CWU’S Fischer 4th at UW Invite

SEATTLE — Tyler Fischer was Central Washington’s best finisher in the UW Invitational indoor track and field meet Saturday, placing fourth in the men’s weight throw at 64 feet, 83/4 inches.

Yager leads Selah

YAKIMA, Wash. — Alex Yager won the 200 free and 100 back and led off two winning relays as Selah topped Cheney 90-79 Saturday at Lion’s Pool.

Also at Lions Pool, Taylor McDowell won two individual events and swam on two winning relays in West Valley’s 98-85 loss to Walla Walla.

SELAH 90, CHENEY 79

At Lions Pool

200 MR: 1, Selah (Smith, Beebe, Bardwell, Murray) 1:58.90. 200 Free: 1, Alex Yager (Se) 1:59.26. 200 IM: 1, Scott Smith (Se) 2:34.09. 50 Free: 1, Rustin Babcock (Ch) 23.71; 2, Kyle Raschko (Se) 23.88. 100 Fly: 1, Kyle Raschko (Se) 57.99. 100 Free: 1, Rustin Babcock (Ch) 53.59; 2, 3, Grant Bardwell (Se) 1:01.39. 500 Free: 1, Neal Moseley (Ch) 5:53.01; 3, Justin Odman (Se) 6:14.18. 200 FR: 1, Selah (Yager, Bardwell, Borchert, Raschko) 1:37.29. 100 Back: 1, Alex Yager (Se) 1:03.64. 100 Breast: 1, Max Schrieber (Ch) 1:12.06; 2, Cassidy Beebe (Se) 1:12.11. 400 FR: 1, Selah (Yager, Borchert, Raschko, Beebe) 3:43.35.

WALLA WALLA 98, WEST VALLEY 85

At Lions Pool

200 MR: 1, Walla Walla 1:54.60; 3, West Valley 2:07.81. 200 Free: 1, Ryan Tollackson (WV) 2:05.36. 200 IM: 1, Jonathan Klem (WW) 2:13.30; 2, Garrett Rice (WV) 2:28.60. 50 Free: 1, Taylor McDowell (WV) 23.01. Diving: 1, Trent Miller (WV) 152.9. 100 Fly: 1, Jonathan Klem (WW) 69.99; 2, Garrett Rice (WV) 1:07.90. 100 Free: 1, Taylor McDowell (WV) 50.18. 500 Free: 1, Paul Jones (WW) 6:16.63; 2, Eric Nissen (WV) 6:38.83. 200 FR: 1, West Valley (McDowell, Rice, Wells, Tollackson) 1:39.31. 100 Back: 1, Will Bergstrom (WW) 1:05.51; 2, Dylan Rehfield (WV) 1:11.61. 100 Breast: 1, Merrick Calder (WW) 1:06.85l 2, Ryan Tollackson (WV) 1:13.72. 400 FR: 1, West Valley (Wells, Rice, Tollackson, McDowell) 3:43.59.

Eastmont 143, Eisenhower 42

At East Wenatchee

200 MR: 1, Eastmont 1:50.29. 200 free: 1, Dylan Schriver (East) 1:57.51; 3, Shaun Price (Eis) 2:19.18. 200 IM: 1, Dallin Englund (Eis) 2:21.19. 50 free: 1, Josh Heinicke (East) 24.52; 3, Jared Klingele (Eis) 26.02. Diving: 1, Billy Tuthill (East) 227.75. 100 fly: 1, Schriver (East) 57.48. 100 free: 1, Derek Hartman (East) 57.70; 3, Matt Reisenauer (Eis) 1:00.91. 500 free: 1, Braden Bellinger (East) 5:52.11. 200 FR: 1, Eastmont 1:35.56. 100 back: 1, Heinicke (East) 1:03.69. 100 breast: 1, Derek Savage (East) 1:13.37; 3, Reisenauer (Eis) 1:16.21. 400 FR: 1, Eastmont 3:45.50.

Eastmont 137, Davis 48

At East Wenatchee

200 MR: 1, Eastmont 1:50.29. 200 Free: 1, Dylan Schriver (E) 1:57.51; 3, Collin Buckley (D) 2:14.34. 200 IM: 1, Braiden Bellinger (E) 2:23.23.  50 Free: 1, Josh Heinicke (E) 24.52, 3, Gavin Miller (D) 25.16. Diving: 1, Billy Tuthill (E) 227.75; 3, Jordan Fry (D) 141.85. 100 Fly: Schriver (E) 57.48. 100 Free: 1, Derek Hartman (E) 57.70; 2, Jared Campbell (D) 58.18; 3, Alexander Summers (D) 58.30. 500 Free: 1, Bellinger (E) 5:52.11; 2, Buckley (D) 6:00.87. 200 FR: 1, Eastmont 1:35.56; 2, Davis (Miller, Summers, Campbell, Buckley) 1:46.93. 100 Back: 1, Heinicke (E) 1:03.69; 3, Luis Perez (D) 1:12.17. 100 Breast: 1, Derek Savage (E) 1:13.37. 400 FR: 1, Eastmont 3:45.50; 2, Davis (Buckley, Zia Lohrasbi, Summers, Miller) 3:55.01.

Wapato results

100 fly: Eric Wilson, 1:03.04; 100 Back: Wilson 1:04.66; 100 Breast: Eric Ihnen 1:11.79; 50 Free: Jeremy Klarich 26.60; 200 Free: Klarich 2:08.17.

1/30/10 Northwest Volleyball Jamboree results

U-18 Power
Pool A: 1, Columbia Jrs. 18 Black; 2, River City Rush; 3, Club Moscow; 4, Yakima Valley Spikers
Pool B: 1, PAC-V National; 2, Cowlitz Asics Black; 3, Strike Force Black; 4, Club Ellensburg Black
Pool C: 1, SWVBC 18; 2, Team Yakima Gold; 3, Bainbridge VBC; 4, Sunnyside VB
Pool D: 1, Columbia Jrs. Red; 2, Kelowna 18-1; 3, SWVBC 17
Pool E: 1, Olympia 17 Black; 2, Eclipse 17 Bomberinos; 3, Cowlitz Blue

U-16 Power
Pool A: 1, Capitol Ice; 2, Columbia Jrs. 16 Red; 3, Cowlitz Blue; 4, Gig Harbor 15
Pool B: 1, Cowlitz Asics Black; 2, Performance; 3, Columbia Jrs. 15 Black; 4, SWVBC 16 Fury
Pool C: 1, Columbia Jrs. 16 Black; 2, Olympic Premier Fusion; 3, Club Selah 16B; 4, SVB 16
Pool D: 1, Team Yakima Gold; 2, Kelowna 16-1; 3, Narrows 15 Purple; 4, Desert Storm
Pool E: 1, NCWVBC Gold; 2, UPVBC 15; 3, Strike Force Black; 4, SVB 15
Pool F: 1, VIP Juniors 15; 2, Edmonds Elite; 3, PAC-V National; 4, Olympic Premier Krush
U-16 Challenge
Pool A: 1, Columbia Jrs. 16-1; 2, YMCA Blaze 15; 3, Cowlitz Gold; 4, Eclipse 15 Tappo
Pool B: 1, Eclipse Anfala; 2, Olympic Prem. Force; 3, SWVBC 15 Shock; 4, NW Jrs. 16 Storm
Pool C: 1, Cowlitz Red; 2, Club Moscow; 3, NW Jrs. 16 Eclipse; 4, SWVBC 15 Feeorin
Pool D: 1, North Idaho Black; 2, TmYak Lime Green; 3, Evergreen 16 Erika
Pool E: 1, River City Rapids; 2, Kamali’i Orange; 3, Desert 15 K-OSS; 4, NW Jrs. 15 Thunder
Pool F: 1, Wenatchee Valley Gold; 2, Eclipse Spitze 15; 3, Club Ellensburg Black; 4, Strike Force 16 Green
Pool G: 1, Team Yakima Pink; 2, Sunnyside VB; 3, NW Jrs. 15 Cyclone; 4, Yakima Vall Spikrs 15
Pool H: 1, Cowlitz Silver; 2, NW Jrs. 15 Inferno; 3, Cascade Jrs. 16-2; 4, Yak Vall Spikrs 16

U-14 Power
Pool A: 1, Desert Shock; 2, VIP Juniors 14; 3, Cowlitz Blue; 4, Simcoe 14 Gold
Pool B: 1, Cowlitz Black; Grandview 14 Hounds; 3, Wildcat VBC; 4, Columbia Jrs. 13 Black
Pool C: 1, Strike Force Black; 2, Team Yakima Gold; 3, Performance; 4, Spokane Splash 13
Pool D: 1, NCWVBC; 2, North Idaho Thunder; 3, Club Selah 14W; 4, Strike Force Green
Pool E: 1, Spokane Splash 14; 2, PAC-V National; 3, Columbia Jrs. 14 Black; 4, Eastern Oregon VBC
Pool F: 1, Spokane Sky Thunder; 2, Club Selah 14B; 3, Team Yakima Black; 4, Desert Storm

U-14 Challenge
Pool A: 1, Eclipse Ataque; 2, Strike Force White; 3, Kamali’i Orange
Pool B: 1, Cowlitz Red; 2, Club Selah 14 BJ; 3, SWVBC 14 Red; 4, Cascade Juniors 14-2
Pool C: 1, Cascade Juniors 14-1; 2, Cowlitz Gold; 3, Desert Triple Threat 14-1; 4, Club Selah 14 WJ
Pool D: 1, Club Ellensburg Black; 2, Sunnyside VB; 3, Cascade Juniors 14-3
Pool E: 1, Team Yakima Red; 2, NCWVBC Black; 3, Simcoe 14 Purple

U-12 Division
Pool A: 1, Team Yakima Gold; 2, Clud Selah 12; 3, Kamali’i Gold; 4, Strike Force Strikers; 5, Team Yakima Red
Pool B: 1, Desert Venom; 2, Kamali’i Orange; 3, Team Yakima Blue; 4, Team Yakima Black; 5, Performance

Longton 17th at Showdown

IRWINDALE, Calif. — On a night cut short by seven caution flags and a television time limit, Moxee’s Mike Longton finished 17th in the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown Super Late Model race on Friday night at Toyota Speedway.

The race, which was scheduled to run 100 laps, ended up running only 66 laps, 36 of which were run under the yellow flag.

Rip Michels won the race from pole, leading the first 31 laps and then reassuming the lead on the 57th lap and holding it until the finish.

NASCAR Sprint Cup regular David Gilliland was second and Andy Allen was third to complete the podium.

Jay Sauls of Puyallup was the best finisher from Washington, ending up 7th. Jared Vorse of Olympia finished 12th.

Serena Williams wins 5th Aussie Open

Perfect Escape for Granger

No. 3 Spartans get all they can handle from Naches Valley ||

NACHES, Wash. — Before he and his undefeated Granger teammates took the floor for the second half against a Naches Valley team that was standing toe-to-toe with the third-ranked Spartans, Granger junior Mitchell Zapien went to coach Miguel Bazaldua with a request.

“Give me the ball, coach,” Zapien urged. “Good things will happen.”

Bazaldua agreed, and watched Zapien score 18 of his 29 points over the second half and a nail-biting overtime period as Granger eked out a 60-57 SCAC West victory.

 

 

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“When my team’s struggling, I need to step up, and my team always follows me,” said Zapien, who scored 11 third-quarter points, shot 12-for-23 from the field for the night and added three assists. “I expected double-teams and triple-teams all night. We love this kind of (close) game — it always brings out the best in us.”

It seemed to bring out the best in the Rangers as well. Six-foot-5 senior Weston Parker and 6-4 Jeremy Gaudette combined for 26 points and 16 rebounds and J.R. Weigel scored five fourth-quarter points — including a steal for a breakaway layup — as Naches Valley (4-4 league, 9-7 overall) rallied from a 49-40 deficit over the final 7 1/2 minutes.

The Spartans (7-0, 14-0) still had a chance to close it out in regulation when Brandon Castro, normally a deadeye shooter, went to the foul line for a one-and-one with 20 seconds remaining and Granger up 54-52. He swished the first one, but missed the second, and Weigel found Trevor Bailey open in the corner for a tying 3-pointer.

“That was big,” Rangers coach Jon Eldridge said of Bailey’s nothing-but-net shot. “Trevor’s a real confident kid, and he likes to have the ball in his hands in that kind of situation.”

In the hectic final seconds of regulation, Brandon Oswalt scored a putback, but the ball left his hands a split-second too late to count.

Then it was time for Zapien to take over again. He drove through heavy traffic for a layup and, after Gaudette answered at the other end, drove the lane and kicked the ball back to Oswalt, whose 10-footer gave Granger the lead for good.

“He’s unbelievable,” Eldridge said of Zapien. “He penetrates and uses that two-foot stop, and can go any direction off that, left or right — and he’s so explosive.”

“Mitchell’s like Parker is for them — they both draw a lot of attention to themselves,” Bazaldua said. “It’s almost like a box-and-one any time he touches the ball, and that plays to our strength, because my guys, every one of them can score.”

The Rangers, on the other hand, missed their last seven shots — two at the foul line, five from the field — as Granger held on to the win and its unbeaten streak.

In the end, though, the Rangers should come away from this game with a lot of confidence — and perhaps just a bit of frustration. Had they not missed seven of the last 11 free throws, they might well have come away with the win.

Asked about those free throws, Eldridge shrugged and said wryly, “Ouch.”

 

Short-handed Selah falls short

Ephrata tops Viks, takes sole control of first in CWAC ||

SELAH, Wash. — For starters, Selah was without two of them.

And complicating the 10th-ranked Vikings’ plight regarding their Friday night CWAC showdown with No. 3 Ephrata was that illness and injury had not only cost Selah players who had averaged a combined 43.1 points, they were also perhaps the team’s best ballhandlers and passers.

No wonder, then, that the Viks’ locker room was hardly morgue-like after the 70-54 loss in Carl Kellman Gym.

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“I thought our guys played well,” said Selah coach Kip Harris after his team’s eight-game winning streak had ended. “You learn two days before a game like this that you won’t have Nick Longmire, that’s huge. And of course And Ephrata played well and shot well.”

To be sure, the Tigers looked the part of a Class 2A state title contender and 6-foot-9 senior Patrick Simon — with 27 points, 12 rebounds, six assists and four blocks — played as you’d expect of someone who committed to Washington State as a freshman.

They also played like a team that had lost last weekend at Wapato.

Still, the Vikings fought an exemplary fight even though Longmire and his league-best 25.2 scoring average were home with mononucleosis and Drew Washut (17.9) was bench bound by a bothersome foot.

With 3:42 left in the first half, in fact, back-to-back buckets by Mark Valencourt had Selah leading 29-27.

Ephrata had recovered for a 38-30 advantage, using an 11-1 burst in which Simon hit a 3-pointer, tipped in a fast-break miss and dropped a mid-range jumper, when another Viking starter, Shawn Thompson, left with a shoulder injury.

“I probably stopped breathing for about two minutes,” Harris said.

Thompson returned, and Selah (9-2 league, 10-3 overall) was within 59-50 until the last of Simon’s five 3-balls triggered an 11-4 closing run.

Valencourt, a 6-2 senior, totaled 19 points, five rebounds and two steals for and Brady Hutchison, a 5-9 junior, added 12 points and five boards. He also nailed three successive 3-pointers and scored 12 consecutive Selah points to spark the hosts’ second-period surge.

Ross Buchert, a 6-3 senior guard, scored 16 points for the Tigers (10-1, 12-1), but the player of the evening was clearly Simon.

“You figure you’re playing good defense when you get a hand in his face,” said Harris, who marveled at Simon’s 5-for-12 marksmanship from long range. “Then again, someone his size, I guess you try to get a hand in his belly.

“What we have to do now is take things one day at a time and just play as hard as we can with the guys we have available.”

Harris said a timetable had not been established for the return of either Longmire or Washut.

White Swan holds off Crusaders

Cougars sit alone atop Mid-Valley 2B ||

YAKIMA, Wash. — You don’t have to convince Manuel Rangel about the resilience of White Swan’s boys basketball team. He sees it every day.

But even the head coach gained a deeper appreciation for the Cougars’ grit Friday night following their 50-45 victory at Riverside Christian.

“In the heat of the game when it’s so intense, these boys really know how to keep a cool head,” Rangel said. “Tonight, that resilience, it really showed.”

In the first Mid-Valley 2B League showdown between teams that could eventually vie for the district’s lone state berth, White Swan opened a double-digit lead in the third quarter, lost that and more in the final period and then regrouped to earn the toughest of road wins.

Junior Joel Yellow Owl had a huge hand in the decisive sequence, sinking two free throws to regain the lead and then immediately converting an inbound steal into a basket for a 43-40 lead with 4:23 left.

Yellow Owl scored seven of White Swan’s final 11 points to finish with 15 points and six rebounds. Sophomore Lawrence Fiander accounted for half of the Cougars’ offense with a season-high 25 points.

Ultimately, the normally sure-handed Crusaders were undone by 24 turnovers against White Swan’s variety of pressure. Making matters worse was point guard Derek Byrne picking up his fourth foul midway through the third quarter.

“One of the reasons we had success with our pressure was, of course, conditioning,” Rangel noted. “Another reason is, well, we got a little lucky. Derek Byrne is a great guard and we did our best to contain him, then he got some early fouls.”

Byrne’s backcourt teammate Jeremy Pynch got his fourth foul with 6:31 left, but he stayed away from the fifth whistle and canned a 3-pointer with 52 seconds remaining to get RC within 48-45.

White Swan then turned it over, giving the Crusaders a shot at forcing overtime. But Byrne’s 3-point attempt glanced off the rim and Yellow Owl grabbed the rebound.

“They’re a matchup nightmare for us, and we didn’t handle their pressure very well,” said RC coach Bruce Siebol. “Derek getting in foul trouble, that hurts us offensively and defensively and we can’t afford that.”

The Crusaders nearly made up for the turnovers with rebounds, outboarding White Swan 36-26. Pynch finished with 17 points, three of the game’s four 3-pointers and six rebounds.

But the turnovers and Fiander’s offense helped White Swan become just the second team to score 50 points on the Crusaders, whose defense averages 38 points.

“We knew this would be a tough, tough game,” Rangel said. “This was a district atmosphere tonight and I couldn’t be more proud with how the kids handled it.”

The Crusaders (1-1, 11-4) will play in the big house today, taking on La Salle at 1:30 p.m. in the SunDome as part of the Rivalry Saturday lineup. White Swan (2-0, 11-4) is off today but is scheduled to visit Klickitat for a non-leaguer on Monday.

1/29/10 Selah-Ephrata Photo Gallery

Photos from Friday’s CWAC boys basketball game between Selah and Ephrata at Carl Kellman Gymnasium in Selah, Wash. All photos by Andy Sawyer of the Yakima Herald-Republic.

1/29/10 Granger-Naches Valley Photo Gallery

Photos from Friday’s SCAC boys basketball game between Granger and Naches Valley at Naches Valley High School in Naches, Wash. All photos by Gordon King of the Yakima Herald-Republic.

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