Locally: KTigers collect 62 medals at Taekwondo tournament

Led by the showing of Brayden Cannon, Juliana LaVe’ and Julia Tickemyer, 21 members of KTigers Taekwondo of Coeur d’Alene brought home 62 medals for top-three finishes at the Washington State Governor’s Cup Oct. 22 at St. Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington.

Cannon collected three golds in the male 12-14-year-old advanced category, LaVe’ earned three golds and a silver in female 18-32 advanced and Tickemyer won three golds and a silver in female 8-9 advanced.

The KTigers’ haul in the event that drew close to 1,000 competitors from five western states, Alaska and Canada included 30 golds, 15 silvers and 17 bronzes in Poomsae (form), board breaking and sparring categories.

The KTigers by age levels:

Adults 33 and older, female – Heather Hoeck-Mills, 1 individual gold, 1 team gold; Joanne Cree, 2 individual silver, 1 team gold. Male – Nicholas Sunseri, 1 individual gold, 1 individual bronze, 1 team bronze.

Adults 18-32, female – LaVe’, 3 individual golds, 1 team silver; Lauren Blakley, 1 individual gold.

15-17 years old, female – Makella Schmidt, 1 individual gold, 1 individual silver, 1 team gold. Male – Brandon West, 2 individual bronze, 1 team gold.

12-14 years old, female – Sierra Cree, 1 individual gold, 2 individual bronze, 1 team gold; Simran Padda, 2 individual silver. Male – Cannon, 2 individual gold, 1 team gold; Lian Hunt, 2 individual gold, 1 individual bronze, 1 team bronze; Joseph Wilcox, 1 individual gold, 1 team silver; Ethan Young, 1 individual silver, 1 team gold; James Sanders, 2 individual silver, 1 individual bronze, 1 team silver.

10-11 years old, female – Hailie Velasco, 1 individual gold, 1 individual silver, 1 team gold; Georgia Cree, 1 individual gold, 1 individual silver; Krystiana Schmidt, 1 individual gold, 1 individual silver, 1 team gold. Male – Chase Watson, 1 individual gold, 1 individual silver, 1 individual bronze, 1 team gold; Sean Hunt, 2 individual bronze.

8-9 years old, female – Tickemyer, 2 individual gold, 1 individual bronze, 1 team gold; Maddie Hunt, 3 individual bronze.

Bowling

It was John Hilden’s day during the Junior Bowlers Tour stop at North Bowl last Sunday.

Hilden started the day hot, compiling a 931 five-game series during the qualifying round, took the top seed into the five-person roll-offs and finished strong, beating Anthony Huck 193-173 for the championship.

Huck had started slow, but a 902 series and 4-0 record during match play vaulted him from 11th into the No. 3 seed going into the playoffs. In his first playoff pairing, Huck overcame Mason Georgadis 241-236 in one of the best matches of the day to advance against Clint Norlen in the semifinals.

Norlen, who bowled a 901 series during the match-play portion of qualifying for the No. 2 seed, finished third after losing to Huck; Georgadis placed fourth; and Makayla Hoover was fifth.

Huck had the high game of the day, a 263. Hoover led the girls with a 249.

The next JBT will be Nov. 6 at Valley Bowl.

College scene

Madi Farrell, a Northwest Nazarene junior middle blocker from Lake City, was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week in volleyball after she had 26 kills, a .500 hitting percentage and seven blocks as the Crusaders won a pair of road matches the week of Oct. 17-23.

Natalie Kassa, a 5-foot-6 senior defensive specialist at Carroll College from Mead, had 55 digs and two service aces as the 17th-ranked Saints split two matches and was named the Frontier Conference Defender of the Week in volleyball.

Erica Simpson and Jonathan Cortez gave Community Colleges of Spokane a sweep of the weekly soccer awards in the NWAC.

Simpson, a sophomore forward from Post Falls, was the women’s choice after she collected five goals and an assist as the second-ranked Sasquatch beat Wenatchee Valley and Treasure Valley after scoring the only goal in the 87th minute of a 1-0 win over Columbia Basin on Oct. 15. Simpson is fifth in the NWAC with 14 goals and eighth in points with 32.

Cortez, a sophomore forward from Moses Lake, scored three goals as the second-ranked Sasquatch beat Wenatchee Valley and Treasure Valley. He is second in the NWAC in goals (16) and points (34) after leading the league with 18 goals and 39 points in 2015.

Tommy Costa and Alfredo Ornelas swept the men’s soccer awards to lead four Whitworth athletes who collected weekly honors from the Northwest Conference.

Costa, a senior goalkeeper from San Jose, California, made seven saves in a pair of 2-1 victories to earn defensive honors. Ornelas, a sophomore forward from Hercules, California, was the offensive choice after scoring three goals, including the winner in overtime against Pacific Lutheran, in those 2-1 wins.

Erin White, a sophomore setter from Arlington, Washington, received the NWC offensive award in volleyball after she averaged 13.33 assists per set in a pair of 3-0 sweeps and added five kills, 11 digs and a service ace while hitting .625.

Tyson Odden, a freshman from Bozeman, Montana, was the men’s golf honoree after his 7-under-par 65 in the final round rallied the Pirates to a one-shot victory over Pacific Lutheran at Gable Sands Golf Club. His 143 total earned him a tie for fourth place.

Clara Moyano, an Idaho freshman from Spain, won the Big Sky Conference weekly women’s golf award after shooting 6 under par in the weather-shortened Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown. Her 67-71 for 138 earned her a tie for sixth as the Vandals placed third in the 19-school field.

Jessica Mildes, a Gonzaga senior from Riverside High School and Community Colleges of Spokane with a 4.0 grade-point average in accounting, was named to the West Coast Conference all-academic team in women’s cross country for a second straight year.

Keagen Hadley, formerly of Kellogg, who is spending his senior year at Dakota Weselyn as a student assistant coach on the NAIA’s 14th ranked football team, has signed with the Kearney, Nebraska, Hawks in the professional Indoor Football Association.

The 6-foot-3, 260-pound Hadley, who played his freshman season at Minot, North Dakota, State before playing the last three at Dakota Weselyn, is a defensive end.

Hadley’s sister, Elise, also formerly of Kellogg, after playing the last two years at Dakota Weselyn on the women’s basketball team, switched to volleyball this fall and is playing on the Tigers’ junior varsity.