EV Selects Hanson As Mat Coach

Less than two weeks after resigning as head wrestling coach at Coeur d’Alene High School, Craig Hanson on Tuesday accepted that post at East Valley High.

Hanson taught at Lakeside High in Nine Mile Falls last year, but commuted to Coeur d’Alene to coach. He was hired late in the summer last year at CdA after Vikings coach Bill Bauman left for West Valley.

Hanson is the third former CdA wrestling coach to take a position in the Spokane Valley, following Bauman and Don Owen, who is at University High.

The hiring of Hanson at EV is pending board approval, which is expected at a meeting next week.

Hanson said he regrets having to leave CdA. He looked at taking a teaching job at CdA, but resigned when the finances didn’t work out.

“In terms of a job, it was an excellent job. I really enjoyed the people and the kids there,” Hanson said. “But, financially, it would have been too much of a hardship on my family. It was a family decision.”

Prior to taking the job last year at CdA, Hanson assisted Scott Jones at Lakeside for three years. Hanson previously was head coach at Wapato, Wash., for three years.

Hanson takes over at EV for Mark Perry, who resigned to take the head football job at Snohomish, Wash.

Legion baseball

Tucker Urdahl pitched a two-hitter as Spokane Federal Credit Union (13-5) shut out Spokane Athletic Supply (12-6) in a battle for first place in the South Division of the Spokane Senior Legion league.

Tyson Blank had two hits and drove in two runs for SFCU.

Carey Snow pitched a five-inning one-hitter as Global Federal Credit Union blanked Key Bank 12-0.

Marcus Muzato ignited things with a double and Steve Fish added a two-run double in a six-run third inning that carried M&L Construction to an 8-3 win over JobQuest. Nick Gonnella also had two RBI for M&L.

Brett Corigliano and Erick Hayden combined for six hits and five RBIs to lead red-hot Chapter Eleven/Longhorn past Olympic Sports 9-8. Steve Sander had a home run and three RBIs for Olympic.

Ryan Gardner of Frank and Clancy (Central Valley No. 1) pitched a no-hitter in a 12-0 win over Rogers Boosters in a Junior Legion game at Rogers. He had nine strikeouts, no walks, but hit two batters.

AAU basketball

The Spokane Stars, led by Damian Long’s 25 points, knocked off previously undefeated Atlanta 89-85, but failed to advance out of pool play at the U-17 boys’ national tournament in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Spokane, 2-1 in pool, missed moving into the championship round by five points, hurt by a 16-point loss earlier. Mike Homer had 16 points, Paul Mencke 15 and 10 rebounds and David Schillinger 14 points - six on free throws in the last 30 seconds.

Spokane’s U-13 Stars’ girls team went winless (0-4) in the national tournament in Amarillo, Texas, after dropping a 51-45 decision to Arkansas Hoops.

Aided by the absence of a shot clock, Arkansas stalled away most of the last 2 minutes after Spokane had closed to within one point.

Kelly McCaffey led Spokane with 12 points and nine rebounds.

Golf

Spokane’s Katie King won but Eileen Hargrove lost in the first round of match play at the Pacific Northwest Women’s Amateur at Waverley Country Club in Portland.

King defeated Molly Cooper of Tacoma 1-up while Hargrove lost 1-up to Cappy Mack of Portland.

Qualifying medalist Karla Kalian of Vancouver, Wash., beat Joanne Byer of Bellevue, Wash., 7 and 6. Washington women’s amateur champion Heather Graff of Kennewick had the day’s widest win, 9 and 8 over Jennifer Stapleton of Tacoma.

Kyle Kelly, 17, of Spokane shot a 5-over-par 77 in the first round of the Optimists International Junior Tournament in Miami. That’s 10 shots back of the leader.

In the girls’ section, Spokane’s Britney Holt, 16, had a 10-over 81 and is 11 shots out of first.

Debbie Haakstad of Spokane missed a chance to qualify for match play in the 40th Pacific Northwest Junior Golf Association Junior Girls Tournament in North Vancouver, British Columbia, when she failed to show up for a chip-off to determine the last qualifying spot.

Haakstad shot a 90. Jamie Jou of Richland led the qualifying for a second straight year with a 7-over 80.

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