NORTHWEST NOTES: Friday, April 24, 2015
Muhlberger takes over
operations for The Academy
Patrick Muhlberger has been hired as the Director of Coaching/Operations for The Academy Soccer Club.
Muhlberger, from Stuttgart, Germany, moved to England in 1992 and played for various youth teams, including the professional club Rushden & Diamonds and captained both his junior high and high school teams during his school years.
In 2007, Muhlberger moved from England to Post Falls. In January of 2008, he enrolled at Whitworth to study athletic training and made the Pirate team, but opted to move to Salt Lake City before the start of the season to take a coaching position with the Utah Rush.
Big Sky Conference
football TV schedule announced
DIRECTV Sports Networks and the Big Sky Conference announced its telecast schedule for the upcoming 2015 football season with a total of 10 games - including three with Eastern Washington - to be televised on Root Sports.
It is the fourth year of the partnership between the network and conference.
Eastern's road game at Montana (Nov. 14), as well as home games against Montana State (Sept. 19 in a nonconference game) and Weber State (Oct. 31) will be shown.
Game times will be announced later.
BIG SKY FOOTBALL TELEVISION SCHEDULE
Games on Root Sports
September
19 - Montana State at Eastern Washington. 26 - Northern Arizona at Montana.
October
3 - Montana at UC Davis. 10 - Sacramento State at Montana State. 17 - Montana State at Portland State. 24 - North Dakota at Montana. 31 - Weber State at Eastern Washington.
November
7 - Southern Utah at Montana State. 14 - Eastern Washington at Montana. 21 - Montana at Montana State.
Bomar ties for fourth at area
Senior Players' Championship
WALLA WALLA - Billy Bomar of Prairie Falls Golf Club in Post Falls tied for fourth at the Pacific Northwest Senior Players' Championship this week at Wine Valley Golf Club.
Bomar shot 69-70-139, 5 under par.
Mark Gardner, head pro at the Creek at Qualchan in Spokane, shot a 64-71-135 to win by two strokes.
Idaho women's coach Newlee adds another Aussie
MOSCOW - The Australian recruiting-pipeline continues for Jon Newlee and the Idaho women's basketball team with the addition of Brigitte O'Neill, a 6-foot-2 post player out of Melbourne, Australia.
"Brigitte is a long post player and an excellent 3-point shooter, who also has the ability to take people off the bounce," Newlee said. "She is going to help us defensively with her length and is extremely fast for a post player. She is an excellent fit for our system here at Idaho."
She will be the fourth player from Australia, joining Tayla Corrigan, former North Idaho College standout Renae Mokrzycki and Geraldine McCorkell.
O'Neill rounds out the 2015-16 recruiting class for Idaho. She joins Taylor Pierce (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon High), Mikayla Ferenz (Walla Walla) and Sue Winger (Mead High, Spokane), who signed back in November.