Northwest Notes

Shippy, Stangel named to

NFCA All-American team

Lake City High second baseman Vanessa Shippy on Friday was named a first-team All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

Shippy, a junior, batted .737 (70 for 95), scored 69 runs and stole 56 bases in 57 tries this spring for the Timberwolves, who finished 28-0 and won their second state 5A title in three seasons.

Shippy has verbally committed to play at Oklahoma State in 2014.

Her Lake City teammate, pitcher Casey Stangel, was named second-team All-American by the NFCA.

Shippy and Stangel were each named to the West Region first team this season by the NFCA. Stangel, a senior who has signed with Missouri, was a third-team All-American last year, as well as a West Region first-team selection.

Let us know how your

team did at Hoopfest

If your team wins its bracket at the Hoopfest 3-on-3 basketball tournament this weekend in downtown Spokane, we'd like to hear from you.

Send us a team photo (attached, as a .jpg) to [email protected]. Include your team's name, your town, the type of bracket you were in (men's, women's, coed, etc.), and list the names of the players from left to right in the photo.

Tell us a little bit about how you won your bracket, and we'll run all photos as space permits.

'Basketball Viking Army'

starts Monday at Cd'A High

COEUR d'ALENE - New Coeur d'Alene High boys basketball coach Kurt Lundblad announces the start of "Basketball Viking Army," scheduled to begin Monday and run from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday at Coeur d'Alene High.

The "Army" is for boys entering grades 9-12 this fall.

* Also, a camp for incoming freshmen at Coeur d'Alene High is scheduled for July 8-10 from 6 to 8 p.m. each day. Cost is $20, which includes a T-shirt.

Information: Kurt Lundblad, 704-1822