Hockey benefit Saturday night
The Spokane Grinders, a Senior A team, will host the Calgary Flames alumni in a benefit game Saturday at Eagles Ice-A-Rena.
The 6:15 p.m. game is a fundraiser for the Mark Rypien Foundation. Tickets are on sale at Eagles Ice-A-Rena or by calling (509) 363-1986, or through Tickets West. Game tickets are $10, children 4 and younger are free. Tickets for a postgame charity dinner and auction at Eagles Lodge are $25.
Basketball
Idaho’s men’s basketball team added a recruit and an assistant coach Thursday.
Michael Crowell will join the Vandals in the fall as a junior transfer from Central Arizona College. The 6-foot-7, 210-pound forward from Mesa, Ariz., was a second-team All-Region I selection this year.
Brian Hancock joins Idaho as an assistant coach from Northern Colorado. Prior to that, he held positions at Barton County (Kan.) CC, College of Southern Idaho, Washington State and North Idaho College.
Hancock, originally from Coeur d’Alene, is an Idaho graduate and was an assistant for the Vandals in 1996-97.