Schurman leads way as East rallies
Mead’s Rachael Schurman, the state’s two-time player of the year, tallied eight kills as the East rallied from a poor first game to beat the West 14-25, 25-22, 25-21 in the 4A-2A game at the All-Star Volleyball Series at Selah High School Friday night.
Colville’s Nichole Bardwell had six kills and Mead’s Lacey Anderson added five.
In the 3A game, the East, despite having just seven players, knocked off the West 23-25, 25-18, 25-21. Prosser’s Danielle Palacios led the East with 41 assists in the match.
In the 1A/B game, Kalama’s Rashelle Davenport had a match-high 12 kills as the West upended the East for the second straight night, winning 21-25, 25-22, 25-17.
The three-night series concludes tonight at Mead High School at 7 p.m.
Soccer
The Spokane Shadow hope to continue their late-season playoff push when they host the first-place Cascade Surge tonight at 7 p.m. at Joe Albi Stadium in the team’s 2005 home finale.
The Shadow (9-4-0, 27 points) are riding a five-game win streak and are five points behind the Surge (10-2-2, 32) in the battle for first-place in the Premier Development League’s Northwest Division.
The Shadow’s other two remaining games are on the road: July 22 in Yakima and July 24 in Salem, Ore., against Cascade.
Spokane will be without midfielder Elliot Fauske, who was shown a red card in a 4-3 victory over the Abbotsford Rangers July 10 and will serve a one-game suspension tonight.
Golf
After scraping through qualification and entering play seeded No. 60, Travis Andrews now finds himself in the finals of the 104th Pacific Northwest Amateur Championship at Oakbrook Golf & Country Club in Lakewood, Wash.
Andrews, of Bothell, Wash., knocked off No. 4 seed Erik Hanson of Kirkland, Wash., 2 and 1 in the quarterfinals and upset top-seeded Ryan Carter of Hacienda Heights, Calif., 1-up in the semifinals.
Andrews will take on Jordan Madison, a Washington State golfer from Pasco, in the final. Madison beat Derek Berg of Duvall, Wash., in 19 holes in the quarterfinals then dispatched of Josh Immordino of Auburn, Wash., 3 and 2 in the semis.
Today’s championship match will be a 36-hole affair teeing off at 7:30 a.m.
•Taylor Leon of Dallas held off Paige Mackenzie of Yakima 2 and 1 to win the 104th PNGA Women’s Amateur Championship at Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club in Federal Way, Wash.
Leon sank a 6-foot par putt on the final’s 35th hole (No. 17) to take home the title.
College football
Eastern Washington has reached an agreement with New Northwest Broadcasters to have KTCR 1340-AM in the Tri-Cities serve as the flagship station for live radio broadcasts of Eagle football and men’s and women’s basketball games.
The four-year deal will see the Eagle Radio Network now include KTCR, KBBO (980-AM) in Yakima and non-commercial campus station KEWU 89.5-FM in Cheney and Spokane. KTCR general manager Don Morin expects to add a Spokane commercial station to the network.
Larry Weir will return for his 15th season calling play-by-play action on radio broadcasts.
Baseball
Brian Yates, a sophomore-to-be at Washington State, went 2 for 5 with a pair of RBIs as the Kelowna Falcons (7-8) downed the Spokane RiverHawks 8-4 Friday at Spokane Falls Community College.