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Former Gonzaga star Adam Morrision, pole vaulter Brad Walker highlight 2020 Washington Sports Hall of Fame class

UPDATED: Fri., May 1, 2020

Adam Morrison and Brad Walker, who carried the Greater Spokane League banner to national acclaim, are having their achievements honored permanently in the state.

Sports >  Area sports

Virginia Danke, a ‘trailblazer’ for women’s sports in Spokane, dies at 94

UPDATED: Wed., Feb. 19, 2020

The woman considered the mother of girls high school sports in Spokane has died.

Sports >  Area sports

Cougars pioneering legend Jo Ann Washam dies at age 69

UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 9, 2019

Jo Ann Washam was a pioneer in the world of women’s athletics in the state at Washington. Washam died Friday night in Auburn, Washington, at the age of 69. Posts to her Facebook page said she had recently been ill.

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Sports >  Area sports

Former Whitworth baseball coach ‘Spike’ Grosvenor leaves lasting legacy on, off the field after his death

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 9, 2019

A curveball that didn’t curve. That’s how I met Spike Grosvenor.

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Spokane youth baseball teams make marks with acts of kindness

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 1, 2019

Memories. That’s what three teams of 12U players from Spokane brought home with them after playing in the 2019 American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame Invitation Tournaments this summer at Cooperstown Dreams Park in New York.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth notebook: Spokane’s 13U Garco team earns spot in Babe Ruth World Series

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 2, 2019

From a 0-16 record to 49-10 and a trip to the Babe Ruth Baseball World Series.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth notebook: Mt. Spokane Wild sending trio of teams to American Legion state tournaments

UPDATED: Fri., July 26, 2019

Mt. Spokane Wild are sending a team to state in each of the three American Legion baseball divisions.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth notebook: Spokane Junior Rifle Club wins title at Civilian Marksmanship Program National Championships

UPDATED: Fri., July 19, 2019

Zach Pearsall was a Good Samaritan, which enhanced his coolness under pressure that helped deliver a national championship to the Spokane Junior Rifle Club.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth sports notebook: Spokane Expos 19U wins Wood Bat Classic title

Fri., July 12, 2019

Strong and deep pitching was the key as Spokane Expos 19U went 9-0 and won the annual Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic baseball tournament that wound up a four-day run Monday.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth sports notebook: Spokane Sounders 18U girls make it to quarterfinals at US Youth Soccer Far West Regionals

Fri., July 5, 2019

Spokane Sounders 18U girls had the best showing of five area teams that qualified for the US Youth Soccer Far West Regionals last month in Boise.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth Sports Notebook: Fields set for Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic tournaments

UPDATED: Fri., June 28, 2019

With the defending champions in the field, 64 teams – 32 in each the Senior and Junior divisions – are entered in the annual Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic for 17U and 18U boys baseball teams next weekend, July 5-8.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth notebook: Spokane’s Washington Elite softball team wins division title at Summer Warmup tournament

UPDATED: Fri., June 21, 2019

Makenzie Nelson’s RBI single capped a two-run third inning and provided the winning margin as Washington Elite of Spokane overcame Spokane Stealth-Shores 5-4 Sunday to win the Gold Division championship of the Summer Warmup 16U/18U girls softball tournament in Selah, Washington.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth notebook: Jordan Rabe, Jailyn Strauss win Spokane Girls Fastpitch Softball Association Scholarship Awards

Fri., June 14, 2019

Jordan Rabe of Northwest Christian and Jailyn Strauss of Ferris, all-stars on the field and Spokane Scholars honorees off, were named 2019 recipients of the Spokane Girls Fastpitch Softball Association Scholarship Awards.

Sports >  High school sports

Youth sports notebook: Eastern Washington boys basketball teams excel in Houston tournament

Fri., June 7, 2019

Five of eight Eastern Washington Elite boys teams won bracket championships, three of them going unbeaten, in the Kingwood Classic boys basketball tournament in Houston.

Sports >  Area sports

Popular former Whitworth coach Cal Riemcke dies

UPDATED: Thu., April 18, 2019

Cal Riemcke, who spent the last seven years of a 26-year basketball coaching career at Whitworth and the last 23 years of his life in the Spokane area, died March 26 after a bout with pneumonia. He was 92.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth sports notebook: Hayden Gamache, Zane Mularski win flights at PNGA Junior Boys Amateur Championship

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 17, 2018

Hayden Gamache of Gonzaga Prep and Zane Mularski of Mead won flight championships and Gunnar Knutson of Mt. Spokane tied for second in qualifying to lead the showing by area entries in the Pacific Northwest Golf Association Junior Boys Amateur Championship that ended Friday at TimberStone Golf Course.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth Sports Notebook: Two area coaches recognized by National Wrestling Coaches Association

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 10, 2018

Matt Jorgensen and Todd Slater, two longtime high school wrestling coaches in the area, have been recognized by the National Wrestling Coaches Association.

Sports >  High school sports

Youth sports notebook: Spokane Stealth-Tibbits leads showing at softball tournament

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 3, 2018

Spokane Stealth-Tibbits placed second in 16U B to lead the showing of four Spokane-area teams in the National Softball Association (NSA) girls fastpitch Northwest World Series last weekend in Tacoma.

Sports >  High school sports

Youth sports notebook: Two Coeur d’Alene Little League baseball teams win state titles

UPDATED: Fri., July 27, 2018

Coeur d’Alene teams won Idaho State Little League baseball championships in 11- and 12-year-old divisions last weekend in Eagle, Idaho.

Sports >  Area sports

Youth Sports Notebook: Coeur d’Alene goalkeeper Lily Foster honored with Golden Glove award

UPDATED: Fri., July 20, 2018

Lily Foster of Coeur d’Alene, who helped lead Sting Timbers 00/01 into the championship match of the girls 18U division at the U.S. Youth Soccer National President’s Cup last weekend in Westfield, Indiana, received the Golden Glove as the best goalkeeper in the 2018 tournament.

Sports >  Area sports

Tom Mableson, longtime voice of hockey in Spokane, spoke well in many other pursuits

Fri., June 8, 2018

It was with his voice, strong and professional, that Tom Mableson painted pictures of scenes on the ice that captivated and informed hockey followers in Spokane and small Canadian cities just North of the border from the late 1940s into the late 1980s.

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Norm Harding, star at Rogers and Whitworth, dies at 79

Sun., March 18, 2018

“The Natural” was miscast. Norm Harding should have played the lead role in the 1984 baseball movie. Harding, a 1957 graduate of Rogers High School and one of the more gifted “natural” athletes to come out of Spokane, died Saturday. He was 79.

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Area motorsports legend Earl Wham dies at 87

UPDATED: Sun., March 4, 2018

Earl Wham, a motorsports legend in the Spokane area who impacted auto and hydroplane racing for more than half a century, died Friday. He was 87.

Sports >  National sports

Stuart Evey, credited with helping to launch ESPN, dies at 84 in Spokane

Sat., Dec. 23, 2017

The family obituary said, “after negotiating the sale of ESPN in 1984, Stu went on to lending his expertise and name to multiple startups, never quite able to retire.”

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11-year-old sets women’s course record at Chewelah

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 15, 2017

Anna Davis, 11, shot a 2-under-par 70 over 5,393 yards from Chewelah Golf and Country Club’s red tees to set the women’s course record.