Vandals’ Harrison To Miss Season Opener

Idaho senior forward Harry Harrison suffered a sprained right knee against Brewster Packing on Monday night and will miss Saturday’s regular-season basketball opener against St. Martin’s.

Following Saturday’s game, Harrison’s condition is day-to-day. JC transfer Jason Jackman will start in Harrison’s spot.

Football honors

Post Falls High’s Austin Lee and Brett Hollenbeck captured Most Valuable Player awards as all-Inland Empire League teams were announced.

Lee, a junior defensive end, was named defensive MVP, while Hollenbeck shared offensive MVP with Lewiston’s Jim Farris.

Lee also was named to the first-team offense at tight end and Hollenbeck and Farris were first-team defensive backs.

Sandpoint’s Jeremy Thielbahr and Post Falls’ Josh Mort shared offensive back of the year and Post Falls’ Jeremy Wallace was offensive lineman of the year.

Sandpoint’s Ryan Knowles was the defensive lineman of the year and Lewiston’s Chris Kennedy took defensive back honors.

Post Falls, the IEL champion, had 11 first-team picks on the offense and defense. State-runnerup Lewiston had 10.

See stat sheet for all-league listings.

FCA won’t forfeit

Falls Christian Academy will not have to forfeit four of its five football wins this year, despite the use of two ineligible players in those victories, the District I Board of Control ruled.

FCA’s Tyson Allen and Aaron Mitson played despite insufficient credited classes. After discovering the problem, FCA coach Brian Cruess reported it. The Board ruled an “honest oversight” had been made.

FCA was 5-4 this year and Allen was the North Star League’s top rusher with 1,273 yards.

Offensive standouts

The offensive disease that spread through the Greater Spokane League in 1995 was contagious.

A number of impressive high school football records were established throughout Washington during the regular season.

On top of the list is Mike Brown, a name area sports fans will remember from the State B basketball tournament.

Brown, a senior at Adna, which moved up to Class A this year, finished as the all-time leading rusher in state history, topping out at 6,039 yards when the Pirates lost in the first round of the state playoffs. In his 42 game career, Brown scored a record 84 touchdowns. He averaged 7.61 yards on his 794 carries.

Knocked out of the top spot was Brandon Jumper, who played at Eatonville from 1984-87. Also in 42 games, Jumper rushed for 5,910 yards and 75 touchdowns.

Brown, who had six 200 yard games this season, was held to 65 yards on 14 carries by Ridgefield in the playoffs, the only time in 12 games this year he didn’t reach 100. However, he became the 12th player in state history to surpass 2,000 yards in a season, finishing with 2,024 (10th all time) on 212 carries and 28 touchdowns.

Adna teammate Jared Spyhalski capped his career by converting 117 of 157 PAT kicks, putting him in the top five for career extra points.

Spudders mash opponents

No wonder the Ridgefield defense did a good job on Brown - the Spudders not only had two 1,000-yard running backs this year, the duo also went over 300 yards in a single game and they did it in the same game.

In the Spudders 63-22 win over Stevenson in the regular season finale, Nate Edgar carried 26 times for 343 yards and three TDs and John Christopher carried 21 times for 314 yards and four TDs.

Christopher had regular season totals of 1,503 yards on 116 attempts while Edgar had 1,297 yards on 161 carries. Both seniors also scored 19 touchdowns. Their regular season totals were 2,800 yards on 277 attempts and 38 TDs.

Anything you can do

The Spudders would have been the first team in state history with two 1,000-yard running backs if not for Ellensburg. The Bulldogs got 1,373 yards and 16 TDs on 200 carries from senior Joe Heilman and 1,352 yards and 19 TDs on 134 carries from junior Jawarren Hooker, the top Class AA sprinter.

Miller wrap up - for now

The bad news is Drew Miller just wrapped up his junior season, the good news is he plays at Lakes in Tacoma.

The prolific quarterback finished his season by throwing for more than 300 yards in all nine Lancer games, capping the year with a 445 yard outing, the third best single game in state history.

Miller finished the season with 230 completions (second all-time) on 365 attempts for 3,366 yards (second all-time, first in the regular season) with 41 TDs (third all-time, first in the regular season) and 12 interceptions.

He had single game marks of 33 completions and six touchdowns, both second.

On the career list - with a year to go - Miller is 402 of 676 for 6,046 yards with 65 TDs and 24 interceptions in 26 games. He is sixth for completions, with Bobby Lucht, who finished at Eatonville last year, first at 530 in 45 games. Miller is fifth in yardage, 414 behind fourth-place Mark Rypien.

, DataTimes