Local report — Riverside Christian girls edge Australian team

YAKIMA, Wash. — Kendra Staymates had a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds to lead Riverside Christian to a 46-44 victory over a team from Australia in a girls basketball game Monday night. Tori Carpenter added 10 points for the Crusaders (8-3). AUSTRALIA — James 2, J. Smith 0, M. Smith 7, Zennoro 4, [...]

Local report — Stubblefield take coaching job at New Mexico

YAKIMA, Wash. — Taylor Stubblefield, a star three-sport athlete at Davis who later set an NCAA receiving record at Purdue, will reportedly join Bob Davie’s staff as an assistant football coach at New Mexico. According to a report in the Albuquerque Journal, Stubblefield will coach the Lobos receivers. He had held a similar position at [...]

Local report — Granger, Ike top Takedown

Both have three individual champions in Cadets’ event || YAKIMA, Wash. — Granger and Eisenhower had three champions apiece in Tuesday’s annual season-opening Eisenhower Takedown Jamboree at Ike Gym. Grandview and Toppenish had two winners each in the non-scoring eight-team tournament. Repeat champs were Davis’ Juan Lopez and Selah’s Kody Ergeson. The CBBN 4A and [...]

Brandli lifts CWU past NW Nazarene

NAMPA, Idaho — Freshman Danielle Brandli scored in the third minute of overtime Saturday to boost Central Washington past Northwest Nazarene 1-0 in GNAC women’s soccer. The victory, combined with Montana State Billings’ loss to Seattle Pacific, moved the Wildcats (8-3-2 conference, 9-4-4 overall) back into second place ahead of the Yellowjackets. Sophomore Kori Butterfield, [...]

Local report: Dislocated hip ends Robertson’s season

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Ryan Robertson’s season is over. As was feared Saturday when the Central Washington quarterback was wheeled out of Tomlinson Stadium in an ambulance, the redshirt junior suffered a dislocated right hip in the Wildcats’ 30-20 loss to Humboldt State. CWU head coach Blaine Bennett confirmed the injury and Robertson’s status Tuesday before [...]

Local report — CWU women picked 7th in GNAC

ELLENSBURG — Central Washington’s women’s basketball team, which will play its first season under coach Shawn Nelson, has been picked to finish seventh in the GNAC in a preseason poll of conference coaches. The Wildcats have four starters and nine letter winners returning from last season’s 7-18 team that was only 2-16 in GNAC play, [...]

Local report: CWU’s Tanasse honored by GNAC

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Taylor Tanasse said he was “just doing my job,” after a monster game at defensive end Saturday. If so, the Central Washington senior from West Valley indeed did quite a job in the Wildcats’ 37-17 defeat of Simon Fraser in Tomlinson Stadium, enough so to have been named the GNAC’s defensive player [...]

Local report: Weedman, Louman win Best Ball

YAKIMA, Wash. — Carey Weedman and Jeff Louman teed off early enough to miss Sunday’s gusty winds and record a final-round 64 and win the Fall Central Washington Two-Man Best Ball at SunTides Golf Course. Weedman and Louman finished at 12-under par 128. The first-round leaders, Corey DeGrood and Dusty Frontis, finished one stroke behind [...]

Local report: CWU volleyball sweeps at home

ELLENSBURG, Wash. — Jordan Offutt had nine kills, and Marcy Hjellum and Meg Ryan each added six kills as Central Washington swept Walla Walla in non-league volleyball action Monday night at Nicholson Pavilion. The Wildcats (2-2 GNAC, 8-4 overall) won 25-10, 25-20, 25-13. Devin Larson set up the CWU attack with 25 assists and also [...]

Golf: Kurt Schlect scores ace at Elks

SELAH, Wash. — Kurt Schlect had a hole-in-one Saturday during his round at the Yakima Elks. He aced the 165-yard 16th hole with a 4-iron. Neal Schlect, John Crimin, Alan Gohl and Chris Schlect witnessed the shot. Bemis cards hole-in-one at Elks SELAH, Wash. — Cory Bemis had a hole-in-one during a round last week [...]

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