Mead’s Furrer victorious in Hopes Match
Amanda Furrer, a junior at Mead, came back from a disappointing third place finish in the Olympic shooting Trials to win the Hopes Match, a junior competition in Pilzen, Czech Republic last weekend.
Competing against an international field, Furrer, 17, won Small-bore 3 Position, shooting 580 out of 600. She took third in Small-bore Prone, shooting 592 out of 600. In Air Rifle Furrer shot a 386 to finish 35th.
Furrer finished third in the women’s three-position small-bore rifle event at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. She scored 1,926.9 in three days of shooting at Fort Benning, Ga., making her the first alternate for the two berths on the U.S. team heading this summer to Beijing.
McClammer to Beijing
Chelsea McClammer, a member of Team St. Luke’s of Spokane, qualified for the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing this summer in the 800 meters.
McClammer, 14, a freshman next fall at Kiona Benton High School, is the youngest of the 17 female team members.
Shaw qualifies for trials
Spokane Area Swimming team member Mason Shaw qualified for the U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., in the 200-meter individual medley.
Shaw, from Coeur d’Alene, qualified with a time of 2:06.89. The qualifying time is 2:07.39. His first race at the trials is July 3.
Shadle’s Brooks to Hall
Ron Brooks, head baseball coach at Shadle Park, will be inducted into the Washington High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame this winter.
Brooks’ career has included two Final Four appearances – in 1990 and 2003 – while approaching 300 wins in 24 seasons at his alma mater.
The announcement was made when he was coaching at the State All-Star series two weekends ago, during the fourth inning of a game at Parker Field in Yakima.
Brooks said he was flabbergasted and even now, “every time I say it I get chills. It’s pretty humbling company.”
He will join his former coach and predecessor, Jim Brown, in the Hall of Fame. Brown was inducted in 1993 and between them, said Brooks, they have coached 38 of Shadle’s 50 baseball seasons.
Among his accomplishments, apart from three Greater Spokane League titles, seven top-two finishers, numerous district playoff seasons and 282-221 overall record, was last summer’s renovation of Shadle’s Al K. Jackson Field.
All-state girls basketball
The annual Washington All-State Girls Basketball Games, primarily for Class 2A through B athletes, will be Saturday at West Valley High School.
Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for seniors and children age 12 and younger.
Games begin with the B East vs. B West at 1:30 p.m., followed in two-hour intervals by the 1A East vs. 1A West and 2A/3A East vs. 2A/3A West.
Among 2A East players are Greater Spokane League’s Cory Druffel (Pullman), Kyle Miller and Ceri Palk (Cheney), Shea Spicer, (Riverside), Emily Pond (Colville), Shaniqua Nilles (WV) and Jaimie Berghammer (Clarkston).
Freeman’s Carley Heinen and Megan McIntyre are on the 1A East team, with Amy Warbrick (Coeur d’Alene), Taylor Stewart (Priest River) and Cassie Thompson (Timberlake) on the West.
In Class B, East members are Karla Koller (La Crosse), Mariah Mielke (Davenport), Laura Cain (Ritzville), Brooke Ferderer (Reardan) and Hayley Hendrickson (Northwest Christian).
Softball stars split
Eastern Washington’s representative split two games reaching the finals of the Senior All-Star Challenge two weekends ago at the University of Washington.
Coached by Shadle Park’s George Lynn and University’s Jon Schuh, the team beat Northwest 5-1 in its opener. Shadle Park’s Sam Skillingstad pitched the win and doubled. University’s Riki Schiermeister had two hits, including a double and stolen base. Highlander China Frost had two hits, Gonzaga Prep catcher Molly Anderson and Titan Lexi Obenchain a hit a piece and Shadle’s Jesica Berlinger scored twice.
In the championship game, the East lost to West Central 3-1.