Moore’s No-Hitter Highlights Big Day For Pitchers

The pitchers were definitely ahead of the hitters on Day 2 of the Greater Spokane League girls softball season Friday.

At Rogers, the Pirates’ Traci Moore pitched a no-hitter, but was victimized by a couple of walks and four Rogers errors in a 9-2 triumph over Central Valley.

At Gonzaga Prep, North Central’s Denise Devereaux and Prep’s Stevie Palmer hooked up in an eight-inning duel won by the visiting Indians, 1-0.

And at Shadle Park, Mead’s Holly Vanwert and Holly Turner combined on a one-hitter to upstage Highlander sophomore Becky Alberts, who pitched a two-hitter, as the Panthers prevailed 5-2.

In the other game, University joined Mead at 2-0 with a 12-2, five-inning pounding of Ferris (0-2).

It was the season-opener for the other five.

Moore struck out eight, but two of them came around to score after getting aboard when the catcher couldn’t hold onto the ball.

Jaime Christensen had a two-run triple in the second inning to get Rogers started. The Pirates added six runs in the sixth by parlaying two hits with four CV errors.

Roxy Divine’s one-out RBI single in the top of the first extra inning drove in Tera Young, who got aboard on an error, to provide NC’s victory over the Bullpups. Devereaux allowed four hits and struck out nine. Palmer pitched a two-hitter and struck out seven. Both walked two.

A fifth-inning single off Turner broke up Mead’s no-hit bid and produced Shadle’s run. Vanwert, who struck out 10 in four innings, had an RBI double in a three-run Mead first inning .

Toshua Ballou’s three-run triple highlighted a five-run second for U-Hi.

Prep track

Zach Mercer of Mead unleashed a 173-foot, 7-inch javelin throw to win the boys’ event at the third annual Throwers Invitational at Eastern Washington University.

Other leading early season marks came in the shot put, where Cliff Poage of Mead led the boys with a mark of 54-2, and Sara Stillian of Lewis and Clark won the girls at 35-8.

College baseball

Whitworth is still looking for its first win in the Bombs at the Beach Spring Invitational Tournament in San Diego after dropping a 10-3 decision to Baker College.

The Wildcats (1-2 tournament, 7-4-1 overall) scored seven runs in the first inning on only two hits to stun the Pirates (0-2-1, 6-5-1). Brian Rodgers had a two-run double and Chad Hansen circled the bases when his grounder rolled between the legs of a Pirates outfielder with the bases loaded.

Three Pirates had two hits each - Scott Worsham, whose hits included his first home run; Grant Good; and Greg Johnson.

College track

Washington State captured two firsts in field events and had a Pacific-10 Conference-qualifying time in a hurdle race during the first day of the Stanford Invitational.

Junior transfer Jeff Boag won the javelin at 197-3 while sophomore Chris Mosley high-jumped 6-8 to tie for first.

Senior James Swanson was second in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles with a conference-qualifying time of 52.71 seconds. Swanson, a 1994 transfer from Community Colleges of Spokane, followed Idaho’s Paul Thompson, who won in 52.13.

Jennifer Vangemert had three top-three finishes and Wendy McVaugh had a first and a second to highlight showings as the CCS women tied for first in an invitational meet in San Mateo, Calif. Spokane scored 75 points.

Vangemert was first in the javelin (118-0), second in the shot (35-9) as Deanna Stragler won at 37-5 to lead a 1-2-3-4 Sasquatch sweep, and was third in the discus (107-5) that was won by CCS’ Kristen Blue (111-4).

McVaugh won the 3,000 in 11:25.6 and was second in the 1,500 (5:08.6).

CCS also got a win in the 400 hurdles from Kristen Peterson in 1:12.7.