Brown earns start in all-star game

Former Coeur d'Alene High baseball standout Matt Brown has been selected to start in the Midwest League All-Star Game that will be held June 22 at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Brown, an infielder, had a team-high 11 home runs and 43 RBIs for the Cedar Rapids Kernels, a Class-A affiliate of the Anaheim Angels. He's hitting .244.

Brown was one of eight Cedar Rapids players picked to play for the Western Division team against the Eastern Division.

A 2001 Coeur d'Alene graduate, Brown was drafted in the tenth round of the 2001 amateur draft by the Angels.

-- Lake City High graduates Dan Lau and Adam Capaul have been picked to play on an Idaho all-star baseball team that will play against all-star teams from Washington and Oregon on June 19 in Vancouver, Wash.

Lau, a right-handed pitcher/outfielder, was the Inland Empire League's player of the year. Capaul, also a right-handed pitcher, was a first-team all-league selection.

They will be joined on the Idaho team by Lewiston seniors Josh Rogers (shortstop) and Kyle Greene (outfielder).

SOFTBALL

Morgan Thomsen of West Valley High School will receive the Inland Empire Softball Hall of Fame's second scholarship award during induction ceremonies at Friday night's Softball Reunion and Induction Celebration sponsored by the Inland Empire Softball Hall of Fame.

Candidates, nominated by their coaches, were judged on playing performance, scholarship and citizenship.

Thomsen, who will receive $1,000, plans to attend Spokane Falls Community College next year.

An All-Border League selection her freshman year, Thomsen was selected as this year's first-team All-Greater Spokane League shortstop. Knee injuries prevented her from playing her sophomore and junior seasons.

SENIOR AMERICAN LEGION

Through Saturday, the Bandits led the Senior Legion with a record of 4-1. Though the Patriots were technically in first place at the time with a 1-0 league record, they won the first game and lost the second in a Sunday doubleheader with the Northstars and are now second in the league with a record of 2-1.

In a doubleheader with the Cannons, the Bandits won 9-5 and 14-8.

Gary Jones, Tyler Hauschild and Chad Bucher combined for six RBIs for the Cannons.

Leading the Bandits at the plate are Matt McClenny, Casey Brett and Chris Bozo.

Bozo drove in four runs, singled once and doubled twice in last week's Senior Legion games. McClenny and Brett contributed with a combined total of five RBIs. McClenny singled twice and Brett had a single and a double.

-- Against the Northstars, Patriots pitcher Rick Templeton threw a complete game, striking out 10 and allowing six hits and two unearned runs.

Kyle Hinrichs led the Patriots offense when he went 3 for 5. Hinrichs tallied 5 RBIs with a 3-run home run in the third and a 2- run triple in the fifth.

-- The Blue Devils defeated the Northstars 5-2 Monday night. Blue Devils' Trevin Hoffman hit a two-run home run. Teammates Aaron Rocky and Chris Kern hit solo homers.

-- In Junior Legion, Central Valley's Scott Froehlich was a home run short of hitting for the cycle in a 13-3 win over West Valley.

Froehlich (3-0) pitched a complete game Monday against East Valley, leading his team to a six-inning 13-2 victory.

TRACK AND FIELD

At Saturday's Golden West Invitational track meet in Sacramento, California, local distance runners Steve Vandenburg of Northwest Christian, Evan Garber of Mead, Megan O'Reilly of Mt. Spokane and Amie Dahnke of University competed.

Vandenburg placed thirteenth in the men's one-mile run with a time of 4 minutes, 28 seconds.

Garber captured second place, with a time of 9:06, in the men's 3,200-meter run.

O'Reilly placed sixth and Dahnke eighth in the women's 3,200- meter run. O'Reilly finished the event with a time of 10:34, while Dahnke trailed by just 12 seconds at 10:46.

GOLF

Casey Murphy of Rathdrum fired rounds of 73 and 70 on Tuesday to capture the boy's title at the Dropping Junior Championships at Hillcrest Country Club in Boise.

Murphy, who will be a senior next year at Lakeland High School, was tied for first after an even-par 71 on Monday before finishing with a 54-hole score of 214, one over par. Murphy finished two strokes ahead of Mountain View High graduate Joe Panzeri, who is headed to the University of Washington on scholarship.

Murphy made a 3-foot birdie putt on the par-5 16th hole to break from a tie with Panzeri.

Murphy was an All-Greater Spokane League first-team pick as a freshman at Gonzaga Prep. He transferred to Lakeland as a sophomore but had to sit out of athletics for a year under Idaho's

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