Colleges: Tacoma’s Walker signs at CWU

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Nate Walker, a 6-foot-5 forward, has joined a lengthy list of Tacoma Community College basketball standouts to sign with Central Washington. Walker averaged 15 points and more than eight rebounds a game last season for the Titans, who won the NWAACC championship. In the title game against Chemeketa, a 110-98 Tacoma victory, [...]

Local report: Defending champ leads Senior Invite

TOPPENISH, Wash. — Defending champion Keith Crimp shot a 1-under-par 71 Friday to take a three-stroke lead in the fifth annual Yakima Valley Senior Invitational at Mount Adams Country Club. Crimp, 62, won last year’s title as a first-time participant and was the only golfer to equal or better par. The final round will be [...]

Central splits doubleheader with NW Nazarene

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Carrina Wagner’s two-run homer in her final home at bat Thursday powered Central Washington to a 4-2 victory over Northwest Nazarene and a split of their GNAC fastpitch doubleheader at Frederick Field. Wagner also homered in the first game, which CWU lost 9-6. Going 4 for 7 on the day and raising [...]

Local report: CWU men sign guard Williams

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington has landed another men’s basketball standout from one of the best junior college programs in the state. Dominique Williams, a 5-foot-10 guard from reigning NWAACC champion Tacoma Community College, has signed with CWU, the university announced Wednesday. Williams, who can play both the point and shooting guard positions, is originally [...]

Local report: CWU splits with Saints

LACEY, Wash. — Brett Bielec had three RBI to help lead Central Washington past Saint Martin’s 13-2 in the second game of a baseball doubleheader on Sunday. Saint Martin’s won the first game 3-1. CWU pitcher Jason Lotzer allowed three runs on eight hits in eight innings in the opener to take the loss. Ethan [...]

Local report: YVCC sweeps aside Spokane

YAKIMA, Wash. — It took awhile for Yakima Valley’s bats to come alive Saturday during the Yaks’ East Region doubleheader with Spokane. But as effective as YVCC’s pitchers were, it didn’t matter. With Jake Fife and Seth Darling combining on a four-hit shutout in the first game and Kyle Garvin scattering five hits in the [...]

Fastpitch: St. Martin’s beats CWU in replay

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Saint Martin’s Sam Munger held Central Washington to two hits and the Wildcats were routed 13-0 in a five-inning GNAC fastpitch replay Thursday. Central had beaten the Saints 7-3 on March 4, but an SMU protest was upheld and the contest was resumed with the visitors leading 3-0 in the first inning. [...]

Local report: Wells leads CWU to split

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington freshman Heidy Wells hit a two-run single in the bottom of the first inning and then scattered five hits over seven innings as the Wildcats salvaged a split Sunday with a 3-1 victory against Simon Fraser in the second game of a doubleheader. The Clan won the opener 4-3. The [...]

Local Report: CWU salvages game at MSUB

BILLINGS, Mont. — Heidy Wells pitched a three-hitter and homered to power Central Washington to a 16-1 win over Montana State Billings in the third game of a GNAC fastpitch tripleheader Saturday. The tripleheader was necessitated by bad weather Friday, which forced postponement of the second game of that day’s twinbill. MSUB won the first [...]

Wagenaar steps down at SC

YAKIMA, Wash. — When Dean Wagenaar took on the principal and athletic director jobs at Sunnyside Christian 11 years ago — in addition to being head coach of the school’s storied boys basketball program — one question kept being revisited: How long, he wondered, can I keep this up? The answer came this week when [...]

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