Rain Delays Aa-A Softball; Ex-Chief Interviewed

Tue., May 27, 1997

Once again, rain washed out the seeding games at the District 7 AA-A fastpitch softball tournament.

Colville will play West Valley for 1-2 seeding to the State AA Tournament and Cheney will battle East Valley for the third berth to state in a loser-out game at 3 p.m. today at Waterfront Park in Medical Lake.

Both games were originally scheduled for Saturday, but rain postponed them to Monday, before the latest postponement.

The state tournament is this weekend in Tacoma.

Golf

Bridget Johnson of Spokane had a hand in five points to help Washington beat British Columbia 14-1/2 - 12-1/2 in the 11th annual North Pacific Junior Ladies Team Matches during the weekend at Semiahmoo Golf Course outside Blaine, Wash.

Johnson won her singles match 2-1/2 - 1/2 over Theresa Ryu of Burnaby, B.C., after teaming with Shanelle Roberts of Tacoma for a 2-1/2 - 1/2 best-ball win in the competition for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Tennis

In the NAIA national women’s tournament in Tulsa, Okla., neither Whitworth nor Whitman entries got past the second round.

Whitman freshmen Leslie Whitten and Amy Fong of Spokane and Whitworth’s Jodi Baker were second-round singles victims. Whitworth’s Tara Bonelli lost in the first round.

In doubles, Baker and Tara Fiebick lost in the second round.

Hockey

Former Spokane Chiefs assistant coach Parry Shockey, who helped lead the Lethbridge Hurricanes to this year’s Memorial Cup final, has been interviewed for the vacant head coaching job of the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League.

The Blazers fired coach Ed Dempsey last Thursday.

Shockey, who spent three seasons with Chiefs coach Mike Babcock, both in Spokane and at the University of Lethbridge, confirmed to Tracy Elsaesser of the Kamloops Daily News that he met with the Blazers on Friday.

Shockey coached the Hurricanes this past season while coach-general manager Bryan Maxwell served a one-year WHL suspension for assaulting a referee. The two were expected to be co-coaches at Lethbridge next season.

Shockey, who confirmed he has been contacted by the Regina Pats about their coaching vacancy, said he would like to find a head coaching position of his own.

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