Indians add coaches

Former major league baseball players Mark Whiten and Glenn Abbott have joined the coaching staff of the Spokane Indians of the short-season Class A Northwest League, the Texas Rangers announced Tuesday.

Whiten will be the hitting coach, Abbott the pitching coach.

Whiten played for 11 seasons with eight different teams, but is best remembered for a game on Sept. 7, 1993, at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. In the second game of a double-header, he hit four home runs and drove in 12 of the St. Louis Cardinals’ 15 runs. Both accomplishments tied big league records.

During his career, Whiten hit 105 home runs, including 25 in 1993. A career .259 hitter, the switch-hitting Whiten drove in 423 runs. He played briefly for the Seattle Mariners in 1996, hitting 12 homers, driving in 33 runs and batting .300 in 40 games

Abbott was a starting pitcher for Seattle for six years. In 1977, his first year in Seattle, Abbott went 12-13 with a 4.45 earned-run average. In 1980 he went 12-12 with a 4.10 ERA.

In 11 seasons, Abbott compiled a 62-83 record with a 4.39 ERA.

Football

University of Idaho receiver Bobby Bernal-Wood and linebacker Cole Snyder, who ranked among the NCAA leaders at their respective positions, were selected to the All-Sun Belt Conference first team.

Vandals freshman running back Jayson Bird made the second team.

Men’s basketball

North Idaho College downed visiting Community Colleges of Spokane 95-90 in a non-conference game at Christianson Gymnasium.

Joel Ryman scored 25 for CCS.

Women’s basketball

Whitworth senior forward Tiffany Speer was chosen Northwest Conference player of the week after being named most valuable player in the Fred Raizk Memorial Tournament in Wilmington, Ohio.

Speer led the Pirates to the tournament title by scoring 42 points and grabbing 16 rebounds over the course of the event.