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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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Wallace defeats league rival for fourth

CALDWELL, Idaho – Many times the difference in basketball games comes down to one obvious statistic. It was certainly true Saturday morning when North Star League rivals Clark Fork and Wallace faced off for fourth in the State 1A boys basketball tournament.
News >  Idaho

Vikings make impressive showing at state tourney

About three hours before the Coeur d'Alene High wrestling team wrapped up a team trophy at the State 5A tournament last Saturday, Vikings coach Jeff Moffat was more than satisfied with his team's showing. Coeur d'Alene was in fourth place with a one-point lead over Caldwell going into the state championship matches.
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Vikings make title game

NAMPA, Idaho – Surely, there is room in the Coeur d'Alene High School trophy case for more state championship hardware. Trying to match what the girls did two weeks ago, the Coeur d'Alene boys advanced to the State 5A championship game with a hard-fought 65-57 win over Eagle in the semifinals Friday at the Idaho Center.
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Reserve Austin powers Vikings to win

NAMPA, Idaho – Nate Clinton deferred Thursday afternoon. When defending state champ Madison slapped a box-and-one on the 5-foot-7 senior guard, Clinton didn't get frustrated. That opened the door for a teammate to step up, and sophomore Devon Austin more than obliged.
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CdA boys use girls’ title as guide

The Coeur d'Alene High boys basketball team wants to do something that's been done just twice in the 5A classification in the last 31 years. It's been 25 years since it happened. Yes, winning a state championship is at the heart of the Vikings' desire.
News >  Voices

Post Falls wrestler ‘just fired on all cylinders’

The Booth clan, which has been sending wrestlers through Post Falls High School for nearly three decades, finally has a state championship to boast about. Ryan Booth broke through at the State 5A tournament last Saturday, capturing a state title at 152 pounds.
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Pepperdine works quickly on way to second state title

NAMPA, Idaho – Sandpoint senior Tim Pepperdine didn't spend much time in the Idaho Center. At least, he didn't spend a lot of time on the wrestling mats. Pepperdine earned a second straight 4A state title, pinning Kody Hansen of Nampa in 36 seconds at 119 pounds before an estimated crowd of 5,000.
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Vikings take 4th

NAMPA, Idaho – The Coeur d'Alene High wrestling team's pursuit of a 5A state trophy came down to its last match Saturday afternoon. Appropriately, senior Jesse Nielsen, a state runner-up a year ago, secured the fourth-place team trophy to go with an individual state championship before an estimated crowd of 5,000 at the Idaho Center.
News >  Idaho

A destiny fulfilled

All the heartbreak of having to miss her senior season because of knee surgery disappeared for 19.6 seconds Saturday evening for Deanna Dotts. With the State 5A championship secured, Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball coach Dale Poffenroth asked assistant Jamie Thacker to tell four players to report to the scorer's table. Dotts, who had gotten a doctor's release Saturday to be able to play, was among the four.
Sports

Mountain View on horizon of title

NAMPA, Idaho – The favored Mavericks of Mountain View ran roughshod over the State 5A wrestling tournament field Friday. Mountain View used both quality and quantity to all but clinch the state championship at the Idaho Center.
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At state, it will be quality vs. quantity

Before the season began, Lewiston coach Dan Maurer predicted that his team, along with Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene, could capture trophies at the State 5A tournament. Maurer isn't backing down from that statement. In fact, he sees his team contending for the state championship.
News >  Voices

PF team ends special season

POST FALLS – Jenny McVeigh knew it wouldn't be easy the last time she would be with her Post Falls High girls basketball team in the locker room Saturday before warm-ups for the State 5A tournament third-place game. "I was really emotional before the game," McVeigh said, wiping away tears. "I do our team prayers. I could barely get through it." McVeigh and her teammates bounced back from arguably their worst game of the season in a 61-50 semifinal loss to Vallivue on Friday to run away from Twin Falls 69-53 to earn a trophy.
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New priorities, but old goal

Ten years ago this week, Jared Lawrence put the finishing touches on a prep wrestling career at Sandpoint High School that still ranks second to none in Idaho. Lawrence captured a fourth straight state championship, culminating with a 133-0 record. He's also the only four-time champ in the history of the prestigious Tri-State tournament.
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CdA gets charmed championship

NAMPA, Idaho – Suffice to say, it was the charm. It may have taken a third try, but the Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team finally broke through Saturday evening. The second-ranked Vikings were too much for Vallivue, clipping the Falcons 61-47 in the State 5A championship game before an estimated crowd of 2,500 at the Idaho Center.
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Loper’s 33 points lead PF to third

NAMPA, Idaho – What a difference 17 hours made for the Post Falls High girls basketball team Saturday morning. After playing perhaps their worst game of the season Friday evening in the semifinals, the Trojans made sure they took a trophy home.
Sports

CdA in title game again

NAMPA, Idaho – The Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team will play in the State 5A championship game for a third straight year. It won't be an all-North Idaho showdown, though.
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Vikings stop No. 1

NAMPA, Idaho – Ali Johnson is thankful for another chance. The Coeur d'Alene High senior point guard has been making the most of her comeback from separate knee surgeries this season. Her latest installment lifted the second-ranked Vikings to a 55-50 win over No. 1-ranked Centennial (22-2) as the State 5A tournament began Thursday at the Idaho Center.
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CdA wouldn’t mind taking LC’s path

Dale Poffenroth hopes history repeats itself. No, not that history. Poffenroth and his Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team certainly want to play for the State 5A championship come Saturday. But the Vikings don't want to be the bridesmaid for a third straight year.
News >  Voices

High hopes for state title

You need a program to follow the Post Falls High wrestling team – or at least the family within the family, so to speak. The Booth family and wrestling have been synonymous, going back nearly three decades. Dads, uncles, brothers and cousins comprise the family tree that includes several branches of Booths and a limb or two of Bergers, Osts and Wrights. Combined, there have been 17 wrestlers at Post Falls and six female managers. And there are more of both coming with hopes of the tree reaching into a third generation.
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Vikings hold off late Timberwolves rally

That's all the Coeur d'Alene/Lake City boys basketball rivalry needed Wednesday. No. 1-ranked Coeur d'Alene held off a furious Lake City rally to clinch the Inland Empire League championship 56-55 in an intense finish before an estimated crowd of 1,400 at Elmer Jordan Court that will only ratchet up the rivalry another notch if it's possible.
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Viks survive, head to state

For a half, the Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team took the suspense right out of the 5A Region I winner-to-state, loser-out game Monday. Then in the fourth quarter, the Lewiston Bengals brought the suspense back, and the Vikings' red-flushed cheeks suddenly turned pale.
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Lewiston knocks out champion LC

The Lewiston High girls basketball team moved within a win of doing something no group of Bengals has done in 19 years – qualify for state. The task doesn't get any easier, but Lewiston took a giant step Saturday afternoon by knocking off defending state champ Lake City, 53-46, in a 5A Region I loser-out game at LC.
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Post Falls girls knock off Coeur d’ Alene

A year ago, Post Falls High post C.J. Schmidt sat on the bench with a season-ending knee injury when her team lost to Coeur d'Alene in the 5A Region I girls basketball tournament championship game. Then she watched Lake City knock off the Trojans in double overtime in a loser-out game in which Post Falls had a five-point lead with 30 seconds to go in regulation but couldn't close it out.
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NIC will seek national spots

The North Idaho College wrestling team will seek its 28th Region 18 tournament championship in the last 30 years when the national-qualifying tourney is held Saturday at Clackamas College in Oregon City, Ore. NIC coach Pat Whitcomb takes one of his youngest teams to the regional meet. He returned just one starter, sophomore 174-pounder Dino May of Cove, Ore. Although the seeding meeting isn't until today, Whitcomb expected No. 1 seeds for May; sophomore Tim McGoldrick (149), a transfer from Rider University; and freshmen Nektoe Demison (125), of Bakersfield, Calif.; and Moses Lake products Steve Vasquez (184) and Brett Fredrickson (197).