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Feb22
Before the wrestling season began, Post Falls senior Nathan McLeod certified so he could compete as low as 152 pounds.
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Here's a poll for every high school basketball fan in every classification in our region. Which area boys and girls basketball teams will win regional games and advance to state this weekend? Please vote for teams you seriously believe will win.
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The Post Falls boys basketball team was businesslike after capturing the 5A Region I championship Tuesday. That’s largely because the Trojans are after bigger hardware.
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Madison Hovren scored 14 points and collected 16 rebounds as the Central Valley girls routed Wenatchee 57-21 on Tuesday night at Wenatchee High School. The win puts the Bears in a 4A regional game Saturday at Spokane Falls Community College. CV (22-2) will face Chiawana at 4 p.m.
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Feb21
The Post Falls boys basketball team was businesslike after capturing the 5A Region I championship Tuesday.
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The common thread defining University’s boys basketball season has been the variety of ways the Titans can beat you.
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A GRIP ON SPORTS
If I really wanted to take a day off, today would be the day. Nothing much in the way of local stories, not a lot from the local college's conference connections and very little from the professional ranks. But those are often the days when, while trying to find tracings, you end up with nuggets. And we found one. Read on.
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Feb19
A GRIP ON SPORTS
I'm not a rollercoaster guy. Mainly it has to do with heights – to say I hate them is an understatement; it's more like an irrational fear – but it also has to do with the constant up and downs. Speed is fine. Give me a ride that races around corners and stretches the boundaries of centrifugal force anytime. But rollercoasters?No thanks. ...
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TACOMA – Matt Jorgensen and his Deer Park Stags will enjoy the school’s fifth straight State 2A wrestling championship for all of four days. Come Wednesday evening, Jorgensen and the Stags begin work toward a sixth consecutive title.
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No matter how you figure it, the Idaho 5A state wrestling champion is likely to come out of the panhandle. After Saturday’s championship round of the District I and II tournament at Lakeland High School in Rathdrum, Lewiston and Post Falls, who finished 1-2 for the 5A district title, combined to send 36 entrants directly into next weekend’s tournament at Holt Arena in Pocatello.
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TACOMA – The back door was unkind to the Mead wrestling team. Despite four state champs out of five finalists, Mead’s Panthers couldn’t match Tahoma’s depth.
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The Idaho 3A girls basketball state championship game was a contrast of styles, matching Timberlake’s perimeter skill against Marsh Valley’s interior presence. But while Marsh Valley’s post game was firing on all cylinders, Timberlake could not find its outside shooting touch.
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Brooke Gallaway made 1 of 2 free throws with 28 seconds left and Central Valley held on to beat Mead 49-48 in a District 8 4A elimination game Saturday at University High School. Jade Redmon, who led the Panthers with 19 points, had a chance to win it, but her turnaround jumper at the buzzer was off the mark.
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TACOMA – Mead gymnast Victoria Moyer understands any athlete’s season has its ups and down, but it’s fun when the up moments come at the right time. Moyer, who was a key component in clinching Mead’s first State 4A gymnastics championship Friday night, added a second-place medal for her performance on bars during Saturday’s individual event finals at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall.
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Will Kuharski led three players in double figures with 16 points as Gonzaga Prep held on to beat Ferris in a District 8 4A game Saturday night at University High School. The Bullpups (16-7) led by nine points at the half and held off the Saxons’ second-half rally.
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Feb18
Matt Jorgensen and his Deer Park Stags will enjoy the school’s fifth straight State 2A wrestling championship for all of four days.
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Despite four state champs out of five finalists, Mead’s Panthers couldn’t match Tahoma’s depth.
Tahoma used a strong finish in placing matches to knock off favored Mead for the State 4A championship Saturday at the Tacoma Dome.
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A GRIP ON SPORTS
It's Saturday. You have things to do. We have things to do. Let's get right to it. Read on.
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TACOMA – Mead gymnastics coach Laurie Chadwick was dazed but not at all confused Friday night after her Panthers became the first Spokane-area school to win a state gymnastics title since Shadle Park won a pre-WIAA “invitational” championship in 1970. “I’m a little amazed,” Chadwick said after the Panthers edged out three talented squads in a tightly competitive 4A meet at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall.
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Justin Berarducci led three players in double figures with 21 points and Colfax (18-5) upset Northwest Christian (22-1) 58-52 in the District 7 2B basketball title game Friday night at Mt. Spokane High School. Brandon Gfeller added 15 points, nine assists and five rebounds for the Bulldogs (18-5), who advance to the regional tournament as the No. 1 seed.
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In a punch/counterpunch district championship game, Pullman managed the only flurry of the night, four unanswered baskets, and used it to stop West Valley 49-45 in the District 7 2A championship boys basketball game at Central Valley Friday. As district champion, Pullman earns a first-round bye in next weekend’s regional crossover tournament, meaning its game Saturday will be considered a first-round state tournament game.
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Greater Spokane League regular-season girls basketball champion Central Valley discovered there’s no defense against a team playing with superior quickness and execution. League runner-up Gonzaga Prep sliced and diced its way to an impressive 73-61 victory in the District 8 4A championship game Friday night at University and a spot in next week’s Washington sub-state tournament.
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TACOMA – Usually coaches, especially wrestling coaches, are guarded after the first day of a state tournament. Count Mead coach Phil McLean as more optimistic than guarded, though. He’s not declaring a 4A state championship yet at Mat Classic XXIV, but his Panthers made an impressive opening-day statement at the Tacoma Dome.
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After winning the Greater Spokane League title for the first time this century, the Central Valley boys set their sights on the next step: a District 8 title. Friday night at a packed University High gym, the Bears achieved that goal. Emphatically. And easily, building an 18-point first-half lead and rolling past Gonzaga Prep, 64-44.
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For the first time since 2005, Coeur d’Alene will not be playing in the State 5A girls basketball championship game. Sierrna Short hit a jump shot with 15 seconds to play and Centennial stunned the Vikings 58-56 Friday night in the semifinals at The Idaho Center in Nampa.
