Local report: Ellensburg lands five in regional wrestling semifinals

SPOKANE, Wash. — Ellensburg had a Valley-best five quarterfinal winners during the first day of the Class 2A Region IV wrestling tournament on Friday at West Valley High School. Competition resumes today at 1 p.m. with the top four placers advancing to state. Othello scored 91 points for the first-day lead ahead of three Great [...]

Local report — CWU second in GNAC preseason softball poll

YAKIMA, Wash. — Central Washington’s two-time defending conference champion softball team was voted second in the GNAC preseason poll. The Wildcats received two first-place votes in the poll and finished just behind Montana State-Billings in the ranking, which is voted upon by the seven conference coaches. MSUB received three first-place votes, while Western Washington also [...]

Fastpitch: Central’s Haupert, Petrich honored

YAKIMA, Wash. — A banner season for Central Washington’s fastpitch team continues to reap rewards. Two Wildcats, Samantha Petrich and Kelsey Haupert, were named NCAA Division II all-Americans on Thursday by Daktronics, Inc. For Petrich, the accolade came after she was named West Region player of the year, also by Daktronics. The senior shortstop from [...]

Local report — Central’s Petrich honored

ELLENSBURG — Central Washington’s Samantha Petrich has been named the Daktronics NCAA Division II West Region Softball Player of the Year, the university announced Wednesday. Petrich, a senior shortstop, had previously been named GNAC Player of the Year. She batted .455 with 13 home runs and 41 runs batted in while also compiling a .942 [...]

Season ends for CWU fastpitch

CHICO, Calif. — The day began in grand fashion for Central Washington’s fastpitch team in the NCAA Division II West Regional tournament. The Wildcats, who suffered a narrow first-round defeat to top-seeded UC San Diego on Friday, not only stayed alive in the double-elimination event, they did so by ousting archrival Western Washington 8-4. But [...]

CWU fastpitch falls in regional opener

CHICO, Calif. — Having had no success scoring in a conventional manner off Central Washington ace Lauren Hadenfeld, Chico State resorted to small ball. And the 16th-ranked Tritons, using successive squeeze bunts in the bottom of the sixth inning Friday, downed the Wildcats 2-1 in a first-round NCAA Division II West Regional game. Central (33-15), [...]

Follow Central fastpitch online

YAKIMA, Wash. — Central Washington’s action in the NCAA Division II West Regional Tournament, which starts today at Chico, Calif., can be followed on the internet. Play by play of the Wildcats’ noon tourney opener with UC San Diego as well as live stats of the contests can be accessed by first logging onto CWU’s [...]

Local Report: CWU’s Petrich named GNAC Player of the Year

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Samantha Petrich, a senior on Central Washington’s GNAC championship fastpitch team, has been named the conference’s Player of the Year. Petrich, from Chehalis, was also joined Tuesday by CWU teammates Kelsey Haupert, Lauren Hadenfeld and Carrina Wagner on the all-GNAC first team. Central’s Molly Coppinger and Keilani Cruz were second-team selections while [...]

Local report: CWU softball No. 8 seed in West Regional

ELLENSBURG — For the second straight year, Central Washington’s softball team is the No. 8 seed in the NCAA Division II Softball West Regional. Pairings were announced Monday and the Wildcats, coming off their second consecutive GNAC title, will travel to Chico, Calif. As the No. 8 seed, the Wildcats (33-14) will face top-seeded U.C. [...]

College football: Top of the line

Defensive front dominates in Crimson win || ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Mike Reno was all over the place. So was Taylor Tanasse and so was Andrew Oney, all of whom are members of Central Washington’s defensive line. Sometimes they were all over Ryan Robertson, the Wildcats’ quarterback, who once Saturday’s Crimson-White spring game at Tomlinson Stadium [...]

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