Basketball

Certified officials are needed for the Inland Empire Youth Basketball Series, which runs March 10-April 9. For information, contact Kevin Graffis in Cheney at (509) 359-2057.

Awards

Gonzaga University junior basketball guard Jon Kinloch has been voted to the 1995 GTE/College Sports Information Directors of America District VIII AllAcademic team.

Kinloch carries a 3.65 grade-point average with a double major in finance and marketing. Through 22 games, he was averaging a team-leading 13.1 points, as well as 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.

Kinloch’s selection marks the seventh straight year the Bulldogs have been represented on the team.

Two Cheney High School graduates at Montana Tech, Steve Marsh and Darby McKee, made the Frontier Conference All-Academic football team with a gradepoint average of 3.0 or better.

Marsh is majoring in engineering science and McKee in business information systems.

Miscellany

You can have some fun, lose some money - all right, probably win some, too - and help Eastern Washington University’s athletic scholarship fund all in one Feb. 25 in the school’s Pence Union Building.

The annual Monte Carlo Night fund-raiser will feature real-money gambling from 6:30 p.m. to midnight on the second floor of the PUB for those 21 and older. Among the games will be blackjack, over-under seven, 4-5-6, roulette and wheel of fortune. Admission is free.

There’ll also be a gambling-for-prizes evening at the so-called Club Vegas on the main floor from 7-midnight. There’s no age restriction and $3 purchases play money for gambling. There’ll be music and a hypnotist.

The event is in conjunction with an EWU men’s basketball game at 4 p.m. on Reese Court against Northern Arizona.

Info: (509) 359-6334 (Monte Carlo Night), (509) 359-7921 (Club Vegas).

Baseball

Gonzaga will host the three-day Evans Craven & Lackie College Baseball Invitational March 23-25. Brigham Young University, Lewis-Clark State College, Oregon State and Portland will participate.

Play begins at 9:30 a.m. March 23 at Pecarovich Field on the GU campus. GU will take on OSU at 12:30 p.m. followed by a contest against Portland at 3:30.

The following day, the Zags take on BYU at Seafirst Stadium at 7 p.m., and on the final day of action, the Bulldogs will face L-C State.

Cycling

Andy Palmer, a graduate student at Chico State from Cheney, won the criterion in a field of more than 75 and was fifth in the time trials in an intercollegiate race at California-Davis. It earned Palmer, a 1990 Cheney High School graduate, important points in his bid to qualify for the intercollegiate cycling nationals the last week of May in Reno, Nev.

Tennis

Nate Williams of Liberty Lake (Central Valley High), a freshman at the U.S. Naval Academy, got his college career off to a winning start. Playing No. 3 doubles for the Midshipmen, Williams and partner Ace Roman of San Antonio, Texas, defeated a Georgetown duo 9-7 in a match Navy lost 4-3.