Five transfers join Whitworth softball

Four players from Community Colleges of Spokane and one from Saint Martin’s University will transfer to Whitworth College to play softball for the Pirates in the spring.

Mead High School graduate Halley Cey will join the Pirates from NCAA Division II Saint Martin’s, where she started all 43 Saints games as a sophomore.

Amber Fowler, from Colville High School, is transferring from CCS, where she hit 24 home runs and had 77 RBIs as the team’s MVP last year.

Lakeland High School graduate Jessica LaPlante will also leave the Sasquatch, where she set a school record with 227 strikeouts.

Lacey Parry, from Mead, led the Sasquatch with a .499 batting average and was the Co-Defensive Player of the Year last year.

West Valley graduate Morgan Thompson will also leave the Sasquatch for Whitworth. She batted .433 last year and was the other Co-Defensive Player of the Year.

Whitworth finished second in the Northwest Conference last year with a record of 26-14 and received an at-large bid to its first NCAA Division III tournament.

Baseball

The Spokane RiverHawks will continue to sponsor the Spokane Fall High School Instructional Baseball League in 2006, the eighth year of the organization for area players in grades 9-12.

Registration and tryouts will be from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Spokane Falls Community College.

Weekly doubleheaders begin on Sept. 17 and continue for five weeks through Oct. 15 at Central Valley and Mt. Spokane high schools. The player fee is $125, payable at registration.

The registration desk at SFCC will open at 9:30 a.m.

Golf

University of Idaho junior Renee Skidmore will represent the United States at the World University Golf Championships next week at Torino, Italy.

Skidmore, from Everett, is one of five U.S. collegians chosen for the honor. The tournament runs Tuesday through Saturday.

Volleyball

Mead graduate Rachael Schurman, a sophomore at Central Washington University, was first-team all-tournament in last weekend’s Seawolf Spike Volleyball Tournament in California.

Schurman was CWU’s offensive and blocking leader in the tourney and later had a team-high 14 kills for the 17th-ranked Wildcats in a sweep of visiting Hawaii-Hilo and 16 more kills in a win over Hawaii Pacific.

Central was 9-1 through Saturday and Schurman had 117 total kills, prompting coach Mario Andaya to say, “Rachael has been our most consistent player thus far. She is scoring points for us at the net, both with her blocking and offensively, so she is definitely coming into her own.”

Miscellany

Kent Stanley will leave Eastern Washington University to join Fort Lewis College, where he was hired as the director of athletics.

Stanley is the associate athletic director at Eastern and director of the Eagle Athletic Association, EWU’s official booster organization. He will arrive at Fort Lewis College in the middle of the month with his wife and two children.

•Spokane Indians season tickets for the 2007 season are on sale, and prices will remain the same as this year.

Lower-box season tickets will cost $260 per seat. For the fourth year in a row, upper-box season tickets are $200 per seat.

For more information, call the Indians office at 535-2922.