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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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CV on top in tight GSL boys basketball race

The logjam at the top of the Greater Spokane League boys basketball standings last week has shifted somewhat since last Friday. The Central Valley boys (10-3 overall, 9-2 league), who played hard-nosed defense start to finish in a first-place showdown Tuesday against Gonzaga Prep (8-5, 8-3), find themselves occupying the league’s top seat after stopping the Bullpups 61-52.
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CV’s Gallaway matches effort to her great talent

Whether it’s a basketball game or practice, Brooke Gallaway knows only one way – all out, nothing held back. Gallaway, a four-year starter at Central Valley, is a blue-collar player. What the 5-foot-11 wing might lack in athleticism she more than makes up for with proficiency in fundamentals.
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Lee: NWC boys, Freeman girls rolling

The Associated Press’ first boys and girls basketball rankings last week had a distinct Eastern Washington flavor. In six of the 12 polls, area teams sat atop their respective classifications.
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Hard-working Gallaway guides undefeated Bears

Whether it’s a basketball game or practice, Brooke Gallaway knows only one way – all out, nothing held back. Gallaway, a four-year starter at Central Valley, is a blue-collar player. What the 5-foot-11 wing might lack in athleticism she more than makes up for with proficiency in fundamentals.
Sports

CV alone in first place

The Central Valley boys basketball team, with eight of its 12 players still in football mode when the winter season began, lost its first two games, including a Greater Spokane League opener. It’s been a different den of Bears since their first win, 60-41 over Gonzaga Prep in early December.
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Ferris knocks off LC; G-Prep, CV tied for first

Ferris got a defensive wake-up call when it lost 64-60 in overtime to Shadle Park three games ago. The Saxons knew they needed to take their defense up a notch or two, and they’ve responded.
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GSL basketball teams get set for second half

Greater Spokane League girls and boys basketball teams reach the midway point of the season Friday and begin second-half play Saturday afternoon. At least one thing is for sure. Barring a cataclysmic development, the Central Valley girls should cruise through league undefeated.
Sports

Newport athlete Wiley turned his life around

NEWPORT – Teachers at Lakewood High near Long Beach, Calif., would be stunned to learn that Jake Wiley will graduate this spring at Newport. Additionally, they’d be shocked that he’s landed a scholarship to play basketball at the University of Montana.
Sports

Central Valley girls improve to 10-0

The 4A No. 1-ranked Central Valley girls’ toughest basketball games so far in the Greater Spokane League have come against the 3A teams. It was no different Tuesday, especially considering the Bears were visiting Spokane Valley rival University.
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Coeur d’Alene sweeps Fight for the Fish

The Coeur d’Alene boys and girls basketball teams turned the Fight for the Fish spirit doubleheader into routs Friday. And both did it with defense. The Coeur d’Alene boys and girls each held their crosstown rivals to 31 points.
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Lee: Top stories in 2011 tough to whittle down

Beginning today and continuing annually as long as I’m the principal tenant in the prep neighborhood, I’m going to take a look back at the just-completed year and list what I think were the top stories. There were at least a dozen feats by area teams that would be on a short list of the top accomplishments in any year. It was difficult, but I whittled the list to the top five.
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Bullpups clamp down Titans in GSL boys hoops

The usual things the University boys basketball team likes to do – get out in transition and shoot the 3-pointer – were pain- stakingly difficult to do Tuesday. Why? Easy answer. Gonzaga Prep’s never-quit defense.