Greg Lee

Sean Carty doesn’t care if his Mead Panthers football team wins the Greater Spokane League championship outright or shares the title.

The Coeur d’Alene boys and girls cross country teams were perfect at the 5A Region I state-qualifying cross country meet Wednesday afternoon. Both teams scored 15 points with 1-2-3-4-5 finishes. CdA senior Cody Curtis won his first regional championship, finishing the 5,000-meter course at Post Falls High School in 16 minutes, 23 seconds, while Vikings freshman Josie Brown took first (19:15).

Missy Bennett’s plan when she took a teaching position and the head volleyball coaching job at Colville in 1987 was to pay a few bills and return to the life she knew previously as a starving college assistant coach. Here it is 24 years later and Bennett is still at Colville.

Things could be clearer or could be just as muddied when Greater Spokane League football concludes the next-to-last week of play Friday. Mead (6-1), Ferris (6-1) and Lewis and Clark (6-1), tied for first, would all go to the State 4A playoffs if things ended right now. Central Valley (5-2) and Gonzaga Prep (5-2) are also in the mix for one of the league’s three State 4A berths.

Preps this week

Two years ago, the Post Falls boys soccer team advanced to state for the first time. Two years later, the Post Falls boys go to state for a second time but with much higher expectations, not to mention some extra luggage.

WIAA state hoops tourneys

Two firsts were accomplished at the 5A Region I boys and girls soccer championship matches Saturday afternoon. The Post Falls boys and Lewiston girls captured their first regional titles, doing so in impressive fashion with shutouts. No. 1 seed Post Falls blanked visiting Lake City 3-0 and visiting Lewiston knocked off top-seeded Lake City 2-0.

3-way logjam atop GSL

The blue-collar Lewis and Clark Tigers did it again Friday. “We’re not flashy like Ferris and Mead and we’re not blowing any teams out, but we find a way to get it done week in and week out,” senior quarterback Jeff Livingston summed up after the Tigers’ convincing 31-7 victory over the Mt. Spokane Wildcats in Greater Spokane League action at Joe Albi Stadium. The win moved the Tigers into a three-way tie for first place with Ferris and Mead.

The blue-collar Lewis and Clark Tigers did it again Friday.

I wasn’t covering the Greater Spokane League back in the 1980s, but what a time it was for Gonzaga Prep football. It’s the greatest stretch of dominance the league has seen.

Coeur d’Alene boys basketball coach Kent Leiss was watching a recent scrimmage at North Idaho College. One of the players on the floor was Post Falls senior Marcus Colbert. “I think he was the best player out there,” Leiss said.

Preps this week

A strange thing happened on the way to the Crossover Classic volleyball tournament championship match. No Spokane-area team advanced to the final for the first time since the tourney’s early years.

Friday prep football

The University football team is on the brink of school history.