Northwest Notes
MMA comes to Cd'A Casino on Thursday with King of the Cage
WORLEY - Some of the top Mixed Martial Arts fighters will come to the area on Thursday for "King of the Cage - It's Personal" at the Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort House of Fury starting at 7 p.m.
The 16-match card features King of the Cage Light Heavyweight champion Trevor Prangley (29-9) against 32-match winner Tony Lopez. In junior flyweight matches, Zach Lari will face Czar Sklavos and James Chaney against Jacob Harkness. Katie Law and Roma Pawalek will face off in a women's bout.
Doors open at 6 p.m. with the first match scheduled for 7. Tickets are available through TicketsWest.com or the Casino box office.
Bayley ninth at junior tourney
Derek Bayley of Rathdrum finished ninth in the boys division at the 46th Dropping Junior Golf Championship which concluded Tuesday at BanBury Golf Course in Eagle.
Bayley shot a 72-75-75-222, 9 over par. Hunter Ostrom shot a 74-69-72-215 to win by three strokes.
Gabrielle Barker shot 74-76-69-219, 6 over par, to win by four strokes.
Grove tied for second after first day of Oregon Open
REDMOND, Ore. - Russell Grove, an assistant at Avondale Golf Club, shot a 3-under-par 69 and is tied for second after the first day of the 54-hole Oregon Open Invitational at the Juniper Golf Club.
Amateur Sean McMullen of the Fariwood Golf and Country Club in Renton, Wash., shot a 68 for a one-shot lead.
Grove is in a four-way tie for second. Among those also at 69 is David Nuhn of Moscow.
Scott Adams of Twin Lakes Village shot 72 and is tied for 17th. Colin Carlson from The Club at Black Rock shot 75. Sean Mitchell, also from Black Rock, shot 78 and Taylor Porter of Avondale opened with 79.
The tourney continues today and concludes Thursday.
WSU sports comply with NCAA rate
The NCAA has released its 2011-12 Academic Progress Rate figures and all 17 of Washington State University's sports programs are in compliance.
The results were announced Tuesday.
The APR is an annual assessment of each team's academic and retention history.
The WSU football team recorded a four-year average score of 942, an improvement from last year's score of 933, and meeting the NCAA's 930 standard.
The highest multi-year APR score at WSU was earned by the men's golf team, which recorded a score of 985.
Idaho football's four-year-average was 919, including an 881 rate in 2011-12. Men's golf was the only other four-year average under 930, at 916.
Idaho men's basketball had an average at 945 (920 in 2011-12), women's basketball 951 (931 in 11-12). Volleyball was at 990, and women's golf had the highest average at 991.
EWU's Bill Chaves honored as 1 of 28 AD of the Year winners
Eastern Washington athletic director Bill Chaves has been honored by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) as one of 28 winners of the Under Armour AD of the Year.
Chaves, 47, is concluding his sixth year at Eastern and will receive his award during the James J. Corbett Awards Luncheon on Saturday at the NACDA's 48th annual convention at the World Center Marriott in Orlando.
His tenure has been punctuated by the installation of the first red synthetic football surface world-wide in 2010.
Chaves has also overseen several recently-completed projects, including new seating at Reese Court, a $1.5 million locker room update and video board installation at both Roos Field and Reese Court.