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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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Post Falls boys sprint to win over Lakeland

The Post Falls High boys and girls basketball teams and their fans hogged most of the fun Thursday at the 10th annual Battle for the Prairie Pig. The Post Falls boys used a 21-0 run over two quarters in the first half to knock the starch out of visiting Lakeland as the Trojans cruised to a 74-50 win in an Inland Empire League game before an estimated crowd of 2,500 at The Arena.
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Stated intentions

Going into the 2004-05 season, the Lake City High girls basketball program had built a tradition of qualifying for state. The Timberwolves' trophy case has six trophies, including state-title hardware from the school's first year in 1994-95.
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Bengals top Vikings, stay perfect

Dave Cornelia stopped just short of apologizing after his Lewiston High boys basketball team rallied to knock off a spirited, but young Coeur d'Alene 80-74 in overtime Tuesday. "I think I lost about 12 pounds and three years after that baby," said Cornelia, whose second-ranked Bengals improved to 12-0 overall and a league-leading 4-0 following the key Inland Empire League game played before an estimated crowd of 600 at Elmer Jordan Court.
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Viks bitten by LC again

It took 12 games – including two big Inland Empire League wins over their crosstown rival – but the Lake City Timberwolves may finally have found an identity under new coach Jim Thacker. For the offensively challenged Timberwolves to be successful, they must first play defense, limit their turnovers and make the most of their slow-down offense.
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Eagles fly together

It's not so much a threat as it is a warning. Perhaps promise is a better word. "If you don't want to sit next to me on the bench, do your job," Post Falls Christian Academy boys basketball coach Tim Mitchell chirped not once, but twice at a recent practice.
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U-Hi rolls competition at Tri-State

Don't tell University High wrestling coach Don Owen that his Titans' championship Saturday at the 34th Wrestler's World Tri-State tournament was anticlimactic. Actually, accepting the title trophy was long overdue – especially considering that University technically shared the title with Lake Stevens last year. Lake Stevens just took the biggest trophy home.
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Tired Timberwolves triumph over Vikings

New Lake City High boys basketball coach Jim Thacker had been told how intense the crosstown rivalry games can be. Now he REALLY knows what folks have been talking about. Lake City junior guard Ty Stoddard made a wide-open 3-pointer with 2 seconds remaining in double overtime Thursday as the Timberwolves slipped past Coeur d'Alene 70-67 in an Inland Empire League game that had all the intensity of a loser-out postseason contest.
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The unlikeliest of goals

Not in his wildest imaginations did Kyle Baker envision a college football career that would include three national championships with the possibility of a fourth. Not even close. After all, 5-foot-10 centers don't command much attention from recruiters. Baker didn't have a lengthy resume coming out of Coeur d'Alene's Lake City High School in 2001. He had no expectations when he headed to Carroll College, an NAIA school in Helena, Mont.
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Poffenroth joins 400 club

His 400th career victory didn't come quite as easily as many of the preceding wins, and to reach the milestone Dale Poffenroth had to go away from his pet defense. Poffenroth's Coeur d'Alene girls basketball team weathered a hot-shooting start by upstart Post Falls as the Vikings rallied for a 54-49 decision in an Inland Empire League game Tuesday at Elmer Jordan Court.
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Lake City clamps down

For new Lake City boys basketball coach Jim Thacker, his 494th career victory Tuesday was similar to most of the previous 493 wins in one critical way – defense. Thacker, who has stressed defense since his first game as a high school coach in 1970, will emphasize defense until the day he hangs up his whistle.
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Centennial easily handles listless LC

Lake City High girls basketball coach Darren Taylor knew coming into the season it would take time for his young team to find its stride. But for most of his team's 56-38 loss to third-ranked Centennial at Lake City on Saturday morning, Taylor thought his team regressed.
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CdA lets one get away against Centennial, 43-40

Sometimes a high school basketball team can do everything but win. Sometimes if a team loiters long enough, something good happens. The Coeur d'Alene and Centennial girls were examples of both Friday as the visiting and third-ranked Patriots overcame a 13-point deficit to slip past the No. 5 Vikings 43-40 in a non-league game at Elmer Jordan Court.
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Bonners Ferry wrestling star Hall to stay close to home

Adam Hall admits he wasn't attracted to Boise State University at first. The lure of a bigger college in a faraway state had a headlock on the Bonners Ferry High wrestling standout. After all, the University of Wisconsin wanted Hall so much that it made six home visits in the last two months.
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Sandpoint, Lake City fall short

SANDPOINT – The Sandpoint High football team was less than 2 minutes away from pulling off the unthinkable. Problem was, the 2004 4A player of the year had one final miracle left up his sleeve.
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Timberwolves prepare for second shot at Meridian

Moments after the Lake City High football team lost its only game this season, coach Van Troxel could immediately be seen trying to conceal a grin. Troxel's mind couldn't help but race ahead to the second week in November and a possible rematch in the State 5A semifinals.
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Fruitland frustrates Bonners Ferry

BONNERS FERRY – The Fruitland High football team's offense was a throwback to the days of the electric table-top game that required a boy to plug in a scaled-down field. After bunching all 11 players near the line of scrimmage and tucking the piece of felt representing a football under a player's arm, the boy would hit the switch, setting off a buzz and rattle until the ballcarrier was touched.
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T-Wolves win with trickery

It's a play the Lake City High football team had worked on for the last month. With most of Coeur d'Alene's defensive players keying on the run, Lake City coach Van Troxel pulled out a pet trick play – a halfback pass.
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Lining up and winning

Lake City High offensive line coach Henry Hamill often explains to his linemen their place in the football chain of life. Ultimately, it dawns on them that it's a significant ranking.
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Panhandle Picks with Greg Lee

I've never enjoyed kissing my sister more. Now before you run off and start a rumor, let me explain. A tie with co-worker Jim Meehan and a first tie for the season title with the guests is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick any day. For posterity, the Scribe and the guests finished 66-24 overall (.733). That's probably good enough for a middle-of-the-road C in your average high school class. So my kids are allowed to give me a little – and I mean a little – grief here.
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Lake City splits on opening day

Perhaps the Lake City volleyball team's good fortune dried up after seven games in a marathon-like opening day at the State 5A tournament Friday. Beyond having a grasp of the fundamentals, volleyball teams many times must be equal parts scrappy and lucky.
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Lake City flattens CdA defense

The highly touted Coeur d'Alene High defense had allowed just 32 points in the last four games. Thursday, the Lake City Timberwolves scored nearly twice that. Lake City's 59-41 home victory wasn't shocking so much the manner in which the Timberwolves captured the Inland Empire League 5A football championship before an estimated crowd of 4,000.
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Good blend spells success for T-Wolves

Renee Bordelon handed each of her teammates on the Lake City High volleyball team a piece of a homemade puzzle. Each piece had a player's name and number on one side and a motivational quote on the other. When the players put the pieces together, the puzzle spelled out what Bordelon believed her teammates had become – T-E-A-M.