Shadle’s Anderson Signs With Eastern

REPLAY: Sports, May 28, 1997 Dusty Lane scored 42 points as Spokane won the Northwest Conference of Community Colleges track and field championships last Friday. Lane had three wins - both hurdles races and the decathlon - and a second. He was named athlete of the meet as the Sasquatch won their first title since 1988. The CCS women finished second. The report in Saturday’s editions incorrectly said there was another day left in the meet.

Chris Anderson, the most valuable player in the Greater Spokane League this past season, will attend Eastern Washington University and play basketball for the Eagles this fall, EWU coach Steve Aggers announced Friday.

The 6-foot-5 small forward averaged 17.3 points and 6.0 rebounds per game as he led Shadle Park to a 19-7 record and the State AAA Tournament. Anderson made 49 percent of his field-goal attempts, including 42 percent of his 3-pointers.

“He’s a good young player from a well-coached high school program,” Aggers said. “He has been well-schooled in the fundamentals of the game. It is exciting to have a local player who is a great young man, solid student and has the potential to become a fine Big Sky player in time.”

Anderson also earned All-State, All-Area and All-GSL honors as a senior.

“He had some great offensive nights at the end of the season in postseason play, and has shown signs of being a very good scorer,” Aggers added. “He’ll see time on the perimeter as he improves his ball-handling skills and learns how to play facing the basket at our level.”

Big West track

Buoyed by three individual victories, the Idaho men’s track team trailed Utah State by two points after the first day at the Big West Conference championships at Irvine, Calif.

Utah State’s men, the three-time defending champions, led with 58 points. Idaho was second at 56 and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo third with 50.

Four-time defending champion Utah State, with 35 points, was also the leader in the women’s division. Boise State was second with 33 points and UC Santa Barbara third with 19. UC Irvine, Idaho and Nevada were tied for fourth with 17 points.

Idaho men’s coach Mike Keller expressed little excitement over the first-day results.

“It was a very routine day for us,” he said. “They’re doing what we’ve been doing all year.”

For Idaho’s men, the scenario is beginning to resemble their 1995 and 1996 Big Sky championships, in which the Vandals were close to the first-day lead, then won the title with a strong second day.

The Vandals’ Frank Bruder won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8:44.49, Niels Kruller won the long jump (24-7) and Oscar Duncan won the javelin (212-2). Also, Kyle Daley placed second (197-2) and Jeff High fourth (173-2) in the hammer throw, and Steve Bluhm placed third (160-9) in the discus, with High seventh (148-7).

Vandals sprinters qualified for three positions in the 100-meter final, five in the 200 and two in the 400.

For the Idaho women, Jill Wimer was second in the javelin at 150-6, with Laurie Thompson third at 139-11.

NAIA track

Western Washington’s women’s team placed eighth in the championships at Marietta, Ga.

Among 12 athletes earning AllAmerica honors (sixth or better) for the Western women was freshman Shannon Anderson, from Lewis and Clark High School, who helped the 4x400-meter relay team to a time of 3:47.37, good for third place.

Mike Lynch, another freshman from LC, helped the Vikings’ men’s 4x100 relay team to a sixth-place finish in 41.45, also a school record.

A third freshman from LC, Sarah Hiss, placed 21st in the women’s triple jump with a personal best of 34-3-1/4. Hiss was sixth in the long jump (17-8-1/4) Wednesday to earn All-America.

NWAACC track

Dusty Lane won two events and placed second in another to pace Community Colleges of Spokane to the lead in the conference championships at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Ore.

Spokane leads second-place Lane Community College 143-138.

Spokane’s women were in second place, with 129.5 points, behind Lane, which has 164.

Dusty Lane won the 110 high hurdles (14.75) and the 400 intermediate hurdles (51.92). He was second in the 100 (10.98).

Beau Chandler of CCS won the javelin with a throw of 199-8 and the Sasquatch won the 400-meter relay in 41.7.

Spokane’s lone first-place finish in the women’s division was turned in by Celeste Stuthett, who won the 100 with a time of 12.46 seconds.

, DataTimes