Hampton Hires WSU Assistant

Byron Samuels, an assistant to Washington State basketball coach Kevin Eastman, was named Friday as the head coach at Hampton (Va.) University, which is moving to Division I next season.

Samuels was selected from 105 applicants.

Samuels was an assistant at Tulsa from 1989-90, at North Carolina-Wilmington from 1990-91 and 1992-94, at Radford from 1991-92 and at Washington State this past season.

College baseball

Chad Ripke’s two-run home run highlighted a three-run seventh inning that produced a 6-3 Eastern Region baseball win for Community Colleges of Spokane over Columbia Basin in Pasco.

CCS (4-1 conference, 6-4 overall) also got run-scoring singles from Andy Sage in the first inning and Shaun Walker in the fifth and victimized CBC (3-2, 7-4) with a perfect 7-for-7 in stolen bases.

James Kwong struck out three and walked two in pitching an eight-hitter for CCS.

Because of possible inclement weather, the Whitworth College-Willamette three-game series is being moved back a day. The teams will play a doubleheader Sunday beginning at 1 p.m. and a single game Monday at noon.

UI football

The first of four spring football scrimmages for the Idaho Vandals will be this morning at 9:30 at the Kibbie Dome.

The public is invited at no charge.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Robert Scott will play his first live scrimmage as a Vandal as he battles veterans Brian Brennan and Eric Hisaw for the starting job. Hisaw, recovering from knee surgery, will not play in the scrimmage.

UI track

University of Idaho javelin thrower Oscar Duncan will have an arthroscope performed on his left knee Tuesday. The doctors will be looking for possible meniscus damage. Duncan, a sophomore from South Orange, N.J., injured his knee at the Stanford Relays on March 25.

“We will make a determination about his recovery and the rest of this season based on what is found on Tuesday,” said Idaho trainer Barrie Steele.

If there is minor damage in the knee, recovery time would be between two and four weeks. If the damage is more significant, Duncan would be done for the season.

Duncan finished second at last season’s Big Sky Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships as a freshman. Last summer Duncan won the U.S. Junior National Track and Field Championships in Tallahassee. He was also a member of the U.S. World Junior Championship team that competed in Europe.

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