Football: Central catches on in spring game
May 13, 2012 by Roger Underwood
Robertson sharp, walk-on shines as White team wins || ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Near the top of Blaine Bennett’s wish list for Central Washington’s spring football camp was the emergence of one or more consistent wide receivers. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Greg Logan. Not to say that the redshirt sophomore will be the next Johnny Spevak [...]
5/13/12 CWU spring football photo gallery
May 13, 2012 by Andy Sawyer
Photos from Central Washington’s spring football game at Tomlinson Stadium in Ellensburg, Wash. Click here for information on purchasing any of these photos.
College football: Central to cap spring
May 11, 2012 by Roger Underwood
Annual game set for Saturday || YAKIMA, Wash. — It has not been an especially warm spring in the Kittitas Valley, and Blaine Bennett is cool with that. All the better to evaluate Central Washington’s spring football season, which concludes with Saturday’s noon spring game at Tomlinson Stadium. The Wildcats will be divided into crimson [...]
Local report: CWU set to scrimmage
May 4, 2012 by YH-R Sports
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Central Washington’s football team will hold its first spring scrimmage at 10 a.m. Saturday on the team’s practice field. Coach Blaine Bennett said the scrimmage will last 21/2 to 3 hours, or about 120 plays, and is open to the public. The Wildcats’ spring game is scheduled for May 12 at noon, [...]
Football: CWU looks to spring back
April 15, 2012 by Roger Underwood
Wildcats hope to rebound from first losing season under Bennett || YAKIMA, Wash. — This will be a different spring for Blaine Bennett. In addition to answering the annual questions, filling the usual holes and making the requisite changes during Central Washington’s spring workouts, which begin Monday, Bennett will for the first time in his [...]
Koopman will wear No. 44 for CWU
April 6, 2012 by Roger Underwood
YAKIMA, Wash. — Taking his seat at a table with an NCAA name card in front of him, Blaine Bennett looked a bit uncomfortable. That Central Washington had lost, 21-20 to Northwest Missouri State in a 2009 Division II quarterfinal game only minutes earlier, was no doubt a contributing factor. But on an afternoon of [...]
Roberson will coach CWU defense
March 31, 2012 by Roger Underwood
YAKIMA, Wash. — Blaine Bennett had recruited Malik Roberson once before, thereby getting him started in college football. And now Roberson, a Spokane native lured to Washington State by then-graduate assistant Bennett in 1989, has reunited with his one-time suitor, having been named Central Washington’s defensive coordinator on Friday. “I was a graduate assistant (at [...]
CWU hall of fame set to induct six
March 31, 2012 by YH-R Sports
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Six athletes — two with local ties — and one team will be inducted into Central Washington’s athletic hall of fame. West Valley’s James Atterberry and Prosser’s Mike Huard, both of whom excelled in football for the Wildcats, will be enshrined on April 21 in Nicholson Pavilion. Huard played fullback and tight [...]
Wildcats go heavy on QBs
February 2, 2012 by Roger Underwood
YAKIMA, Wash. — That five quarterbacks would be included in Blaine Bennett’s fifth Central Washington recruiting class might be misunderstood by some observers. Yes, Bennett was himself a quarterback, first at Walla Walla High School and later at Whitworth University. But no, he doesn’t collect QBs as a hobby. “To justify that, we only signed [...]
2012 CWU recruiting class
February 2, 2012 by YH-R Sports
Player, Pos., Ht., Wt., Last school, Hometown Ryan Archibald, db, 6-1, 180, Kentlake HS, Kent Drew Austin, qb, 6-2, 180, Graham-Kapowsin HS, Tacoma Andrew Dodd, wr, 6-4, 211, Jackson HS, Mill Creek David Fontenette, te, 6-2, 228, Bethel HS, Spanaway Christian Gasca, wr, 5-10, 180, Lake Stevens Charles Hall, lb, 5-8, 195, Lakes HS, Lakewood [...]
