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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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Mead races past Davis 58-7

There’s something about a fast start for a speedy team that borders on criminal. That’s exactly what happened for the Mead Panthers, and the victims, the Davis Pirates, couldn’t do anything about it.
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Saxons recover to vanquish Ike

In a game littered with turnovers, the Ferris Saxons took advantage of the last two by the Eisenhower Cadets. A fumble recovery by senior linebacker Cole Lemer at the Cadets’ 46-yard line set up the winning touchdown as the defending state champ Saxons held off Eisenhower 38-31 in a 4A play-in game late Friday at Joe Albi Stadium.
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Ferris advances to State 4A

In a game littered with turnovers, the Ferris Saxons took advantage of the last two by the Eisenhower Cadets.
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Mead races past Davis 68-22

Something about a fast start for a speedy team that borders on criminal. That’s exactly what happened for the Mead Panthers, and the victim, the Davis Pirates, couldn’t do anything about it.
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West Valley defeats Cheney to take GNL’s No. 2 seed

West Valley coach Craig Whitney asked do-everything senior standout Dylan Ellsworth before Thursday’s game to carry the team on his back. Ellsworth did just that until the final play as West Valley knocked off the visiting Cheney Blackhawks 27-21 in overtime in a Great Northern League football game that had a typical wild finish.
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Football state playoffs

 It’s November and that can mean only one thing for high school football fans – postseason.  This week is the prelude to the state playoffs in Washington while in Idaho playoffs begin in six classifications with state championship games three weeks away.
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Lake City wins 5A tiebreaker, secures 15th straight state berth

The Lake City football team was winless in two tries against the Post Falls Trojans in the regular season. When it mattered most, though, the Timberwolves topped Post Falls twice on Monday night in the 5A Inland Empire League double-elimination tiebreaker at Coeur d’Alene High School.
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Runner-up Post Falls takes highest state finish

Finishing second at the State 5A volleyball tournament would probably be disappointing for tradition-laden Idaho Falls. For the Post Falls Trojans, though, it represents the highest state finish in school history.
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LC, Post Falls in semis

Post Falls and Lake City played up to seed Friday in the first round of the State 5A tournament. Now they’ll have to pull off upsets this morning to advance to the state championship match.
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Wildcats advance

The Mt. Spokane Wildcats took all the drama out of which team would secure the second 3A football play-in berth by halftime as the Greater Spokane League concluded regular-season play Friday. Senior slotback Chase Naccarato scored three touchdowns in the first two quarters on runs of 29, 20 and 5 yards as the Wildcats ran over the North Central Indians 49-16 at Joe Albi Stadium.
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Mt. Spokane advances to 3A playoffs

The Mt. Spokane Wildcats took all the drama out of which team would secure the second 3A football play-in berth by halftime as the Greater Spokane League concluded regular-season play Friday.
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Lake City goes after elusive first state title

Lake City volleyball coach Bret Taylor looked at the gym wall that features league, district and state accomplishments for each sport. Any sport that has won a state championship has a gold plaque. There is no gold plaque in volleyball.
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Still plenty of intrigue in Greater Spokane League football race

This is what high school football races should be about. The only thing certain in the Greater Spokane League going into the final regular-season week is Mead and Ferris will be in state play-in games. Just what seeds those teams attain is still up in the air.
Sports

U-Hi quarterback Johnson blossoms in short time

F acebook can be a mean social  media tool sometimes. Just ask University senior Conner Johnson, who two years after transferring from Gonzaga Prep to University is still called a traitor by anonymous writers from time to time.
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Lake City wins 5A regional volleyball

When the Lake City volleyball team’s eight seniors were sophomores on the junior varsity team, they didn’t win a match. That was coach Bret Taylor’s first year at Lake City. He worked with them, and that hard work is paying dividends this season.
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Giving ’em the slip

Sean Carty doesn’t care if his Mead Panthers football team wins the Greater Spokane League championship outright or shares the title. What Carty wants most is the top seed for the state play-in games.