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State wrestling group to honor three who have ties to area

Three men with Eastern Washington ties are among the five who will be honored during the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame induction Nov. 13 in Tacoma.

Ron Seibel of Moses Lake and Jim Bair of Castle Rock, who had coaching stints at Republic and Pomeroy, will be inducted into the state shrine.

Jack Reynolds of Bellevue, a graduate of North Central High School and Eastern Washington University, a wrestling official for more than 30 years, will receive the Joe Babbitt Contributors Award. Reynolds has officiated at more than 25 state tournaments and been a state rules clinician since 1989.

Seibel has coached and taught for 35 years in Moses Lake, the last 28 at the high school, for which he was a state runner-up his senior year. His teams have placed in the top four at state 20 times, including nine championships and seven second-place finishes.

After starting wrestling programs at Pomeroy in 1966 and Republic in 1968, Bair has been in Castle Rock since 1974. He produced two state championship teams and two runners-up among nine top-10 finishes.

Also slated for induction are Denny Daniels of Chehalis and Joe Reasons of Port Orchard.

Basketball

The Spokane Basketball Officials group will hold a meeting for those interested in officiating boys and girls basketball this winter at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at North Central High School.

The organization is a member of the Washington Officials Association and serves WIAA member schools in Spokane and the surrounding area, as well as the YMCA and AAU programs.

Info: Steve Ayres, 326-7833.

College scene

Marcus Miller, a Carroll College freshman from Gonzaga Prep, was the naiafootball.net’s national special teams player of the week last week.

Miller, a two-time All-Greater Spokane League first-team selection, scored all of Carroll’s points in a 12-0 win over Azusa Pacific. He was 4 for 4 the first day he attempted a field goal as a collegian, hitting from 32, 34, 30 and 27 yards.

Renee Skidmore is the Big West Conference female golfer of the month for September.

In her first college outings, Skidmore won the Lady Vandal Fall Invitational and finished third at the Inland Empire Collegiate tournament.

Brandon Stum, an Alaska-Anchorage senior from University High, was the Great Northwest Athletic Conference men’s cross country runner of the week for the week of Sept. 20-26 for his 22nd-place finish in the pre-national meet in Evansville, Ind.

Stum covered 8,000 meters at the site of this year’s NCAA Division II national meet in 26 minutes, 5 seconds. About a third of the top-25 ranked teams were on hand. Alaska Anchorage is ranked 20th.

“ The Seattle Pacific women’s soccer team, which includes two players from Spokane – senior Jessica Henson (University) and freshman Kara Hamby (Mead) – has climbed to No. 1 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division II poll.

The Falcons are 10-0-1 this season and are unbeaten in their last 28 matches (25-0-3) over two seasons. Henson is tied for second on the team in assists with four and also has three goals. Hamby has two assists.

“ Central Washington senior Kate Reome of Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) became the Great Northwest Athletic Conference career volleyball assists leader when she dished out 50 in a 3-0 sweep of Humboldt State last weekend. Reome has 4,210 career assists. The old record was 4,176.

Golf

Troy Blood from The Club at Black Rock won the Inland Empire PGA Assistants Championship Tuesday at Indian Canyon with a 4-under-par 140 (67-73).

Chris Curran from MeadowWood was two shots back in second (69-73) and Kyle Kelly from The Creek at Qualchan was third at 143 (71-72). Nobody else in the 16-player field broke par.

Hockey

Two Alberta cities, Red Deer and Lethbridge, will be sites for the final two games in the Canada/Russia Challenge this winter. Red Deer will play host to the game Dec. 1, and Lethbridge on Dec. 2.

Red Deer’s Brent Sutter, who will coach Team Canada’s National Junior Team, will lead a team of Western Hockey League players against the touring Russian junior team in the two Alberta games.

The Russians will also play two games each at Quebec and Ontario league sites.

This is the second year of the event, which gives the Canadian Hockey League uses to evaluate players it will invite to its national camp to prepare for the World Junior Championships.

Softball

Tim Baldwin from Fairchild Air Force base, an outfielder on the USA Armed Forces team, was named a second-team All-American at the Amateur Softball Association Men’s Major Slowpitch National Championship in Sanford, Fla.

The Armed Forces team had a 1-2 record and tied for fifth in the eight-team tournament.

Wrestling

There will be a mandatory meeting for all wrestling officials at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in the West Valley High School library. Participants are asked to enter the school at the south entrance in the main building.

Anyone interested in becoming a wrestling official should call Mike Sullivan at 467-3036 or 467-6497.