Maine setter Seipp earns more honors

Shelly Seipp, a senior co-captain and setter at the University of Maine from Rogers High School, was named to the 2006 All-America East Conference second team in volleyball.

Last year she was a first-team pick.

Additionally, Seipp was named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District second team. It was her third all-district honor. She has a 3.89 grade-point average in kinesiology and physical education.

Seipp led the Black Bears and was fifth in the league in assists with 10.21 per game, totaling 970. It was her fourth straight year with 900 or more. She led the league in service aces, averaging 0.57 a game.

Basketball

Nate Bligh from Coeur d’Alene High School, a 6-foot-3, 180-pound junior wing, is the first men’s player Eastern Oregon University has signed to a letter of intent for the 2007-08 season, Mountaineers coach Ryan Looney announced.

Bligh, who averaged 15.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and 4.0 assists while shooting 40 percent on 3-pointers as a junior, was a first-team All-Inland Empire League selection and a second-team All-North Idaho pick.

Looney called Bligh “a quality perimeter defender.”

College scene

For the second time in three years, Washington senior Alex Prugh from Ferris High School will compete in the Western Refining College All-America Golf Classic in El Paso, Texas, today through Tuesday.

Prugh shot 13-over-par 226 to finish 29th in the event in 2004.

This year he and junior teammate Zach Bixler from Richland are among 28 of the nation’s premier collegiate golfers in the 32nd annual event.

•Steve Martin, a Puget Sound senior linebacker from Lewis and Clark High School who led the Northwest Conference in tackles, was named to the All-NWC first-team defense in football. He averaged 9.5 tackles a game and had three sacks.

•Jenny McKinsey, a Pacific Lutheran freshman from Central Valley High School, was named to the All-Northwest Conference second team in women’s soccer. She played forward and midfield.

•Jeremy Templeton, an Eastern Oregon sophomore point guard in men’s basketball from Ferris, was named to the all-tournament team as the Mountaineers won their Quinn Classic last weekend.

Templeton, one of four area players at EOU, followed up with a team-leading 17 points Tuesday in a 122-68 win over Walla Walla College as the Mountaineers improved to 6-0. Also on the team are Derek Brown, a senior from Mt. Spokane; Kyle Janke, sophomore, West Valley; and Josh Landsverk, freshman, Shadle Park.

•Whitworth is second, 18 points behind Puget Sound, in the Northwest Conference All-Sports Trophy competition after the fall season. UPS has 94 points, Whitworth 72.

Hockey

Four area players helped teams from the Northwest Selects girls program collect high finishes in the third annual Burnaby Minor Female Remembrance Day tournament that attracted 64 teams last weekend in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Carina Randazzo from Coeur d’Alene is on the U-14 team that won its division.

Alyssa Swegle, Hannah Smith and Paula Pitzke, all from Spokane, are on the U-19 team of players from Washington, Idaho and Oregon that was fifth in a Tier 1-level tournament.

Volleyball

Rusty Wellman was named referee of the year by the Spokane Area Volleyball Referees Association at its year-ending banquet last Sunday.

Other awards went to: Dale Goodwin and Bob Francis, most inspirational; Scott Cauvel, most improved; Francis, contributor of the year; Laury Beaty, rookie of the year; Ben Goodwin, Linda Kildew and Erica Tomsha, top second-year officials; and Dave Williams, top third-year official.