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Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Basketball teams log solid first half

Three of the four area Division I teams have reached the halfway point of their conference schedules, and the news is good for all. Gonzaga made it through the West Coast Conference not only unscathed but with an average winning margin of 23.1 points in its bid to win an unprecedented fifth straight title. The Zags play five of their last seven games at home.
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Stanford’s VanDerveer a changed coach

Tongues were wagging at the NCAA women’s basketball Final Four last March because Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer seemed to be enjoying the moment more than anyone else in Tampa, Fla. “She’s showing more emotion than I’ve seen her show in postseason,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said before their championship game meeting. “I think that’s a good thing for her team.”
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Athletic community weighs in on national tragedy

The Super Bowl may be the end of the 2008 football season, but the first play of the 2009 season is under way. A Kentucky high school coach pleaded not guilty Monday to reckless homicide in the heat-related death of a 15-year-old player who died during an August practice.
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Then & Now: Art has become Homer’s passion

When we last heard from Mike Homer, the Lafayette freshman had just dropped 22 points on a Maryland team that was on its way to a No. 5 ranking early in the 1996-97 basketball season. Like the Terps, Homer faded after that.
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15-0 run helps GU beat LMU

Comparing Gonzaga, leader of the West Coast Conference women’s basketball standings, and Loyola Marymount, the team that would seem to be the best bet to keep the Bulldogs from winning a fifth straight title, indicated the Saturday afternoon matchup at McCarthey Athletic Center should have been a barn-burner. Both teams averaged 72.2 points a game and weren’t very far apart in most other categories.
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Then & Now: Running at St. George’s led to traveling the world

You would probably have to be a running fanatic – and possess an incredible memory – to remember the name Heidi Caspersen. As a senior at St. George’s she was 13th in the State A/B cross country meet and placed in both distance races in the 1985 State B track meet.
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Appleton sees WSU turnaround as senior

Take your pick for most famous native of Apple Valley, Calif. – Roy Rogers and Dale Evans or APHS graduate Cuba Gooding Jr., but one day soon Katie Appleton could at least be queen for a day. The Washington State senior is poised to set the school’s career record for 3-pointers and become the 12th member of the Cougars’ 1,000-point club (she’s 43 points short).
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Waiting his turn pays off

There is a slight sense of impatience seeping out of the laid-back nature of easy-going Calvin Jurich. It has nothing to do with his life thus far.
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Johnnie Bevan’s career back on the ice

Memo to Chamber of Commerce: Call Johnnie Bevan. He might be a better sell for Spokane than Near Nature, Near Perfect. The one-time world-class skater has name recognition. He has been around, competing in eight U.S. Figure Skating Championships and World Championships in South Korea and Hungry.
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Western dropping football a surprise

Western Washington football players were lifting weights Thursday morning, their sights set on next season. A couple of hours later the weight of the world came down on them when they attended a mandatory meeting and were told the school was dropping football.
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Lobos, Hartill make excellent match

New Mexico has proven to be everything Angela Hartill wanted when the Riverside graduate decided to continue her basketball career in Albuquerque. “It’s a great program, awesome support, a good business school because I’m majoring in accounting. All in all it has turned out good,” the senior said on the eve of opening her final tour through the Mountain West Conference. “And I don’t miss the snow at all.”
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Zags head to WCC off victory

Well, there was that one little stretch in the second half, but other than that the message from the final Gonzaga women’s non-conference basketball game was: Look out. The Bulldogs head into West Coast Conference play next week riding the high of a 93-70 dismantling of Saint Joseph’s before 1,611 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center on Friday night.
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Bjorklund leads Vols in return

Angie Bjorklund did not disappoint. The same can’t be said for Gonzaga, which dropped a 77-58 decision to eighth-ranked Tennessee Tuesday night before the first women’s basketball sellout of 6,000 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center.
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Lady Vols pull away in 2nd half

Angie Bjorklund did not disappoint. The same can’t be said for Gonzaga, which dropped a 77-58 decision to eighth-ranked Tennessee Tuesday night before the first women’s basketball sellout of 6,000 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center.
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Zags lure Vols into deep-freeze

It’s not easy to upstage the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team, but Mother Nature was giving it her best shot Monday. The eighth-ranked Lady Vols (9-2) were a half-hour late to practice for tonight’s matchup with Gonzaga (11-3) because of bus problems in snow-clogged downtown Spokane.
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K-State pulls away from Cougars

PULLMAN – The young, upset-minded Washington State women’s basketball team was down two points as the clock dipped under the 10-minute mark of the second half, but it was no sweat for 22nd-ranked Kansas State. Or maybe too much Sweat.
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WSU’s Bemis has to bow out

The most valuable player on Washington State’s team is retiring midseason. Effective immediately Brynn Bemis is turning in her uniform.
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Bulldogs women cruise

The weather outside was frightful, the basketball inside was almost as bad. Gonzaga shot 33 percent but had no trouble dispatching Wyoming 67-36 Monday night before 1,462 hardy fans at McCarthey Athletic Center in a non-conference women’s game.
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Spokane County residents hit rodeo jackpot

Ryan Gray and Tyson Durfey have left themselves very little wiggle room. If they want to accomplish much more than they did in 2008 they’re going to be world champion cowboys, which is what they are aiming for.
Sports >  Gonzaga women

GU women clamp down on Vikings

There were two points of emphasis for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team heading into its Sunday afternoon game against Portland State at McCarthey Athletic Center. By the end there was another.
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Cardinals claim Clash

The difference between the No. 6 team in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges and the No. 20 team in the nation? Try 18 points.
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Murrell, PSU at GU

It should be an interesting break from finals at McCarthey Athletic Center. Gonzaga faces unknown but highly regarded South Dakota State on Friday night and Portland State Sunday afternoon.
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Rodeo champion found higher calling in Texas

Jeff Copenhaver found out being on top of the world wasn’t the pinnacle of life. Though many factors played into the reason his life changed direction, nothing had a bigger impact than winning the 1975 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association world championship in tie-down calf roping.