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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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Upset city

The 12th seeds took over the Arena on Thursday. North Dakota State University captured its first NCAA tournament victory in impressive fashion, knocking off the fifth-seeded Oklahoma Sooners 80-75 in overtime.
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Amazing winter for area teams

Time to reflect on some of the highlights from the just-completed winter season. • We’re four weeks removed from the Washington state wrestling tournaments and I’m still in awe of what North Central accomplished.
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Bullpups rule

TACOMA – It wasn’t according to script. To say Gonzaga Prep girls basketball coach Mike Arte went to a little used scheme in his playbook would be stretching the truth. He doesn’t teach zone defense.
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G-Prep loses to top-ranked Jackson

TACOMA – Shooting betrayed the Gonzaga Prep boys basketball team Saturday morning. The Bullpups started off nicely, opening a 16-8 lead over No. 1-ranked Jackson, but it wasn’t enough as the Timberwolves’ top guns took over in a 61-44 win in the game to decide fourth and sixth places at the State 4A tournament at the Tacoma Dome.
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University girls drop finale, still finish sixth at State 4A

TACOMA – To take home a trophy from the State 3A girls basketball tournament is more than University could have envisioned in late November. The Titans used a 10-0 run to give Sunnyside a scare in the second quarter but the Grizzlies mauled University in the second half of the game Saturday morning to decide fourth and sixth places at the Tacoma Dome.
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3A: University girls reach final day at State

TACOMA – Of the three straight teams University girls coach Mark Stinson has brought to state, this could be the least talented. Not that it means the Titans shouldn’t be here. Not at all. The coaching job Stinson has done coupled with how much his girls have responded speaks volumes.
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4A boys: Dowd comes up big for Bullpups

TACOMA – The smallest player on the court stood the tallest when his team needed him most, and Gonzaga Prep is thankful. The Bullpups’ 5-foot-7 point guard, Sam Dowd, poured in a season-high 28 points as Gonzaga Prep handled Wenatchee 65-51 in the State 4A boys basketball tournament Friday at the Tacoma Dome.
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4A girls: Gildon leads Bullpups by Lynnwood

TACOMA – The Gonzaga Prep and Lynnwood girls basketball teams played at a state-championship level, and when the State 4A tournament semifinal concluded Friday the Bullpups were at the top of their game. Especially junior post Otiona Gildon, who didn’t get much sleep Thursday after she played admittedly one of her worst games of the year.
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GSL drops all 3 in State 3A openers

TACOMA – It wasn’t a good day for 3A Greater Spokane League basketball teams at the state tournament Thursday. It wasn’t a particularly good start for Shadle Park’s Highlanders, who quickly found themselves down 19-4 before succumbing 74-46 to defending state champ Rainier Beach at the Tacoma Dome.
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Length of Todd Beamer too much for G-Prep as Bullpups fall 57-49

TACOMA – A team’s length can manifest its effectiveness in many ways, not just turnovers. That was the case Thursday when athletic and long Todd Beamer rallied from a 12-point halftime deficit to knock off Gonzaga Prep 57-49 in a State 4A boys basketball tournament opener at the Tacoma Dome.
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Bullpups ready for ‘something special’

When Gonzaga Prep point guard Sam Dowd passes the ball to a teammate – especially to Reed Hopkins, Brendan McClary, Ryan Alexander or Frankie Hoerner – he expects immediate action. Dowd punctuates every pass with an oral declaration: “Shoot it, man.”
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Delivery man

University’s Michael Isotalo knew more would be expected of him this season after the graduation of Brett Bailey, last year’s Greater Spokane League Most Valuable Player. “I knew I’d have to step up,” Isotalo said. “I’ve taken more of a responsibility to score.”
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Game a family affair at LC

If being courtside at a state basketball tournament seems second nature to Lake City senior JJ Winger, it has been. His father, Jim Winger, has been taking teams to state going back to before his son was born. Now son and dad are going together for the last time, beginning today when the 5A State tournament begins at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa.
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Oona hardly sheepish

Her name means “little lamb,” but Gonzaga Prep basketball player Oona Harrington has been anything but that this season. Especially in the postseason.
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NIC set to host prep all-star games

Idaho’s high school basketball season ends this weekend, but a select few will have one more game the following weekend. The 11th annual Idaho State High School All-Star boys and girls basketball games will be March 15 at North Idaho College.
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Ben Cochran will direct Rogers football

As expected, Rogers High stayed inside to fill its head football coaching vacancy. Ben Cochran has been named to replace Matt Miethe, who resigned this winter to become an assistant offensive line coach at Whitworth University.
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Highlanders draw powerful Rainier Beach

Don’t offer any condolences to Shadle Park boys basketball coach Tim Gaebe. He doesn’t want them. Besides, he has much to be grateful about, what with his Highlanders bound for Tacoma and the State 3A tournament, which begins Thursday.
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Bullpups start fast, coast past Davis and onto Tacoma

Not their best but plenty good enough. The Gonzaga Prep girls basketball team won’t chalk its 61-46 win over Davis in the 4A Regionals Saturday afternoon as one of its best of the season, but the Bullpups were too much for the Pirates at Central Valley.
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G-Prep boys run riot on South Kitsap

In its most important game to date, the Gonzaga Prep boys basketball team’s offense played the best all season. Couple the hot shooting with the usual tenacious defense and it’s easy to see why the South Kitsap Wolves didn’t have a fighting chance Saturday afternoon.
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Defensive coordinator now Mt. Spokane head coach

Terry Cloer was hired as the second head football coach in Mt. Spokane history Friday. He succeeds Mike McLaughlin, who retired from coaching. Cloer, 40, was picked over two other candidates – Wildcats assistant Danny Figueira and Pasco head coach Dustin Lamb.