NORTHWEST NOTES: Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Winter sports special section

scheduled for Thursday

The Press’ annual winter sports section, scheduled for insertion for Thursday’s paper, will have previews for area high school boys and girls basketball teams, as well as North Idaho College men’s and women’s basketball and wrestling teams.

On the cover ... well, we don’t want to spoil it.

Area soccer players

earn all-state honors

Lake City forward Jack Barrett, Coeur d’Alene midfielder Lane Thompson, Lake City forward Camryn Wendlandt and Lake City defender Larissa Bailey were named to the Idaho High School Soccer Coaches Association all-state first team for big schools, the association recently announced.

Lake City forward Havana Johnson was an honorable mention to the first team.

Lakeland forward Juho Reiman, Lakeland midfielder Ola Molberg and Lakeland defender Daniel McDevitt were named to the small school first team. Lake City forward Garrett Harrison, Lake City midfielder Travis Swallow and Lake City goalkeeper Jared Stone (big school), as well as Coeur d’Alene Charter goalkeeper Jackie Jensen (small school) were named to the second team. Lakeland midfielder Cody Callahan was named to the small school second team.

NIC men’s basketball

ranked 17th in new poll

The North Idaho College men’s basketball team cracked the NJCAA Top 25 poll for the first time on Tuesday, being voted 17th in this week’s poll, released on Tuesday.

NIC (7-0) received votes in the preseason poll released on Oct. 27. This was the second poll of the year.

NIC will host the sixth annual Bigfoot-Cardinal Classic with games at both Rolly Williams Court and Spokane Falls Community College.

Teams include: Big Bend, Green River, Whatcom, Centralia, Community Colleges of Spokane, Yakima Valley, Everett and NIC.

The championship game is scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m. at NIC.

BIGFOOT/CARDINAL CLASSIC

Friday

Game 1 — Big Bend vs. Green River at North Idaho College, 5:30 p.m.

Game 2 — Whatcom at North Idaho, 7:30.

Game 3 — Yakima vs. Everett at Spokane Community College, 5:30

Game 4 — Centralia at Spokane at Spokane CC, 7:30

Saturday

Game 5 — Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 at North Idaho College, 5:30 p.m.

Game 6 ­— Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4 at Spokane Community College, 5:30

Game 7 — Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 at North Idaho College, 7:30

Game 8 — Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4 at Spokane Community College, 7:30

Sunday

at North Idaho College

Game 9 — Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6, 11 a.m.

Game 10 — Loser Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8, 1 p.m.

Game 11 — Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, 3 (championship game)

NIC Booster Club to host

Winter CARDnival and auction

The North Idaho College Booster Club Winter CARDnival and auction will be Wednesday, Dec. 9 at the Best Western Plus Coeur d’Alene Inn, located at 506 W. Appleway Avenue.

The event begins at 5 p.m. with a social hour, games and the beginning of the silent auction, which includes Hawaii and Las Vegas vacation packages, resort golf outings, Gonzaga basketball tickets, ski packages, custom jewelry/art, special dinner packages, hoiday gifts and more. Select “key” items provide a chance to win a $1,000 in gold coins. Dinner starts at 6:30 and the live auction begins at 7.

Tickets are $30 per person or $250 for a table of eight and can be purchased by calling the NIC athletics office at 769-3348.

Longtime ref, Wallace-born Eastern semi-truck driver dies

Dennis (Denny) Peterson, the driver of the widely-popular “IncREDible” semi-truck to Eastern Washingto road football games, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Spokane on Thanksgiving afternoon. Peterson, who was born in Wallace, was 77.

Peterson, whose son Mike Peterson played one season of football for the Eagles in 1980, spent 33 years officiating basketball and football in the Big Sky Conference, and another 13 as an officiating observer at EWU football games. The North Central High (Spokane) graduate was inducted into the Big Sky Conference Officials Hall of Fame.

Peterson became the driver of the EWU equipment truck in 2014, when his employer, Systems Transport, provided a painted trailer to EWU athletics to utilize for road games.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday at Berean Bible Church, located at 10910 E. Boone Ave. in Spokane Valley.