Shadow’S Ching Back, In Top Form

Sun., May 30, 1999

Brian Ching scored a pair of second-half goals, despite 40-mph winds, to rally the Spokane Shadow to a 2-1 victory over the Yakima Reds in a United Soccer League match Saturday in Yakima.

Octavio Dovalle staked Yakima (0-2) to a 1-0 lead with a goal 6 minutes into the second half.

Ching pulled the Shadow (2-0) even in the 68th minute. Chad Brown’s corner kick found Stuart Saunders on the far back post. Saunders flipped a quick pass to Ching who booted the ball past Yakima goalkeeper Derek Collins.

Ching scored the game-winning goal with just 5 minutes remaining. Brown and Chris Hollingshead played give-and-go at the top of the Yakima box. Brown passed to Hollingshead who sent a crossing pass to Ching at the right side of the net. Ching outjumped Reds defender Jeff Perry and directed a header into the net.

It was Ching’s first action after missing the first five games with a hamstring injury.

College track

Central Valley graduate Ryan Weidman of Texas A&M-Kingsville finished third in the men’s javelin at the NCAA Division II track and field championships in Emporia, Kan.

At 222 feet, the former Community Colleges of Spokane thrower increased his lifetime best by 12 feet.

Earlier in the meet, Laura Widman of Colfax and Seattle Pacific University placed fifth in the women’s heptathlon. A freshman, Widman totaled a lifetime best 5,052 points, despite the effects of a fractured right elbow suffered last month which held down her throwing marks. A lifetime best long jump (19-1/2) and a 10-second improvement in the 800 meters (2:20.65) boosted her score.

Crew

Gonzaga University’s freshman four raced past Stanford at the finish line to earn the bronze medal at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta on Cooper River in Camden, N.J., on `Saturday.

Gonzaga finished in 6 minutes, 47 seconds and edged the Cardinal by .4 seconds.

Wisconsin (6:40.6) took home the gold medal. Boston University (6:43.3) finished second.

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