Northwest Notes June 10, 2011

Crush tournament on

tap this weekend

A total of 75 teams will begin competition starting today in the 17th annual Coeur d'Alene Crush Girls Fastpitch Softball tournament, to be held at five different venues.

The under-18 division will play at Finucane Park in Hayden; the U-16 and U-14 division will play at Ramsey Park; the U-10 and 12-U divisions will compete at Coeur d'Alene High, Sunset Fields and Woodland Middle School.

The tournament will have teams from North Idaho representing each age bracket, including a team from Dry-Ice, four teams from Wildfire and six teams for Coeur d'Alene Crush.

Tournament action begins at 4 p.m. today and runs from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Shock active three from

injured reserve list

SPOKANE - Spokane Shock wide receivers Markee White and Adron Tennell, and defensive lineman Jonathan Williams, have been activated from the injured reserve list.

White had 19 receptions for 195 yards and five touchdowns before sustaining his injury in the second game of the season. Williams has 3.5 tackles in three games. Tennell has yet to play this season.

Spokane hosts the Philadelphia Soul on Friday at the Spokane Arena.

EWU picks up hoops

transfer from Oregon

Martin Seiferth, a 6-foot-10, 220-pound center from Berlin, will transfer from the University of Oregon to Eastern Washington University to play men's basketball, the school announced.

He will redshirt the 2011-12 season.

Seiferth attended Max Taut School in Berlin and averaged nearly 13 points and seven rebounds in his final season of club basketball in Germany before coming to the United States. He played in 12 games for the Ducks in 2010-11 and averaged 4.3 minutes per game.