Duos from Longview, Wash., and Yakima claimed the top prizes over the weekend in the annual Couples Chapman golf tournament at the Walla Walla Country Club.
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LOS ANGELES — Former Gonzaga guard Zach Norvell Jr. didn’t hear his name called in Thursday’s NBA draft but he quickly landed an NBA opportunity.
CHARLOTTE — Former Gonzaga point guard Josh Perkins is joining the Charlotte Hornets on an Exhibit 10 contract.
WASHINGTON — Gonzaga’s Rui Hachimura became the first player from Japan to get chosen in the first round of the NBA draft, taken with the No. 9 overall pick by the rebuilding Washington Wizards on Thursday night.
SEATTLE — Matisse Thybulle soared higher than expected in Thursday’s NBA draft and landed in the top 20 picks, while his former Washington Huskies teammate Jaylen Nowell went off the board as several projected in the middle of the second round.
OMAHA, Neb. — Brian Klein hit the tiebreaking home run for Texas Tech, and the Red Raiders beat Florida State 4-1 at the College World Series to close the 40-year coaching career of NCAA all-time wins leader Mike Martin.
SPOKANE — The guessing game is in overtime. It should reach full fervor Thursday in the hours leading up to the NBA draft.
Ethan Gardner, a 2015 Wa-Hi graduate, completed a four-year sprinting career at Washington State University in May at the Division I Regional Track and Field meet in Tuscon, Ariz.Â
OMAHA, Neb. — Tim Tadlock obviously would have preferred his team not have to play in the Monday elimination game at the College World Series.
OMAHA, Neb. — Jesse Franklin hit the second pitch of the game out of TD Ameritrade Park. With the performance Tommy Henry was about to give, that was all the offense Michigan needed.
SEATTLE — The Washington men’s basketball team is on the wrong side of a five-game losing streak and has lost 12 of the past 13 contests against Gonzaga, but the Huskies aren’t eager to end the annual battles with their cross-state rivals.
Kelley Lynch, who has committed to the University of Washington, was named Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year on Thursday.
INDIANAPOLIS — The 3-point line is moving back in men’s college basketball.
PULLMAN — Pat Chun is bringing in one of the nation’s top mid-major coaches to help get Washington State’s baseball program out of its decade-long slump.
OKLAHOMA CITY — There was suspense on every pitch Sunday at an overflowing OGE Field. You could feel the tension in the stands, and it got more intense as the innings passed without a run.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Juwan Howard was overcome with tears of joys as he was introduced as Michigan’s new men’s basketball coach.
OKLAHOMA CITY — It was the kind of game that you could feel sorry for whoever lost.
SEATTLE — Jay’Veon Sunday tweeted that he had committed on Monday.
SEATTLE — Once again Jaylen Nowell said goodbye to the Washington Huskies and reaffirmed that he’s committed to staying in the NBA draft and turning pro.
SEATTLE — The goal has been clear from the start of the season for the Washington softball team: win the Women’s College World Series after coming so close last year.
UNDATED — The Southeastern Conference hired international accounting firm Deloitte to conduct a review of its football officiating.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Former Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis is joining Arizona State coach Herm Edwards’ staff as a special adviser.
OMAHA, Neb. — Pac-12 champion UCLA won each of its series for the first time in program history, didn’t lose a midweek game and ended the regular season on a 10-game winning streak.
SEATTLE — Pitching, pitching, pitching.
OMAHA, Neb. — LSU will host a regional in the NCAA baseball tournament for the 26th time, while West Virginia was selected as a first-time host Sunday.
SEATTLE — The stakes are clear for the Washington women’s softball team: beat Kentucky in a best-of-three super regional at Husky Softball Stadium and it will earn a trip back to the College Softball World Series in Oklahoma, after getting all the way to the title series last season before l…
SPOKANE — The setting was familiar for North Idaho College softball coach Don Don Williams, but the stakes were different.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Juwan Howard is coming back to Michigan.
Whitman College named Kim Chandler its new athletic director on Wednesday.
SEATTLE — First Isaiah Stewart, and now Jaden McDaniels.
LOS ANGELES — Terry Donahue, the winningest football coach in UCLA and Pac-12 history, has been diagnosed with cancer.
PULLMAN — In late January, Pat Chun took the first step toward improving the baseball product at Washington State, getting approval to move forward with $10 million renovations to Bailey-Brayton Field.
APEX, N.C. — Jim Burch, the first black man to officiate a basketball game in the Atlantic Coast Conference, has died at his home in North Carolina. He was 91.
SPOKANE — Walla Walla saw its softball season come to an end here Sunday at the Dwight Merkel Sports Comnplex.
ORANGE, Calif. — Whitman College’s most memorable baseball season in decades came to a close here Sunday as Chapman University escaped with a 3-2 victory over the Blues in the fifth and deciding game of their best-of-five NCAA Division III regional playoff series.
SEATTLE — Pitcher perfect? Almost.
SAN FRANCISCO — DeSales grad Emily Baumgart, a redshirt-sophomore at Washington State University, is an honorable mention member of the Pac-12 All-Academic women’s golf team.
ORANGE, Calif. — Whitman and Chapman split the first four games of their NCAA Regional baseball series here on Friday and Saturday.
SPOKANE — Walla Walla Community College remained undefeated through the first two rounds of the NWAC 2019 Softball Championship Tournament here Saturday in Championship action at Dwight Merkel Sports Complex.Â
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — TCU running back Sewo Olonilua, who set a school bowl record with 194 yards rushing in a victory over California last season, has been arrested on drug possession charges.
Pitching usually makes or breaks a baseball team in a short series, and Whitman College coach Brian Kitamura views pitching to be Chapman University’s strength this weekend when the Blues and the Panthers tangle in the NCAA Division III regionals in Orange, Calif.
PULLMAN – When the Cougars take the basketball court next season, a 7-foot, 230-pound center from Ukraine will be in their midst.
TEMPE, Ariz. — Whitman College women’t tennis player Mary Hill was awarded the ITA/Arthur Ashe Leadership and Sportsmanship Award as the 2019 ITA NCAA Division III men’s and women’s regional award winners were announced on Tuesday.
UNDATED — The NCAA is looking at how its rules can be modified to allow college athletes to be compensated for their names, images and likenesses.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Revolution have hired five-time MLS Cup winner and former U.S. national coach Bruce Arena as its coach and sports director.
SEATTLE — Washington coach Mike Hopkins is heading to Greece this summer after being named an assistant for the 2019 USA Basketball Men’s U19 World Cup team.
UNDATED — This season’s Orange Bowl is moving to Dec. 30, with a prime-time kickoff, after originally being scheduled to be played the afternoon of New Year’s Day.
After two weeks of waiting and wondering, coach Brian Kitamjura and his Whitman College baseball players know who and where they will play in their first NCAA Division III regional playoff game in school history.
