Former Ewu Coach Honored By Nabc

Former Eastern Washington University men’s basketball coach Jerry Krause has been awarded the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ 1998 Cliff Wells Appreciation Award for his contributions to college basketball through the years.

Krause, on leave as a professor in the physical education department, coached the EWU men’s team for 18 years (1967-85).

He has authored many books and has worked for years to protect the integrity and consistency of basketball equipment. He developed a rim-testing mechanism that was used at all sites during the 1998 NCAA men’s championships.

Krause, who is doing research and teaching at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was presented the award at a dinner in San Antonio, Texas, this spring. Cliff Wells is a former president and executive director of NABC.

Baseball

The bus accident that claimed the lives of nine Spokane Indians players in 1946 is included in “Angels’ Halo Haunted,” a compendium of professional baseball tragedies published last month by Canadian writer Danny Gallagher.

The book also includes chapters on the plane crash that killed Roberto Clemente, the suicide of Angels reliever Donnie Moore, the shooting death of Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock and the crippling illness that took the life of Yankees great Lou Gehrig.

Published by Scoop Press of Toronto, “Angels’ Halo Haunted,” a trade paperback priced at $9.95 in U.S. funds, is available from Hushion House Limited, 36 Northline Rd., Toronto M4B 3E2, or by telephoning toll-free to (888) 716-2665.

College scene

Washington State football coach Mike Price, defensive coordinator Bill Doba and six Cougars players have been invited to participate in the Sharp Cup Heisei Bowl in Nishinomiya, Japan, July 4.

Two Japanese college teams selected two coaches and six players each from Rose Bowl rivals WSU and Michigan to join their squads in the ninth annual game. The Cougars will team up with Kansei Gakun University.

WSU players are center Lee Harrison, offensive tackle Ryan McShane, linebackers Todd Nelson and Kenny Moore, quarterback Davie Muir and safety Bryant Thomas.

University of Idaho football player Tony Uranga is the recipient of the school’s 1998 Rich and Mary Fox Memorial Scholarship.

Named for the late former UI athlete and coach and his wife, the award goes to a senior student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average. Uranga, a computer engineering major who lettered three years in football, has a 3.97 GPA. The scholarship is $3,000.

Marci Meddock, who graduated from Mead High in 1995 and played softball for two years at Community Colleges of Spokane, was selected to the All-Pacific Northwest Athletic Conference team her first year at Central Washington.

Meddock, a junior outfielder, hit .297 and set a school record with 13 sacrifice bunts.

Central Washington freshman pitcher Whitney Bliss from Cheney had an 8-1 record with a 1.10 earned-run average for the Wildcats’ junior varsity, which went 14-2. She had 33 strikeouts in 51 innings.

Olympic College sophomore Matt Armitage of Spokane (Mead), the Northern Division player of the year as a freshman, is continuing where he left off last year in community college baseball.

A switch-hitter, Armitage is hitting .432 with 11 doubles, five home runs, 33 RBIs and 17 stolen bases for the 19-9 Rangers, who are battling for the division lead.

Eastern Washington had a second-team pick and two honorable mentions on the All-Big Sky Conference tennis teams.

Junior John Calentina made the men’s second team for a second straight year. Teammate Dean Kimoto earned honorable mention, as did Sara Bracken on the women’s team.

Middlebury College junior Chrissy Peterson of Spokane (St. George’s) won the conference 400-meter hurdles title in 1:04.18 to help the Panthers win the women’s track and field championship.

Golf

A half-dozen golfers with Inland Northwest ties will be at Canterwood Golf & Country Club in Gig Harbor, Wash., Monday to compete in an 18-hole U.S. Open local qualifier.

The field of 75, which includes 26 pros and 49 amateurs, includes Michael Rorholm of Liberty Lake, Tim Rypien of Spokane, Colin Guhlke of Harrington. Also in are former Spokanites Darren Slackman, a student at the University of Washington; and pros Chris Mitchell and Stu Aden of Tumwater, Wash.

Six will advance to a 36-hole sectional qualifier trying to win spots in the U.S. Open June 18-21 at The Olympic Club in San Francisco.

Washington State University has signed three more female golfers to letters of intent.

Slated to join the Cougars this fall are Tasha Browner, a 4.0 student and four-year prep golfer from Tarzana, Calif.; Amy Secker from Battleground, Wash.; and Carmen Sielicki from Modesto, Calif. Sielicki missed her senior season with an injury after playing in the 1997 Tournament of Champions.

Gonzaga University coach Kelly Lynch-Stewart will be a guest clinician at the 1998 Youth in Education in Sport () clinic held in conjunction with the NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship at the Cherokee Country Club in Madison, Wis., one week from today.

Lynch-Stewart, in her first year as GU coach, will offer instruction on basic fundamentals with a focus on athletic and academic development.

The program emphasizes youth programming, goal setting, developing essential skills and applying lessons learned in athletics to other areas of life. The NCAA offers the free program as an integral component of all Division I championships.

The ninth annual ABC Scramble charity tournament will be June 6 at MeadowWood.

There will be $10,000 in prizes at stake. Proceeds benefit the Spokane Youth Sports Association and Children’s Miracle Network. Through the years, nearly $68,000 has been donated to those causes through tournament proceeds.

Entry forms are available at the SYSA office, 2202 E. Sprague.

Info: Melodie Little, 747-9310.

Soccer

Spokane Youth Sports Association will hold tryouts for its boys and girls select teams at five sites this week.

U-15, U-17 and U-19 tryouts will be Monday and Wednesday; U-14 and U-16 Tuesday and Thursday at all sites. Additionally, U-13 players in Cheney, North Side/Nine Mile, South Side and Riverside/Deer Park will try out Monday and Wednesday; Mead U-13 players will try out Tuesday and Thursday. Registration is at 5 p.m., tryouts at 5:30.

Sites are the North Complex for North Side/Nine Mile; the South Complex for South Side; Farwell for Mead; Riverside Middle School for Riverside/Deer Park; and Centennial in Cheney.

Players must be at both sessions and be registered with the Washington State Youth Soccer Association.

Info: 536-1800.

River City Steelers select teams will hold tryouts Tuesday for U-14 girls and U-18 boys and Wednesday for U-14 and U-16 boys, both at 6 p.m. at Shaw Middle School.

Volleyball

Northeast Juniors of Spokane, which finished second in the Evergreen Region tournament, will represent the area in the U-18 National Junior Olympic tournament in Dallas, Texas, after the champion elected to go elsewhere.

Splash Prime Cut/Icon of Spokane, which won the U-18 regional title, will go to a tournament in Davis, Calif.

Miscellany

Eastern Washington has announced the signing of 13 athletes, eight of them in women’s soccer.

The newest Eagles by sports:

Volleyball-Jennifer Dick, 6-foot, Surrey, British Columbia; Monica Lynch, 6-0, Burbank High School (Pasco).

Soccer-Kiki Bell, Monroe, Wash.; Danielle Blue, Snoqualmie, Wash.; Deszeray Dougherty, Pasco; Bree Holsing, Salem, Ore.; Rachel Jewell and Sophia Pacheco, both Kennewick; Courtney Kelley, Canby of Portland; Beth Ransom, Seattle, Highline Community College.

Men’s tennis-Ryan Moran, Mead.

Men’s track and field-Eric Boyd, Chelan, Wash., Ohio State; Johnnie Williams, Nathan Hale of Seattle.