Tom Brandes out of Bellevue won the Washington Senior Men's Amateur Championship at the Walla Walla Country Club held Tuesday through Thursday.
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SPOKANE — Gonzaga finished the season in the same spot its occupied in nearly every USA Today college basketball poll over the last two months.
SPOKANE — It's barely begun, but the week couldn't be going any better for the Gonzaga women.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga had no tape of North Dakota to study, so coach Mark Few said his staff improvised on the fly.
SPOKANE — Junior wing Corey Kispert loves the new, deeper 3-point line that goes into effect this season.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s Corey Kispert and Washington State’s CJ Elleby are on the 20-player watch list for the Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award.
Canada stamped its name in the FIBA World Cup record book Saturday with the help of a couple of former Gonzaga standouts.
SPOKANE — A knee injury has ended former Gonzaga standout Kelly Olynyk’s stint with the Canadian national team this summer.
Brandon Clarke had a delayed start to the NBA Summer League while waiting for his draft-night trade from Oklahoma City to Memphis to become official on July 7.
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.
SPOKANE — The guessing game is in overtime. It should reach full fervor Thursday in the hours leading up to the NBA draft.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga sophomore guard Zach Norvell Jr. and junior forward Killian Tillie are testing the NBA waters.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s Brandon Clarke, who quickly became a fan favorite with his high-flying dunks and acrobatic blocked shots, has declared for the NBA draft.
SPOKANE — Rui Hachimura is leaving Gonzaga.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s Rui Hachimura is positioned to add another significant accomplishment to his basketball career.
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Gonzaga was not going to be bullied by Florida State again with a spot in the Elite Eight on the line.
SPOKANE — Rui Hachimura became the third Gonzaga player named a first-team All-American by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
Certainly you remember an injured Killian Tillie on the sideline.
SPOKANE — This is Jessie Loera’s team now, though she deflected that notion with the same grace she shows on the court.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When it comes to a 16 seed beating a 1, it’s still true — anything really can happen in the NCAA Tournament.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s Laura Stockton and Jill Townsend will miss the women’s NCAA Tournament because of leg injuries.
LAS VEGAS — Gonzaga had its 21-game winning streak end in the West Coast Conference tournament title game.
LAS VEGAS – Rewind to last week and Gonzaga entered the postseason kicking around pros and cons of the old rust-vs.-rest debate.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Saint Mary’s heard for weeks about the NCAA Tournament bubble.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga is No. 1 just about everywhere you look.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s Mark Few is one of 11 semifinalists for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Zykera Rice’s last-second shot gave Gonzaga a chance to play for another West Coast Conference tournament championship. The Zags will have to find a way to win it without two key players who were lost to injury.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Zach Norvell Jr. doesn’t believe there is a team in the country that can compete with No. 1 Gonzaga when it plays its best game.
LAS VEGAS — Hours before the start of the WCC Tournament on Thursday, Gonzaga coach Mark Few talked about the benefits of winning the regular-season title and earning a bye into the semifinals.
SPOKANE — It’s award season and Gonzaga’s Rui Hachimura is in the running for several honors.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga junior forward Rui Hachimura is one of 10 semifinalists for the Naismith Trophy player of year.
SPOKANE — No one looks past the Gonzaga women’s basketball team, but the Zags always return the compliment – no matter the opponent’s record.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s domination of the conference continued with Tuesday’s release of All-West Coast Conference honors.
SPOKANE —Junior forward Brandon Clarke, who had 36 points, 20 rebounds and nine blocks in a pair of Gonzaga wins last week, was named West Coast Conference player of the week.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga’s Josh Perkins is one of five finalists for the Bob Cousy Award, presented to the nation’s top point guard.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga maintained its hold on No. 1 in the AP college basketball poll, and the Zags can’t help or hurt their position this week.
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — A renewed focus on defense helped Gonzaga get back to the No. 1 ranking it held for three weeks earlier this season.
STOCKTON, Calif. — It was arguably Gonzaga’s worst offensive performance of the season.
SPOKANE — Josh Perkins, who became Gonzaga’s all-time assists leader in Thursday night’s home win over Pepperdine, has been selected West Coast Conference player of the week.
SPOKANE — Gonzaga hasn’t had to come back very often on the basketball court this season, but it has completed a two-month rally in the AP poll.
SPOKANE — Zykera Rice scored 15 points and Laura Stockton added 13 while moving into third place on No. 15 Gonzaga’s career assist list and the Bulldogs defeated Santa Clara 74-61 on Thursday night.
SPOKANE (AP) — On a night when Josh Perkins became the career assist leader at No. 2 Gonzaga, the Bulldogs clinched a seventh consecutive West Coast Conference regular season title and kept the door open to a possible No. 1 ranking next week.
SPOKANE — Perhaps Gonzaga’s loss to BYU last weekend wasn’t as costly as some fans feared.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Third-ranked Gonzaga was trailing midway through the second half and the nation’s highest-scoring team was being slowed.
SPOKANE — Joakim Noah once described playing with plantar fasciitis “like you have needles underneath your feet.”
