Cougars Moving Up In Golf

Fri., May 12, 2000

Washington State University’s women’s golf team, seeded 24th in a 24-team field, stands in 21st place with a team score of 317 after Thursday’s first day of play at the NCAA West Regional tournament at Tempe, Ariz.

WSU is three strokes ahead of Pac-10 rival Oregon State and four ahead of Washington.

Jennifer Dodd carded a 77 and is tied for 53rd to lead Washington State. Sophomore Tasha Browner was the only other WSU player to break 80, finishing with a seven-over par 79, tied for 79th.

Tulsa’s Stacy Prammanasudh and Maiko Senda fired first-round 70s and are tied for the individual lead.

Prammanasudh and Senda also have the Golden Hurricane sitting on top of the team leader board with a 294, edging out Pac-10 powers Arizona and Stanford by two and three strokes, respectively.

The West Regional, which is being played on Arizona State’s par-72 Karsten Golf Course, will send 11 teams and three individuals to the NCAA Championship.

Indians baseball

The Spokane Indians completed their coaching staff with the addition of Jeff Davenport as hitting coach.

Davenport, 29, spent last season as the bullpen catcher for the Chicago Cubs. He played three years in the Boston Red Sox organization before joining the coaching staff of the Arizona Diamondbacks rookie league team in 1997.

Davenport will join first-year manager Tom Poquette and second-year pitching coach Randy Smith on the Indians staff.

College basketball

Jason Lewis, a standout guard at Southwestern Oregon Community College this past season and Jacksonville State University the year before, has signed a scholarship with Eastern Washington University and new men’s basketball coach Ray Giacoletti.

The 6-foot-4 Lewis can play both guard positions, and this past season averaged 14.2 points and 8.3 assists. In the 1998-99 season he started 21 games at Jacksonville State in Alabama, averaging 5.5 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists. He is a 1998 graduate of Churchill High School in Eugene, Ore.

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