Big Sky Meet Comes To Eastern
Team titles and individual championships in 21 events for men and women will be decided many with record emphasis - at this week’s Big Sky Conference/Seafirst Bank track and field championships.
Multi-events competition starts today at Eastern Washington University with the heptathlon at 12:30 and decathlon at 1.
Individual events start Friday. The meet concludes Saturday.
Cal State Northridge is favored to replace Northern Arizona as the women’s champion. Weber State is expected to challenge for the men’s title.
Eastern Washington University hammer thrower Les Timm is one of 11 defending Big Sky champions, but his outdoor best this spring is No. 6 in the conference coming into the meet.
Northern Arizona’s Anna Soderberg, with a personal-best 196-1 in the discus, is pointing for an NCAA championship.
Eighteen women and 10 men have exceeded Woodward Stadium records in their respective events.
Mawindi takes Pac-10 honor
Hilary Mawindi from Washington State has been named Pac-10 Conference men’s field athlete of the week for the week of May 5-12.
Mawindi, a junior from Gweru, Zimbabwe, reached the NCAA provisional qualifying standard with a jump of 25 feet, 6-3/4 inches Saturday to win the long jump at the Modesto Relays in Modesto, Calif.
His mark is a Zimbabwe national record.
CCS sweeps in baseball
Community Colleges of Spokane defeated visiting Yakima Valley 6-5 and 12-11 in a Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges baseball doubleheader.
Boxing card tonight
Both previously have been on fight cards at the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Bingo/Casino. Tonight, they’ll fight each other.
Lightweights Steve Valdez and Paris Alexander headline the latest pro boxing card in Worley, Idaho. Boxing begins at 7:30.
The hard-nosed Valdez has fought twice in Worley, losing to Johnny Avila and defeating Raul Terrazas. Alexander, the California and Northwest champion, thundered Jose Herrera last July.
Three Spokane fighters, including the pro debut of women’s featherweight Para Draine, are on the card. Undefeated Frank Vassar and rugged Rick Welliver will be in action.
UI announces basketball signing
Men’s basketball coach David Farrar added a third player to his 1997 recruiting class when Antonio Simpson from Los Angeles City College signed a letter of intent to play at the University of Idaho.
Simpson, a 6-1 guard who was twice an all-conference selection, averaged 17 points, five assists and three steals as a freshman, and 15 points, five assists and three steals as a sophomore at L.A. City College, where his team twice won the state championship.
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