big dose of luck for the Spokane Chiefs to make 5,936 fans happy with a 4-2 win over the Seattle Thunderbirds at the Arena on Friday night.
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Chiefs double up Seattle

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. And it took a big dose of luck for the Spokane Chiefs to make 5,936 fans happy with a 4-2 win over the Seattle Thunderbirds at the Arena Friday night. Calvin Pickard, Seattle’s fine young goalie, mishandled the puck behind his net and Steve Kuhn pounced on it to feed Dominic Uher for the game winner with 3:33 to play.
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Spokane native Alos comes home to face Chiefs

The Tyler Alos who hits the ice tonight will be different from the one who skated here with the Seattle Thunderbirds on Oct. 10. “When we were over there at the beginning of the season it was pretty early, I didn’t have quite as much experience,” the Spokane native said. “It was a little more nerve-wracking for the first time back.”
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Local cowboys back at NFR

Bareback riders and traveling partners Ryan Gray of Cheney and Bobby Mote of Culver, Ore., have put together pretty impressive rodeo seasons in 2009. Gray was less than $14,000 from breaking Mote’s 2007 record of $152,184 won during the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association regular season.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Elite teams leave marks

Idaho and Gonzaga peeked into the penthouse of women’s basketball last weekend. Idaho’s Vandals went to Baylor’s tournament and absorbed an 82-37 shellacking at the hands of the eighth-ranked Bears and 6-foot-8 freshman sensation Brittney Griner. Two days later, second-ranked Stanford administered a 105-74 beat-down on GU’s Bulldogs.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

GU controls second half, beats EWU

What was the best moment for Eastern Washington in its women’s basketball game with Gonzaga may have turned out to be its worst. The underdog Eagles battled back from an 18-point deficit to take a brief lead late in the first half before the Bulldogs pulled away in the second half for an 87-61 win before 2,152 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center Tuesday night.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

Zags women stomp EWU

What was the best moment for Eastern Washington in its women’s basketball game with Gonzaga may have turned out to be its worse. The underdog Eagles battled back from an 18-point deficit to take a brief lead late in the first half before the Bulldogs pulled away in the second half for an 87-61 win before 2,152 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center Tuesday night.
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Notebook: Pirates women expect big things

If a half-dozen freshman can live up to the potential Helen Higgs sees, especially defensively, the Whitworth women’s basketball team should return to the upper echelon of the Northwest Conference. That’s because the Pirates return six seniors, including four starters, to go with those newcomers.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

GU women roll

Those were the longest 20 minutes. For the Washington Huskies the first half of their 81-52 drubbing at the hands of Gonzaga had to feel like it lasted forever.
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GU women roll over UW

Courtney Vandersloot recorded 18 points and 11 assists to lead Gonzaga to an 81-52 victory over Washington on Sunday. Katelan Redmon, a sophomore transfer from Washington, also scored 18 points for Gonzaga (3-1). Heather Bowman added 17 points and eight rebounds.
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Bulldogs break South Bend

Colfax did what it does. On the fifth snap of their first possession in their State 2B quarterfinal game at Gonzaga Prep Saturday afternoon, the Bulldogs turned a short swing pass into a 50-yard touchdown.