CdA blanks Post Falls
Andy Seaman and Shea Vucinich combined on a five-hitter as Coeur d’Alene shut out visiting Post Falls 3-0 Monday in Inland Empire League baseball.
Seaman (5-0) pitched six innings, striking out eight and walking just one, while scattering four hits. Vucinich allowed one hit in the seventh to collect his ninth save for the Vikings (13-2, 7-2 IEL). Sam Springli’s two-out, run-scoring double in the fourth inning was the game’s only extra base hit.
•Brian Peterson scored on a passed ball to ignite a three-run 11th inning that prodced a 4-1 Great Northern League win for West Valley at Riverside in the completion of a doubleheader that was halted by rain Saturday in the second inning.
After Peterson scored, Cameron Bowman delivered a run-scoring single and Andrew McLeod a one-run double for the Eagles. Peterson went the distance on the mound for WV, pitching a three-hitter while striking out 12. He walked one.
In the makeup of the second game of a GNL doubleheader from Saturday, Cheney won 3-1 at Deer Park.
High school golf
Pasco, led by medalist Brian Barton’s 2-under-par 70, won the 19-school Krause Invitational boys tournament at Avondale.
Pasco beat host Coeur d’Alene 306-308. CdA’s Taylor Porter was also second with a 71.
Ferris was third at 309 led by Dustin Poe’s 1-over 73.
•Kaitlen Parsons of University chipped in from eight feet off the green on the fourth playoff hole to claim medalist honors at the 20-school Deer Park Invitational girls tourney.
Parsons and Jenny White of East Valley both shot 7-over-par 79s. Gracie Schory of Chewelah was third with an 80.
Pullman posted a four-stroke win over Mead, 470-474.
Women’s golf
Eastern Washington sophomore Chloe Nelson has been named to the All-Big Sky Conference second team.
Nelson, the sixth Eagle to earn an all-conference award the last five years, has a 77.0 scoring average to rank second among conference players for the 2006-07 school year. She was seventh in spring tournaments and ranked 413th nationally by Golfweek.com.
•Sadie Green led Community Colleges of Spokane to its second NWAACC tournament title, a 38-stroke margin over Southwestern Oregon, 467-505, in the Bigfoot Invitational on Monday at Hangman Valley.
Green, the medalist in both conference tournaments and two matches for the Sasquatch, defeated Paige Gifford of Green River in a playoff after both shot 9-over-par 153s for 36 holes.
Track and field
Whitworth junior Brandon Howell from Clarkston, who won the 800 meters at the Sam Adams Classic in school- and track-record time of 1 minute, 51.34 seconds, is the Northwest Conference men’s track athlete of the week. His time is .04 off the automatic NCAA qualifying time and improved his NWC-best time by two seconds.