Quick hits

No time to prepare

Greater Spokane League basketball teams are in the middle of an unusually busy week.

Teams completed the first quarter of their season Tuesday and have two more games to play this week.

They will play five games in 10 days before the holidays. University and Central Valley, will have completed nearly half their seasons by Dec. 21.

GSL squads had only two practice days to prepare for opponents Friday and Saturday. They have Monday to prepare for Tuesday games and another practice before Dec. 21 contests.

Preseason favorites, Ferris (boys) and Lewis and Clark (girls) are both 5-0.

As expected in the boys, not much separates the top eight teams. The only “surprise” among girls has been East Valley, which beat both CV and Shadle Park. It shouldn’t have been unexpected since seven Knights are back.

GSL games to watch

Friday: Shadle boys (3-1) vs. Rogers (2-2) at Shaw Middle School, 5:30 p.m.; U-Hi girls (4-1) at Mead (4-1), 7 p.m.

Saturday: Gonzaga Prep boys (2-1) at Mead (4-1), 5:30 p.m.; EV girls (3-1) at Ferris (2-3), 7 p.m.

Tuesday: G-Prep boys at CV (2-3), 7 p.m.; LC girls (5-0) at Shadle (2-2), 5:30 p.m.

More about Tri-State

Spokane-area wrestlers, 1A power Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) among them, will be well represented in this weekend’s Tri-State wrestling tournament.

They’ll face the best competitors from four states.

There are returning meet placers in nearly every weight, including nine finalists. Every weight class has Washington-ranked individuals.

Among them are Mt. Spokane’s Noah Hatton, second at 145 pounds in Tri State last year, but up a weight to 152 where returnee Andrew Johnson from Tahoma was runner-up last year. Hatton’s conqueror a year ago, Trevor Hall from Battle Ground, is at 160, the same as Riverside state champion Ryan DeRosches.

LC state placer Anthony Varnell is one of two 2005 Tri-State second-place finishers at 140, with Hermiston’s Brent Parks.

New to wrestling hall

Former CV wrestling coach and activities coordinator Jay Rydell was inducted last month into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Rydell was one of four honored.

He spent 10 years as the CV head wrestling coach and 16 as assistant principal in charge of activities.

Since retiring in 1997 he has kept busy behind the scenes. Rydell continues to be active in the administration of local postseason wrestling and other WIAA state tournaments.

Last May Rydell was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Washington Chapter, for lifetime service to the sport.