U-Hi Wins As Meyers Hits 35.75

Kim Meyers and her University gymnastics team show no signs of letting up.

Meyers won every event and the three-time defending champion Titans cruised to a win Thursday in a Greater Spokane League-opening three-way meet at Mead.

Meyers scored 35.75 points, just a shade less than what she totaled in winning last year’s District 8-AAA all-around.

“She looked better starting this season than she did finishing last season,” said coach Stacey Heaton, whose Titans have won 42 consecutive GSL head-to-heads.

Individual scores for Meyers included a 9.1 on the balance beam and 9.2 in the floor exercise.

U-Hi’s Kalie Cossette, competing with an injured foot, was second in the all-around at 32.6, helping the Titans to 159.9 points. Behind Cossette were Lindsay Linerud (32.35) of Central Valley and Kelly Herron (31.9) of Mead.

Herron’s Panthers edged CV 151.65-149.4 for second place. Lewis and Clark (123.95) trailed.

At Ferris, Liz Miller (34.0) swept all four events and won the all-around to lead the host Saxons over North Central (145.7), Rogers (135.65) and Shadle Park (119.2).

Ferris had the top four in the all-around, including runner-up Kacey Fredrickson.

Boys basketball

NC 72, East Valley 64

Jerry Holdren made his first five shots and finished with 21 points as the visiting Indians (3-1) beat the Knights (0-3) in a non-league game.

Adam Hieb of NC made a pair of 3-pointers late in the third quarter after EV rallied. The Knights came within two points with 5 minutes left before NC pulled away.

James Spotted Horse of EV scored 18 of his 26 points in the second half, on 9-of-11 shooting, and finished with 12 rebounds.

North Central 29 6 19 18 - 72

East Valley 16 19 9 20 - 64

NORTH CENTRAL Plaster 0, Turner 0, Blanchat 5, Blotsky 0, Kuhlman 18, Holdren 21, Hieb 18, Young 0, Kapelke 4, Eschenbacher 6.

EAST VALLEY Johnson 0, Eastman 2, LeGrant 12, Wilson 12, Snyder 3, Unser 0, Anderson 2, Freund 2, Sams 0, Robinson 0, Hansen 5, Spotted Horse 26.

Girls basketball

East Valley 53, NC 42

Star Olsen scored 20 and the Knights (1-2) scored the game’s first 21 points to beat the visiting Indians (0-4) in a non-leaguer.

Sara Cochran of EV had six rebounds. Shannon Nelson had eight rebounds and Tera Young five assists for NC, which had 27 turnovers.

North Central 3 14 14 14 - 42

East Valley 21 5 14 13 - 53

NORTH CENTRAL Young 8, Schumacher 4, Nelson 6, Delauder 3, Johnson 2, Wilson 6, Hammond 2, Smith 11.

EAST VALLEY Cook 1, Porter 10, S.Olsen 20, Overdorff 11, Cochran 9, Combs 2.

Selkirk 58, Salmo 34

Tara Porter had 15 rebounds and Polliana Dickinson eight assists and five steals as the Rangers (1-0) beat the visitors from Canada (0-1).

Molly Carlson added 13 rebounds and Stacy Koontz 11 for Selkirk.

Salmo 6 14 3 11 - 34

Selkirk 14 16 10 18 - 58

SALMO, British Columbia Lockwood 2, Miller 5, Bishop

15, Kortlande 2, Lyle 10.

SELKIRK Dickinson 4, Jennings 6, Sharp 8, Smith 2, Koontz 6, Dury 8, Porter 12, Carlson 12.

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