Local report -- Central signs Spokane point guard - ELLENSBURG -- Central Washington, which lost starting point guard Nate Jackson to graduation, has possibly found a successor. Jon Clift, who helped lead Spokane to a runner-up finish to Yakima Valley in the NWAACC Tournament in March, has decided to conti...MORE...

Prep golf -- Overcoming over and over - YAKIMA -- In the opening minute of what would be one of the biggest victories in the history of West Valley's girls basketball program, Liz Tikriti was forced to do something which for her was unthinkable. She sat. Inside her right knee was so much ligame...MORE...

5/9/08 This week on track - YAKIMA SPEEDWAY What: Late Models, Super Stocks, Hobby Sportsman, Hobby Stocks, Hornets, Bump to Pass, Youth Hornets. When: Saturday. Gates open at 4 p.m., racing at 5. Note: Quiet since the Apple Cup, the Speedway hosts its first full local slate of raci...MORE...

Prep report -- Small-school vaulting flying high with TL-G - Is it track and field for the Trout Lake-Glenwood program or, more specifically, simply track and pole vault? Hard to tell since nine of the 15 boys in the two-school program have competed in the event and three of them are among the top four 1B vaulters...MORE...

Yakima Valley track and field leaders - THROUGH WEDNESDAY BOYS 100 -- FAT: Brett Blanshan (Selah) 10.79, Cade Wandling (Prosser) 10.86, Marco Martinez (Toppenish) 11.00, Dana Wells (Riverside Christian) 11.23, Cody Bruns (Prosser) 11.43, Jonathan Newport (Eisenhower) 11.43. Wind aided: Blanshan...MORE...

CBA -- Potential Sun Kings owners emerge - YAKIMA -- While work progresses on a deal with local investors to buy the Sun Kings, another potential buyer has emerged -- and he's one quite familiar to fans. Otis Harlan said Thursday that he's seriously interested in reaquiring the team that he owned ...MORE...

CWU Hall of Fame -- Central marks a season of firsts - YAKIMA -- More than one member of the 1987-88 Central Washington women's basketball team admitted to memory lapses when asked about the historic team. "That was, after all, 20 years ago," one of them explained. True. But closer examination reveals that a...MORE...

5/9/08 Hot Tickets - TODAY BASEBALL: Take your pick between these two CWAC district semifinals -- Ellensburg at Selah and Ephrata at East Valley. Both start at 4 p.m. Meanwhile, Naches Valley hosts Kiona-Benton in a SCAC semifinal. SATURDAY BOYS SOCCER: Sunnyside hosts Eastm...MORE...

5/9/08 Prep standings - Fastpitch CWAC W L Othello 15 1 East Valley 14 2 Ellensburg 14 2 Selah 13 3 Grandview 5 11 Prosser 5 11 Quincy 5 11 Ephrata 5 11 Toppenish 2 14 Wapato 2 14 Today's games Othello at Selah (2), 3:30 p.m. Saturday's games Prosser at Grandview (2), 10 a.m. T...MORE...

Prep Roundup -- Mercado's goals lift Selah - YAKIMA -- Senior Israel Mercado scored early and late -- both times with the help of Michael Fadden -- and lifted Selah to a 2-1 overtime victory over East Valley in a loser-out CWAC district boys soccer match on Thursday. Mercado scored on an assist from...MORE...

5/8/08 Valley Sports Weekly bulletin board - BASEBALL: Yakima National Little League will be hosting an all-you-can-eat spaghetti feed at 6 p.m. Saturday at the V.F.W. Post 379 located at Fifth and Walnut avenues. Tickets are $20. There will be door prizes, a silent auction, and music by Wise Blood....MORE...

Rec notes -- Rebels teams win tourney titles - YAKIMA -- Two Yakima Rebels teams posted top-two finishes in their inaugural Rebel Yell youth baseball tournament last weekend at Elks Park. The U-10 Rebels won the championship, defeating the Moses Lake GTLs 12-2 on Sunday afternoon. The U-12 Rebels were...MORE...

Local report -- Wilkins' double helps lift Yaks to split - YAKIMA -- Ezzard Wilkins' two-run double highlighted a four-run eighth inning and lifted Yakima Valley to a 10-7 win over Blue Mountain and a split of its Eastern Region doubleheader Wednesday at Parker Field. The Timberwolves won the opener 9-3. Wilkins'...MORE...

Prep roundup -- Sunnyside soccer nabs state berth - SUNNYSIDE -- Who needs 80 minutes to win a soccer match when you only need three? Sunnyside's boys punched in a goal just that quick on Wednesday and it stood up for a 1-0 victory over Kamiakin in the Class 3A regional tournament. With their eighth consec...MORE...

CWU Hall of Fame -- An early call - YAKIMA -- A lengthy look at the grand scheme of Central Washington basketball, plus a cursory glance at the Wildcats' record book, makes clear that since Ryan Pepper's departure in 1995, his induction into the school's hall of fame would be less a matter...MORE...

5/8/08 Valley Sports Weekly results - Golf Apple Tree MEN'S DIVISION May 4 First Flight -- Gross: 1, Van Johnson 76; 2, Mike Sutton 81. Net: 1, Butch Lenberg 68; 2, Jack Shaw 76. Second Flight -- Gross: 1, Kirk Galloway 85; 2, Joe Lenberg 93. Net: 1, (tie) Jack Shaw 73, Stan Hinson 73. WOMEN...MORE...

Prep baseball -- Forgey leads Ranger blowout - NACHES -- Finding the difference between this year's Naches Valley baseball team and last year's state-runner-up version wasn't easy against River View. There's still plenty of patience at the plate and starter Lucas Forgey's whiff-inducing pitching hide ...MORE...

5/7/08 Fastpitch standings - Fastpitch CWAC W L Othello 15 1 East Valley 14 2 Ellensburg 14 2 Selah 13 3 Grandview 5 11 Quincy 5 11 Ephrata 4 10 Prosser 4 10 Toppenish 2 14 Wapato 2 14 Tuesday's results Othello 6-5, East Valley 2-1 Ellensburg 13-16, Toppenish 0-1 SCAC West W L Zi...MORE...

Prep soccer/fastpitch roundup -- Wahluke rallies to beat Highland in SCAC semifinals - COWICHE -- Rallying from an early deficit, Wahluke's boys soccer team surged to a 3-1 victory over Highland in a SCAC semifinal match on Tuesday. The Warriors (13-5) will play at Connell on Thursday at 4 p.m. in the district championship. The winner quali...MORE...

Prep soccer -- Grandview gets defensive in win over East Valley - GRANDVIEW -- Nice time to bring out your best defensive performance of the season. With a trip to the Class 2A state playoffs on the line, Grandview's boys soccer team rode the eight-save effort of junior goalkeeper Teclo Perez to a 1-0 victory over East ...MORE...

Local report -- Walkenhauer named to GNAC All-Academic team - ELLENSBURG -- West Valley graduate Kevin Walkenhauer was among six Central Washington baseball players named to the GNAC Academic All-Conference team, the conference announced Tuesday. Walkenhauer, a sophomore chemistry major, has compiled a 3.86 grade-po...MORE...

Prep baseball -- Edwards leads WV in regional win - YAKIMA -- Cody Edwards struck out 10 in six innings and clubbed a three-run homer to lead West Valley to a 7-3 victory over East Valley of Spokane in a 3A regional loser-out game on Tuesday. The Rams (11-10) advance to play at Mount Spokane (9-12) on Frid...MORE...

Prep golf/tennis roundup -- Crockett, McElrath defend GCB titles - SELAH -- Riverside Christian's Matt Crockett and La Salle's Ariana McElrath both successfully defended their district championships, leading their respective teams to district titles in the Greater Columbia B District golf tournament Tuesday at the Yakima...MORE...

LOCAL REPORT -- CWU's Holtman named GNAC's best player - ELLENSBURG -- Central Washington senior first baseman Mallory Holtman got plenty of kudos for her sportsmanship this past week, and Monday the Great Northwest Athletic Conference honored her play. Holtman was named the conference's fastpitch player of the...MORE...

AWAY AT SCHOOL -- Locals drive Pirate tennis - KATIE STAUDINGER (Eisenhower), a freshman on the Whitworth women's tennis team, finished 21-1 overall in singles play this year and 20-2 in doubles. JUSTINE HAYS (La Salle), a junior on the team, finished the season with a record of 18-3 in singles play...MORE...

Finding a home in the Dome - YAKIMA -- Fallout from the Yakama Sun Kings closing operations hasn't slowed plans to place an arenafootball2 franchise in Yakima -- possibly as soon as 2009. Brady Nelson, majority owner of the Spokane Shock and a member of af2's executive committee, eve...MORE...

Prep baseball/fastpitch roundup -- Guyer, Butterfield lead La Salle to GCB title - YAKIMA -- David Guyer and Nick Butterfield both pitched two-hit shutouts as La Salle captured the Greater Columbia B baseball title with a 10-0, 10-0 sweep over Klickitat/Trout Lake-Glenwood on Saturday. The Lightning (14-6) finished 7-2 in league, a game...MORE...

College roundup -- Central men take fifth in GNAC championship - ELLENSBURG -- Without their injured 400-meter ace, Central Washington's men slipped from the first-day lead to a fifth-place finish in the GNAC track and field championships Friday at Tomlinson Stadium. The Wildcats totaled 1511/2 points in the tightly-bu...MORE...

Prep track and field roundup -- Wandling, Johnson shine at Prosser Invite - PROSSER -- Cade Wandling of Prosser and Crystal Johnson of Davis were named the top athletes at Saturday's 48th annual Prosser Rotary Invitational track meet at Fiker Stadium. Wandling set a meet record in the 400-meter dash of 48.69 seconds and he ran on...MORE...

Prep soccer/tennis roundup -- Wenatchee dashes Davis' postseason hopes - WENATCHEE -- Home field was just enough advantage for Wenatchee to end Davis' season Saturday night. The Pirates led early but, despite a big defensive effort, fell 2-1 in a shootout in the Columbia Basin 4A district semifinals at the Apple Bowl. League c...MORE...

Semi-pro football -- Mavericks respond to Skagit challenge - YAKIMA -- The on-off switch for these undefeated Yakima Mavericks must be in an easy place to bump. Because the semipro football team was its usual Jekyll-and-Hyde self against an outmanned Skagit Valley Lightning team Saturday at Zaepfel Stadium. Yet the...MORE...

CBA -- League official remains hopeful Sun Kings can find investors - YAKIMA -- Little has changed on the fate of the Sun Kings since the Yakama Nation's stunning announcement three weeks ago that they were shutting the team down, but at least one CBA official remains optimistic something will materialize to bring the team...MORE...

LOCAL REPORT -- DeGrood, Baldwin break through at SunTides - YAKIMA -- It might have been the matching flowered trousers. It might have been the first truly spring-like day of the year. But it also might have been Corey DeGrood's seven birdies that carried he and Jeff Baldwin to their first Central Washington Two-M...MORE...

PDL Soccer -- Sagare, Garcia lead Reds to win in opener - SPOKANE -- Yakima's new-look front line paid immediate dividends, helping the Reds get their season off to a solid start. Jake Sagare and Junior Garcia made triumphant returns to the Reds, collecting all of the goals as Yakima blanked the Spokane Spiders ...MORE...

Local report -- DeGrazia, Diede take share of lead in two-man best ball - YAKIMA -- Perennial winner Chris DeGrazia once again laid claim as possibly the best golfer ever to visit SunTides Golf Course as he and a new partner staked a share of the lead in the 39th-annual Central Washington Two-Man Best-Ball Tournament on Saturda...MORE...

5/4/08 Prep standings - BASEBALL Greater Columbia B Final W L La Salle 7 2 Lyle 6 3 Riverside Christian 3 6 Klickitat-TLG 2 7 Saturday's results La Salle 10-10, Klickitat-TLG 0-0 Lyle 15-8, Riverside Christian 4-4 FASTPITCH CWAC W L East Valley 14 0 Othello 13 1 Selah 13 3 El...MORE...

5/4/08 Letter to sports - Criticism of 3A hoops was unfair To the sports editor -- I'm surprised nobody else called me on it, but I'll do it myself, albeit three weeks late because of the Herald-Republic editorial board's once-a-month letter policy that could have been waived but ...MORE...

Prep soccer/tennis/golf roundup -- Galvan's five goals carry Sunnyside in regional - SUNNYSIDE -- Brian Galvan's career game turned the postseason debut for Sunnyside's boys soccer team into a runaway Friday night. The junior fired in five goals and led the Grizzlies to a 9-1 victory over North Central in the first round of the Class 3A r...MORE...

Prep baseball/fastpitch roundup -- Chapman pitches Pirates into tie for 2nd - YAKIMA -- Sophomore Chris Chapman threw a three-hitter with nine strikeouts to lead Davis to a 3-2 win over Wenatchee in the second game of a Columbia Basin League 4A baseball doubleheader at Davis Field on Friday. Wenatchee won the opener 10-6 and the sp...MORE...

Local report -- Yaks sweep, stay in playoff contention - ONTARIO, Ore. -- Breanne Mettie's two-run single in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday gave Yakima Valley a sweep of its doubleheader with Treasure Valley and kept the Yaks in the Eastern Region playoff hunt. Mettie's hit completed a 13-3, 4-2 YVCC s...MORE...

College football -- CWU to scrimmage at Bothell - YAKIMA -- Central Washington, hoping for a banner season under first-year coach Blaine Bennett, will hold its first spring football scrimmage today. The Wildcats will gather at Pop Keeney Stadium in Bothell at 1 p.m. Following two practices next week, Cen...MORE...

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