Northwest Notes Aug. 18, 2021
Prep volleyball jamboree
today at Coeur d'Alene High
Seven area high schools are scheduled to participate in a volleyball jamboree today at Coeur d'Alene High.
The jamboree begins at 5 p.m., with play slated for two courts at Viking Court (varsity teams) and Jordan Court (JV teams).
Coeur d'Alene, Lake City, Post Falls, Lakeland, St. Maries, Kellogg and Moscow are scheduled to attend.
Admission is $3 for the jamboree, a fundraiser for Idaho's Youth Endowment for Activities, which helps offset travel costs for teams to state tournaments.
Robillard captures Coeur d'Alene Crossing
COEUR d'ALENE — Logan Robillard, a rising senior at Lake City High, won the 2.4-mile race at the Coeur d'Alene Crossing swim event on Sunday.
Robillard, who won the recent Long Bridge Swim in Sandpoint, finished in 46 minutes, 53 seconds. Jeremy Slinn was second in 50:55, Tristan Whiting third in 51:01, Ben Linford fourth in 52:45 and Courtney Chase fifth in 53:21.
A total of 176 people completed the 2.4-mile swim.
In the 1.2-mile race, Clara Strow won in 21:05. Luke Fraga was second in 21:21, and Sylvia Strow was third in 22:29.
A total of 43 people completed the 1.2-mile race.
Both races, on Lake Coeur d'Alene, finished at the Hagadone Event Center.
Vikings' Jaworski advances to match play at Junior Boys' Amateur
PULLMAN, Wash. — Cole Jaworski, a rising senior at Coeur d'Alene High, made the cut for the match play portion of the 66th Pacific Northwest Golf Association Junior Boys’ Amateur on Tuesday at Palouse Ridge.
Jaworski shot 72-78—150, 6 over par, and tied for 30th after 36 holes of stroke play. The top 32 boys advance to match play beginning today.
Daniel Kim of Mukilteo, Wash., was medalist, shooting 64-71—135, 9 under par. Jaworski will face Kim in an 18-hole Round of 32 match today. Kim advanced to final qualifying for the 2021 U.S. Open.
Grove in the mix
at Northwest Open
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — North Idaho College men's and women's golf coach Russell Grove is tied for sixth after two rounds of the 54-hole Northwest Open Invitational on Tuesday at Wine Valley Golf Club.
Grove shot 65-74—139, 5 under par.
Derek Berg of the Pacific Northwest Golf Academy, who won the event in 2019 as a professional and also won in 2005 and ’06 as an amateur, is tied for the lead with Washington State golfer Max Sekulic.
Both are 13 under par after 36 holes.
Berg shot 63-68, Sekulic 66-65.
The playing conditions changed dramatically between Monday’s hot temperatures of 95 degrees and no wind to mid-70s and 30 mph winds on Tuesday.
The event concludes today.
Kalispell getting minor league baseball team
KALISPELL — Kalispell is getting a Pioneer League baseball team, with plans to begin play at a new stadium in town in 2022, the Daily Inter Lake reported.
The Pioneer League, an MLB partner league which includes teams in Missoula, Idaho Falls and Boise, currently has eight teams. Another team in Colorado is expected to join in 2022, and Kalispell would make it 10 teams.
Plans are in place to build a 2,500-seat stadium north of Kalispell.
Teams in MLB partner leagues are not affiliated with major league teams, though many of the players are former MLB draft picks who were released, or undrafted players.
Pease, who coached Nosworthy at Utah, dies at 77
Former Utah football player and coach John Pease, who also spent two decades as an assistant coach in the NFL, Monday at age 77.
Pease, who made his home in Salt Lake City in recent years, last coached in 2015, when he served as Utah's defensive coordinator and defensive line coach for one season after Kyle Whittingham brought him out of retirement. Whittingham had previously brought Pease back into coaching, out of retirement, to serve as assistant head coach and worked with the Utes' defensive line from 2009-10.
Pease initially stepped away from coaching in 2005 after two decades as an NFL assistant (1986-2005), preceded by 15 years as a college assistant (1968-82). Primarily a defensive line coach, Pease was the defensive coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2001-02. He spent his final two seasons in the professional ranks coaching the defensive line with the New Orleans Saints in 2004-05. Pease coached in the NFL playoffs eight times, including the 1996 and 1999 AFC Championship games with the Jaguars.
Pease was a graduate assistant at Utah when Dale Nosworthy, co-owner of Nosworthy's Hall of Fame in Coeur d'Alene, played wide receiver for the Utes in the late 1960s.
“He was tough; a tough, tough, tough guy,” Pease recalled of Nosworthy, in an interview with The Press in 2016, when Pease was in town for Nosworthy's benefit golf tournament at The Coeur d'Alene Resort. “Physical. We laughed, Dale might have been an awesome guard, because he had a mean streak, (but) legal. If he had a chance to blow you up on a play, he’d blow you up. Very aggressive, smart … helluva player. He (Utah head coach Jim Hanifan, another longtime Nosworthy friend and frequent visitor to Cd'A) kept trying to steal him as a guard.”
WHL adapts mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy
CALGARY, Alberta — The Western Hockey League announced it has adopted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.
Effective immediately, all WHL roster players, hockey operations staff and other team and WHL office personnel along with officials must be fully vaccinated with a Health Canada-approved COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days prior to the start of the 2021-22 WHL regular season. The WHL regular season opens Friday, Oct. 1.
The Spokane Chiefs open at home Oct. 2 vs. Tri-City.
In addition to players, the mandatory vaccination policy will apply to general managers, coaches, head scouts or director of player personnel, trainers, equipment managers, on-ice and off-ice consultants, on-ice officials and ice level off-ice officials (penalty box attendants; timekeepers and scorekeepers) and any other individuals who interact directly and on a regular basis with players.
The WHL has also strongly recommended to each of its member clubs that players reside in billet households in which all eligible individuals are fully vaccinated.