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Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 7 years, 10 months AGO
Soggy spring weather wipes out prep openers
The local high school sports season was scheduled to begin Thursday.
Yeah, right.
A combination of snow already on the ground, as well as rain, has wiped out a handful of openers in the next few days.
Coeur d’Alene’s baseball game at Sandpoint on Thursday was postponed, as was Coeur d’Alene’s softball game at Sandpoint today.
Timberlake’s baseball and softball games at Orofino today and Saturday were rained out.
Lakeland’s softball game at Lewiston was also rained out.
St. Maries’ home baseball doubleheader with Medical Lake on Saturday has also been postponed.
No makeup dates have been set.
Madison’s trip up north from eastern Idaho to play Lake City in a baseball doubleheader Saturday in Lewiston was canceled due to weather.
Cameron Bushey named Shadow
men’s First Team head coach
The Spokane SC Shadow announced the club has appointed Cameron Bushey as the new head coach of the Shadow men’s First Team as it heads into its debut season in the National Premier Soccer League.
Bushey takes over for Chad Brown, who stepped down after guiding the side to a pair of championships and a third-place finish in three years.
Bushey’s father, Sean, served in the same role for the Shadow from 1997-99, leading the team to the PDL Final in 1999. Like his father, Cameron Bushey will serve as the second head coach for the new era of the Shadow men’s team.
Women’s lacrosse to become
Whitworth’s 21st varsity sport
SPOKANE — Women’s lacrosse will become Whitworth University’s 21st varsity sport and will begin playing games in the spring of 2019.
Whitworth will become the seventh Northwest Conference school to sponsor women’s lacrosse. George Fox, Linfield, Pacific (Ore.), Puget Sound and Whitman already sponsor women’s lacrosse as a varsity sport. Willamette will begin playing games in the spring of 2018.
Whitworth will hire a coach later this spring to recruit student-athletes and develop the program throughout the 2017-18 academic year. The first official game will take place in February of 2019.