Locals roundup: Heaton, Boday repeat at Bassmasters tourney
Chase Heaton of Spokane Valley and Tanner Boday of Moses Lake repeated as state champions during the Washington State Junior Bassmasters tournament last weekend on Moses Lake.
Heaton, 17, a University High School junior competing for the Inland Empire Bass Club, won the 15-18-year-old division with a personal-best, two-day total of 33.59 pounds. His nine fish included a 6.2-pound largemouth bass, also a personal record.
Dakota Jones, 17, of Mead, a former state champion also fishing out of the Inland Empire Bass Club, was second with 32.60 pounds. David Slater of U-Hi, also a former state champion, was third with 25.82 pounds.
Boday, 13, a seventh-grader at Chief Mo Middle School, came from behind the second day to win the 11-14-year-old division by 1.42 pounds over Nicholas Shaber, 14, who attends Central Valley and fishes for the I.E. Bass Club. Two-time national Casting Kids Champion Kiana Clark of Kennewick was third.
Heaton and Boday qualified for the 2011 Western Divisional Championships in New Mexico. Western Divisional winners qualify for the 2011 Junior Bassmaster World Championships next fall.
Administration
Brendan Cunningham of Spokane, a 2006 graduate of Gonzaga Prep, has been named director of baseball operations at his alma mater, Arizona State.
Cunningham, a second-team All-Greater Spokane League first baseman his senior year, spent the last four years as a student manager in the ASU baseball program while earning a degree in business management.
His duties include all team travel, recruiting administration, camp support, video support and field coordination. He is also heavily involved in various baseball alumni research projects.
• Drew Cowens, a women’s rowing intern coach at Iowa last season, has been hired as an assistant coach on the Gonzaga University women’s rowing team, Bulldogs head coach Melissa Flint announced.
Cowens, who rowed for UCLA from 2001-05, assisted coaching the second varsity 8+ and varsity 4+ at Iowa, as well as handling administrative duties. His resume also includes serving as freshman coach and operations coordinator of the men’s program at UCLA.
Bowling
Nathan Rawley came from the No. 2 qualifying position to knock off top qualifier Jesse Covington 240-235 in the season-opening Junior Bowlers Tour tournament last Sunday at Players & Spectators.
Robbie Winchell was third, Megan Froman fourth and Brittany Blackketter fifth.
On a day in which the scores were generally low overall, Froman had a solid 256 to highlight a 749 series and Winchell led the boys with a 246 game.
The next JBT is Oct. 10 at Zeppoz in Pullman. • Dalton Shears and Josh Scamahorn combined to win the alumni tournament Sept. 12 at Valley Bowl that launched the 2010-11 Junior Bowlers Tour season.
Curtis Lindeman and Wade Rees were second, Cody Hurley and Steve Nearing third, Covington and Mike Federico fourth and Winchell and Brian Long third.
Taylor Gamble had a 290 game and 954 series to lead the juniors. Froman led the girls with a 234 game. Rees’ 995 series led adults.
College scene
Trevor Fox, a Pacific Lutheran senior cornerback from Colville, was the Northwest Conference defensive player of the week in football after intercepting two passes for a second straight game and forcing a fumble as the Lutes upset No. 15 Cal Lutheran 35-21 last Saturday.
Fox went into this weekend leading NCAA Division III with an average of two interceptions a game.
Powerlifting
Don Goldsworthy of Spokane earned the best overall lifter award at the UPA Washington State Powerlifting Championships last weekend in Kennewick.
Goldsworthy, 30, who weighed 218 pounds, reportedly set a state record for drug-tested men’s 220-pound bench press with a lift of 555 pounds. He also was first in the 220 deadlift, also with a reported lift of 555 pounds.
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