Brown set to join Idaho

The University of Idaho men’s basketball program announced the signing of Brandon Brown, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound guard who played last season at West Hills Community College at Coalinga, Calif. He signed with Utah State earlier this signing period before opting to join the Vandal program.

“Adding Brandon to our program is a huge coup,” Idaho coach George Pfeifer said in a UI release. “What he does is score in a variety of ways and he is a guard at 200-plus pounds with a high level of quickness and explosion. What makes him so hard to defend is his ability to bounce the ball past people, pull up with the jumper, and also knock down the open 3-pointer.”

Brown averaged 18.4 points and 5.2 rebounds per game at West Hills last season and shot 50 percent from the floor and 38 percent from the 3-point line. He was an all-California Junior College Team selection and was honored as first team all-conference last season.

Prior to West Hills, Brown was an all-state, all-region, and all-conference selection at Beaver County Community College at Monaca, Penn. He also was a first team all-city selection as a senior at Hope Charter High School at Philadelphia.

Baseball

Aaron Poreda allowed seven hits and no earned runs in the complete game as San Francisco (22-22, 5-8) topped Gonzaga 4-2 in a West Coast Conference game at Benedetti Diamond in San Francisco.

Ryan Wiegan went 3 for 4 with a two-run home run to lead the Bulldogs (26-20, 9-4).

Rowing

The Gonzaga University women’s rowing team swept all three of its races at Rancho Cordova, Calif., and won hits 10th West Coast Conference championship in 11 years Friday.

The Bulldogs, whose streak of nine-straight titles was broken by Loyola Marymount University in 2006, reclaimed the championship easily winning all three races by an average of 17 seconds.

Gonzaga took first by amassing 30 points, while Loyola Marymount, Saint Mary’s College and Santa Clara University finished in a three-way tie for second place with 17 points. University of San Diego finished fifth with nine total points.

The Bulldogs earned their 10th championship with a time of 6:43.3 in the Varsity 8+ race, finishing ahead of second-place Saint Mary’s by nearly 13 seconds.In the event Second Varsity 8+, the Zags finished first with a time of 6:56.5, nearly 20 seconds ahead of Santa Clara.

The Bulldogs Varsity 4+ set the tone for the day earning Gonzaga’s first victory in a time of 7:46.2.

The Zags saw its 10th championship rewarded with three All-Conference selections in Nicole Aadland-Lewis, Hanna McClintock and Kelly Steinhaus. Gonzaga’s Glenn Putyrae was also tabbed for Coach of the Year honors for the fourth time.

Tennis

The Eastern Washington men’s team (13-10) won its first postseason match in 41 tries since joining Division I by topping Weber State in the its quarterfinal match, 4-0, over Weber State (7-17) in Gold River, Calif.

Next up for the third-seeded Eagles is the second seed, Montana (11-8).

The fifth-seeded EWU women fell to fourth-seed Montana 4-3. The Eagles finished the season 8-15 overall and 4-3 in Big Sky Conference play.

Football

The Eastern Washington University football team begins it stretch run of spring practices with a scrimmage today at 9:30 a.m. at Woodward Field in Cheney.

Softball

A second inning two-run home run by Oregon State’s Stefanie Ewing was all the scoring the Beavers needed as OSU (34-16, 6-6) defeated Washington (30-13, 7-6 Pac-10) softball 2-0 in Seattle. The loss dips the Huskies to 30-13 on the season and 7-6 in the Pac-10, while the Beavers improve to 34-16 overall and 6-6 in the Pac-10.