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Reardan repeats as State 2B girls champion

The 2012 State 2B girls basketball championship may have been decided in the 2011 title game. Locked in a tense battle with the Brewster Bears and Chandler Smith, the Reardan Indians defended their title by scoring the last 11 points to pull out a 65-57 victory, their 31st in a row, at the Arena Saturday night.
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Reardan girls power past Adna

Reardan’s slow-starting offense was the equal of its suffocating defense Friday night and that added up to trouble for Adna. Big trouble.
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Usually high-scoring Reardan uses defense to win opener

Reardan began defense of its State 2B girls basketball championship with defense. Despite an offense that failed to reach 50 points for just the second time this season, the top-ranked Indians smothered Bear Creek 49-24 Thursday morning in the tournament opener at the Arena.
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Stage definitely bigger

Trish Harnetiaux could only laugh when a friend she hadn’t seen in years came to a stop outside her window seat at a downtown Spokane coffee shop to mouth, “Trish Harnetiaux, is that you?” That just doesn’t happen in Brooklyn, and Harnetiaux, 36, who hasn’t lived in Spokane since graduating from Lewis and Clark in 1993, is definitely a New Yorker.
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Holdin’ down the fort

Jennifer Williams never really worried about taking her own path but it wasn’t that long ago that she realized where the strength to make her own way came from. “I think being involved in athletics as a female is great because it gives you a lot of confidence,” the former Gonzaga Prep standout said. “You have to work hard; have to learn to deal with situations on your own. My own personal successes, in career, in life, I can trace all the way back to playing soccer as a small kid.”
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Lights, camera …

A professional football career never panned out following a record-setting career as a wide receiver at Eastern Washington University, but Tony Brooks has never lost the thirst for competition. He built a successful career as a State Farm Insurance agent, which in turn allowed him to land a national commercial for the company.
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Family resemblance

Just from their experience in Spokane it might seem as if success came easily to Kirsti and Soren Olson. They had the charmed lives of standout students and athletes at Lewis and Clark High School who went on to play volleyball for the University of Southern California back in the ’90s.
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She’s a wife and mother now

It might have been the quickest interview for a “Then and Now” subject. “Then: young and vibrant,” Andee Schmick wrote. “Now: old and tired.”
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Chiefs’ shakeup sends leading scorer to Prince Albert

Looking to shake things up, the Spokane Chiefs made a big move Wednesday morning, sending leading scorer Anthony Bardaro to Prince Albert for help in goal. To pick up goalie Eric Williams, the Chiefs also sent backup goalie Luke Lee-Knight back to the Raiders, along with the fifth-round Bantam Draft pick they got when they traded Tyler Vanscourt to Prince Albert for Lee-Knight in September.
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Area women’s teams start conference play

When it comes to West Coast Conference women’s basketball it’s all about Gonzaga. The Bulldogs deserve it. They’ve won seven straight WCC titles and have a winning streak of 30 straight league games – which stretches to 36 against league opponents, courtesy of the WCC tournament.
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Don’t overlook Cooper

When Chene Cooper is on the basketball court, she’s almost always the center of attention. It starts because she’s the furthest thing there is from a center – they don’t make 5-foot posts in college basketball.
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EWU’s Cooper knows how to draw attention

When Chene Cooper is on the basketball court she’s almost always the center of attention. It starts because she’s the furthest thing there is from a center – they don’t make 5-foot posts in college basketball.
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Louisville holds off Cougars

PULLMAN – Washington State didn’t get too many breaks down the stretch but the Cougars kept clawing until an unusual ending allowed No. 14 Louisville to escape Beasley Coliseum with a 75-71 women’s basketball win Monday. The Cougars, on the verge of being buried down the stretch, closed to within 73-71 with 12 seconds left and appeared to have forced a turnover on a tie-up when they trapped Shoni Schimmel in the corner. However, the referee in front of the Louisville bench gave the Cardinals a timeout with 4.5 seconds to go.
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Louisville holds on to beat WSU

Washington State didn’t get too many breaks down the stretch but the Cougars kept clawing until an unusual ending allowed No. 14 Louisville to escape Beasley Coliseum with a 75-71 women’s basketball win Monday.
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Inconsistent Chiefs lose 8-6

There’s a good chance that the next time the Spokane Chiefs play at home they’ll look different, maybe a lot different. Although the Western Hockey League doesn’t allow trades from the end of their deceiving 8-6 loss to Portland Saturday night at the Arena until after Christmas, the Chiefs play four road games, starting Dec. 27, before returning home Jan. 6, which is just a couple of days shy of the trade deadline.
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Spokane Chiefs down Everett in overtime

The Spokane Chiefs brought the Czech mix, but the party didn’t start until Steven Kuhn arrived. After the lowly Everett Silvertips forced overtime, Kuhn weaved his way through the defense and beat Kent Simpson with 46 seconds left to produce a 3-2 Western Hockey League win before 4,231 fans at the Arena.
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Gonzaga women look for signature win against Georgia

Gonzaga has won too many games in the NCAA tournament the past three seasons – six, to be exact – to put too much emphasis on one game in December. But that doesn’t mean the Bulldogs (7-2) aren’t pointing toward Monday’s matchup with 13th-ranked Georgia (8-1) in Las Vegas.
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Top 25 opponents next for GU, WSU women

Gonzaga has won too many games in the NCAA Tournament the last three seasons – six to be exact – to put too much emphasis on one game in December. But that doesn’t mean the Bulldogs (7-2) aren’t pointing toward Monday’s matchup with 13th ranked Georgia (8-1) in Las Vegas.
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Proctor endures painful journey

Befitting a world champion, Shane Proctor was being chauffeured across the country on Monday but he would have much rather had his hands on the wheel. Proctor wasn’t driving, he was reclining in the back seat admiring his new gold belt buckle, because of the pain killers he was taking for the broken arm he suffered just minutes after winning the bull riding championship at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo on Saturday night in Las Vegas.