Northwest Notes, March 28, 2012
NIC's Joksimovic signs
with Lewis-Clark State
Petar Joksimovic, a 6-foot-5 sophomore from North Idaho College, has accepted a scholarship offer from Lewis-Clark State to play men's basketball next season.
Joksimovic, originally from Serbia, has became a U.S. citizen and has lived in Coeur d'Alene for the past eight years.
He will be joining former NIC and Lake City High standout Nick Fromm on the roster at Lewis-Clark State.
Vandal Boosters to hold
scramble at Hayden Lake
The Kootenai County Vandal Boosters will honor Wayne Anderson during this year's Vandal Scramble on May 19 at the Hayden Lake Country Club.
Anderson is a former assistant athletic director, coach, Idaho student-athlete and has been inducted into the Idaho Hall of Fame as well as the University of Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame.
Registration and a no-host lunch will be held at 11 a.m., with a shotgun start at 1 p.m.
A cocktail party and silent auction at 5 p.m., with the dinner and program to follow at 6:30.
Information: Shelly Robson at (208) 651-7992 or email [email protected] or Randy Haddock at (208) 664-9783 or email [email protected]
Gonzaga's Sacre to
play in All-Star Game
NEW ORLEANS - Gonzaga senior center Robert Sacre will be a member of the West All-Star team for the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) 2012 Reese's Division I College All-Star Game on Friday as part of Final Four Friday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
The game will be broadcast Saturday at 10 a.m. on TruTV (68 Time Warner, 246 DirecTV, 204 Dish Network).
The game features 20 of the nation's most outstanding seniors from Division I, as selected by the NABC.
Sacre was a first-team All-West Coast Conference selection this past season, averaging 11.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. He scored 1,270 career points to rank 21st and grabbed 679 rebounds to rank eight the school's all-time list. His 186 blocked shots rank second behind Casey Calvary's 207.
Dale Brown will coach the West, while Wimp Sanderson will coach the East.
Rosters include:
WEST - Casper Ware, Long Beach State; Jorge Gutierrez, California; Dominique Morrison, Oral Roberts; Devoe Joseph, Oregon; Bradford Burgess, VCU. Wendall McKines, New Mexico State; Storm Warren, LSU; Chace Stanback, UNLV; Robert Sacre, Gonzaga; Ricardo Ratliffe, Missouri.
EAST - Scott Machado, Iona; Juan Fernandez, Temple; Ramone Moore, Temple; Kevin Murphy, Tennessee Tech; Jae Crowder, Marquette; John Shurna, Northwestern; Keith Wright, Harvard; Garrett Stutz, Wichita State; Henry Sims, Georgetown; Mitchell Watt, Buffalo.
Shock put QB
Meyer on injured reserve
Quarterback Erik Meyer and defensive lineman Brandon Sharpe have been placed on the injured reserved list, retroactive to Saturday, the Spokane Shock announced.
Meyer and Sharpe will be eligible to come off the list during Spokane's second bye week on April 16.
In other roster moves, Spokane released wide receivers Doug Beaumont, Delrick Ellington, Verran Tucker and offensive lineman Riordan Gomez.
The team has also activated wide receiver B.J. Dennard and defensive lineman James Ruffin from the physically unable to perform list and added quarterback Luke Collis.
Collis (6-foot-3, 233 pounds) will enter his rookie season in the Arena Football League. Collis finished his collegiate career at Occidental College, where he was selected first-team All Conference as a senior and passed for 4,611 yards and 41 touchdowns in his career.
Spokane will host top-ranked San Jose in the NFL Network's Arena Football Game of the Week on Friday at 5 p.m.