Sunday locals: Idaho’s Britt places seventh
Barry Britt, a sophomore at the University of Idaho, finished seventh at the Canadian Cross Country Championships last weekend in Guelph, Ontario.
Britt, who earned first-team All-Western Athletic Conference and USTFCCCA All-West Region honors this season, finished sixth among Canadian runners at the meet.
The native of Hampton, New Brunswick, completed the 10,000-meter course in a time of 30 minutes, 44.5 seconds, just off pace of his 24th-place showing at the NCAA West Region Championships on Nov. 13.
“It’s been an amazing season for him,” Idaho coach Wayne Phipps said, noting that along the way Britt ran the fastest 8K in school history.
Britt’s finish puts him in the selection pool for the Canadian national team, which will compete at the North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) Championships Feb. 19 in Trinidad.
Bowling
On a day when the scores ran consistently high during the Junior Bowlers Tour stop at North Bowl on Nov. 21, Jesse Covington was the most consistent.
Covington, who put together four-game qualifying blocks of 975 and 919 to stand first going into the five-person roll-offs, defeated No. 5 qualifier Dalton Shears 228-218 for the championship.
Shears, who rolled a 747 three-game series and 965 for four to earn the final qualifying spot, defeated Tony Werley (who finished fifth), Korey Zeller (fourth) and Nick Harris (third) en route to the finals pairing with Covington.
Other top four-game series included Harris’ 955, a 945 for Zeller and a 921 for Werley. Shears had high game, a 290. Megan Smith led the girls with a 231.
The next JBT is Dec. 19 at Lilac Lanes.
College scene
Trevin Goodrick, a Community College of Spokane sophomore cross country runner from Mt. Spokane, collected a couple of special awards at the conclusion of the season.
Goodrick, who ran a personal-best 25:42 for 8K earlier in the season and finished second at the NWAACC Championships as CCS won a seventh straight title, received the team’s Erik Anderson Coaches Award and was selected the school’s male scholar-athlete of the month for November.
The coaches award, in memory of the late coach, is given to the student-athlete who best represents the values Anderson cherished. Goodrick has a 3.83 grade-point average and his runner-up finish in the conference meet earned him a second All-America award.
Karis Gamache, a freshman volleyball player from Pasco with a 3.1 GPA, is the CCS female scholar-athlete of the month for November. An all-region selection who was voted most improved by her teammates, Gamache had 115 blocks, fourth-most in school history, and her .82 blocks-per-set are fifth on the all-time list. She also had 268 kills.
• The Gonzaga women’s and men’s soccer teams were honored by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America for academic excellence.
With a cumulative GPA of 3.49 for the women and 3.20 for the men, GU was one of 129 schools in the country to have both programs receive a NSCAA Team Academic Award.
The women finished 18th in the country among NCAA Division I schools and second in the West Coast Conference. The men had the highest cumulative GPA in the WCC.
Football
The Riverside High School varsity and junior varsity teams received the Inland Empire Football Officials Association’s Sportsmanship Award for the 2010 season.
The award, in its sixth year, is presented to a program that has been nominated throughout the season by officials who work their games, said Tom Reser, chairman of the officials association’s Sportsmanship Award committee. It honors a school for sportsmanship displayed by the players, coaches, team personnel and administrators, Reser said.
Tennis
Gonzaga University has signed three players to national letters of intent, women’s coach D.J. Gurule announced.
The newest Bulldogs are Katie Edwards of Aloha, Ore., ranked 18th in the Pacific Northwest by USTA and 157th by tennis recruiting.net; Hailee Gopinath of Austin, Texas, ranked No. 311 by tennisrecruiting.net, who reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open Qualifier in Honolulu; and Alexandra Tallas of Chatsworth, Calif., ranked No. 18 in the USTA Southern California Endorsement List and No. 164 by tennisrecruiting. net.
• Eastern Washington signed two high school seniors to national letters of intent, coach Darren Haworth announced.
Slated to join the Eagles in the fall of 2011 are Moira Hedberg of Oxnard, Calif., a four-star recruit by tennisrecruiting.net who is among the top 40 players in the Southwest, and Chrissy Uriarte of Las Vegas, who has been ranked in the top 100 by tennisrecruiting.net the past four years, whose highest juniors ranking was 44th in 2007.
Wrestling
Two Greater Spokane League state placers, Jared Berlinger of North Central and Dylan Lemery of Shadle Park, have signed letters of intent with University of Great Falls, Argonauts coach Caleb Schaeffer announced.
Berlinger is a three-time state placer for NC, finishing second at 119 pounds in 3A last season as a junior. The All-GSL selection is also a three-time Washington National Team qualifier who was on the state’s national dual team in 2009. He won the Rocky Mountain Rumble in Orem, Utah, and finished fifth in the Cliff Keen Reno World Championships in 2009.
Lemery, a three-sport athlete, finished seventh at 189 pounds in the 3A Mat Classic in 2009. In three seasons of wrestling at Shadle, he has set the school record for takedowns.