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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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Lake City not thrilled with win

Rematch or refund? That had to be two of the thoughts in the minds of many of the folks who watched the Lake City-Coeur d'Alene football game Friday. The 5A Inland Empire League opener was nothing short of hideous.
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Lake City escapes against rival

Both the Lake City and Coeur d'Alene football teams did all they could to give each other the game Friday. Seriously. More on that later.
Sports

Lake City holds on

Both the Lake City and Coeur d'Alene football teams did all they could do to give each other the game Friday. Seriously. More on that later.
Sports

Teamwork carries CdA

Tarragh Carr knew the opportunity would come. Her Coeur d'Alene High girls soccer team had dominated the ball most of the Inland Empire League match against visiting Lakeland, including hitting a goal post or two on a gorgeous Thursday afternoon.
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Panhandle Picks with Greg Lee

OK, cut me some slack here. I didn't win last week – and for those counting at home, that's three weeks straight and four out of five – but I can hold my head high.
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Coeur d’ Alene gets set to take on rival Lake City

Five minutes after his team had just put the finishing touches on Lakeland 35-14 in a non-league football game Friday, Coeur d'Alene coach Shawn Amos was poised to get back to work immediately. A reporter asked Amos how soon he was going to start studying his next opponent, No. 1-ranked Lake City, at Coeur d'Alene next Friday.
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Viks bury Hawks

In high school football's version of rock/paper/scissors, speed always tops size. Smaller but fleet-footed Coeur d'Alene turned a slow start into a late sprint from bigger Lakeland as the Vikings celebrated homecoming with a 35-14 victory Friday in a non-league game at Viking Field before an estimated crowd of 2,000.
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These eight are great

Ask any high school coach in any sport about his or her team's potential and at some point the answer will address the seniors. How far a team progresses during a season many times is decided by the seniors.
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Kremer’s penalty kick lifts Timberwolves

The Lake City High girls soccer team knocked off its rival Tuesday without one shot on goal. The visiting Timberwolves used a penalty kick by junior Ciara Kremer to stop Inland Empire League-leading Coeur d'Alene 1-0.
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Wolves have reason to smile

As far as Lake City High football coach Van Troxel is concerned, his Timberwolves' 49-31 win over Sandpoint was one of the most enjoyable in the school's 12-year history. The reason is simple – it was homecoming, and historically Troxel's Timberwolves haven't played well during homecoming.
Sports

A flash, not a flash in the pan

Frank Lagrimanta opened the 2006 cross country season as if he were chasing something that barely eluded him the year before. The Timberlake High senior won at the Post Falls River Run two weeks ago, beating 2004 5A state champion Michael Armon of Coeur d'Alene. He followed the win up last Saturday by winning at the Coaster Cross at Silverwood, topping 2005 5A state champ Sawyer Bosch of Borah.
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Lake City outlasts rival

With the nucleus of her team from a year ago back, Lake City High volleyball coach Jen Owen has higher expectations in many ways. One thing Owen won't settle for is a run-of-the-mill win.
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CdA recommends Stangel

A former California police officer will be recommended for hire as Coeur d'Alene High's head baseball coach. Chris Stangel was selected over three Coeur d'Alene assistant coaches, Coeur d'Alene athletic director Larry Schwenke said. Schwenke said Stangel's hiring is pending approval by the school board.
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T-Wolves roll again

It's not that it's a bad pattern, but Lake City High football coach Van Troxel would prefer faster starts. For the third game in a row, the Timberwolves needed a half to get untracked. For the third game in a row, Lake City pulled away in the final two quarters.
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Ready for the long haul

It's not the start Jen Owen envisioned. It started like this last year, an opening-match loss by her Lake City High volleyball team to Lewiston.
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Trojans stop Bulldogs

SANDPOINT – The game of football often times can be too complex, especially at the high school level. Many times, the winner is determined by which team tackles best or worst – depending on how one looks at it.
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Passing mark

If Coeur d'Alene High football coach Shawn Amos had his druthers, he'd run the ball 75 percent of the time. Amos, a battering ram of a running back in his day at Moscow, doesn't have a choice this season. He won't even try to find a balance between run and pass.
Sports

Look out for the Tigers

Timberlake High football coach Roy Albertson doesn't know what all the fuss is about. He could return all of his starters from a state championship team and he wouldn't think his team should be picked to win the Intermountain League title.
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Panhandle picks with Greg Lee

Well, I'm already down one lunch thanks to the dreaded tiebreaker. My first guest, Lakeland High athletic director Will Havercroft, and I tied by picking five of the six games correctly. But Havercroft had Lake City beating defending state champ Meridian by a wider margin than I did.
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Wallace, Kootenai lead way

When Wallace High dropped from 2A to 1A two years ago, Miners football coach Dave Rounds expected his team to be an immediate power in the smaller ranks. The Miners have made the 1A Division I playoffs the last two years, but they haven't been the big bully in the North Star League that Rounds anticipated.
Sports

Lake City favored again

The Lake City High football team is the clear-cut favorite to win the 5A Inland Empire League championship and advance to the state playoffs for a 10th straight season. The Timberwolves more than backed up that prediction with their season-opening shutout of defending 5A state champion Meridian. In fact, the 23-0 win at Meridian may have launched LC from state-title contender to the arguably the team to beat overnight.
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Road likely travels through Sandpoint again

There's no mistaking which school has dominated Inland Empire League boys and girls soccer in recent years. The main north/south highway in the Panhandle winds through Sandpoint. It's there that the road to conference championships ended last year.
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CdA outlasts Sandpoint

As season openers go, the non-league football game Friday between Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene didn't disappoint. The contest was chock-full of the bizarre and the wacky. In the end, though, the more seasoned program prevailed.
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Lake City at Meridian highlights opening night

Eleven North Idaho high school football teams step under the lights for the first time tonight. In two games in Kootenai County, Sandpoint visits Coeur d'Alene and Bonners Ferry treks to Lakeland.
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Zeiger dominates Ironman

The problem with leading from the start in an Ironman event is the ever pressing fear of being overtaken at some point. Joanna Zeiger raced with that anxiety in the back of her mind Sunday at the 2006 Ford Ironman Coeur d'Alene. But Zeiger got far enough out front that the chasers didn't see her during most of the biggest portion of the three-discipline event, the 112-mile bike ride.