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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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Bears set to run

With seven seniors on his team that finished runner-up at the State 4A boys basketball tournament last year, Central Valley coach Rick Sloan knew there would be work to do to have a chance to return to state this season. With one starter back in senior Austin Rehkow and two reserves that saw key time, Sloan had some nice pieces to start the reloading process.
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T-Wolves prepared with state in mind

With a talented core back, Lake City boys basketball coach Jim Winger wanted to challenge his team as much as possible this season. It started with the schedule.
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Tournaments feature rough roads to titles

St. George’s boys basketball coach Ryan Peplinski didn’t attend the draw Sunday for the final three days of the State 2B tournament. And he didn’t watch the live stream from the WIAA headquarters in Renton.
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State basketball pairings announced

No. 1-ranked St. George's (26-1) will play the team ranked second most of the season, Morton-White Pass, in the last of the State 2B boys openers Thursday at the Spokane Arena. All state tournament pairings were announced Sunday.
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Titans triumph, play on

The University boys basketball team ended a 27-year drought when it qualified for the State 3A tournament last year. Now it’s highly unlikely the Titans will match that drought by qualifying for state 27 years in a row. But all they’re concerned about is heading to Tacoma for a second consecutive year.
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Panthers’ effort worthy of a No. 1

WENATCHEE – Best to date. The No. 1-ranked Mead girls basketball team will get an opportunity to prove that’s where it belongs as the Panthers on Friday night earned a date in Tacoma.
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Post Falls’ Foster works to rewrite record book

This has been sort of a confirmation wrestling season for Post Falls sophomore Drake Foster. Not that he has anything to prove. After all, he went 42-3 last year on his way to capturing a 5A state championship at 106 pounds.
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Timberlake reaches state for first time

For the first time in Timberlake’s 15-year history, the Tigers’ boys basketball team is headed to state. Timberlake exorcised some demons Wednesday, capturing its first 3A District I championship with a 60-46 win over the Priest River Spartans at Lakeland High School in Rathdrum.
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GSL teams make best of modified tourney format

Is it state or is it just a state of being? Technically, it is state. When the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association made radical changes to its state boys and girls basketball tournaments three years ago, they were shrunk from four-day events to three, plus one game at a regional site the weekend before.
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Modified state tournaments continue

Fields of 16 teams remain the norm for this weekend’s state tournament games, the recent twist being that only eight teams in each bracket will advance to either Tacoma, Yakima or Spokane the following week.
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CV, Mead each have two 4A wrestling champs at Tacoma

TACOMA – What Greater Spokane League 4A wrestling teams lacked in quantity they more than made up with quality Saturday at Mat Classic XXV. Four GSL athletes, two each from Central Valley and Mead, captured state titles before an estimated crowd of 9,000 at the Tacoma Dome.
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Orndorff makes sure U-Hi wins 3A wrestling crown

TACOMA – It ended up being more work than the University wrestling team anticipated Saturday. The Titans sent four into state championship matches but they went 0 for 3 until senior 195-pounder Tanner Orndorff captured an individual title, winning 7-2, and in so doing clinched University’s third team title since 2005.
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Konzal, Deer Park in the hunt at state wrestling

TACOMA – Jake Konzal awoke with flu-like symptoms Friday morning. Then with 25 seconds remaining in his State 2A first-round wrestling match, the two-time state champ from Deer Park saw his stellar career pass before his very eyes.
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University wages title challenge in 3A

TACOMA – Amid the backdrop of Mat Classic reaching its 25th anniversary, the University Titans were setting the table for a State 3A championship on Friday. University coach Don Owen stopped short of calling it a perfect opening day. He also sidestepped the question about the team championship.
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Perhaps Rogers’ big win wasn’t such an upset

It’s way too early to start speculating about a possible state berth, but the Rogers boys basketball team certainly should revel in its accomplishment Tuesday. The fourth-seeded Pirates took to the road, knocking off the Mid-Columbia Conference’s No. 1-seeded 3A team, Kamiakin, 56-49.
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Bullpups hold off Saxons

Gonzaga Prep senior post Joe Chapman believes he’s a better basketball player for suffering a shredded anterior cruiciate ligament as a sophomore. It gave him a greater appreciation for the game.
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‘Pups escape with victory

District 8 4A loser-out basketball games historically are the most difficult in any season. Such was the case Tuesday when the second-seeded Gonzaga Prep girls survived all visiting Lewis and Clark could throw at them and more for a 38-35 win.
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Coach won’t rejoin Viks

Kent Leiss said Monday he will not return as the Coeur d’Alene High School boys basketball coach this season. He resigned on Feb. 1, two days after a group of disgruntled parents met with administrators to discuss what they considered to be verbal abuse of their sons by Leiss and a volunteer assistant.