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Kyler Little

Washington State track and field

Little, a senior from Lake City High in Coeur d’Alene, was named to the 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-District 8 team on Tuesday, announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Little was a first-team selection with a 4.0 grade point average, majoring in computer science and mathmatics. Little competed in a handful of indoor meets, including the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championships, running in the 3,000-meter event where he posted a personal record of 8 minutes, 16.40 seconds. He went on to see tremendous success throughout the outdoor season in the 3,000 steeplechase, recording a lifetime best in the event at the Oregon State High Performance Meet at 8:56.41. Little was sixth in the 3,000 steeplechase at the Pac-12 Championships, qualifying for the NCAA West Region Preliminary round, where he finished with a time of 8:59.71.

Jake Pfennigs

Oregon State baseball

Pfennigs, a 6-foot-7, 195 pound freshman pitcher from Post Falls High, has appeared in 17 games this season, starting three, for the Beavers, who open the NCAA Tournament at home in the Corvallis Regional against Cincinnati on Friday at 7 p.m. on ESPNU. Pfennigs is 1-1 on the season with one save, and has a 4.55 earned run average with 22 strikeouts in 31 2/3 innings pitched.

Kris Jackson

Salem Red Sox

Jackson, a Lakeland High product who went on to play at Corban College in Salem, Ore., has appeared in four games between Greenville, a Class-A full season and the Salem Red Sox, a Class-A Advanced affiliate of the Boston Red Sox this season. Jackson appeared in nine games for Greenville, allowing two earned runs and six hits. He has appeared once for Salem since being called-up on Sunday, allowing two hits in relief.

Wyatt Setian

Montana State-Billings baseball

Setian, a sophomore shortstop from Post Falls High, was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings All-West Region second team. Setian batted .327 with 19 doubles, 12 home runs and 48 rus batted in. Setian started all 53 games — the most in school history — while scoring 45 runs, with 71 hits and 130 total bases. He also stole four bases, with a .379 on-base percentage and slugging .599.

Nick Nyquist

Gonzaga baseball

Nyquist, a redshirt senior first baseman from Coeur d’Alene High, finished the season with a .302 batting average, with 10 home runs and 51 runs batted in. Nyquist started in 45 of 52 games for Gonzaga (31-24), scoring 35 runs and hitting 12 doubles.