Northwest Notes

Grove finishes ninth

at Washington Open

KENT, Wash. - Avondale Golf Club assistant pro Russell Grove finished ninth at the 54-hole Washington Open Invitational golf tournament, which concluded Wednesday at the Meridian Valley Country Club.

Grove, who previously played at Coeur d'Alene High and the University of Idaho, shot 71-70-74-215, seven strokes behind the winner. Chris Griffin of the Tacoma Golf and Country Club shot 67-73-68-208 to win by two strokes over amateur Erik Hanson, the former Seattle Mariners pitcher.

Seidl, Chadwick sign with

North Idaho College volleyball

Two players from Washington and Montana have signed with the North Idaho College volleyball team.

Madalyn Seidl, a 5-foot-9 setter from Castle Rock, Wash., and Kennedy Chadwick, a 5-4 libero from Corvallis, Mont., has both signed with the team.

Seidl will join Allison Meehan of Post Falls High as the team's duo of setters. Seidl was a four-year starter and captain at Castle Rock, where she was the team's Most Valuable Player the last three seasons and led her team to top-four finishes at the state tournament in each of her four years and captured the state championship as a senior. She was an all-state first-team selection in basketball as a senior, averaging 18 rebounds and 14 points a game while finishing second at state.

Chadwick was on the honor roll four times at Hamilton High, where she was selected to the Montana all-state first team and was selected the all-state libero in 2012 and received all-state academic honors in 2012 and 2013. She is a member of the Montana Volleyball Academy club team, which will attend the Junior Olympics this summer in Dallas.

Lewis-Clark State women's

basketball signs fifth recruit

LEWISTON - The Lewis-Clark State College women's basketball team has closed the book on its 2013 recruiting class with the signing of 6-foot-3 forward Jess Samorodova from Western Nebraska Community College.

Samorodova, originally from Moscow, Russia, but lived in Chicago from the age of 15, is the fifth and final recruit signed by the Warrors, joining Caelyn Orlandi (Coeur d'Alene), Brooke Litalien (Post Falls), Natahnee Spencer (Lapwai) and Megan Risinger (Tigard, Ore.).

She will have three years of eligibility remaining and will start as a sophomore after playing 13 games at Western Nebraska, averaging 16.2 points and 6.8 rebounds per game and also played for the Russian national team at the FIBA Europe under-20 European Championships in 2011.