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Zags hold off Eastern behind Shives, Bowman

Kelly Graves didn’t have much problem pinpointing his basketball team’s problems. There were too many turnovers, too many offensive rebounds and too many second-half fouls.
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Three local cowboys in National Finals Rodeo

Nerves shouldn’t be a factor for three local cowboys when the 50th annual National Finals Rodeo opens tonight at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. All three 25-year-olds have experience at the 10-day rodeo that offers $5.625 million in prize money for the 120 competitors in seven events.
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GSL a D-I hotbed

Two Lewis and Clark girls signed letters of intent last month to play Division I basketball, bringing the number of top-notch Tigers going to D-I to seven spread over five seasons. It’s no wonder LC has three straight State 4A titles, preceded by a third-place finish.
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Competitive to the core

Any pain, physical or mental, seems long gone. Tricia Lamb sounds as happy as she did when St. John-Endicott was a State B girls basketball power and she accepted a scholarship to play basketball at Washington State.
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Tournaments lure teams

The best part of Thanksgiving, after family, feast and leftovers, is basketball, especially at the college level. It’s tournament time, when most teams get more than one game per trip, which can be to an exotic locale, with some marquee matchups mixed in.
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Two-minute offense gives Royal victory

Unfortunately, there are no moral victories in playoff football. With just less than 10 minutes remaining Royal moved wide receiver Blair Collins to tailback and went into its 2-minute offense.
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Hartill starts senior year on strong note

New Mexico is shooting for its eighth straight trip to the NCAA tournament under Don Flanagan, which means Riverside grad Angela Hartill could make it a career of going to the dance. Flanagan’s take on the 6-foot-3 post who averaged 6.4 points and 3.0 rebounds last season: “a player that comes into her own her senior year. She’s always been in the shadows. She has an inside-outside game, which makes her unique, hard to defend.”
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Volleyball family

Brandy Barratt has always been all about volleyball, and so far her life has played out close to perfect. She has been there and done that.
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Cheney drops squeaker

In playoff soccer, opportunities seem to be few and far between. That was the case Saturday afternoon at Gonzaga Prep when Cedarcrest and Cheney squared off in the quarterfinals of the State 2A girls tournament.
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Freshman leads Wildcats to state

John Reid, tongue planted firmly in cheek, said Mt. Spokane won the 3A regional volleyball championship Saturday at his school because of his coaching. However, the way freshman Annie Arnzen played wasn’t a joke.
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Hull steers CCS men

Starting over is natural in junior college athletics and that is especially true for the Community Colleges of Spokane men’s basketball team. That might be a good thing for new head coach Clint Hull, whose path to Spokane was a little unique, to say the least.
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WSU women’s basketball signs Moore, Noyes

Ki-Shawna (Ki-Ki) Moore, a 5-foot-8 guard who helped Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep of San Francisco to a mythical national championship, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Washington State next season. She joins 6-5 center Carly Noyes of Moses Lake to make up half of the Cougars’ projected recruiting class.
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Cougars have high hopes

Before June Daugherty ever coached a women’s basketball game for Washington State, the veteran coach’s arrival was heralded as “the new championship era.” The first step in making that a reality didn’t materialize on the court, where the Cougars went 5-25, 2-16 in the Pac-10. The real progress was made in recruiting.
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LC state titlists, 40 years apart

Oh, yeah, there was that other guy. So many details have faded in the 40 years between Lewis and Clark’s football championships, but Bob Leslie remembers enough.
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EV advances in 3A playoffs

East Valley’s 43-14 romp over visiting Shadle Park on Friday night in a play-in game for the State 3A football playoffs was decided early. In September.
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It ran in the family

It was hard keeping up with any of the distance-running Davis brothers during their days at Mead, as evidenced by the 10 individual state championships they won, to say nothing of the 10 team titles in track and cross country they contributed to. It’s still hard keeping up with Nathan, Matthew and Micah, who ran in college and then kept right on running around until finally settling into their jobs.
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Going to extremes

More than a month after completing his first 100-mile race, Robert Towne was feeling the effects on his body – and plotting an ultra ultra. “Maybe it’s my age,” the 56-year-old Bureau of Land Management employee said. “I can’t get enough rest. The first couple of days I was pretty numb, physically and mentally.”
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Passion found in Pittsburgh

The passion for football has returned for Jeff Ogden. When the string played out on his playing career, the former Eastern Washington standout tried his hand at coaching, but he did too much too quickly – four jobs in less than two years – and simply burned out.
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Titans mix, match to title

It almost goes without saying that the star of the Greater Spokane League slowpitch softball championship game was going to be unexpected. When Central Valley and University squared off at U-Hi Thursday afternoon, three all-league infielders were en route to a showcase fastpitch tournament in California.
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Graves, GU get dialed in

The e-mail from Milwaukee arrived in Bismarck, N.D., with the note, “Mom, check this out!” Glenna Mueller typed in her name and phone number and then watched a video unfold for Gonzaga women’s basketball. She said it was spooky when her named appeared on her computer screen, more so when her phone rang seconds later with Bulldogs coach Kelly Graves on the line with a recorded pitch.
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Emerson sets sights on Spokane

In Roy Emerson’s years as a globe-trotting tennis star and an in-demand instructor he has never been to the Inland Northwest. He’s checking off another destination on his travel log this weekend during a special event at the Spokane Racquet Club on the South Hill.
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Football still a big kick

Mike Hollis gave up the pressure of kicking footballs in the National Football League because of injuries. He still makes his living kicking footballs, but the pressure has changed. Instead of trying to win games to keep food on the table for teammates and coaches, to say nothing about the mental well-being of thousands of fans, he hopes enough aspiring kickers sign up for his camp to feed his own family.
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A feast of courses

Toward the end of each cross country postseason, veteran Riverside coach Bill Kemp has his runners write an essay and identify their favorite course from that season. After 29 years, Kemp has pinpointed which courses qualify as the favorites in the area.
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Then & Now: Darryl Genest

Darryl Genest can look back on his high school career and wonder what if. He was the top runner for Mead in the early 1980s, before the Panthers developed into a distance dynasty. Then, as now, competition in the Greater Spokane League was stiff, and though he ran No. 1 on the team for two seasons, Genest never made it to state in track or cross country.