Greg Lee

The Lewiston High baseball team played like it didn't want to travel north again this season. Behind a dominating performance from right-handed ace Rob Roth, Lewiston secured the Inland Empire League championship by shutting out Lake City 4-0 in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday afternoon.

Sean Dorris abruptly resigned as Sandpoint High's head football coach Thursday, citing differences with the school's administration over needs for his program. Dorris said his players should be allowed to lift weights every day during the football season in the school's new block schedule system and that he should teach one weightlifting class each day. Dorris, a history teacher, said the administration wouldn't commit to his requests.

Inland Empire League-leading Lewiston arrived at Coeur d'Alene with a comfortable lead atop the conference Tuesday afternoon. Lewiston tiptoed out of Coeur d'Alene still possessing a comfortable lead even if the Bengals didn't demonstrate dominance.

It appeared as if junior Michael Armon picked up where he left off Saturday afternoon. The Coeur d'Alene High long-distance ace's comeback from major knee surgery was victorious. Armon pulled away from the 1,600-meter field with 300 to go, winning in a time of 4 minutes, 27.47 seconds at the sun-drenched third annual Lake City Invite.

Forgive the Lake City and Coeur d'Alene baseball teams if they felt like their Inland Empire League doubleheader Friday was much like a season opener. Games have been few and far between in what has been a too-wet spring as far as the teams are concerned.

The North Idaho College women's basketball team had some ready-made excuses if it didn't play well in its Region 18 tournament semifinal Friday. The Cardinals were playing for the first time in two weeks, and their top player, sophomore Sara Dennehy, was preoccupied with a death in the family.

With just one starter back from a team that qualified for state last season for the first time in 27 years, the Sandpoint High boys basketball team was picked to finish last in the seven-team Inland Empire League. The Bulldogs finished next to last, losing seven straight league games to conclude the regular season. Then they opened the Region I tournament with a loss.

It may not be evident by looking at its record, but the undefeated Post Falls Christian Academy boys basketball team has endured and overcome adversity this season. "We didn't have our full team all year," Eagles coach Tim Mitchell said. "We had somebody injured every game. We had to adjust almost every game. We never expected to go undefeated."

The Kellogg High boys basketball team is headed to state. Idaho High School Activities Association executive director Bill Young said Sunday that the referees' decision to assess a technical foul on Weiser for excessive timeouts was upheld.

Had Clark Fork boys basketball coach Brian Powell known that his team would have held undefeated Post Falls Christian to its lowest point total of the season, he would have thought his team had a chance Friday. But Powell's Wampus Cats couldn't manufacture much offense either, and the more experienced Eagles ultimately found their rhythm on their way to a 45-34 decision in the 1A District I championship game before a raucous crowd at Lakeland High School.

Adam Hall turned 18 years old Monday. But the Bonners Ferry High wrestling phenom postponed his party. Hall wants to have a party Saturday evening, somewhere near Pocatello.

One wouldn't call the Bonners Ferry-Kellogg boys basketball rivalry friendly. But bitter isn't the apt description either. More like intense and healthy.

NAMPA, Idaho – There was the natural disappointment with losing. But that was quickly replaced by the realization of accomplishment. Garden Valley slowed down Wallace's inside game in general and put a muzzle on Lisa Carver in particular in the second half as the Wolverines held off the Miners 54-48 in the State 1A tournament girls basketball championship game Saturday afternoon at the Idaho Center.

It had all the makings of one of the most lopsided matchups in state history. After all, it was undefeated and top-ranked Vallivue taking on Moscow, which brought a sub-500 record into the State 4A girls championship game Saturday at Nampa.

NAMPA, Idaho – It didn't have the fairytale ending that Kellogg desired, but that didn't seem to faze the self-proclaimed Cinderella 'Cats. Shelley, a team familiar with state championship games, played like it had been to the Idaho Center before as the Russets prevailed 49-44 in a physically sloppy State 3A girls basketball championship game Saturday afternoon.