Ccs Finishes Second At Bellevue Crossover

The Community Colleges of Spokane volleyball team finished second at the Bellevue Crossover Tournament Saturday after losing to Linn-Benton Community College 15-13, 13-15, 15-11, 15-12 in the championship game.

Spokane’s Amber Carter led her team with 14 digs and two aces in the title game. Marlo Urdahl had 16 kills.

CCS (29-20) defeated Green River in four games earlier in the day, for the right to play Linn-Benton, and was led by Beth Vercic’s 21 kills and seven aces by Carter.

CCS went 3-1 in the two-day tournament.

Gonzaga University dropped its 16th straight contest, losing to visiting Saint Mary’s 14-16, 15-4, 17-15, 15-7. The loss marked the only time in GU history that the team failed to win a West Coast Conference home match.

The Bulldogs (4-12, 0-11 WCC) came back after being down 14-8 to take the first game 16-14. Yet the Gaels (11-12, 7-4) swept the next three games. Gonzaga’s only senior, Heather Osberg, led the team with 21 kills and five blocks.

UC Santa Barbara, led by Simone Kuhn’s 11 kills defeated Idaho 18-16, 15-3, 15-3 in a Big West Conference match. The Vandals’ Regan Bulter and Anna-Marie Hammond had seven kills apiece.

Northern Arizona ended Eastern Washington’s eight-match winning streak 16-14, 15-6, 15-6 in a Big Sky match at Flagstaff, Ariz. Northern Arizona’s Maggie Barrera and Xylena Sanders each had 12 kills. Tamara Van Engelen finished with 13 kills for EWU (14-9, 9-5). Janelle Ruen added 13 digs.

In Northwest Conference action, Whitworth toppled George Fox 15-4, 13-15, 15-9, 15-4. Four Pirates had 10 or more kills.

Kristen Turner led Whitworth (17-8, 12-4 NWC) with 18 kills followed by Abby Jo Hornstein and Lindsey Wagstaff with 13 apiece. Jennifer Westerberg led the Bruins (7-15, 5-11) with 12 kills.

Men’s soccer

Led by Eric Johnson’s goal and assist, the Community Colleges of Spokane defeated NWAACC opponent Peninsula College 4-2. Peninsula’s Jaime Mendenhall opened the scoring 3 minutes into the game, but CCS (13-5-4, 11-3-2) scored the next four goals putting the game out of reach.

In Northwest Conference action, Ross Good scored the game-winning goal 10 minutes into the second half as the Whitman Missionaries defeated visiting Whitworth 2-1.

Paul Johnson of Whitworth (11-5-3, 7-4-3) tied the match on a 12-yard penalty kick in the first half.

Women’s soccer

In the Scenic West Athletic Conference, Chrissy Walsh had three goals and Tiffany Holtz added a goal and two assists as host North Idaho (14-3-2, 13-3) stopped Wenatchee Valley 5-0.

Walsh’s first goal came just 3 minutes into the game. She scored again 18 minutes later and then opened the scoring in the second half at 60:00.

Swimming

The Washington State women’s team defeated San Jose State 176-85 in Pullman. Among the winners was freshman Taryn Ternent who won the 100 backstroke in 58.19 seconds, placing her third on the Cougars’ all-time list.

Rachel Dong won the 100 breaststroke (1:06.97), placed second in the 100 butterfly (57.83) and led the 200 medley team to victory (1:48.38).

Whitworth College’s combined men’s and women’s team finished second to Simon Fraser University 148-98, at the Puget Sound Relays in Tacoma.

Cross country

North Idaho’s Charlie Miller finished eighth at 26:50 as the Cardinals men placed third with a score of 67 at Northern Pines GC in Bigfork, Mont. Ricks College won the meet with 23 points.

Ricks College also won the women’s meet with 21 points. NIC’s women placed third with 85 points.

Wrestling

North Idaho won its second straight match by defeating Highline CC 33-13. NIC got pins from 184-pounder Josh Birt, 125-pounder Ale De La Pena and 149-pounder Matt Owen.

The Cardinals (2-0) defeated Pacific Lutheran 36-6 Friday.