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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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Favored G-Prep girls basketball team returns four starters

The Gonzaga Prep girls basketball team had its all-time best finish at the State 4A tournament last winter, placing fourth. Had it not been for a poor half in their state opener, the Bullpups (24-4) may have made it an all-GSL final with eventual state champ Mead (25-1).
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Bellevue buries Shadle Park for 53rd straight win

The cynic would say that the turning point in the Bellevue-Shadle Park football game Saturday afternoon came on the first play when the Highlanders fumbled the kickoff. That would be selling the visiting Wolverines short. No. 1-ranked Bellevue scored seven touchdowns and a field goal in the first half – so it’s not like the Wolverines needed a jump-start.
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Scotties rally back from 20-point deficit

Once the Freeman Scotties stopped beating themselves Saturday afternoon, they concentrated on taking down the visiting Cashmere Bulldogs. Three Freeman turnovers allowed Cashmere to open a 20-0 lead in the first quarter, but the Scotties threw a shutout thereafter.
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Shadle knows Bellevue will wing-T it

The Bellevue football team wouldn’t exchange video with Shadle Park in advance of today’s State 3A semifinal. No matter. Shadle coach Alan Stanfield shook the coaching tree and all but one of the Wolverines’ 12 games fell out.
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Balanced attack

For the Freeman football team, the M&M running back tandem has been a delicious treat this season. Senior Max Laib and junior Markus Goldbach have not only each rushed for more than 1,000 yards, they’re a reflection of how balanced the Scotties’ offense has been. Laib has a 54-yard lead with a team-best 1,291 yards. Goldbach has 1,237.
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Rosalia game will decide Pick 6 champ

We’ve arrived at the final week of Pick 6, and we’re all knotted up. KHQ/SWX sports director Sam Adams had a perfect week to pull even with yours truly.
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Shadle storms past Braves in State 3A quarterfinal

KENNEWICK – Like several teams before them, the Kamiakin Braves couldn’t solve Shadle Park’s fastbreak offense. And once the Highlanders found their tempo in the second quarter, the Braves found themselves in a hole they couldn’t dig out of Saturday afternoon.
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Area softball stars offer hope

Jenna DeLong is coaching in the sport that paid for her college education. She’s now scouring the nation as an assistant at Texas A&M- Commerce looking for players, well, like herself when she dominated the softball diamond at Coeur d’Alene High School.
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Vikings celebrate

MOSCOW, Idaho – It had to play out this way. As much misfortune as the Coeur d’Alene Vikings – and specifically the Amoses – have endured the last half of the football season, something good had to go their way.
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Shadle grad runs for top-rated NAU cross country team

One can only imagine how excited former Shadle Park running standout Nathan Weitz is these days. Weitz is a sophomore at Northern Arizona University, which vaulted into the top spot in the NCAA Division I rankings Tuesday – four days before the national championship race in Terre Haute, Ind.
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Improved defense has back of high-flying Shadle Park offense

Shadle Park football coach Alan Stanfield was unwavering at the start of the year in his expectation that the Highlanders’ defense would be much improved. It’s almost as if Stanfield looked into a crystal ball and saw the season play out before it started.
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Pick 6: Vikings get nod from pickers

The list of area high school football teams still playing is getting slimmer. We will continue picking games as long as we have a handful of teams alive.
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Idaho basketball preview

Dale Poffenroth enters his 10th year as Coeur d’Alene’s girls basketball coach. And for a 10th straight year, his Vikings will be in the conversation as a State 5A championship contender.
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Defense’s turn

The Shadle Park offense scored 36 fewer points than it did the first time around against the Mt. Spokane Wildcats. The most important number Friday, though, was the fact that the Highlanders defense allowed 35 fewer points than it did in the league matchup.
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CdA WR Addison Johnson has smarts, talent to overcome his size

Addison Johnson of Coeur d’Alene is a gifted student-athlete. He has outstanding physical abilities as a wide receiver, but there’s no doubt that one of the biggest reasons he’s enjoyed success on the field is because of his prowess in the classroom.
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Lee: Amos draws strength from family

If life were a football game, you’d want to throw a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct. Consider what the Amos family of Coeur d’Alene is enduring. It’s akin to piling on. Last month, Coeur d’Alene head football coach Shawn Amos was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The good news is he’s got the most treatable type of cancer.
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Pick 6: Hard to tell pickers apart

I won’t play up the fact that I have a two-game leading going into the playoffs. I’m not that kind of guy. But in case you haven’t heard I have a two-game lead going into the playoffs.
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1A and 2A cross country: Medical Lake, Lakeside champions

PASCO – The Northeast A League had the most success of Inland Northwest schools at state cross country meets. The Medical Lake boys and Lakeside girls captured State 1A championships at the deceptively challenging Sun Willows Golf Course on Saturday.
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4A cross country: CV boys take 3rd, girls 4th

PASCO – The Central Valley boys ran into a force the Bears couldn’t match Saturday at the State 4A cross country meet. Gig Harbor had the first three finishers as it thumped the field at benign Sun Willows Golf Course. Gig Harbor finished with 37 points, outdistancing runner-up Redmond (119) and defending champion Central Valley (149) in third.