In brief: Eastern’s Harvey receives honor

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: His numbers were Rodney Stuckey like, so it’s fitting that Tyler Harvey has become Eastern Washington University’s first selection since 2006 on the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 6 team announced Wednesday. The sophomore from Torrance, Calif., was named to the second team.

Harvey, a Big Sky Conference first-team selection, scored 677 points this season to rank third in school history. His 21.8 average was third behind only the averages of 24.6 and 24.2 that Stuckey had in the 2007 and 2006 seasons, respectively. Stuckey is now in his seventh year with the Detroit Pistons in the NBA, and earned NABC All-District first team honors in both 2006 and 2007 when he also was an honorable mention All-America selection for the Eagles.

Whits announce football schedule

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: The Whitworth Pirates football team will open the new coaching era of Rod Sandberg with a conference home game against Lewis & Clark on Sept. 6.

The Pirates will play 10 games with half of them at home in the Pine Bowl. The schedule also for the first time in school history includes seven Northwest Conference games.

The opening matchup originally had been scheduled for Nov. 15 but Whitworth officials agreed with a request to move the game to Sept. 6.

Whitworth, which finished 4-6 last year, will play at Whittier on Sept. 13, at La Verne on Sept. 20 and then return home to the Pine Bowl on Sept. 27 to play Chapman University.

The Pirates then go back on the road Oct. 4 to play Pacific (Ore.). Whitworth returns home will play Willamette on Oct. 11 as part of its 125th anniversary weekend.

The Pirates then go on the road to play Linfield on Oct. 18. They return for home games against Puget Sound (Oct. 25) and George Fox (Nov. 1).

Whitworth finishes the season on the road at Pacific Lutheran on Nov. 8.