Sports Briefs

Correction: Owings pitches no hitter

In the article “Summerhawks run win streak to four” in the July 23 issue of the Cheney Free Press, it was incorrectly reported that Garrett Hagel as the pitcher who threw a no hitter with seven strikeouts in game two of the doubleheader against the Red Storm. It should actually be Jonathan Owings.

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Eagles hire Chris Shane as cross country/distance coach

Chris Shane, a Brigham Young University graduate who most recently was an assistant at the University of San Francisco, has been hired as Eastern Washington University’s new head cross country coach and coach of the distance runners for the Eagle track and field team.

Shane has six years of NCAA Division I coaching experience, including from 2012-14 as a distance coach at USF. He is formerly from Orem, Utah, and graduated from BYU in 2012.

Shane takes over a talented group of EWU distance runners for both the men and women. Last year, the women finished fourth at the Big Sky Conference Championships, the team’s highest finish in program history.

Sarah Reiter brought home Eastern’s first-ever individual cross country conference title and Berenice Penaloza also earned all-league honors with a ninth-place finish. Reiter and Penaloza and are back in 2015, with no seniors among the seven women who competed at last year’s league championships, and just two among the seven men who took part.

Shane joins an Eastern coaching staff that includes long-time coaches Stan Kerr and Marcia Mecklenburg.