Erickson, Jolley On All-League

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Alyssa Erickson, who led Wilbur-Creston to the 1999 girls State B basketball championship, capped a solid freshman season at Lewis-Clark State College by being named to the All-Frontier Conference women’s team.

Joining the 5-foot-9 guard on the first team were teammates Brianne Kotwitz, a 5-7 sophomore, who was named the conference MVP, and Charlotte Norman, a 6-1 senior.

The honorable mention list included 5-9 senior guard Lora Jolley from Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls and Sarah McEachern, a 6-foot junior from Lewiston.

The Warriors’ Mike Divilbiss was named coach of the year.

Repeaters Ryan Floyd and Matt Santangelo lead the Gonzaga University selections on the West Coast Conference All-Academic basketball teams.

Floyd, a senior from Harrington, made the men’s team for a third straight year. He has a 3.22 grade-point average in special education. Santangelo, also a senior, with a 3.21 GPA in human resources, made it a second time.

First-time selections are senior Mike Nilson, 3.21, management, and freshman Jimmy Tricco, 3.61, education.

On the women’s team are Holly Bruno, a junior from Mead, with a 3.40 GAP in speech and Loyola Marymount junior Theresa Palmer from Gonzaga Prep, who has a 3.52 GPA in psychology. Both are first-time selections.

Marty Parsons of Davenport, senior captain on the Whitman College baseball team, started his final season with a single and a double as the Missionaries opened with a 1-0 win over Western Baptist.

In his first game in two years after sitting out a medical redshirt season at Willamette, Sean Hughes of Spokane (Shadle Park) allowed just three singles and no runs in six innings in picking up the win for the Bearcats baseball team in a 3-1 victory over St. Martin’s.

Puget Sound senior Bob Strahl of Spokane (Gonzaga Prep) hit his first home run of the season to help rally the Loggers baseball team from a 5-0 deficit to a 6-5 win over Nothwest Nazarene last weekend.

Goalkeeper Lindsey Jorgensen received three of the six awards handed out by the Washington State women’s soccer team.

Jorgensen, one of four Cougars to earn Pac-10 All-Academic honors, received the academic excellence award for her 4.0 GPA; was named co-MVP with Christina Pallan; and earned the coveted weight room award.

Leading scorer Deka DeWitt was named offensive player of the year for the second straight year; Meagin Donovan was the defensive player of the year; and Katrina Stroh the rookie of the year.

Shelly Bartlett of Spokane (University), the driving force behind the University of Nebraska returning to national prominence in gymnastics in the late 1990s, has been named one of 25 Women of Distinction by the Huskers.

Nebraska, celebrating its 25th year of women’s intercollegiate athletics, will bring the finalists to campus for a banquet the last week in April and name an all-time MVP.

Bartlett never missed a routine day to injury during her four-year career and led the Huskers into three NCAA Championship tournaments. In 1997, she became the first gymnast in school history to earn All-America honors in three events at the same meet. She was also a four-time scholastic All-American.

Bowling Green senior Zach Ham of Spokane (Shadle Park) was named to the Central Collegiate Hockey Association All-Academic team for a second straight year.

Ham, who has a 3.87 GPA in architectural/environmental design studies, had two goals and five assists. He was one of the top defensive forwards in the conference and helped Bowling Green rank 15th nationally in penalty killing.