Zandt League’s Mvp, Division Ii All-American

Mike Zandt of Spokane found a cure for his sick bat - and it gave a headache to Mile High Intercollegiate Baseball League rivals.

Zandt, a senior catcher at Mesa (Ariz.) State from Mead, taped an aspirin to his bat after starting the season 0 for 10 “and immediately became one of the toughest outs” in the MHIBL, wrote Patti Arnold in the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo.

Zandt went on to lead the league in home runs (19), slugging percentage (.798), runs batted in (68) and doubles (18) while batting .398 to rank eighth in the league. He was a unanimous selection as the MHIBL most valuable player and was a first team NCAA Division II All-American.

Zandt, a former two-time All-Greater Spokane League catcher, showed his versatility by playing third, first and in the outfield and also served as Mesa’s designated hitter while appearing in all 53 of its games.

Now he’s playing a waiting game. Undrafted, he’s hoping to hook up with a professional team as a free agent. But “it’s a crap shoot,” he said. “I’ve had a couple of tryouts, but nothing promising has come out of them.”

Miscellany

Medical Lake High School is looking for head and assistant coaches for its volleyball and girls basketball teams.

Interested parties should contact Judy Zappone at the school, P.O. Box 128, Medical Lake, WA 99022, or phone (509) 299-3156.

Swimming

Colfax High School graduate Gabe Brannan completed his prep swimming career with a sixth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly last weekend at the National High School Swimming and Diving Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Brannan, who competed for Pullman HS, as Colfax has no swimming team, was invited after setting a record with a 50.33-second finish at the state meet last February in Federal Way, Wash. He won four state titles over his prep career. He finished with a 51.8-second clocking in the 12-swimmer national race.

Brannan will swim for Arizona State University in the fall.

Golf

The Hastings brothers of Ferris High, Andy and Michael, both earned top-10 finishes at the American Junior Golf Association Aspen Junior Championship in Colorado this week.

In the boys 13-14 division tournament, Michael, 14, tied for second with a three-day total of 223. On the par-72 Aspen Golf Course he shot rounds of 77, 73, 73.

In the 15-18 division, Andy, 17, finished in eighth place. He shot 74, 76, 72 for a 222.

Michael will be a freshman at Ferris in the fall while Andy will be a senior.

Camps

It’s not too late to register, either.The Coeur d’Alene High School-North

Idaho College Classic Cage Camp will be held Monday through Friday. The boys basketball coaching staff at CdA and NIC assistant Brian Hancock will oversee the camp.

Boys that will be in grades five through eight will meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Canfield Middle School while incoming freshmen through seniors will meet at CdA High.

Cost is $60. For more info: call 765-9183 or 765-2149.

The Timberwolf Basketball Camp at Lake City High (for boys and girls) will be held Monday through Friday. LC’s boys coaching staff will oversee the camp.

Incoming sixth graders and elementary age students will meet daily from 9 a.m. to noon, while seventh- and eighth-graders will meet from 1 p.m. to 4.

Cost is $60 per camper and $30 for additional family members. For more info: call 765-6354.

The Iron Wood Throwers Camp is a week away. The annual camp, which offers instruction in shot put, discus and javelin from a wide variety of Olympic-level and national champion throwers, will be held June 25-30.

Cost is $285 for out-of-area campers needing housing and $185 for day campers. For more info: call 667-5381 or 667-8393.

Tennis

Two Whitworth tennis players have been selected as NAIA Tennis All-America Scholars. Scott Chadderdon, a senior from Casper, Wyo., was a pre-med major with a 3.64 grade point average. Lisa Steele, a senior from Pocatello, Idaho, carried a 3.55 GPA with a double major in sports medicine and physical education. Steele is a repeat honoree.

Colleges

For the first time in school history, Whitworth College’s women finished among the top 20 schools in the NAIA-Sports Information Directors Association All-Sports Contest with a 19th-place finish. University of Puget Sound was first.

The Whitworth men tied for 101st. Lubbock Christian of Texas won the men’s title.

The contest measures the success of a college’s athletics program by the accumulation of points in postseason competition at the conference, regional and national levels.

Awards

Twenty-six Washington State athletes were named to Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic spring sports teams.

WSU had 40 percent of all its student-athletes earn grade point averages of 3.0 or better in both fall and spring semesters. The overall GPA of Cougars student-athletes this spring was 2.842.

WSU team GPAs: baseball, 2.488; men’s basketball, 2.239; women’s basketball, 2.304; women’s crew, 3.355; novice crew, 2.699; football, 2.328; men’s golf, 3.071; women’s golf, 3.071; soccer, 2.558; tennis, 3.359; junior varsity tennis, 3.151; men’s track and field/cross country, 2.739; women’s track and field/cross country, 3.235; volleyball, 2.859.

Female student-athletes earned an average of 2.977, while men were at 2.573.

The Pac-10 honorees:

Baseball: Jim Horner, junior catcher, 3.10 grade point average in criminal justice; Justin Marquart, senior pitcher, 3.23 in business; Rob Ryan (Shadle Park), junior outfielder, 3.25 in education.

Golf: Erik Anderson, sophomore, 3.18 in business administration and Margaret Switzer (Newport), 3.54 in business administration and marketing, both second team. Janet Glover, senior, and Kim Schramer sophomore, received honorable mention.

Women’s tennis: Sheetal Khanna, senior, 3.57 in business administration and Jodi Robinson, senior, 3.58 in foreign language, both second team. Emma Lin, senior; Marcia Senn, junior; and Jackie Small, sophomore, received honorable mention.

Men’s track: George Loucaides, senior, 3.70 in exercise studies; Chris Mosley, sophomore, 3.25 in biology; Jed Stannard (Mead), senior, 3.63 in physical education, all first team; James Long, sophomore, 3.77 in biochemistry, second team. Jason Baskett (Mead), senior and Jeff Boag, junior, received honorable mention.

Women’s track: Jeanna Hall (Colbert), junior, 3.82 in human nutrition/food science; Kristin Liebich, sophomore, 3.90 in human nutrition/ food science; Marilyn Moberly (Cheney), sophomore, 4.0 in natural resources; Heidi Schultz, sophomore, 3.90 in education; Ginger Tivey, sophomore, 3.12 in English; and Jenny Zenner (Pullman), junior, 3.83 in psychology, all second team. Yashiva Edwards, sophomore, and Kolleen Faires, sophomore, received honorable mention. Edwards also was named a winner of the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award given by “Black Issues in Higher Education” magazine.

Idaho sophomore Angie Mathison was named to the GTE Academic All-America third team. She earned the award in the AtLarge Division, which includes all NCAA women’s sports except volleyball, basketball and softball.

Mathison, a distance runner, is one of just four sophomores honored this year. She has a 4.0 GPA in biology. She won the 10,000 meters at the Big Sky Conference outdoor championships last month and finished second in the 5,000.

Mathison is the only Northwest athlete to be honored.

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