Host and No.1 seed Western Washington University will play arch-rival and No.8 seed Central Washington in the final game of Friday's opening round at the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Tournament being held on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium. The pairings were announced Tuesday morning.
The Vikings, 25-5 overall, are 13-1 at home this season. Central is 16-10. The contest is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.
Riding a four-game winning streak, the Western Washington University softball team plays host to arch-rival Central Washington University on Saturday (1 p.m.) and Sunday (12 noon) for a pair of Great Northwest Athletic Conference doubleheaders at Viking Field on the WWU campus. The Vikings are 5-3, all of their games being conference counters, following a four-game sweep at Northwest Nazarene last week. They are second in the conference standings, one game behind Central, which is 6-4 overall and 6-2 in GNAC action. The Wildcats have won five of their last six games following a 1-3 start.
Western Washington University guard Morris Anderson received first-team honors and forward Derrick Webb earned second-team recognition on the 2009-10 Daktronics NCAA Division II West Region All-Star team announced Wednesday.
Western Washington University junior guard Amanda Dunbar missed out on the Daktronics NCAA Division II West Region Women's Basketball Player of the Year honor by one point while earning first-team recognition in an announcement Wednesday. Named to the second team was Western senior center Jessica Summers.
The Western Washington University women's basketball team is the No. 3 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Tournament and faces No.6 Chico State in an opening-round game Friday which tips off at 12:30 p.m. at Seattle Pacific University's Royal Brougham Pavilion. The game will be broadcast on KBAI Radio (930 AM) and can be viewed via video stream at http://www.greatnorthwest.tv. Western, ranked No.18 in this week's USA Today/ESPN/NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll, enters the tournament with a 23-4 record.
Two Western Washington University players, junior guard Amanda Dunbar and senior center Jessica Summers, have been named West Region all-stars and are among 40 finalists for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association/NCAA Division II State Farm Coaches' All-America Team. Dunbar and Summers joined UC San Diego guard Chelsea Carlisle, Cal Poly Pomona guard Reyana Colson and Seattle Pacific guard Daesha Henderson on the five-member squad.
Three Western Washington University players have been named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference All-Star Women's Basketball Team announced today. Selected to the first team were junior guard Amanda Dunbar and senior center Jessica Summers. Senior forward Willow Cabe was a second-team pick. Dunbar and Summers were both second-team choices last year.
Host and No.1 seed Western Washington University will play arch-rival and No.8 seed Central Washington in the final game of Friday's opening round at the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Tournament being held on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium. The pairings were announced Tuesday morning. The Vikings, 25-5 overall, are 13-1 at home this season. Central is 16-10. The contest is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.
Two Western Washington University men's basketball players have been named first-team all-Great Northwest Athletic Conference all-stars. Guard Morris Anderson was a unanimous pick, and was joined on the first team by forward Derrick Webb. Western forward Zach Bruce received honorable mention. Bruce, Anderson and Webb all came to Western as transfers from Highline CC.
Western Washington University shortstop Caitlin Dotlich has been named Great Northwest Athletic Conference Softball Player of the Week for March 1-7. A junior from Sedro-Woolley (graduate of Burlington-Edison High School), Dotlich hit .643 (9-for-14), including a pair of doubles and a triple, in leading the Vikings to a four-game sweep at Northwest Nazarene.
Seven Western Washington University student-athletes, three men and four women, have been named United States Track & Field and Cross County Coaches Association 2010 Cross Country National Scholar-Athletes.
The Western Washington University men's basketball team is the No.1 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Tournament to be held March 12-13 and 15 on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium. The Vikings, 25-5 overall, placed second in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference standings at 12-4. Although the eight West Region teams are set, their seeding, and thus Western's opening-round opponent, will not be announced until Tuesday morning after Monday's BYU-Hawaii versus Hawaii Pacific game, which was postponed by tsunami warnings Feb. 27.
The Western Washington University women's basketball team is the No. 3 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Tournament and faces Chico State University in an opening-round game Friday at either 12:30 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. at Seattle Pacific University's Royal Brougham Pavilion. Western, which was ranked No.20 in last week's USA Today/ESPN/NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll, enters the tournament with a 23-4 record. It is the 10th appearance in 11 years as a full NCAA member for the Vikings, who missed the post-season only in 2008.
The roads to Springfield and St. Joseph will be paved on Sunday with the D-II Men's and Women's Tournament Selection Shows. Watch them both live on NCAA.com, starting at 6 p.m.PT! The respective West Regionals will be Mar. 12-13 and 15.
Guard Morris Anderson had 20 points and a game-high eight assists as nationally ranked Western Washington University defeated Montana State University Billings, 87-67, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference men's basketball contest Saturday on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium. The Vikings, No.21 in this week's National Association of Basketball Coaches/NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll and No.2 in the latest West Region Poll, improved to 25-5 overall and finished second in the GNAC at 12-4.
Sprinter Alex Tilley won four events and set three meet records as Western Washington University captured the men's division by 126 points in its outdoor season opener Saturday at the University of Puget Sound Invitational Track and Field Meet at Baker Stadium. The Vikings also won the women's division, finishing 24 points ahead of runner-up Seattle Pacific, as Ellie Siler set meet records in winning both the 200 (25.03) and 400 meters. Her time of 56.46 in the 400 met the NCAA Division II national provisional qualifying standard.
Western Washington University took both ends of a doubleheader with Northwest Nazarene University, 8-0 in five innings and 9-4, in Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball action Saturday at Halle Field. That completed a two-day, four-game sweep for Western, which outscored the Crusaders, 27-6. The Vikings are now 5-3 overall and in conference play, and NNU is 2-6 in both.
Two four-run rallies and some standout pitching helped Western Washington University sweep Northwest Nazarene University, 6-2 and 7-0, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference softball doubleheader Friday at Halle Field. The Vikings' Caitlin Dotlich keyed both rallies, hitting a two-run triple in the second inning of the opener and a two-run single in the seventh inning of the nightcap. She finished 5-for-9 on the day with four runs batted in.
Three Western Washington University athletes - men's pole vaulter Ryan Brown, men's miler Anthony Tomsich and women's long and triple jumper Emily Warman - have been named United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association West Region Indoor Athletes of the Year. It is the second straight year that Brown has been named West Region Male Field Athlete of the Year. He has cleared a national-best 17-1 1/2 (5.22 meters) in the men's pole vault, setting school and Great Northwest Athletic Conference records, and is a three-time conference champion in his specialty.
Western Washington University head rowing coach John Fuchs stood quietly among his team of 30 women in the pitch black under pouring rain. The athletes' nerves were high, and so were Fuchs' expectations at the 6 a.m. fitness test on the campus track.
Nationally ranked and post-season bound Western Washington University picked up its 400th all-time home victory, defeating Montana State University Billings, 85-43, in a Great Northwest Athletic Conference women's basketball contest Thursday on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium.
With one "B" grade as a Mountain View High School senior, Lauren Breihof just missed posting a perfect grade-point average. Despite her academic success in high school, it is probably only natural that she was concerned about the academic rigors of college -- never mind that she would be running cross country and track at Western Washington University.
