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Former EWU player Butorac saw Japan quake up close

Since graduating from Eastern Washington University in the spring of 2007, Paul Butorac has made his way from Cheney to Akita, Japan – via France, Poland and Estonia. It’s the milk run-like route most former college players not good enough to make it in the NBA must travel if they hope to prolong their careers and live their dreams of playing professionally.
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Feenstra, Franklin hold edge after two rounds at Rosauers

It turns out there was another 62 out there. But not surprisingly, none of the three golfers who hit that impressive 9-under-par number during Friday’s opening round of the $135,000 Rosauers Open Invitational found it on Saturday.
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Former Eagle Butorac in Japan at scary time

Since graduating from Eastern Washington University in the spring of 2007, Paul Butorac has made his way from Cheney to Akita, Japan – via France, Poland and Estonia. It’s the milk run-like route most former college players not good enough to make it in the NBA must travel if they hope to prolong their careers and live their dreams of playing professionally.
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Competitors push limits to shoot low scores in first round of Rosauers Open

Conventional wisdom suggests that any golfer hoping to contend for a title in the Rosauers Open Invitational will have to slide outside of his or her comfort zone at some point during the three-day, $135,000 event and post a ridiculously low number. Jerry Johnson, an unattached professional from Ocean Shores, Wash., took it low during Friday’s opening round of the 54-hole event at Indian Canyon Golf Course, crafting a bogey-free 62 that put him at 9 under par and in a three-way tie for the lead heading into today’s second round.
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Three share first-round lead at Rosauers Open

Conventional wisdom suggests that any golfer hoping to contend for a title in the Rosauers Open Invitational will have to slide outside of his or her comfort zone at some point during the three-day, $135,000 event and post a ridiculously low number.
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Golf marathoners enjoy four-course meal

By his own admission, Doug Kearsley gets a little obsessive at times. So when the 60-year-old retired construction consultant took up golf several years ago, he dove quickly into the deep end, playing 103 rounds in 2009 and 108 last year.
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Area golfers take aim at Rosauers Open

It’s Kyle Kelly’s favorite time of the year again. But the Spokane native and head golf professional at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., claims he isn’t feeling as much of the Pacific Northwest’s mid-July heat as he usually does as he prepares to defend his title in the $135,000 Rosauers Open that starts today at Indian Canyon Golf Course.
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Golfers descend on Indian Canyon for Rosauers Open

It’s Kyle Kelly’s favorite time of the year again. But the Spokane native and head golf professional at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif., claims he isn’t feeling as much of the Pacific Northwest’s mid-July heat as he usually does as he prepares to defend his title in the $135,000 Rosauers Open that starts today at Indian Canyon Golf Course.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Brawl breaks out

The Spokane Indians looked like a team that had simply had enough of the Vancouver Canadians during Monday afternoon’s Businesspersons Special at Avista Stadium. Both during and after the ugly brawl that erupted in the bottom of the third inning of the Canadians’ 9-6 Northwest League victory, clearing both teams’ benches and bullpens and resulting in the ejection of four players, two from each team.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Four ejected after brawl at Indians game

The Spokane Indians and Vancouver Canadians closed out their contentious five-game Northwest League baseball series at Avista Stadium Monday afternoon by engaging in an ugly third-inning brawl that cleared both benches and resulted in the immediate ejections of at least four players, including Spokane's Rougned Odor, who initiated the incident.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Spokane Indians jump on Canadians early

After making his first five appearances with the Spokane Indians as a relief pitcher, Will Lamb hardly looked out of place in his new role as a starter Sunday night. The Texas Rangers’ second-round 2011 draft pick out of Clemson University worked three strong innings in his professional starting debut, striking out four and allowing just one run and one hit as the Indians erupted for 11 first-inning runs and went on to bounce the visiting Vancouver Canadians 12-8 in a Northwest League matchup witnessed by an Avista Stadium crowd of 4,645.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Indians’ 11-run first inning holds up

After making his first five appearances with the Spokane Indians as a relief pitcher, Will Lamb hardly looked out of place in his new role as a starter Sunday night. The Texas Rangers’ second-round 2011 draft pick out of Clemson University worked three strong innings in his professional starting debut, striking out four and allowing just one run and one hit as the Indians erupted for 11 first-inning runs and went on to bounce the visiting Vancouver Canadians 12-8 in a Northwest League matchup witnessed by an Avista Stadium crowd of 4,645.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Pitching rules day as Vancouver downs Spokane in NWL

With a big assist from starter Justin Nicolino, the Vancouver Canadians and Spokane Indians cleaned up their Northwest League baseball act considerably on Saturday night. Less than 24 hours after Vancouver disposed of Spokane in a raggedly played slugfest on Friday night, Nicolino put together a masterful five-inning starting stint to lead the Canadians to a 2-1 win over the Indians in front of an Avista Stadium crowd of 4,879.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Vancouver edges Indians in pitching battle

With a big assist from starter Justin Nicolino, the Vancouver Canadians and Spokane Indians cleaned up their Northwest League baseball act considerably on Saturday night. Less than 24 hours after Vancouver disposed of Spokane in a raggedly played slugfest on Friday night, Nicolino put together a masterful five-inning starting stint to lead the Canadians to a 2-1 win over the Indians in front of an Avista Stadium crowd of 4,879.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Vancouver holds off Indians in slugfest

Forget the fact that the starting pitchers, both considered to be the ace on their respective staffs, came in with a combined earned-run average of less than 4.00. Anyone hoping to witness a tidy, 2 ½-hour pitchers’ duel at Avista Stadium went home Friday night deeply disappointed following visiting Vancouver’s messy 9-7 Northwest League baseball win over the Spokane Indians.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Vancouver holds off Spokane in offensive show

Forget the fact that the starting pitchers, both considered to be the ace on their respective staffs, came in with a combined earned-run average of less than 4.00. Anyone hoping to witness a tidy, 2 ½-hour pitchers’ duel at Avista Stadium went home Friday night deeply disappointed following visiting Vancouver’s messy 9-7 Northwest League baseball win over the Spokane Indians.
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Lewiston man breaks Guinness records for good cause

Geno Bonnalie finished his weeklong fundraising ordeal with the skin on his hands blistered and peeling, his right knee sore and uncooperative, and his younger sister tearfully begging him to give up his quest.
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Charity endeavor: Four golfers will play four courses in four states in one day

In an effort to raise money for the American Cancer Society in a partnership with Coaches vs. Cancer, a foresome of golfers – including two from Spokane Valley – will attempt to play nine holes at four different golf courses in four different states on the same day. The ambitious venture is the brainchild of Bruce Robinson, who read several years ago about a similar endeavor by four golfers back in the Midwest.
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Whitworth hires athletic director

When Whitworth University President Beck Taylor asked Aaron Leetch to take over as his school’s director of athletics, Leetch was quick to respond . “The decision, based my interaction with the people at Whitworth, was an easy one,” said Leetch, who accepted Taylor’s offer earlier this week after spending the previous five years as an associate A.D. for external affairs at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill.
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Triplett looks ahead to Open, Champions Tour

Since losing his fully exempt status two years ago following a series of wear-and-tear type injuries that required surgeries on both of his elbows and his left shoulder, former Pullman resident Kirk Triplett has been in all-out-scramble mode as far as his travel plans go.
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Country cool

In a region noted for its wonderful array of affordable and accessible 18-hole championship golf courses, it is easy to forget about the small-town nine-hole courses on which so many of us learned the game. So every few years, I make it a point to talk a few friends into making a swing through some of our neighboring farming communities to sample golf on a simpler level.