Northwest Notes Jan. 12, 2021

Lake City product Muehlhausen earns Cascade Conference honors

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Lewis-Clark State College sophomore Sara Muehlhausen was named Cascade Conference women's basketball Player of the Week.

Muehlhausen, a 6-foot-3 post from Lake City High, posted a career-high 14 points in a 75-39 win over the College of Idaho to go with six rebounds, a block and a steal. The Hayden native shot 5 for 8 from the field and was 4 for 5 from the free-throw line.

Circling Raven, Coeur d'Alene Resort Course among top 200 resort courses

Circling Raven Golf Club and The Coeur d'Alene Resort Golf Course were each included in the annual Top 200 Resort Courses ratings published last week in Golfweek's Best Ultimate Guide.

Circling Raven came in at No. 139 in the ratings, and the Cd'A Resort Course was at No. 182.

To come up with its list, hundreds of Golfweek course raters evaluate courses nationwide and score them based on 10 criteria, including routing, memorability of holes, greens and surrounds, conditioning and ecology, and tree and landscape management.

Zags again sweep WCC weekly hoops honors

SAN MATEO, Calif. — The West Coast Conference has named Gonzaga's Joel Ayayi and Jalen Suggs the men's basketball Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week.

Ayayi earned the honor for the second straight week, while Suggs was selected Freshman of the Week for the fourth time. In the seven recognitions of the WCC Player of the Week so far this season, six Zags have received the honor, including five different GU players. The exception came on Dec. 14, a week when GU did not play a game. A Bulldog player has received the freshman of the week honor five of the seven weeks.

Ayayi, a junior, recorded the first triple-double in program history in Saturday’s win at Portland. He scored all 12 of his points in the first half, grabbed 13 rebounds and dished out a career-high 14 assists.

Suggs scored 27 points on 9-of-17 shooting from the field, had eight assists, made seven steals and grabbed seven rebounds in a pair of West Coast Conference wins for the top-ranked Zags. Against BYU, he scored 16 points with five assists, five rebounds and four steals. At Portland, the freshman had 11 points, three assists and three steals.

Suggs currently leads the WCC in steals (2.60), which is 16th in the nation. He is third in the league in assists (5.10), fifth in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.96), and sixth in field goal percentage (53.7).

Zags' Jenn Wirth named WCC Player of the Week

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Gonzaga senior forward Jenn Wirth was named the West Coast Conference women's basketball Player of the week.

Wirth led No. 21 Gonzaga in a 75-43 romp of Portland on Saturday to give the Zags sole possession of first place in West Coast Conference. Wirth finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season — and fourth double-double of WCC play — in GU’s only game of the week.

Wirth is averaging a double-double in conference play at 16.8 points and 11.0 rebounds per game.