Area sports

With four USL Super League regular-season games left and three of eight playoff bids secured, the sixth-ranked Spokane Zephyr entered Sunday's match against No. 1 Sporting JAX needing every point they can get in a tightly contested postseason hunt.

Gonzaga’s baseball team is rolling through April and establishing itself as the front-runner in the West Coast Conference.

It’s a long season – 132 games in the High-A Northwest League – so fretting about a win-loss record after 15 games probably won’t do anyone any good. But after a tough home stand, the Spokane Indians will try to find renewed energy when they kick off a two-week road trip in Everett on Tuesday.

Arjun Nimmala is the Toronto Blue Jays’ No. 3 ranked prospect by MLB.com, selected with the 20th overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft, making him the highest first-generation Indian-American ever taken in one of the four major U.S. sports.

After Thursday's crushing defeat – when they gave up a two-run homer in the ninth and a grand slam in the 10th – the Spokane Indians needed a boost on Friday. They received a dominant pitching performance, then a highly-rated prospect came though for them in extra innings. 

For 49 years, countless Bloomsday participants have pushed through pain, fatigue and exhaustion running 7.46 miles for a T-shirt.

The Spokane Indians came from three runs down to take a 5-3 lead into the ninth inning. But reliever Francis Rivera allowed two home runs – a tying two-run shot in the ninth, and a grand slam in the 10th – rendering the comeback moot.

Kendry Chirinos and Carter Cunningham hit grand slams and the Vancouver Canadians trounced the Spokane Indians 14-6 in the second of a six-game High-A Northwest League series at Avista Stadium on Wednesday.

Brody Brecht is the type of pitcher big league teams dream about. At 6-foot-4, 235 pounds, he has the physique of a football player – because he was that, too, at the University of Iowa. He possesses a big fastball, routinely hitting 96 mph, and three other average-to-plus pitches, including a quality late-breaking slider.

After the first two series of the season – a three-game season-opening series at Avista Stadium against Everett and a six-game road trip at Hillsboro – the Spokane Indians return home with a 4-5 record.

HILLSBORO, Ore. – The Spokane Indians couldn’t complete a comeback and fell to the Hillsboro Hops 5-2 in the finale of a six-game High-A Northwest League series at Hillsboro Hops Ballpark on Sunday.

HILLSBORO, Ore. – Jordy Vargas turned in a strong outing in his first road start, Tommy Hopfe homered and the Spokane Indians held off the Hillsboro Hops 6-3 in the fifth of a six-game High-A Northwest League series on Saturday at Hillsboro Hops Ballpark .

The Spokane Velocity secured six points during their two-game homestand this week and climbed the USL League One rankings, leaping to second place after a 3-1 victory over the Richmond Kickers at ONE Spokane Stadium on Saturday.

Lexie Hull, the Central Valley High legend and a key player for the Indiana Fever, is staying with the WNBA franchise that drafted her four years ago.

HILLSBORO, Ore. — Jackson Cox grew up in Toutle Lake, Washington, about an hour and a half from Hillsboro, so he had a large contingent of family and friends for his outing Friday against the Hops in their new ballpark. 

HILLSBORO, Ore. – Yassel Soler hit a walk-off two-run homer in the 10th inning and the Hillsboro Hops beat the Spokane Indians 6-4 in the third of a six-game High-A Northwest League series at Hillsboro Hops Ballpark on Thursday.

HILLSBORO, Ore. – Yassel Soler drove in two runs, including an insurance run in the eighth inning, and the Hillsboro Hops beat the Spokane Indians 4-1 in the second of a six-game High-A Northwest League series Wednesday at Hillsboro Hops Ballpark .

PULLMAN – Five Washington State teams, a former star Cougs linebacker and a longtime volleyball coach will be inducted into WSU athletics' Hall of Fame this fall, the school recently announced.

Lopes was part of the 1970 Spokane Indians team – regarded by many as one of the top minor league teams of all time – that included Steve Garvey, Bill Buckner, Bill Russell, Tom Paciorek, Bobby Valentine and reliever Charley Hough.