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Talent on display in Spokane regional

No player in the Spokane regional has a better résumé than Duke’s Elizabeth Williams, a three-time All-America selection who could be a top pick in next month’s WNBA draft. Or she could go to medical school. Her future is that bright.
News >  Spokane

Women’s basketball coaches apply varying styles to their successes

As Gonzaga women’s basketball coach Lisa Fortier takes her first steps into the limelight this weekend, she’ll join three others who’ve lived there for decades. Brenda Frese of Maryland, Joanne McCallie of Duke and Holly Warlick of Tennessee have been there, done that since Fortier was in grade school.
Sports

Talent on display in Spokane regional

No player in the Spokane regional has a better résumé than Duke’s Elizabeth Williams, a three-time All-America selection who could be a top pick in next month’s WNBA draft. Or she could go to medical school. Her future is that bright.
Sports >  Outdoors

Allen: Tri, tri again Part 2: Testing the waters

This is the second in a six-part series of stories called “Tri, tri again,” as a Spokesman-Review sportswriter trains for his first triathlon with no guarantee of finishing. The arduous journey continues. I had that sinking feeling even before I stepped into the pool at my local fitness club.
Sports

Spring in the air for EWU football

Eastern Washington’s pursuit of a fourth straight Big Sky Conference football title will begin next week. The Eagles will hold the first of 14 spring football practices on April 2, coach Beau Baldwin announced on Wednesday.
Sports

GSL soccer: Tigers on a mission

The Lewis and Clark boys soccer team doesn’t need extra motivation this year. The Tigers got plenty at the end of last season: after winning their first seven Greater Spokane League matches, the Tigers dropped their last two, along with the GSL title.
Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

GU women answer challenge

CORVALLIS, Ore. – What pressure? With a double-digit lead going, going and finally gone with 3½ minutes to play and the Gill Coliseum crowd in full roar, the Gonzaga women did more than weather the storm Sunday.
Sports

Women’s notes: Oregon State’s program turned around with Weisner

CORVALLIS, Ore. – As coach Scott Rueck sees it, Oregon State’s journey to the Pac-12 Conference title began with a courageous first step from Jamie Weisner. The former Clarkston High star could have taken the road more traveled, the one that led her every summer to basketball camps at Gonzaga. Family and friends already awaited her in Spokane. So did a tradition of winning at GU.
Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Albanez continues torrid scoring pace for GU women’s team

CORVALLIS, Ore. – You’d be hard-pressed to find a happier Zag on Friday than guard Keani Albanez. Her postseason shooting streak stood up under the glare of the NCAA tournament, helping carry 11th-seeded Gonzaga to an 82-69 upset over sixth-seeded George Washington in a first-round game at Gill Coliseum.
Sports

Albanez continues hot shooting for GU women

Keani Albanez's postseason shooting streak stood up under the glare of the NCAA tournament, helping carry 11th-seeded Gonzaga to an 82-69 upset over sixth-seeded George Washington in a first-round game at Gill Coliseum.
Sports

Georgetown uses 3-point barrage to surge past Eastern

PORTLAND – Eastern Washington knows it now: Cinderella’s slipper isn’t one-size-fits-all. Not on a night when the heavyweight beats you at your own game, as Georgetown did to the underdog Eagles in their second-round NCAA tournament game Thursday night.
Sports

Georgetown uses 3-point barrage to surge past Eastern Washington

PORTLAND – Eastern Washington knows it now: Cinderella’s slipper isn’t one-size-fits-all. Not on a night when the heavyweight beats you at your own game, as Georgetown did to the underdog Eagles in their second-round NCAA tournament game Thursday night.
Sports

EWU notes: Excited Eagles get down to business

PORTLAND – The excitement hasn’t worn off for Eastern Washington coach Jim Hayford. It’s merely been channeled in a different direction. “I’ve gone from excitement mode to coach mode,” Hayford said Tuesday as the Eagles prepared to travel to Portland for Thursday’s second-round NCAA tournament game against Georgetown.
Sports

Eastern Washington men will try to use size of big Hoya to Eagles’ advantage

If basketball is about matchups, Eastern Washington will have a big problem – or a big opportunity – in its second-round NCAA men’s tournament game against Georgetown. His name is Joshua Smith, a 6-foot-10, 340-pound center, who according to Eagles coach Jim Hayford, will play tortoise to Eastern’s hare when the teams play Thursday night in Portland.
Sports

Cheers in Cheney, where everyone knows their names

Long before he became a basketball coach, Jim Hayford was a budding bracketologist. Every Selection Sunday, beginning in grade school, he’d pull out paper and pencil and fill in the names, but never his own.