Sports Extra! 11/10/11

Winter sports meet set

A mandatory meeting for winter sports athletes and parents will be next Monday, Nov. 14, beginning at 7 p.m. in the Colfax High School auditorium, according to Athletic Director Shawna Kneale.

Colfax line dominates all-NE tally

Colfax football players earned 11 of the first team selections in the NE all-opponent team poll this week. The honors included six of the nine slots awarded for the two lines with Dathyon Maltone and Brent Conrad getting the honors for both lines and Arron Arneson, Cole Neu selected for the offensive line.

Justin Berarducci was named all-league quarterback and defensive back.

Other Colfax all-league picks went to Alvin Li, offensive back; Jay Hart, receiver; John Mellor, linebacker.

Colfax Coach Mike Morgan also received the league’s coach of the year honor.

Colfax gridders earning second team honors included Mellor, offensive line; Levi Hardy, running back; Neu and Arneson, defensive line, and Hart, defensive back.

Brent Stromberger of Lind/Ritzville/Sprague and Niko Knezovich of Reardan landed three first-team picks. Stromberger was named for both lines and punter. Knezovich was named running back, linebacker and first team kicker.

Other first team players for the league were Chris Steinmetz-LRS, running back; Jay Dewald-LRS and Brandon Thomas-Kettle Falls, receivers; Waylen Anderson-Reardan, defensive line; Jesse Miller-LRS and Palmer Phillips-LRS, linebackers; Johnny Kieffer-Reardan, and Dylan Hartz-LRS, defensive back.

Other second team picks were Wyatt Evers-Davenport, W. Anderson, Phillips, Jacbob Anderson-LRS, offensive line; Austin Anderson-Kettle Falls and Connor O’Neil-LRS, running backs; Derik Oliver-Davenport and Shane O’ Mallhey-Springdale, receivers; Hartz, quarterback; Jarradd Morley-LRS and Jace Malek-Reardan, defensive line; John Coots-Kettle Falls; Hunter Hedquist-Springdale and Austin Anderson-Kettle, linebackers; Dewald and Nathan Sorci-Reardan, defensive backs.

SPORTS QUIZ

1. True or false: In 1970, Major League Baseball had four no-hitters — all pitched in California.

2. Name the first year and last year that Philadelphia’s Steve Carlton led the National League in strikeouts.

3. Four Stanford quarterbacks have won the Sammy Baugh trophy as the top college passer. Name two of them.

4. In the 2009-10 season, Kevin Durant became the youngest scoring champion in NBA history (age 21). Who had been the youngest?

5. Before Boston’s Tim Thomas had 798 in 2011, which NHL goalie had recorded the most saves in one postseason?

6. When Abby Wambach set the record in 2011 for most career goals by a U.S. women’s soccer player in World Cup action, whose mark did she break?

7. Julie Krone was the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown horse race. Which one was it?

Answers

1. True.

2. It was in 1972 and 1983.

3. Dick Norman (1959), Guy Benjamin (‘77), Steve Dils (‘78) and John Elway (‘82).

4. Chicago’s Max Zaslofsky was 22 when he won the scoring title in 1947-48.

5. Kirk McLean had 761 saves for Vancouver in 1994.

6. Michelle Akers had 12 goals between 1991 and 1999.

7. The 1993 Belmont Stakes, aboard Colonial Affair.

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TRIVIA TEST

1. MUSIC: What artist is the subject of a 1970s Don McLean song that begins, “Starry, starry night”?

2. HISTORY: When and where did the first African slaves arrive in America?

3. ANIMATION: What was the name of the craggy peak overlooking Whoville in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”?

4. MEASUREMENTS: What is absolute zero measured in Celsius?

5. MOVIES: What was the home planet of the “Transformers” alien robots (2007) who came to Earth?

6. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a baby horse called?

7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which U.S. president proposed the Great Society?

8. LITERATURE: Who wrote “The Canterbury Tales” in the late 14th century?

9. MEDICAL: What is the tine test used to diagnose?

10. SCIENCE: What elements were discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie?

Answers

1. Vincent Van Gogh

2. 1619 (Jamestown, Virginia)

3. Mount Crumpit

4. -273 degrees

5. Cybertron

6. A foal

7. Lyndon Johnson

8. Geoffrey Chaucer

9. Tuberculosis

10. Polonium and radium

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