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Thomas Clouse

Thomas Clouse

Current Position: reporter

Thomas Clouse joined The Spokesman-Review in 1999. He is currently the business reporter. He previously worked as an investigative reporter for the City Desk and covering federal, state and local courts for many years.

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Senior-laden Gonzaga women picked to make it 10 in a row in WCC

All of Kelly Graves’ West Coast Conference coaching peers believe his Gonzaga women’s basketball team has the talent to win its 10th conference championship in a row, according to a poll released Thursday at the league’s tipoff event in Los Angeles. Gonzaga, which went 27-6 overall and 15-1 in winning the WCC last year, returns the dynamic senior-guard duo of Haiden Palmer, the 2013 WCC tournament MVP, and Jazmine Redmon, the reigning conference defensive player of the year.
Sports >  Whitworth

Linfied sends Whitworth to fifth straight defeat

The Linfield Wildcats looked every bit a national powerhouse when they used a quick start to crush a struggling Whitworth team 51-17 at the Pine Bowl on Saturday. The Pirates (2-5, 0-3) started freshman quarterback Ian Kolste after starting quarterback Bryan Peterson couldn’t go because of a shoulder injury. But many have struggled with No. 2 Linfield’s swarming defense, which had been holding opponents to less than nine points a game.
Sports

Linfield rolls past Pirates

The Linfield Wildcats looked every bit a national powerhouse when they used a quick start to crush a struggling Whitworth team 51-17 at the Pine Bowl on Saturday.
Sports

Per request, West Valley tops East Valley

One play set the tone for this cross-town rivalry: Converted lineman Jace Malek fumbled a kickoff only to gather himself and rumble 85 yards for a touchdown. The runback answered East Valley’s first touchdown of the game and started a run of big plays that eventually doomed the Knights and allowed the West Valley Eagles to claim a huge 39-26 rivalry win.
Sports

Whitworth basketball: A lot of youngsters

Getting the latest start of any of the area college basketball teams, Whitworth Pirates coach Matt Logie finally on Thursday gets to see in person how all the new pieces fit into a team coming off two straight seasons that finished with the same 26-4 record.
Sports

East Valley takes third straight GNL win

The East Valley Knights blanked Cheney 30-0 Friday night in Spokane Valley to win their third Great Northern League football game in a row. Led by quarterback Connor Ramm and dynamic athletes J.T. Phelan and Gage Burland, the Knights started fast and never let their foot off the gas.
Sports

Jaten nails down spot

A Spokane marathon runner got her heavy lifting out of the way early this past weekend by qualifying for her second-straight U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, which are not going to be held for about two years. Rachel Jaten, 38, won the Portland Marathon Sunday and beat the Olympic Trials qualifying mark by 45 seconds when she finished the 26.2 miles at 2:42:15.
Sports

Rugged road for Whitworth football

Smarting after three straight losses, the Whitworth Pirates boarded a bus after practice Thursday, headed to Salem to take on league foe Willamette Bearcats in a rare Friday night football game that will present a tough task to end a losing streak. The Bearcats are 3-0 and emerged this week as 25th in the Division III poll. They join Northwest Conference compatriots No. 2 Linfield (4-0, 1-0) and No. 15 Pacific Lutheran (3-1, 0-1) as three ranked teams Whitworth has yet to face.
Sports

Jaten nails down spot

A Spokane marathon runner got her heavy lifting out of the way early this past weekend by qualifying for her second-straight U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials
News >  Spokane

Shadle Park High School installs FieldTurf in baseball stadium

After about three years of booster efforts, a new synthetic playing surface has been installed at Shadle Park’s Al K. Jackson Field, making it Washington’s first high school baseball field east of the Cascades to have a FieldTurf infield. Fundraising continues to pay for the $200,000 field, which will allow games to be played through most of the worst weather Spokane has to offer, Shadle Park baseball coach Ron Brooks said.
Sports

Boxers drop Pirates

After 35 years, the Pacific Boxers finally scored a knockout against Whitworth. The rebuilding program, which didn’t field a team between 1992 and 2009, went 4-0 for the first time since 1950 after it rallied Saturday then controlled the Pirates in front of 2,250 at the Pine Bowl for a 31-21 Northwest Conference victory.
Sports

Lakeside outlast Medical Lake in shootout

Defenses became an endangered species Friday night as two Northeast A football foes combined to score 97 points in what ended up as a major win for Lakeside over Medical Lake. After several long scoring passes and runs, the Eagles soared 63-34 over the Cardinals. The win puts Lakeside at 4-1 with its third league victory in three tries.
Sports

Cajuste was Stanford’s secret weapon

SEATTLE – With the game tied 3-3 in the first quarter, Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan threw to a little-used wide receiver from Seaford, N.Y., to quickly turn the game into a rout. Hogan hit Devon Cajuste, a 6-foot-4, 228-pound junior, on two scoring passes in the span of about three minutes to begin a scoring barrage that ended with the 55-17 victory.
Sports

LRS stretches win streak to 15

REARDAN – The defending State 2B football champion, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, came into Reardan and dominated the Indians 27-13 on a cold, rainy night, extending the Broncos’ winning streak to 15 games.
Sports

Surely, La Verne slips past Pirates

In a thriller that came down to the last play, the Whitworth Pirates dropped a hard fought 25-20 game Saturday against the visiting La Verne Leopards. La Verne, playing its first game of the season, dominated the first half against the Pirates, who were coming off a 36-7 win against St. Scholastica and a 38-17 victory last week against Whittier.
Sports >  Whitworth

La Verne handles Whitworth

In a thriller that came down to the last play, the Whitworth Pirates dropped a hard fought 25-20 game Saturday against the visiting La Verne Leopards.
Sports

Big brothers

When defenses line up this year against the Whitworth Pirates, they have to try to run around or through a pair of brothers who simply are huge. Dalton and Kyle Cosby, of Spokane Valley, weigh more than 600 pounds combined on the hoof in their size-16 shoes.
Sports

Badminton player Harvey, 90, piled up 179 gold medals

Giants in the world of sports all reach their end somehow. Sometimes a knee gives way or they take too many concussions or teams simply lose interest. But for Spokane badminton great John “Jack” Harvey, who turns 90 today, he simply outlived the competition. Harvey has been humbling opponents with a racket and a shuttlecock (sometimes called a birdie) since he was 15. He just recently won the last two of 179 gold medals in local, national and international play at the National Senior Games in Cleveland.
Sports

Whitworth dominates both sides of ball

A stingy defense and explosive offense led the Whitworth Pirates to an impressive 36-7 win over St. Scholastica on Saturday in the opening game for both teams. The Pirates defense continually forced the Saints, of Duluth, Minn., into third-and-long situations and had several key turnovers to put the ball back into the hands of junior quarterback Bryan Peterson and senior running back D.J. Tripoli.
Sports

Gonzaga Prep rolls 42-13

Gonzaga Prep dominated Lewis and Clark with an impressive 42-13 pasting Friday night in a Greater Spokane League opener at G-Prep. Bullpups quarterback Kevin Thomas threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Nick Wood, a 25-yard TD pass to John Mackey and then ran for a 17-yard score.
Sports

Whits open season at Pine Bowl

The St. Scholastica Saints from Duluth, Minn., visit Whitworth at the Pine Bowl Saturday in the season opener for both teams.
Sports

For love of the game

Fernando Noriega leans forward into the play, barking out signals to other defensive backs as he waits for the backup Whitworth Pirates quarterback to drop back and throw to a receiver who is about to pay the price for invading his space. The 22-year-old starting safety, who grew up in the East Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, relishes every snap, every hit, every chance at his “second” senior season. The first senior season ended abruptly last year with a broken ankle in Whitworth’s second game against Whittier.