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Ex-Timberwolf Bare
scores twice for Shadow women
Former Lake City High standout Meaghan Bare scored a pair of goals as the Spokane Shadow women routed Wenatchee 8-1 in Northwest Premiere League soccer play at the Apple Bowl in Wenatchee.
Bare, who will be a junior at Idaho State this fall, scored the game’s first two goals, in the 11th and 26th minute.
The league-leading Shadow (5-0-0, 15 points) play host to the Seattle Stars on Saturday.
Washington State schedules
football series with Houston
Washington State and Houston have agreed to a home-and-home football series beginning in 2019, WSU athletic director Bill Moos announced.
The two-game series is set to begin Sept. 14, 2019 in Houston, with the return game Sept. 12, 2020 in Martin Stadium.
This will be the first meeting between the teams since the 1988 Aloha Bowl, when Washington State came away with a 24-22 victory.
Washington State leads the all-time series, 2-1, with WSU capturing a 32-18 win in 1959 and Houston winning 21-7 in 1966. Both of those games were in Houston.
Bayley tees it up with PGA Tour
pros at U.S. Open qualifier
Derek Bayley of Rathdrum wound up in a U.S. Open sectional qualifier after all.
Bayley, the former Lakeland High standout who recently finished his junior season at Washington State, was an alternate following a local qualifier in Boise. But there were 10 other sectional sites around the country that needed to fill their fields with alternates as well. He got a call at noon Saturday asking if he wanted an open spot in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday with a 7:50 a.m. tee time.
Of course, the Columbus site is where the PGA Tour pros go to qualify, as 14 spots in next week’s U.S. Open are up for grabs.
Bayley played one round of the 36-hole qualifier with PGA Tour member Michael Kim, and shot 73-75—148 and tied for 78th. It took a 136 to make it into a playoff for the final three spots.
Just a few groups ahead of him were Tour pros Stewart Cink, Vijay Singh and Davis Love III.
EWU offensive coordinator resigns
to be closer to family in Hawaii
Eastern Washington University offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Fred Salanoa submitted his resignation this week and will return to Hawaii to be near his family, Eastern first-year head coach Aaron Best announced Wednesday.
The coordinator duties for the former record-breaking Eastern quarterback will be assumed on an interim basis by Bodie Reeder, who was serving under Best and Salanoa as passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Best will determine at a later date how to handle coaching of EWU tight ends.
Salanoa, who was on Best’s staff since March 3, expressed a desire to return to Hawaii to be near his family, including one daughter who is entering her senior year in high school. Married while a student at Eastern, Salanoa and his wife Malevine have seven daughters (Xeryah, 16; Xevani, 12; Xehlia, 10; Xeyana, 9; Xenesa, 5; Xenyah, 3; Xenyla, 3). The collection of children are known as the “X-Tribe.”
A native Hawaiian who transferred to Eastern from Snow Junior College in Utah, Salanoa was an injury redshirt at EWU in 1999 before starting in the 2000 and 2001 seasons. He is a 2002 graduate of EWU.