Tiger boys beat Quincy, Othello girls win own invite
QUINCY - Ephrata's Tigers and the host Quincy Jacks met on the
links Thursday in a non-league match.
QUINCY - Ephrata's Tigers and the host Quincy Jacks met on the links Thursday in a non-league match.
Led by Medalist, Andrew Whalen, Ephrata rolled to a 16-stroke (156-172) victory.
Whalen won the dual with a low score 36, while teammates Cody Cummings (38), Mattias Dilling (40), and Bryan Heer (42), were the other scoring Tigers.
Quincy's top golfers were Aaron Greenwalt and Kip Slusher who tied with 42s. Jeremy Guthas and Josh Schwint each scored a 44.
Lady Huskies
claim invite
OTHELLO - Led by 18-hole medalist Delaney Towle's 91, the Othello Lady Huskies' red team took the title of the Othello Invitational on Friday afternoon at the Othello Golf Course.
Othello Red held on for the win, shooting a 307 to just slip past the Ephrata Lady Tigers who ended up with a 314.
Othello also got top scoring from Carly Katelyn Andrews (105) and Kylie Kummer (106).
Ephrata's Kelsey Sage and Megan Criss each finished with scores of 96 and Ann Slininger shot a 132.
Allie Duff's round of 53 was good enough to earn the Lady Tiger the nine-hole medalist honor.
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By Tim Booth
AP Sports Writer
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Nnemkadi Ogwumike knows nothing but going to the Final Four since arriving at Stanford. Little sister Chiney is coming along for the ride this time.
Nnemkadi Ogwumike dominated the inside with 23 points and 11 rebounds, sister Chiney chipped in with 18 points and 15 boards, and Stanford is headed back to its fourth straight Final Four after the top-seeded Cardinal ended the surprising run of Gonzaga 83-60 in the Spokane Regional final on Monday night.
The size and strength of Stanford was simply too much for the Bulldogs, and their more than 11,000 hometown fans, to overcome on this night. Kayla Pedersen and Jeanette Pohlen will close out their college careers on The Farm a perfect 4 for 4 at reaching the Final Four, a streak that started by winning the Spokane Regional in 2008 when they were freshman.
Stanford (33-2) won its 27th straight to match the longest streak in school history and will face the Baylor-Texas A&M winner in the national semifinals on Sunday night.
Courtney Vandersloot did her best to carry Gonzaga (31-5) for a half before the Bulldogs wore down in the final 20 minutes under a bevy of missed shots and a befuddling Stanford zone defense. Vandersloot, who came in averaging 30.7 points and 10.3 assists in the tournament, finished with 25 points and nine assists, including 18 straight Gonzaga points during a 9-minute stretch of the first half.
But Stanford managed to harass Vandersloot in the second half and limited her to just four points. Her stellar college career ended when she checked out with 1:14 left to a standing ovation and a wave to the crowd after leading Gonzaga to upsets of Iowa, UCLA and Louisville to reach the first Elite Eight in school history.
Gonzaga was trying to become the first team not named Stanford from West of the Rockies to reach the Final Four since Long Beach State in 1988.
Instead, it's Stanford going to the Final Four for the 10th time.
Pohlen broke out of her recent shooting slump by hitting five 3-pointers and finished with 17 points. Lindy La Rocque, averaging less than four points on the season, scored 11, including pair of key 3-pointers in the first half when the Ogwumikes were getting plenty of help from their teammates.
Then the sisters took it upon themselves at the start of the second half to make sure there wouldn't be one more Gonzaga upset. They scored 14 of Stanford's first 16 points to start the half, with Nnemkadi twice ripping away rebounds on Chiney's misses. They combined for 11 offensive rebounds and 26 rebounds total - more than Gonzaga's total of 25. Stanford outrebounded Gonzaga by 24.
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Moses Lake's Courtney Kunjara split her two singles matches this weekend for the Chiefs.