Morrison, Roy among five Wooden Award finalists
Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison was named as one of the five Wooden Award finalists while also being chosen to the 10-man Wooden All-American basketball team.
The other finalists are Randy Foye of Villanova, J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams of Duke and Brandon Roy of Washington. The award will be presented in Los Angeles on April 8 on a nationwide CBS telecast.
Services for Spacek
Steve Spacek, who was the timekeeper at Eastern Washington University basketball games for nearly three decades, has died after a long battle with prostate cancer. Spacek died Sunday at the age of 77.
In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorials be made to the Nadine Spacek and Steve Spacek Scholarship Fund that benefits students in need to assist them in becoming elementary school teachers. Send to: Eastern Washington University Foundation Office; 110 Hargraves Hall; Cheney, WA 99004. Spacek’s funeral service is today at 2 p.m. at the Cheney Funeral Chapel. Burial follows at Spokane Memorial Gardens.
Spacek, an education professor at EWU, was the timer at about 600 men’s and women’s basketball games, dating back to the 1979-80 season. His wife, Jan, operated the scoreboard by his side since 1989.
Both also served two decades as timers at EWU track meets. Steve was a charter member of the Eagle Athletic Association and was on the selection committee for the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame.
He spent more than 40 years as a professor in the Eastern education department after coming to Cheney in 1958, including nearly 10 years as director of student-teachers.
College baseball
Gonzaga rode solid pitching and a fourth-inning flurry to a 6-1 non-conference win over Whitworth (11-12) at Avista Stadium.
Six players scored one run, and Darin Holcomb and Ryan Wiegand each had two RBIs in the Bulldogs’ (17-10) six-run fourth. Gonzaga brought 12 batters to the plate in the innings
Bobby McEwen gave up a solo home run to Nick Froman in the top on the first, then allowed one other hit through five innings. Three relievers combined to allow four hits the rest of the way, extending the bullpen’s streak of scoreless innings to 12.
Men’s golf
Washington State’s Ryan Witz grabbed the top overall score and helped the Cougars to a fourth-place finish at the Duck Invitational in Junction City, Ore.
Witz’s 5-under-par 211 tied him with Joe Panzeri at the par-72 Shadow Hills Country Club and was his fifth top-10 effort of the season.
Women’s golf
Washington State’s Anastasia Kostina fired a 1-under final round of 73 to finish in a first-place tie with San Francisco’s Jessica Potter at the Duck Invitational in Creswell, Ore.
Kostina helped the Cougars to a third-place tie with Idaho at the Emerald Valley Golf Course.