CCS softball gains numerous honors

Community Colleges of Spokane gathered several honors on the NWAACC Eastern Region all-star softball team, including four spots on the first team and Janet Skaife’s award as coach of the year.

Sasquatch on the first team were catcher Ashley Fargher, infielder Heather Jackson, outfielder Kristine Newell and pitcher Heather Coulter. Outfielder Rachel Eisenmann and designated hitter Jessica Utt made the second team.

CCS finished 32-16, including a 2-2 record while finishing seventh at the NWAACC tournament.

•North Idaho College outfielder Jessica Fagan (Rogers High School) and infielder Kristen Burtch were named to Region 18 first team.

Infielders Kelli Bridges of Coeur d’Alene and Shay Craig of Boise, as well as catcher Alysha Krier of Coeur d’Alene and pitcher Nalani Akana of Bothell, were named to the All-Region second team.

Awards

Whitworth University senior Amber Fowler has been named to the 2008 CoSIDA /ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 8 College Division Softball Team. The Colville native is graduating this spring with a double major in math and applied physics. She carries a cumulative grade point average of 3.93 through January. Fowler transferred to Whitworth from Spokane Falls Community College in the fall of 2006.

•Whitworth University sophomore Dan Belet has been named to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VIII College Division Baseball Team. Belet, from Missoula, carries a 3.97 grade-point average as a double major in engineering and physics.

Badminton

Jack Harvey of Spokane won a gold medal and two silver medals at the Canadian National Senior/Masters tournament, April 28-May 3 in Calgary, Alberta.

Harvey has played in national and international tournaments for several years, winning more than 150 senior titles and two world masters championships.

Basketball

North Idaho women’s coach Chris Carlson announced the signing of post Deanna Dotts of Coeur d’Alene High and Katie Sanders of Boise.

Dotts, coming off a severe knee injury that limited her senior season to a few seconds in the State 5A title game, was named to the All-Inland Empire League and All-North Idaho teams as a junior.

Sanders averaged 10.8 points and 7.7 rebounds per game as a senior and was named Southern Idaho Conference player of the year.

•Cheney athlete Kyle Miller has signed to play next year with the Eastern Oregon University women. Miller is a 5-foot-7, two-time All-Great Northern League guard and this year’s league MVP who averaged 15 points, four rebounds and four assists and also starred in cross country and track for the Blackhawks. •Spokane Stars teams won all three elite high school brackets of the Best of The West tournament in Yakima, a first for the program. The Stars Blue went 6-0 in the Senior Elite winning 54-43 over the Northwest Heat for the title. The Stars Red won the Junior Elite division with a 62-55 win over Emerald City Swish and the Stars Navy beat Seattle Yes 60-58 in overtime, finishing 5-1 in the Sophomore Elite division.

Soccer

The University of Idaho has added assistant coach Katie Schoene.

Schoene comes to Idaho after one year as a coach at the University of Oregon and four years as a player at Portland State.

Softball

Tressa Predisik, a senior catcher from Shadle Park, has accepted a scholarship at Community Colleges of Spokane. She was All-Greater Spokane League first team as member of the state-champion Highlanders, hitting .482 with 36 RBIs and seven home runs. This season she hit .369 with five homers and 27 RBIs.

Swimming

Spokane’s Larry Krauser and Susanne Simpson won world titles at the FINA Masters World Championships in Perth, Western Australia, April 15-25.

Krauser, 55, competing in the 55-59 age group, won the 100-meter freestyle (58.78), 800 freestyle (9:46.83.00), and the 3,000 open water event (42:23). He also placed second in the 200 freestyle (2:11.01), third in the 50 freestyle (26.35), and third in the 400 freestyle (4:41.46).

Simpson, 48, competing in the 45-49 age group, won the 400 freestyle (4:43.14) and 200 butterfly (2:32.72). In her other events she placed second in the 800 freestyle (9:46.88), third in the 200 freestyle (2:15.27), and third in the 3,000 open water event (41:25). She also participated in two third-place relays.

Tennis

University of Idaho standout Andrey Potapkin, a freshman from Moscow, Russia, earned Intercollegiate Tennis Association Rookie of the Year honors for the Mountain region. The honor gives him automatic consideration for the national award, which will be announced in the coming weeks.

Potapkin earned first team all-Western Athletic Conference singles honors while the doubles pair of Potapkin and Stanislav Glukhov was chosen second team all-WAC.

•Washington State senior Ekaterina Burduli was named the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s Northwest Region winner of the ITA/Arthur Ashe Jr. Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship.

The award goes to a student-athlete who has exhibited outstanding sportsmanship, leadership, and scholastic, extracurricular and tennis achievements. Burduli joins seven other regional winners on the national ballot. The winner will be announced Tuesday.

Wrestling

University senior Brian Owen was the Washington state winner of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dave Schultz High School Excellence award. The award is named in honor of the late Olympic and World champion. Owen was one of 49 state winners from which five regional and a national selection was made. He was presented his award at the May 10 Washington Chapter Hall of Fame induction and banquet in Spokane Valley.