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Greg Lee

Greg Lee

Current Position: Sports correspondent

Longtime high school sports reporter Greg Lee is now a freelance writer covering Gonzaga women's basketball, Whitworth football and high school sports for The Spokesman-Review.

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Bears find balance

The Central Valley girls basketball players are an infusion of many admirable skills and traits. Perhaps none shines more than their unselfishness. Seven players have led in scoring this season. The one player who is a candidate for first-team all-league, sophomore guard Brooke Gallaway, is averaging a team-leading 13.5 points per game. Six other players average 4.6 points or more.
Sports

GSL could get messy

The Greater Spokane League boys and girls basketball championships could be decided tonight when teams conclude regular-season play. Or things could be a jumbled mess requiring a tiebreaking procedure that involves measuring quality wins to decide seeding into next week’s district tournaments.
Sports

Loper leaves Post Falls with smile

It’s too bad that Spokane girls basketball followers have had just a brief glimpse of someone Inland Empire League fans have watched and respected for four years. Outside of the state of Idaho – most specifically, North Idaho – Post Falls senior Katelyn Loper isn’t well known. She made enough of an impression on coaches from Hofstra University (Hempstead, N.Y.) at a summer tournament last year, though, to merit a scholarship offer. Loper will take her game to the East Coast Division I school next year.
Sports

Mead turns tables on LC

The first time the Lewis and Clark and Mead girls faced off this season, the three-time state champion LC Tigers throttled the Panthers 80-50. Mead coach Regan Drew asked her players to flush that game from their memory.
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G-Prep takes over first alone

The final score of the Gonzaga Prep-Mead boys basketball game Thursday didn’t do it justice. For 31/2 quarters, the Greater Spokane League co-leaders found themselves locked in a tug of war.
Sports

Bengals cash in at right time

Just when most thought the opening round of the 5A Region I girls basketball tournament was going to be held at Coeur d’Alene High School, Lewiston spoiled the plan. Lewiston knocked off the Vikings 45-42 at CdA on Tuesday, forging a co-championship for the 5A Inland Empire League honors. That necessitated a coin flip and the Bengals won it as well.
Sports

Cardinals drop GNL for football

Fun fact: When you combine the initials of my name you get this – GSL. As a co-worker suggested, perhaps I was destined for the new job. •I’m back from a one-week furlough.
Sports

More positive signs

A handful of area football and soccer athletes signed letters of intent Wednesday. Greater Spokane League football standouts Kjelby Oiland and Trevor Poole of State 4A finalist Ferris and Bo Tully of Mead are headed out of state.
Sports

Lewiston grabs share of IEL title

The Lewiston girls basketball team upset two-time state champ Coeur d’Alene 45-42 in the 5A Inland Empire League regular-season finale for both teams at Elmer Jordan Court Tuesday. Then the Bengals won a coin flip for the top seed in the regional tournament, which begins Friday.
Sports

U-Hi’s Mason finds path

After one match in his freshman wrestling season, Jake Mason of University had to quit because of a ruptured testicle that swelled to the size of a grapefruit. At that point, immaturity took over. Without being able to participate in the sport he loved, Mason lost direction.
Sports

Golden partners move to forefront

They ascended the mountain that is United States ice dancing. Now Meryl Davis and Charlie White will take on the world. Davis and White unseated the couple that has dominated American ice dance figure skating the past decade for the first time head-to-head Saturday as they captured the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships before a spirited crowd of 8,090 at the Spokane Arena.
Sports

Getting a skate up

 The newest darlings of United States ice dancing took a big step toward knocking off the king and queen of the American figure skating discipline and securing their first berth to the Olympics. Meryl Davis and Charlie White remained in first overall in original dance, scoring 68.11 points and boosting their total to 113.53 on Friday at the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships before a Spokane Arena crowd of 7,898.
Sports

Ice dancers Davis, White look golden

The Ice Dancing favorites quickly sucked out all the drama for first and second at the 2010 U.S. Figure Championships during the Seniors compulsory dance Thursday at the Spokane Arena. Oh, there’s this business of crowning the national championship pair, but even that may be decided after the personal-best performance put on by defending champs Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
Sports

Davis-White look Golden

The Ice Dancing favorites quickly sucked out all the drama for first and second at the 2010 U.S. Figure Championships during the Seniors compulsory dance Thursday at the Spokane Arena.
Sports

Notebook: Coeur d’Alene’s Buttrey finally gets her chance

Coeur d’Alene senior basketball player Amanda Buttrey is making the most of her opportunity. The 5-foot-7 guard found herself caught behind a deep, talented group of guards as a sophomore and junior. She had a varsity uniform and suited up for all of the games. But she spent the majority of the time on the junior varsity.
Sports

Presley sparks G-Prep

Tia Presley made 3-pointers. Tia Presley made driving basket after driving basket. And Tia Presley made free throws. Whatever the Gonzaga Prep junior wanted to do, she did – and Lewis and Clark didn’t have an answer.