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Baseball
Gatorade selects CV’s Shellhorn
Central Valley senior pitcher Rusty Shellhorn has been selected at the 2008 Gatorade Washington baseball player of the year.
Shellhorn, the first CV player honored by Gatorade, finished the season with a 7-3 record and a 0.78 earned run average. He recorded 125 strikeouts in 59 innings, including a state-record 21 in a game against North Central.
The award recognizes athletic accomplishments, academic achievement and exemplary character on and off the field.
Shellhorn has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball for Washington State University.
Baseball
Holcomb makes All-Star game
Former Shadle Park and Gonzaga University baseball player Darin Holcomb was one of seven Asheville Tourists named to the South Division team for the South Atlantic League All-Star Game.
The game will be played in Greensboro, NC on June 17.
Holcomb, 22, plays third base for the division leading Tourists (40-17) and is tops in hitting with a .327 batting average in doubles with 21. He has hit eight home runs and driven in 43 runs.
Asheville is a Class A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies.
Rowing
Redman wins 2nd NCAA title
Jamie Redman, a 2004 Lewis and Clark High School graduate, is an NCAA champion once again.
For the second straight year, Yale had the fastest crew in the nation in varsity eight competition at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center in Golf River, Calif.
The Bulldogs’ varsity eight successfully defended its NCAA championship in a thrilling grand final on Lake Natoma, edging second-place Stanford by less than one second.
TRACK AND FIELD
Runner’s state title is reinstated
Bellarmine Prep distance runner Nicole Cochran has been reinstated as girls 3,200 state meter 4A track champion, said Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Executive Director Mike Colbrese.
Cochran had won the race during the meet in Pasco May 23-24, but was disqualified for running on a lane line and Shadle Park’s Andrea Nelson was awarded the first place medal. Film later showed that it was another Bellarmine runner, not Cochran, who had committed the infraction.
“I apologize to all of the participants involved and appreciate their patience while I have sorted through all the information regarding this incident,” said Colbrese in a written release from the WIAA office. “The officials simply made a mistake that was driven…by the fact that both Bellarmine Prep runners entered in the race had similar hip numbers, similar height and similar hair color.”