NORTHWEST NOTES April 2, 2016

| April 2, 2016 9:15 PM

NIC splits with

Wenatchee in softball

WENATCHEE, Wash. — Wenatchee Valley won the first game 8-6, and North Idaho College won the second 13-8 in Northwest Athletic Conference softball Friday.

No other information was available.

NIC plays a doubleheader today at Yakima Valley, beginning at 1 p.m.

Ex-WSU coach named

WCL president

Donnie Marbut, former head baseball coach at Washington State, is the fifth president of the West Coast League, a summer collegiate baseball league.

Following his time at WSU, Marbut has worked with the Pac-12 Networks and in scouting with the Houston Astros.

Marbut first entered the coaching ranks at Capital High in Olympia, Wash., in 1998, where he led his team to the 3A state championship. He then moved to the college ranks as an assistant at Bellevue Community College before moving on to skipper his alma mater — Edmonds CC — for four seasons where he compiled a 152-38 record and was also the school’s athletic director.

He was hired as assistant coach at Washington State in 2004. The following year, he became the youngest head coach in the then-Pac-10 at 29 years old. He went on to coach at WSU for 11 years where he posted a 314-304 record, reached two NCAA regionals.