Chamberlain, Stime Given Honors At Ccs

Two players who were instrumental in Community College of Spokane basketball teams playing in the finals of NWAACC tournaments earlier this month, are the school’s athletes of the month for February.

Steve Chamberlain, a starting forward on the Sasquatch team that won only the school’s second conference title, is the men’s selection. Bernice Stime, one of the steadiest on a CCS team that placed second, earned the women’s honor.

During February, Chamberlain, who missed five weeks of the season after having surgery on both knees Dec. 27, averaged 12.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, shooting 67 percent from the floor. He was named to the all-tournament first team.

Stime, a sophomore from Riverside, was named to the Eastern Region all-star team as well as the all-tournament first team. She led the Sasquatch in scoring with an 11.5 average and steals with 3.5 per game, and was second in rebounding with a 5.7 average.

Basketball

Papermill Printing/Swinging Doors of Spokane earned its fourth straight top-three finish in the state recreation basketball championships, placing second in the men’s B division last weekend in Richland.

The event drew 126 men’s and women’s teams.

Papermill, also second last year after a third-place finish in 1998 and a championship in 1997, lost 83-76 to Reynolds of Tacoma in the title game. It advanced with wins over Frasier Construction of Vancouver (97-85) and Uptown Vision Center of Pasco (115-96).

Jon Heimbigner is player-coach. Team members are Keith Humphrey, Rob Otis, Jamie Nilles, Greg Hannan, Jay Humphrey, Tom Yearout and Doug Watson.

College scene

Kyle Sexton, a University of Puget Sound senior from Coeur d’Alene, earned NCAA Division III All-America honors after three top-nine finishes in the division’s swimming and diving championships in Atlanta.

Sexton placed fourth in the 200 back (1:51.32) and ninth in the 100 butterfly (50.16) and 100 back (50.99).

The UPS men were 18th and the women 16th.

Zach Ham of Spokane, a Bowling Green senior hockey player from Shadle Park, was named to the GTE Academic All-District IV University Division Fall/Winter men’s at-large first team.

Ham, a first-team repeater, has a 3.87 GPA in architectural/ environmental design studies.

Ryan Monroe of Riverside, a Westmont (Calif.) junior basketball player, was named an NAIA All-American Scholar-Athlete.

Monroe, who cracked the starting lineup the last 10 games and averaged 13.2 points during that span, had a 7.6 season scoring average and hit 40 3-pointers. He has a 3.62 GPA in business/economics.

Becki Huddle of Spokane (Lewis and Clark) and North Idaho College, was selected to two NAIA women’s basketball All-America teams.

Huddle, a junior at Vanguard (Calif.) University, was an All-America honorable mention as a player and a scholar-athlete All-American with a 3.50 GPA majoring in biology.

Sara McEachern, a Lewis-Clark State College junior from Lewiston, also was a scholar-athlete All-American with a 3.65 GPA in education.

Washington State sophomore Lindsey Jorgensen, keeper on the women’s soccer team, was selected to the GTE Academic All-District VIII team, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced.

Jorgensen is one of 10 named to the team and one of only three with a 4.0 grade-point average. She started all 19 games for the Cougars and posted five shutouts among seven wins and led the Pac-10 in saves with 126.

Eastern Washington’s Amber Johnson has been honored as an Academic All-American by the Women’s Intercollegiate Cross Country Coaches Association.

Johnson, a senior from North Central, is one of 51 NCAA Division I runners nationwide honored. She placed 64th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships and has a 3.70 GPA in dental hygiene.

The Eagles had a collective 3.47 GPA to rank 14th among 317 NCAA Division I women’s cross country teams.

Figure skating

Two of the five members of Spokane’s Lilac City Figure Skating Club that competed in the U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships earlier this month in Amherst, N.Y., skated in the finals.

Samira Banna, 12, finished sixth in a field of 36 intermediate ladies skaters and Whitney McMillin, 12, was 15th. Banna placed fifth in the short program and eighth in the long. McMillin was eighth in the short program and 18th in the long. Both completed all but two jumps.

Also skating but not advancing to the finals were Lindsay Malcolm, 12, Cheney, 10th, intermediate ladies; Jeff Smith, 11, 10th, juvenile boys; and McMillin and Alex Heaney, 13, ninth, juvenile pairs.

This was the largest contingent LCFSC has sent to the junior championships.

Golf

Ryan Baldwin of Shadle Park and Seth Deniston of Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls are among 12 winners in Washington state of Chick Evans Caddie Scholarships for the 2000-2001 academic year.

Baldwin does his caddying at Downriver while Deniston does his at Sun Dance. Both, along with the other 10 winners from Washington selected by the Western Golf Association, will attend the University of Washington. The scholarship awards full tuition and housing.

There are 820 golf caddies nationwide attending college as Evans Scholars. Since the program was instituted in 1930, more than 7,000 have graduated through it.

Recipients are selected based on caddie record, academic record, financial need and character.

The women’s 18-hole club at the Creek at Qualchan will have registration Monday at 8 a.m. Golf will follow.

Info: Jenny Knorr, 926-9467.

The Indian Canyon women’s 18-hole group will meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the course. Prospective members are welcome. The group plays Wednesdays from April through October. Weather permitting, it will play Wednesday.

Info: Joyce Workland, 535-5066.

Gymnastics

Meghan Johnson, 12, of Spokane, who competes for Northwest Gymnastics Academy, came home from the Level 7 state meet last weekend at Evergreen State College with five medals, including the silver in the all-around, despite competing on a broken toe.

Johnson, who has been competing for four years, missed the all-around gold medal by one-tenth of a point, scoring a 36.175. She also was fourth on bars, fifth in floor exercise, sixth on the beam and 11th in the vault. Her best score was 9.15 in floor.

NGA placed fifth as a team.

Volleyball

The University of Idaho has signed two more players to letters of intent.

Coach Debbie Buchanan said Mandy Becker, a 5-foot-9 setter from Fort Collins, Colo., who was her conference’s player of the year, and Brooke Haeberle, a 5-10 outside hitter from Omak, Wash., an all-state selection, will join UI in the fall.

Becker, who captained her school to the Colorado 5A state championship, also has played three years of upper-level club ball. Both are members of the National Honor Society.

Winter sports

Mia McMullen was a double winner at the Stomp Games skiing and snowboard competition last weekend at Schweitzer Mountain.

McMullen won the open women’s big air and snowboard halfpipe.

Other open winners: Chad Ozdemir, men’s big air; Jarred Thompson, skier big air; Jake Stewart, men’s snowboard halfpipe; Gabe Lauper, men’s halfpipe skier; and Jeff Yates, men’s 25 and older halfpipe snowboard.

Calling all camps The Spokesman-Review’s annual publication of youth sports summer camps is scheduled for Sunday, April 23. Deadline for submitting camp information is April 14. Please send camp information to Brandon Loucks, The Spokesman-Review sports department, 999 W. Riverside, Spokane, WA 99210. Our fax number is 459-5098.