Seifert rolls 300 four times in 7 weeks

Daniel Seifert is on a roll.

The 19-year-old University High School graduate has bowled four perfect 300 games the last two months, three of them in sanctioned league play and one in practice.

Seifert, who averages between 210 and 220 in three leagues, rolled his first 300 – and first of his career – Sept. 3 at Lilac Lanes. Two nights later he got No. 2 at Players & Spectators.

It was nearly six weeks later (Oct. 14) when No. 3 came along, again at Lilac. He rolled No. 4 in practice Oct. 20 at Players.

Seifert is on pace to match Mike Handelin’s effort during the 2007-08 season. The Deer Park bowler had five 300 games last year, and added five 800 series to boot.

•Paul Bryson, competing in his first Junior Bowlers Tour event Oct. 19 at Spare Time Lanes in Kennewick, certainly wasn’t intimidated by the veterans, knocking off top qualifier Thomas Locke on the last shot, 237-236, for the title. Chris Gray finished third, Alex Earle was fourth and Dalton Shears fifth. Jake Schmehl had high game for the boys, a 278. Shears had a 958 four-game series and Locke a 929. April McDonough was high for the girls with a 246.

College scene

Four Whitworth soccer players – two men and two women – have been named to ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII College Division first teams. Selected to the men’s team are senior Caleb Barnhill, who has a 3.63 grade-point average in biology, and Bryan Olson, a junior with a 3.81 GPA in mathematical economics. The women’s team includes Miranda Cosand, a junior with a 3.95 GPA in English, and senior Penelope Crowe with a 3.88 GPA in biology.

•Alaina Smith, a 2005 graduate of North Central and a member of the Dartmouth College class of 2009, won the Intermediate Flats event to help the Big Green win its own Dartmouth Equestrian Show last weekend.

•Kayla Mortellaro, an Idaho freshman, was named Western Athletic Conference women’s golfer of the month for October.

In two tournaments, she had a 72.67 stroke average for six rounds, placing second in one event and 22nd in the other with a 2-under-par total of 214.

•Women’s soccer player Lauryn Koelzer, a senior, and Alex Smyth, a sophomore cross country runner, are the Eastern Washington scholar-athletes of the month for October.

Football

Two members of the Inland Northwest Pop Warner Youth Football League, the Junior Pee Wee Blackhawks and Panthers, have been invited to compete in the Oregon Bowl Games next weekend in Corvallis. The Blackhawks had a 7-0-1 record in league and the Panthers were 7-1-0. Both won first-round playoff games. Players range in age from 9 to 11.

Softball

Shawn Montee Timber Co. of Post Falls added another trophy to the mantle by winning the 50-plus AA division at the Senior Softball USA World Championships Oct. 17-26 in Phoenix.

Shawn Montee, which entered the tournament as the No. 2 seed after winning Northwest Regional, Western National and U.S. National titles, swept five games in capturing the world event and qualifying for the Tournament of Champions the first week of January in Orlando, Fla.

Wrestling

Brandon Richardson of Lakeland High in Rathdrum, who captured the 140-pound championship at the USA Wrestling Cadet Nationals in Des Moines, Iowa, last weekend, won the Most Falls Trophy at the tournament, with four pins in a combined 6:07. Richardson defeated Cody Quinn of Washington in the championship finals, 8-2.