Eastern’s Chadd, GU’s Hawk honored

Joanna Chadd started the season on the bench, only to be placed in the starting lineup and lead the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team in points this season. She leads her team in the classroom as well.

Chadd, a junior, was selected to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America District VIII first team with a 3.98 grade-point average in exercise science.

Gonzaga junior Stephanie Hawk, 3.59 GPA in business administration, was named to the third team.

Bowling

A foursome called Triple X won the Alycia Stevens Memorial Swiss tournament Jan. 29 at North Bowl.

Shane Daniels, Nick Harris, Cory Porter and Brian Orne compiled 40.5 points and had a pinfall of 6,292 to prevail in a field of 24 teams.

The Underdogs (Thane Mittelstaedt, Kyle Carpenter, Chad Carpenter and Krystl Jackson) had 38 points and a 6,245 total for second. Don’t Count Us Out (Christopher Gray, Brittany Morris, Eric Schmehl and Bruce Gray) was third with 37 and 6,184.

High games were Ken Utt, men, 290; Eryn Moran, women, 232; Porter, boys, 280; and Malina Brown, girls, 235

College scene

Central Valley grad David Pendergrass, a junior at BYU, was named co-male athlete of the week in the Mountain West Conference after setting a conference record with a high jump of 7 feet, 23/4 inches in finishing second in the New Balance Collegiate Invitational in New York last weekend.

The mark provisionally qualified him for the NCAA Indoor Championships and is the sixth best in the nation this season.

First in academics for the fall sports season, Eastern Washington is second overall in the Big Sky Conference Presidents Cup race.

Four of EWU’s five fall sports teams had GPAs of 3.06 or higher.

Weber State was first in the athletic portion and is first overall.

Snowboarding

Mark Harris, head coach of the Schweitzer Alpine Racing School Freeride Team, will lead the USA Snowboard Association’s boardercross team at the Junior World Championships in Italy March 5-12.

The USA team has won the snowboard trophy in the event for 13- to 18-year-olds two years in a row.

“It’s a terrific honor,” said Harris, who has been coaching for more than 12 years and was U.S. Snowboarding coach of the year in 2002.

Soccer

Gonzaga University women’s coach Shannon Stiles has signed four players to national letters of intent.

They are Christi D’Agostino, an outside and center back from Elk Grove (Calif.) High School; Taylor Hall, who has 28 goals and 16 assists in three varsity seasons at Fort Collins (Colo.) High; Jessie Sorenson, the sixth-leading scorer and top playmaker in Utah 3A soccer at The Waterford School in Sandy; and Jessie Thalman, a three-time all-state goalkeeper at Colorado Academy in Denver.

Softball

Two area men and a sponsor have been selected for induction into halls of fame in the region.

Former Spokane modified fastpitch shortstop Kurt Krauth has been selected for the Amateur Softball Association Region 15 (Pacific Northwest) Hall of Fame.

Krauth was a first-team ASA All-American when he helped lead Western Truck Brokers to the 1987 national championship.

A coach and teacher at East Valley High School, Krauth will be inducted next January in Boise.

At the same time, longtime Spokane slowpitch sponsor Papermill Printing also will be placed in the shrine.

Longtime North Idaho slowpitch slugger Marlin Harris of Hauser will be inducted into the Idaho Softball Hall of Fame on June 17 at the Coeur d’Alene Senior Softball Invitational.

Harris, 55, an outfielder, was a first-team all-star last year at the ASA 45-and-older national tournament. He teaches at Lakeland High in Rathdrum.