Goodson leaving Gonzaga

to pursue football career

SPOKANE - Gonzaga University men's basketball guard Demetri Goodson has requested his release to pursue a collegiate football career.

Goodson informed Gonzaga coach Mark Few of his intentions on Tuesday.

This season, he was one of only two players to start all 35 games, averaging 5.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game and scored a season-high 20 points and had a career-high six assists on three occasions.

Goodson could have up to two years of football eligibility remaining.

Post Falls High runner

Wimpenny signs with LCSC

LEWISTON - Jacob Wimpenny, a senior at Post Falls High, has signed a letter of intent to run cross country at Lewis-Clark State College next year.

Wimpenny is the second Trojan to sign with the Warriors cross country program, joining Keaton Trom.

Wimpenny was a member of the Trojans' state qualifying team his senior year and was voted as most inspirational by his teammates and has a grade point average of over 3.50.

Lehigh assistant takes

Whitworth hoops job

SPOKANE - Whitworth University named Matt Logie, a former associate head coach at Lehigh University for the past two seasons, to replace Jim Hayford as men's basketball coach.

The eighth leading scorer in Lehigh history, Logie completed his eighth season as an assistant coach and second as the associate head coach in the spring. He is the grandson of Mercer Island High coach Ed Pepple, who won four state titles, two with Logie in 1997 and 1999 and was selected first team all-state as a senior, while leading the Islanders to a 27-3 record and state 3A championship in 1999.

Hayford left the Pirates to take the head coaching position at Eastern Washington.

Clark Fork's Hewitt among

Vandal soccer signees

MOSCOW - Former Clark Fork High standout Bailey Hewitt, who starred in soccer for nearby Sandpoint High, is one of three signings announced by the Idaho women's soccer team.

Hewitt, a 5-foot-9 forward, enrolled at Idaho in the spring and will be eligible to compete for the Vandals as a sophomore in the fall. She comes from Oregon State, where she redshirted in 2009. Because Clark Fork High didn't offer soccer, Hewitt played for Sandpoint High, and as a junior, she earned first-team all Inland Empire League honors and was voted league MVP as a senior in 2008. She scored 33 goals in two seasons and helped the Bulldogs to a pair of state tournaments. She suffered a knee injury late in her senior season in high school.

The Vandals also signed Morgan Sullivan of Pasco, a transfer from Clarke University in Dubuque, Iowa; and Morgan Potter of Seattle.

Idaho went 14-7 last year, finishing third in the Western Athletic Conference.