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The Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team gets to hunt some big dogs and Pirates in the 2013-14 season. The Eagles will take to the road to meet the University of Connecticut and University of Washington Huskies and the Seton Hall Pirates, using these contests to help them better prepare for Big Sky Conference play. Third-year head coach Jim Hayford hopes those preseason tests, plus others against the likes of West Coast Conference power Saint Mary’s, will pro...
Things might finally be falling into place for the Spokane Blue Devils AAA American Legion baseball team. With a third place finish two weeks ago in Missoula’s tournament – including a victory over champion Casper, Wyo. – and ending 2-1-1 in the rain-ravaged Best of the Northwest Tournament, the Blue Devils’ coach Tony Byrne likes what he’s seeing. “All in all we’re starting to play a lot better,” Byrne said. “Maybe even better than I thought we’d be.” When the Blue Devils bro...
The rest was welcome and the result pretty pleasing, too. That’s how Medical Lake AA American Legion baseball coach Kerry Kelly summed up last Sunday’s split with Federal League leading West Kootenay. Medical Lake fell 8-5 in the opener to the Diamondbacks from Trail, British Columbia, but got a “gem” of a pitching performance from Deven Wesebaum and won game two 7-2. The win ended a four-game losing streak for ML and handed WK its first league loss. “I think it was good for...
Round Table Saxon player Dylan Thompson (11) beats the tag of Cheney catcher Brannon Pederson (14) and slides safely into home as RT’s Nathan Synoground (29) guards the plate. Thompson scored on a suicide steal during Monday’s A American Legion baseball game with Cheney played at Ferris. Round Table won the game 9-2, scoring seven runs in the second inning. “We cleaned up on defense after a bad start, falling behind 7-0 in the second, but we never got enough momentum at the p...
It might be hard to pull a lot of positives out of the season in which your team got off to a painfully slow start and endured an excruciatingly painful finish. But not surprisingly, Eastern Washington University men’s head basketball coach Jim Hayford finds a way. Finishing 10-21 in his second year on the job with the Eagles the seemingly ever-optimistic Hayford said the 2012-13 campaign, while a true test for his team, staff and EWU fans, laid another row of bricks in his f...
How do you top a two-hole sudden death finish when the Lilac City Invitational returned last year to the Fairways Golf Course for its 49th edition? It will be tough but just the fact that it turns 50 might be enough for an event like this. The Golden Anniversary edition four-day, 72-hole pro-am tournament runs July 11-14 and will benefit the Shriners Hospitals for Children—Spokane. “Bringing back the Lilac last year and partnering the tournament with our annual donation to...
Four players off the Cheney High School 2A state champion boys soccer team were named to the Washington State Soccer Coaches Association’s All-State 2A team. Junior midfielder Micah Weller and senior goalkeeper Joe Scott were first-team selections while junior forward Trevan Estrellado and sophomore defender Cruz Galm were second-team picks. Also, sophomore forward Coreen Labish was named to the 3A/2A East squad for the 2013 Washington/North Idaho All-State Girls Basketball games, played last Saturday at the HUB in S...
