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THURSDAY, NOV. 18, 2010

Eags hold on for first win of year 

Eastern Washington, after spitting away the better part of a 23-point lead, survived a late 3-point and free-throw flurry by Northwest University to earn a 96-87 men's basketball win at Reese Court Thursday night.Cliff Colimon finished with a team-high 21 points for the Eagles (1-2),…

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Eastern up 49-31 at intermission

Eastern Washington used 8-for-12 shooting from beyond the 3-point line and some aggresive work on the boards to roll up a 49-31 halftime lead over visiting Northwest University at Reese Court.The Eagles' Cliff Colimon leads all scorers with 14 points, while teammates Laron Griffin and…

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Shock add center Walter

Spokane has signed Tim Walter, a center who played at Colorado State. Walter spent some time in training camp with the Chicago Bears.Walter joins returning center Antonio Narcisse on the Shock roster.

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CdA football coach Shawn Amos puts his team through warm-up drills Tuesday in preparation for Friday's state semifinal game.
 (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)

Centennial formidable foe for CdA

PREPSClick the tab below for a link to a story in the Idaho Statesman newspaper about the Centennial football team, which travels to Moscow to take on No. 1-ranked Coeur d'Alene on Friday.Coeur d'Alene coach Shawn Amos is pictured above in a file photo.

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Follow prep football on Twitter

I will be at the Idaho State 5A football championship game Friday in Moscow between Coeur d'Alene and Centennial and will be posting tweet updates throughout the game. You can follow my tweets at twitter.com/SRpreps.On Saturday, I can't be at multiple places at once. I…

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Idaho wins, Cougs at Portland

Washington State visits Portland tonight in the lone area women's basketball game. Wednesday night Idaho put a surprising thumping on visiting Eastern Washington. Katie Baker (Lake City) leads Montana to its first win. Freshman Nyesha Joseph (U-Hi) has first double-double as Eastern Oregon romps.

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Injuries kept CdA senior Zach Keiser from breaking the school’s rushing record, but he still ranks third.  (Kathy Plonka)

Thursday Prep Page

PREPSThe usual wide selection of things offered on our Prep Page. Next week the Prep Page disappears per se so we can present the All-Greater Spokane League pictures and lists and lists of all other area all-league teams. In Idaho, we swap the pages out…

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Cowen notches two assists in loss

A lot of information today, most of it courtesy of Greg Drinnan's blog, starting with the Russians' 7-6 shootout win over WHL in the Subway Super Series last night in Kamloops, where Spokane Chiefs captain Jared Cowen chipped in with two assists. The Russians lead…

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CBE conference call

The conference call with the four head coaches (in order Krzyzewski, Williams, Martin and Few) for the CBE Classic begins in about a half hour. For updates, head to twitter.com/SRjimm.

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A snow-covered report from WSU

COUGARS Even in this nearly dead week of Washington State athletics – in the middle of November, both the football and basketball team had the day off yesterday – we have some news and notes out of Pullman. If you are interested, read on.

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