Skillingstad one-hits U-Hi

Tue., March 20, 2007

The Spokesman-Review

Sam Skillingstad appears in midseason form two games into the 2007 Greater Spokane League fast pitch softball season.

The Shadle Park junior pitcher struck out 18 and allowed only a two-out single in the sixth inning to University’s Michelle Wells as the Highlanders (2-0) collected a 6-0 win at U-Hi (1-2) on Monday in a game rescheduled from Friday.

Skillingstad, who walked two, pitched a two-hitter in Shadle’s opening 11-1, five-inning win over Central Valley last week.

Men’s basketball

Eastern Washington sophomore Rodney Stuckey was selected to the 2007 Collegeinsider.com All-America team.

The 16-man team includes such Division I stars as Kevin Durant (Texas) and Tyler Hansbrough (North Carolina).

Stuckey, from Kent, Wash., ranked seventh in Division I scoring through Sunday’s games with an average of 24.6 points.

Last season, Collegeinsider.com voted Stuckey its national Freshman of the Year and this year named him its Big Sky Conference Player of the Year.

Track and field

Whitworth junior Ben Spaun, who produced an NCAA Division III provisional qualifying score of 6,138 points in winning the decathlon in the Whitworth Multi Events Invite, was named the Northwest Conference men’s field events athlete of the week.

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Skillingstad one-hits U-Hi

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