🚨 Major @LewTrib_Sports staff updates 🚨
🧵 First, I have accepted to take over as the new sports editor. No interim tag this time around. I’m super excited to lead this sports staff and continue our very, very long tradition of great sports coverage in the Inland Northwest 1/4.
Without the Seattle soccer community "Seattle Stadium" would not exist. This week has been a phonemenal global showcase of precisely why and how tremendous a sports city the Emereld City truly is 🇺🇸⚽️
Congrats on the retirement, Bill! Bill Stevens was always helpful, kind, prompt and a pleasure to work with. Definitely a treasure for the Cougs' Athletic department and will be greatly missed. But a very deserved retirement!
Thank you Bill Stevens for 21 years of dedication to Washington State Athletics and the Cougar family. The impact you’ve made will always be part of Cougar Athletics. Wishing you and your family all the best in retirement and we’ll see you around cheering on the Cougs!
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#GoCougs | #MadeOfCrimson
And Washington State is scoreless in the third against Oregon in the Eugene Regional of the NCAA Tournament. Cougs shocked Oregon State yesterday and are looking to keep it rolling.
BIG baseball day today.
Taylor and Tennessee Wesleyan are underway in the NAIA World Series title game after TWU survived the longest nine-inning game in Series last night against William Carey. Game started at close to 10 p.m. because of weather delays and ended after 2 a.m.
Washington State lefty Nick Lewis tossed a complete game, Dustin Robinson pushed the winning run across home plate and the Cougars shocked the No. 8 Oregon State Beavers 3-2 at the Eugene Regional.
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Friday's sports cover: Top-seeded @taylorbaseball is into the title game of the NAIA World Series; @TWU_Baseball keeps up its grind through through the losers' bracket; and 10th-seeded William Carey suffers its first lost of the tournament.
#NAIABall@APSE_sportmedia
Congrats to the Cougs. I covered a lot of WSU seasons over the years where it felt like the team was close but could never quite get over the hump. Great for the fans who would always come out to Bailey-Brayton in snowy or rainy February days waiting for a season like this.
The Washington State Cougars are champs of the Mountain West Conference and headed to the NCAA Regionals for the first time since 2010.
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Sunday's sports cover: Lewis-Clark State pulls a 180 and blasts Georgia Gwinnett to stay alive in the #NAIA World Series.
Day 2 scores:
Southeastern 14, Johnson 13
Taylor 10, Doane 8
Lewis-Clark State 12, Georgia Gwinnett 1
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Saturday's cover: It was upset city on Day 1 of the #NAIA World Series. All four games were won by the lower seeds:
No.7 MACU 7, No.4 Doane 3
No.10 William Carey 7, No.1 Taylor 4
No.9 IU Southeast 14, No.2 Georgia Gwinnett 13
No.8 Tennessee Wesleyan 12, No.3 Lewis-Clark State 4
The NAIA World Series has arrived in Lewiston, and with it our annual Series preview tab. Pick up a copy if you're in town for the games. One of the coolest things we do every year. Props to all the freelance guys who help make it happen.
Thursday's sports cover: The Lewis-Clark State Warriors are back in the NAIA World Series after walking off in the 10th inning against Hope International.
Walk off Warriors.
Cade Westerlund smacks an RBI single down the left field line to score Bryce Johnson.
FINAL: Lewis-Clark State 3, Hope International 2
LC State is back in the World Series.
Sunday's sports cover: Cinderella runs, redemption victories and more from the 5A IEL district tennis tourney; our @Sam_C_Taylor previews #LCState baseball's NAIA Opening Round; and the story of the record-setting career of @WSUCougars swimmer Emily Lundgren. @APSE_sportmedia
Friday's sports cover: With a whopping 18 state titles between them, former Colfax and Colton girls hoops coaches Corey Baerlocher and Clark Vining are set to be inducted into the Washington State Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame this weekend. @APSE_sportmedia
FINAL: Lewis-Clark State 12, British Columbia 2.
The Warriors are Cascade Conference Tournament champions.
NAIA Opening Round up next starting May 11 back in Lewiston.
Idaho now is known for producing potatoes and first round tight ends. The first tight ends to go in the past two drafts - Kenyon Saddiq this year, Colston Loveland last year - both are from Idaho.
Lapwai High School alum Kase Wynott, Idaho's prep basketball scoring king, is taking his talents back to the Gem State.
Wynott, who was a part of WSU's program for the past two seasons, announced his commitment to the Idaho Vandals.
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