Sports in brief: Central Valley’s Giampietri receives award
Rick Giampietri, the Central Valley High School head football coach who is in his 40th year as a coach and educator in the Spokane area, received the Tom Oswald Memorial Award at Eastern Washington University’s football awards banquet Friday.
Giampietri, a 1970 graduate of Eastern, graduated from North Central High School and obtained his master’s degree in 1975 from Whitworth.
He has been at CV since 1983 after assistant coaching stops at Lewis and Clark and Shadle Park.
In 17 years as head coach of the Bears, Giampietri has a 107-63-1 record, winning the State 4A title in 1997. His teams won Greater Spokane League championships in 1995, ’97 and 2008, and in ’95 and ’08 he was GSL coach of the year. He was inducted into the Washington State Football Coaches Association hall of fame in 2001.
Besides football, Giampietri has coached wrestling for 35 years (eight as a head coach), golf for 20 years, softball and track and field.
The Oswald award was created in 2007 in memory of the former Cheney High School football coach who died of cancer in 2006. Recipients are selected by members of the EWU coaching staff following Oswald’s creed of “doing the right thing” for youth.
Bowling
Thomas Locke got hot at the right time and knocked off leading qualifier Curtis Lindeman to win the Junior Bowlers Tour’s first event of 2010 at Lilac Lanes last Sunday.
Locke qualified second in the five-man finals and first beat Chris Gray, who had won the first two playoffs, before stopping Lindeman 223-190.
Gray finished third; Bryce Engstrom, who had the day’s top game, a 278, was fourth; and Ryan Harris was fifth. Lindeman had the top four-game series, a 934 that vaulted him to the No. 1 qualifying position. High girls score was Heather Lundgren’s 235.
The next JBT is at Sunset Lanes in Coeur d’Alene on Jan. 24.
College scene
Tracy Goehri, a Pacific Lutheran senior post from Central Valley, who had what was described as the best three-game stretch of her career, averaging 13.3 points on 64 percent shooting from the field, 6.3 rebounds with four steals and six assists, was named the Northwest Conference student-athlete of the week in women’s basketball.
•Basketball players Julie Piper, a junior forward, and Glen Dean, a freshman guard, are the Eastern Washington December scholar-athletes.
Piper, who leads the women’s team in three categories, including scoring (11.0) and rebounding (6.5), has a 3.66 grade-point average. Dean, who leads the Eagles men with 3.8 assists a game, has a 3.85 GPA.
•Meghan Eisenmann and Chris Pynch, sophomore basketball players, are the Community Colleges of Spokane scholar-athletes of December.
Eisenmann, who led the CCS women to an 8-3 start with averages of 14 points and six rebounds, twice was selected to all-tournament teams during December. She has a 3.0 GPA.
Pynch is the starting point guard for the Sasquatch men, who started the season 10-2, and is considered the team’s top defensive player. He has a 3.77 GPA.
•Riggs Yarbro, a freshman from Moses Lake Christian, continues to be a key contributor off the bench for the Puget Sound men’s basketball team.
Yarbro, who had a team-leading 17 points in a recent upset of defending Northwest Conference champion George Fox, is averaging 7.9 points and 3.8 rebounds in 15.6 minutes a game.
• Krystal Deyo, a senior at Eastern Washington, received the first Big Sky Conference track athlete of the week for the indoor season after meeting conference championship qualifying standards in the 60 meters (7.06 seconds for 55 meters) and long jump (18 feet, 73/4 inches) at the EWU Candy Cane Invitational last weekend.
•The Eastern Washington men were selected to finish fifth and the Eagles women sixth in the Big Sky Conference preseason indoor track and field poll. Northern Arizona’s men and women were voted to repeat as champions.
•Kyle Holmes, a senior wide receiver on the Wisconsin-River Falls football team from Mead, completed his career by being named the Falcons’ scout team offensive player of the year for a second straight year. He was also selected a 2009 team captain.
High school scene
Peter Gullickson, a senior at Lewis and Clark who will join the Gonzaga University men’s golf team in the fall, shot 73-73 for a 4-over-par 146 to finish fourth at the recent TPC Las Vegas Challenge.
Gullickson had an eagle, two birdies and nine pars in his opening round and two birdies and 12 pars in his second round.
Anthony Kim of Cerritos, Calif., had a three-stroke win with an even par 142.
•Randy Thoreson of Sandpoint, Missy Asbury of St. Maries and Shawn Lawler of Timberlake were double winners when the Idaho District 1 and state coach of the year honors for fall sports were handed out.
Thoreson was singled out in boys soccer, winning the statewide 4A award; Asbury was honored in volleyball, at the 3A state level; and Lawler in girls cross country, capturing the state 3A honor.
Other District 1 coach of the year honors went to Mike Mitchell of Sandpoint in football; Mario Maddie, Lakeland, girls soccer; and Cathy Compton, Coeur d’Alene, boys cross country.
Adam Tajan of Sandpoint received the state 4A girls soccer award.
Volleyball
Allen Allen, a volunteer assistant in 2009, has been promoted to assistant coach at Gonzaga University, head coach Dave Gantt announced.
Allen, a four-year member of the University of Hawaii men’s program from 1986-89, fills the position held by Brynn Murphy, who left to pursue a playing career overseas.
Allen, a first-team All-American at Hawaii in 1988 and ’89 and being second team in 1987, went on to play professionally before retiring in 1998. He has an extensive coaching career, including leading the Samoan men’s and women’s national teams.
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