Spokane’s Harvey, Buder Receive Golds At Senior Nationals

Two Spokane athletes are returning home from the 1995 U.S. National Senior Sports Classic V in San Antonio, Texas, with gold medals.

Jack Harvey won the men’s badminton singles title in the 70-74-yearold age bracket.

And Sister Madonna Buder won the women’s triathlon in the 60-64-year-old group.

More than 8,500 athletes aged 55-102 from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Germany competed in 18 sports during the eight-day event that wound up last week.

Awards

Hank Anderson, longtime former athletic director and head men’s basketball coach at Gonzaga University, will be inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Hall of Fame June 19 in Las Vegas, Nev., in conjunction with the group’s 30th annual convention.

Anderson’s career in athletics spanned 40 years, 33 of them at the collegiate level and 21 at GU.

He retired from Northern Arizona in 1983 after 10 years as athletic director. He served at Gonzaga from 1951-72, compiling a 290-272 record that still ranks him as the winningest coach in Bulldogs basketball history.

A charter member of Gonzaga’s athletic hall of fame, Anderson helped organize the Big Sky Conference in 1963. GU was a member through the 1978-79 season.

Most recently, Anderson retired from his position as assistant general manager for the Las Vegas Stars baseball team of the Pacific Coast League.

Ferris is the only AAA high school in Washington to collect academic state championships in two sports this spring.

The Saxons were honored in boys soccer for their 3.564 team gradepoint average and in girls track, where they had a 3.711 GPA.

Four area Class B schools also earned spring academic championships: Odessa, boys golf, 3.297; Northwest Christian, softball, 3.696; Rosalia, boys track, 3.337; and Wilbur-Creston, girls track, 3.773.

Basketball

Stephanie Lincoln, a 5-foot-8 guard from Jefferson High in Portland, has signed a national letter of intent with the University of Idaho.

Lincoln averaged 14.3 points, 6.8 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game her senior year and was a first-team all-city and all-league pick. She was also a state academic all-star, graduating with a 3.8 grade-point average.

Jefferson was 22-2, winning 22 in a row before losing in the state 4A championship game.

Geoff Courchaine, a 6-7 post player from Central Valley High School, has signed a letter of intent with Columbia Basin College.

Courchaine averaged 15 points and 10 rebounds a game for the Bears during his senior season.

Brian Wilson, a 6-10, 215-pound junior center at Chehalis High, has given the University of Washington a verbal commitment that he will sign a letter of intent with the Huskies in 1996.

Wilson, who can’t sign until the week-long fall period in November, indicated through his high school coach he wanted to end the recruiting process early.

Wilson averaged 15 points, seven rebounds and two blocked shots a game last season.

Players with at least one year of high school eligibility are invited to try out for the Idaho Basketball Summer Prep team Friday from 4-6 p.m. in the North Idaho College gym in Coeur d’Alene.

Participants will be invited to a June 20-22 tryout in Kamiah, where the Idaho BSP team will be selected.

Info: Fred Mercer, (208) 935-2401.

College scene

Whitworth’s Don O’Neal, Greg Kaatz from Curlew and three players from Lewis-Clark State were named to the Pacific Northwest/Far West All-Region baseball team.

O’Neal, a senior from University High, was selected as the designated hitter. Kaatz, an Eastern Oregon junior, was picked at second base.

Chosen from L-C State were shortstop Miguel Inzunza, a senior, who also was named the region player of the year; senior first baseman John McAninch; and junior pitcher Matt Wagner.

Gonzaga University junior right-hander Darin Blood was named to the All-District 8 second team by the American Baseball Coaches Association.

Blood earlier was named the Pacific-10 Conference North Player of the Year and a “Collegiate Baseball” third-team All-America.

Also on the District 8 second team was University of Washington outfielder Jon Vander Griend. They’re the only Pac-10 North players on the first or second team.

Rick Vaughan, a Mead graduate, has been named a National Scholar Athlete at the University of Nevada and has been appointed assistant golf coach at the school.

Ryan Fleming, a junior defenseman on the Michigan State hockey team from Mead, earned an Academic All-Big Ten at-large selection. Fleming has a 3.36 gradepoint average while majoring in civil engineering.

Power lifting

Nancy Strehlau of Spokane power-lifted 837 pounds to win her age group (45-49) and weight class (148) at the National Masters Powerlifting Championships in Lynnwood, Wash., last weekend.

Strehlau squatted 292 pounds, benched 214.5, and dead-lifted 330.

Strehlau, who resumed the sport in October after a 10-year absence, said she hopes to compete in the world tournament in October in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Rifle

Led by Christopher Howser, members of the Cheney American Legion Junior Rifle Team fared well in the wind-whipped Washington State Junior Outdoor Championships last weekend in Wenatchee.

Howser was eighth in the master class in the .22 target rifle position portion and teamed with Hattie Ponti and Matt Miller for a third in the team competition. In the smallbore prone, Howser was second in the master class and joined Stephanie Goeden to finish third in the buddy match.

Other Cheney finishes:

Position rifle: Master class- Goeden, 10th; Miller, 13th; Ponti, 14th. Expert class-Rachael Westergren, 2nd. B class-Philip Chambers, 4th; Tim Miller, 6th. D class-Gavin Peterson, 1st; Russ Cook, 2nd; Jesse George, 3rd. Prone class-Casey Ponti, 4th.

Smallbore prone: Master class- Matt Miller, 9th; Goeden, 11th; Hattie Ponti, 15th; Westergren, 20th. A class-Chambers, 7th; Tim Miller, 8th. B class-Peterson, 1st; George, 3rd; Cook, 6th; Casey Ponti, 9th.

Buddy match, master class- Matt Miller-Matt Newburn, 4th; Westergren-Hattie Ponti, 9th. A class-Tim Miller-Chambers, 1st. B class-George-Peterson, 1st; CookCasey Ponti, 3rd.

Taekwondo

The Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery will benefit from proceeds generated by a board-breaking fund-raiser Saturday in the parking lot at the corner of 29th and Regal from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Called “Breakathon ‘95,” students at the U.S. Taekwondo College will take pledges for the amount of boards they can break. Also, spectators will be allowed to try their hand - or foot - at board breaking. Demonstrations are also planned by two former Olympic champions, a Korean National Team member and Washington state champion, among others.

Admission is a $10 donation to the charity.

Info: 533-5811.