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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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Viks complete great turnaround

NAMPA, Idaho – From 2-19, the worst record among 5A teams in the state, to 21 wins and fourth place a year later. The storybook turnaround for the Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team culminated Saturday morning in a 47-44 victory over the Highland Rams at Skyview High School.
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Grohs grows to Garnett-like proportions to lead Salmon past Priest River in semifinals

KUNA, Idaho – Six-foot-1 Michelle Grohs, who seemingly had limbs as long as her trunk, blocked the Priest River High girls basketball team's hope of playing for the State 3A championship for a second consecutive year. Grohs equaled a season high of nine blocked shots while altering perhaps a dozen more as Salmon stymied the Spartans 50-37 in a semifinal game Friday at Kuna High School played before a crowd estimated at 1,200.
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Hawks fall flat in semis

MERIDIAN, Idaho – The Lakeland High girls basketball team suffered from one too many scoring droughts against perhaps the State 4A champion in waiting. For a second consecutive year Lakeland will play for a third-place trophy as the Bonneville Bees stung the Hawks 49-44 in a semifinal Friday at Mountain View High School.
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Vikings rally, beat Mavericks

NAMPA, Idaho – Jenna Griffitts claims she rarely looks at the scoreboard. She didn't look when the Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team was trailing 11-2 about 4 minutes into the State 5A tournament loser-out game Friday afternoon.
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Lakeland leaps into 4A in grand fashion

MERIDIAN, Idaho – Steve Seymour's Lakeland High girls basketball teams have never been known for their shot-making abilities. The Hawks earn their feathers on defense. They did so again in their State 4A opener Thursday, stalling the Emmett Huskies 55-36 at Mountain View High School.
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Vikings lose state opener

NAMPA, Idaho – Taller teams have given the shorter Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team fits this season. While Twin Falls' size inside certainly made things difficult for Coeur d'Alene in its State 5A tournament opener Thursday, it was a taller guard that the Vikings couldn't defend in the end.
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Priest River, Bonners Ferry take their shots

There were two ways Intermountain League girls basketball teams could have qualified for state. As far as Priest River was concerned, however, there was just one route to state. The Spartans wanted nothing less than the District I championship. Not because they wanted the biggest trophy. The Spartans wanted to avoid a matchup with undefeated defending state champion Marsh Valley. Such a date went to the district runner-up.
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Vikings believe they have a chance at state

Go ahead, remind the Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team that it lost to Borah by 31 points. Go ahead, tell the Vikings that Borah is heavily favored to capture the 5A state championship.
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Coeur d’Alene wins ugly

No offense intended, but the worst-played game between the cross-town rival girls basketball teams was better than what was witnessed after the first half of the 5A Region I boys opener Tuesday. Coeur d'Alene survived a game that had all the appeal of a fly-infested carp for the final two quarters as the Vikings stopped Lake City 49-41 in a loser-out, offensively offensive game played before an estimated crowd of 800.
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Post Falls’ Lee steps aside once more

Jerry Lee restored the Post Falls High football program not once but twice. On Tuesday, Lee told about 90 juniors, sophomores and freshmen it was time for him to hand off the job to somebody else.
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Wallace continues ‘surreal’ trip

One doesn't have to be a high school athlete or coach to appreciate the delight the Wallace High girls basketball team is experiencing this week. Wallace (19-3) is making its first trip to state in 26 years and second in school history.
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Barrett’s early work paved way

Call her the founding mother of girls high school basketball in North Idaho, if not the state. Long before Title IX started opening doors for female high school and college athletes, Jennifer Barrett decided to open a few doors herself back in the early 1970s.
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Four defending champions return to state

Two of the four returning champions will be favored to repeat when the 2004-05 state girls basketball tournaments are held this week in the Boise area. It's not likely that any of the five qualifiers from North Idaho, however, will be considered contenders for state championships. Most of the area state-bound teams can capture trophies, though.
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Fully evolved

Girls high school basketball today isn't the same game your mother or grandmother played. In the three decades since the Idaho High School Activities Association established girls state tournaments, the game has made measurable improvements.
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Longstreet takes road to success that none had traveled before

Rayna Longstreet knows the uniform she wears draws enough attention. The whistle she blows causes more eyes to gaze her direction. So she understands that her presence at the Idaho state girls basketball tournaments this week will create some chatter in the bleachers.
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Dig it! Miners to state

Forgive the Wallace High girls basketball team if it didn't quite know how to celebrate Friday. It has, after all, been 26 years since the Miners qualified for state. Wallace ended the drought in grand fashion with a 61-31 runaway victory over Lakeside in the 1A District I championship game at Lakeland High School in Rathdrum.
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Vikings earn state berth in victory

The Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team returned to its uptempo style and Lake City got caught in the middle Thursday. If there were any doubts which team was better prior to the deciding game of the 5A Region I best-of-3 series, none remain after the Vikings sailed past the Timberwolves 47-30 and will likely keep floating to state.
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Kellogg, PR to meet in title game

A week after pulling off the upset of the year in the Intermountain League, the Kellogg High girls basketball team has an opportunity to post an even more impressive victory. IML champ Priest River, which was shocked 47-33 by Kellogg last Friday, can prove the Wildcats' win was nothing short of a fluke. The teams will meet in the 3A District I championship game Friday.
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It all comes down to one for the money

They'll play once more, and there should be plenty of feeling. The Coeur d'Alene High girls basketball team evened up the 5A Region I best-of-3 series with its cross-city rival, outlasting Lake City 38-33 in a tenacious battle of defensive wills Tuesday.
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Girls’ district tournaments tip off

The 1A District I girls basketball tournament begins tonight at Lakeland High School with two loser-out games. In the opener, No. 5 seed Mullan (2-16) takes on No. 4 Clark Fork (6-10) at 6, followed by No. 3 Lakeside (10-8) facing No. 6 Post Falls Christian (6-14) at 7:30.
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CdA overcomes Lakeland

It started as a shooting contest between the Coeur d'Alene and Lakeland boys basketball teams Thursday. So it goes to figure that the team that played defense first would win.
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Lake City prevails

The Lake City High girls basketball team gave new meaning to the phrase "scared stiff" Tuesday. The Timberwolves finally began to loosen up when they realized the possibility of their season ending prematurely.
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Last-place LC stops first-place PF

Inland Empire League boys basketball coaches expected the seven-team league to be as tight as its been in recent years. Lake City provided the latest validation of that theory Saturday when the last-place Timberwolves rallied to knock off league-leading Post Falls 67-63 at The Arena.
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Trojans barely hold on

A funny thing happened to the Post Falls High boys basketball team on its way to what should have been a convincing victory, if not a runaway. Oh, the Trojans prevailed despite watching the Coeur d'Alene Vikings crawl out of an 18-point hole to within one point with 29 seconds left.
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Terhark toughness

For Coeur d'Alene High wrestling coach Jeff Moffat, the outcome of his team's match against cross-town rival Lake City was never in question Thursday. It was just a matter of how many matches the Vikings would win. So CdA's 57-16 Inland Empire League victory before an estimated crowd of 350 was neither anything to get overly excited over nor anything to be displeased about.