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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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This just in: Hawks still out in the cold

Pardon me for interrupting my regularly scheduled column. I have the Great Northern League on Line 1 and the Northeast A on Line 2. Both are curious to find out if Lakeland would like to join their league.
Sports

Vikings advance to state

Coeur d’Alene High boys coach Eric Louis knew his young team would have growing pains this season. Louis never lost faith or became inpatient. The reward came Wednesday when the second-seeded Vikings upset No. 1 Lake City 2-1 in a shootout as Coeur d’Alene captured its second straight 5A Region I title.
Sports

CV drubs Post Falls

It was the kind of football game the Central Valley Bears needed with a big showdown looming. Central Valley coach Rick Giampietri, in fact, called it one of the best games his Bears have played this season.
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Giving her all

Sadie Simon has constructed quite an athletic resume at Coeur d’Alene High School. She’s been a four-year starter in soccer and a three-year starter and four-year letterman in basketball. She’s played instrumental roles in state championships in both sports and also has two state runner-up finishes in basketball.
Sports

Bulldogs benefit from tie

Even though it has yet to be decided which 5A Inland Empire League girls soccer team is the best, Sandpoint captured the league championship Thursday. The visiting Bulldogs needed no worse than a tie to wrangle the league title and top seeding to the Region I tournament from Coeur d’Alene, and Sandpoint got a second-half equalizer from standout Bailey Hewitt to forge a 1-1 tie.
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Hawks’ sweeper has team cleaning up on competition

Lakeland senior Camille Reynolds, one of the Hawks’ top players on a richly talented team, paused before talking about junior defender Bailey Thompson. “She’s a pretty flawless player,” Reynolds said. “She really never makes any mistakes.”
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Lakeland has seen error of its ways

First, I have to offer truth in disclosure here. Last winter I wrote that I endorsed Lakeland’s withdrawal from the Inland Empire League. At the time, I said 4A Lakeland was in over its head against the league’s four 5A schools.
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Taking her game to a new level

Coeur d’Alene High volleyball coach Carly Curtis knows most NCAA Division I colleges have concluded their recruiting for the 2009 senior class. The way it works today, colleges seek oral commitments from seniors in their junior years.
Sports

T-Wolves holds off Trojans

The Lake City and Post Falls football teams have been slow starters for the most part this season. So the way Lake City coach Van Troxel figured it, his team needed to be ready to play when it stepped off the bus Friday.
Sports

Switch vitalizes Timberwolves

Lake City boys soccer coach Chad Beadell is finally seeing the reward of switching offensive formations in midstream. Beadell wanted to put the Timberwolves in a position to have more offensive options. He made the switch halfway through the season, and the T-Wolves enjoyed plenty of opportunities Thursday.
Sports

Football teams get progress reports

North Idaho football teams have concluded one month of play with the final month of regular-season action remaining. So I thought it would be worthwhile to evaluate where some of the teams stand in my perspective based on my preseason expectations.
News >  Voices

Outstanding in his field

When the final horn sounds at the end of Timberlake High School football games, Ammon Johnston is worn out, his uniform is drenched in sweat and he’s ready to go to bed. His Monday-through-Friday routine allows him few breaks, on and off the field. But Johnston wouldn’t have it any other way.
Sports

Vikings fall in double OT

Coeur d’Alene High football coach Shawn Amos knew September could be a difficult month. His Vikings concluded the month with back-to-back losses. But the way the Vikings played Friday in a 14-13 double-overtime loss to visiting Centennial could go far in helping them right the ship.
Sports

Future of HS sports is one of decline

You’ll find more questions than answers here today. Things have changed since I went to high school. I know I’m old and it was seemingly light years ago that I darkened the halls of high school. But these days we have club sports for almost every high school sport.
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Kicking it into high gear

Tim Kiefer would have never thought he’d see the day a kicker would play a deciding role in a Lakeland High School football game. Until John Novak came around three years ago, Lakeland’s method of picking a kicker was to hold a one-day tryout to see who could kick the farthest.
News >  Voices

Exceptional decision

SANDPOINT – Bailey Hewitt is thankful that Sandpoint High School allowed her the opportunity to play soccer. Sandpoint had to make an exception so Hewitt could continue to attend Clark Fork High and play the sport she loves the most. For Hewitt to play, Sandpoint had to count 1A Clark Fork’s enrollment, moving from 4A to 5A.
Sports

Sandpoint stuns CdA

They call themselves the Dirty Thirty. The Sandpoint High football team suits up 30, and most see playing time.
Sports

CdA’s Gomez has entire state on the run

Sports teams – particularly collegiate basketball teams – have this propensity to talk about defending their home court. You’ve heard the statement before: not in our house. I’m not sure where it was birthed, but it’s even seeped down to the prep ranks.
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Post Falls senior credits former coach for his play

Longtime Post Falls High football coach Jerry Lee no longer roams the sidelines, but his occasional throaty roars linger on the playing and practice fields. Lee retired at the end of the 2007-08 school year, but senior Austin Tate swears he can still hear his former offensive line coach.
Sports

State champ Gomez coasts at Silverwood

Coeur d’Alene sophomore Kinsey Gomez had a bunch of butterflies tickling her tummy moments before the rematch Saturday morning. Whatever nerves Gomez had quickly dissipated, though, as the Idaho defending 5A state cross country champ cruised to victory at the Silverwood Coaster Cross.
Sports

Ferris beats G-Prep

The multidimensional Ferris Saxons were too much for single-dimensional Gonzaga Prep. Nine different Saxons caught passes as Ferris pulled away 37-13 in the Greater Spokane League football game Friday at G-Prep.
Sports

Inspired win

Coeur d’Alene High standout outside hitter Kama Griffitts had an expanded fan club at the Vikings’ Inland Empire League match Thursday against crosstown rival Lake City. Griffitts’ older sister, Jenna Leggat, is a 6-foot junior outside hitter for Weber State University. Leggat and her teammates stopped by Elmer Jordan Court to watch Kama after arriving in town for a tournament tonight and Saturday at Gonzaga.
Sports

More tests ahead for Handle teams

Things could get worse before they get better for the 5A football teams in Kootenai County. But there’s no reason to be alarmed. Sure, Lewiston is off to the best start of the Inland Empire League bunch at 2-0. But the Bengals’ schedule is soft and will remain that way until mid-October.