Marcus Goss rolls 300 at JPT Sunset Lanes
It was Marcus Goss’ day at the Junior Bowlers Tour stop at Sunset Lanes in Coeur d’Alene last Sunday.
Goss bowled a 300 game during qualifying to highlight a day of high scoring, then proceeded to win the championship with a 236-222 victory over the No. 1 qualfier, Clint Norlen. Norlen had won all four of his qualifying matches to enter the five-person roll-off in the top spot.
Raymond Worthey, who vaulted from seventh into the fourth qualifying spot, finished third; Garrett Boyce, who rolled a 957 four-game series in the first four-game qualifying block, finished fourth; and Shelby Snyder, who had high game for the girls, a 279, was fifth.
Casey Schierholz rolled a 953 four-game series during the first round of qualifying but cooled off and failed to make the top five.
Next JBT is Nov. 16 at North Bowl.
College scene
Matt Bray, a Whitworth senior from Ferris, has been named to the 2014-15 CoSIDA Division III Academic All-District VIII first team in men’s soccer.
Bray, a health science major who entered the fall semester with a 3.89 grade-point average, is now eligible for selection to the CoSIDA Division III All-America men’s soccer team.
• Three Whitworth Pirates received athlete of the week honors from the Northwest Conference for the week of Oct. 20-26.
Brenna Bruil, a sophomore middle blocker from Lake Tapps, Washington, was the volleyball selection after collecting 24 kills and eight blocks in a pair of road wins that kept the Pirates tied atop the NWC.
Taylor Roelofs, a freshman defensive back from Tacoma, was the defensive player of the week in football after a team-high 11 tackles and a pass breakup in a 62-30 win over Puget Sound.
Andrea Stump, the Pirates’ junior goalkeeper who had 16 saves, including four to earn her fifth shutout of the season and a season-high 12 in a 1-0 loss, was the defensive selection in women’s soccer.
• Emily Russell, a Community Colleges of Spokane sophomore from Kalispell, Montana, was named the NWAC setter of the week in volleyball for the week ending Oct. 28 after leading the Sasquatch to two important Eastern Region wins.
High school scene
Davenport collected two state championships as the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announced its Academic State Champions for the fall sports season.
Davenport athletes won titles in 2B boys cross country with a 3.726 grade-point average and 2B volleyball with a 3.815 GPA.
Lewis and Clark is the 4A volleyball state academic champion with a 3.759 GPA in the competition sponsored by Les Schwab Tires.
Other champions include Northwest Christian in 2B football (3.360), Colton in 1B football (3.573), Asotin in 2B girls cross country (3.880), Connell in 1A volleyball (3.830) and Oakesdale in 1B volleyball (3.889).
Hockey
Nine Spokane area youth players, ranging in age from 9 to 20, received more than $3,000 in grants this fall from the Nels Venerus Hockey Scholarship Foundation, the non-profit organization announced.
The foundation was created by Venerus, a former Spokane senior player and area youth coach, before he died in 2011. His goal was to establish a fund that would provide assistance to young area players and their families in times of financial hardship and allow them to continue playing.
During the 2013-14 season, the first year the foundation awarded grants, it gave out more than $5,000, noted Jim Ewers, president of the Spokane American Youth Hockey Association and a director of the Venerus foundation.
To learn more about the foundation and its fundraising activities visit www.nelsvenerusfoundation.org.