Timberlake vaults into IML lead

BASEBALL

Tornado death toll worst since 1932

Emergency agencies maxed out across South

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded Friday as they tried to emerge from the nation's deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression.

Lakeside girls tie for first at meet

SILVERTON - The Wallace boys won their meet outright, while the Wallace and Lakeside girls tied for the team title at a five-team meet hosted by Wallace at the Sather Field Athletic Complex on Tuesday.

Cardinals sweep 14th-ranked CSI Trojans split with Lewiston

Prep baseball April 24, 2011

TWIN FALLS - Freshman Desirae Tinoco went a combined 7 for 9 at the plate for the North Idaho College Cardinals in an 8-6, 15-11 Scenic West Athletic Conference softball doubleheader sweep of the 14th-ranked College of Southern Idaho Golden Eagles on Saturday at Golden Eagle Field.

Vikings shine at Rasmussen

Prep track and field April 24, 2011

COEUR d'ALENE - Coeur d'Alene senior Kinsey Gomez, who won the 1,600 meters, 3,200 and was on the winning sprint medley team, was named girls track athlete of the meet, and David Norris, who won the 800 and 1,600, was named boys co-track athlete of the meet, leading their Viking squads to wins in the Rasmussen Invitational on Saturday at Coeur d'Alene High.

Hawks' Metcalf nearly perfect

Prep softball April 24, 2011

RATHDRUM - Ashley Metcalf struck out 10 in the first game and was one strike away from a perfect game in the second as the Hawks swept the Bears 2-0 and 11-0 in a 4A Inland Empire League doubleheader Saturday at Stub Meyer Park.

Coeur d'Alene overpowers Lake City

LACROSSE

Tigers, Spartans move, split

PRIEST RIVER - Tyler Shaffer allowed two hits for the Timberlake Tigers in the first game of an Intermountain League doubleheader split with the Priest River Spartans on Saturday.

Lambert lifts Viks past Trojans

COEUR d'ALENE - Matt Lambert went 4 for 4 with four RBIs and three stolen bases as the Coeur d'Alene Vikings downed the Post Falls Trojans 13-5 in 5A Inland Empire League baseball Tuesday at Ted Page Field.

Lake City wins, but Lakeland ends run of shutouts

RATHDRUM - The visiting Lake City Timberwolves allowed their first runs of the season, but still improved to 7-0 with a 7-2 win over the Lakeland Hawks on Tuesday.

Metcalf, Herndon lift Post Falls

POST FALLS - Darnell Metcalf drove in four runs in the first game, and Tyson Herndon drove in the go-ahead run and picked up the win on the mound in the nightcap, as Post Falls swept Sandpoint 9-4 and 5-4 in a nonleague doubleheader Saturday.

Lakeland sweeps at Moscow

MOSCOW - Sophomore Lauren Schwalbach hit a two-run single in the sixth inning of the first game to give the Lakeland Hawks the lead for good as they defeated the Moscow Bears 6-4 and 9-7 in the 4A Inland Empire League opener for both schools on Saturday at Ghormley Field.

BF Ranger District seeks volunteer campground hosts

The Bonners Ferry Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests is looking for volunteer campground hosts at the historic Snyder Guard Station near the Moyie River.

Timberlake wins twice at tourney

Prep Roundup March 27, 2011

• SOFTBALL

Lewiston, Lakeland, Bonners Ferry win

RATHDRUM — On Saturday, 5A wrestling powers Lewiston and Coeur d’Alene waged a battle for the 5A Region 1 championship at Lakeland High School.

Vikings knock off No. 1 Trojans

BOYS BASKETBALL

Badgers run away with own tourney

BONNERS FERRY - Josh Tucker (103 pounds), Blaine Invernon (119), Benny Watt (140), Trevor Hampton (145), Carmen Krickbaum (189) and David Willems (215) won titles for Bonners Ferry as the Badgers ran away with the team title at the Bonners Ferry Invitational on Saturday.

Ego dominates motivation

Two years and five months after I left my job with the Post Falls Urban Renewal Agency, I have graduated from law school. Between long, tedious sessions of bar study, I have had a little time to reflect on the experience. For example, the toll that going back to school has taken on my pride, for better or worse, is prevalent in my thoughts. At times, I feel as though I have taken a giant step backward. I have taken what was once a promising career and gambled it for further education. They say that graduate school is for the risk averse; I feel as though I have just taken a great risk, with no idea of how it will pay off... but very aware that there is a lot of paying off to do. I have joined a profession loathed by many as dishonest, and promoted from within as noble. I can definitively call it neither.

Vikings win own tourney in a romp

COEUR d'ALENE - Putting 11 wrestlers into the finals and producing three champions, the host Coeur d'Alene Vikings dominated the inagural Coeur d'Alene Invitational wrestling tournament Saturday with 209.5 points, 89 more than second-place Kellogg in the 13-team event.

A real barn burner

Rathdrum woman snaps first place photograph

Char Burrill saw one old barn fall victim to age and come tumbling down.