In the opening round in
Pullman at WSU Lower Field, it'll be the University of Montana Griz playing the
Washington State University Cougs. First kick is 7 pm Friday, Nov. 9, 2018.
=Montana has a 7-8-6
win-loss-tie season record.
=WSU's record is 12-5-1.
On Sept. 14, 2018, in
Pullman the two teams played. WSU won, 3-1. Here's a link to a story from
Montana website about that match:
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Story (Nov. 5, 2018) below
from WSU Sports Info
Dancing, Cougars to Host
NCAA Tournament First Round
PULLMAN, Wash. – After one
of the most successful regular seasons in program history, the Washington State
soccer team is headed back to the postseason for the second-straight season and
seventh time in eight years and the 12th time overall after being selected for
an at-large bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament Monday afternoon.
Not only is WSU
one of 64 teams to make the tournament, the Cougars will host their first round
matchup against Montana, Friday, November 9 at 7 p.m. at Lower Soccer Field.
The first round home game marks the fifth time the Cougars will host an NCAA
game and the first since 2015 when WSU hosted Northwestern.
"It's a big day for
Washington State Athletics and the soccer program," WSU Head Soccer Coach
Todd Shulenberger said. "It's been
a crazy year and it's been wild, it's been a rollercoaster for sure, but this
group did not quit one bit. So our goal now is simple...we've got to go out and
do better in the tournament and that's what we're looking forward to
doing."
One of the messages I've
told the girls this morning and last night you know you did all these fantastic
things last year, you did all these fantastic things the first ten games and
then we hit rock bottom with some adversity, 4 starters out now 5 for the weekend,
but I told them every record that you broke for most wins in non-conference, to
the only team standing in the country being undefeated, to top seven in the
country never happened before and then we had a slap in the face a little bit
with what just happened and then now we're back and this group did not quit one
bit, so our goal now is simple, we did that this fall and achieved more wins in
the Pac-12, everything, now we got to do better in the tournament that's just
the way it goes and that's what we're looking forward to do, I love our draw
there's no guarantee with anything but you get a great game against Montana at
home and then you take care of business you head east and we know what happens
when we head east so we're looking forward to that, alright thanks for waiting
on it and go cougs"
In 2000, the Cougars hosted
Montana in the opening round of the NCAA tournament, falling 1-0 to the Griz.
Friday's meeting between the Cougars and Griz will look familiar to WSU fans as
the two teams met on Sept. 14 in Pullman in a game the Cougs would win 3-1. In
the game, Makamae Gomera-Stevens scored the fastest goal of the season for the
Cougs, netting just 1:57 into the game. She would score twice in the contest.
The Cougs finished the
regular season 12-5-1 overall including a big win over then #8 UCLA, 1-0, and a
draw against #1 Stanford, 1-1. The 12 wins are the most for the Cougs since
winning 14 games in 2015 despite a rash of injuries to the starting 11. WSU
ended the conference season in seventh place after posting a 5-5-1 record against the nation's best rivals.
Throughout the season the Cougs were led by start forward Morgan Weaver who
finished tied for second in Pac-12 scoring with 12 goals while Maddy Haro led
the conference with 13 assists. Her 0.76 assists per game was second in the
nation.
Last year in the postseason,
the Cougs finished 1-1-1 advancing to the third round of the tournament for the
first time in program history. WSU bested No. 8 UCF, 1-0, in the opening round
and No. 20 Tennessee on penalty kicks in the second round. WSU's Cinderella
postseason run came to an end in the third round against #16 Florida in a 1-0,
2OT, loss in Gainesville.
In all, the Cougs faced
seven teams in the tournament's field in 2018. This year's College Cup will
take place at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina on Nov. 30
(semifinals) and Dec. 2 (championship game).
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ALOHA COUGS!
Emily Baumgart Leads Cougars Through Round One at Pac-12
Preview
11/5/2018 from WSU Sports Info
KAILUA KONA, Hawaii - The Washington State women's golf team
sits in 11th place after round one of play at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview hosted
by the University of Hawaii. The Cougars finished the day ahead of Hawaii after
carding a 306(+14) through the first day on the green. No. 6 UCLA is just ahead
of WSU, having posted a 301(+9) on the course.
Redshirt-sophomore Emily Baumgart of Walla Walla led the way
for the Cougars on the first day, posting a one-over, 74, on the 6,372-yard
course. The Walla Walla, Wash. native put together four birdies and 11 pars on
the day. Baumgart is tied for 21st with a handful of rivals including No. 79
Madison Kerley from Arizona State.
Senior Madison Odiorne and junior Marie Lund-Hansen are tied
for 28th, after each carding a two-over, 75. The two are tied with No. 32 Elli
Slama from Oregon State, No. 6 Mariel Galdiano from UCLA, and No. 17 Olivia
Mehaffey from Arizona State. Odiorne earned 11 pars and three birdies, while
going three-under on the course's four par-5s. Lund-Hansen posted a pair of
birdies in her opening 18 holes of play.
Individually, Baumgart and the Cougars will try to chase
down Cindy Oh from California, Oh carded a 67(-6) during round one.
As a team, No. 48 Oregon, No. 49 California, and No. 1 USC
lead the tournament at three-under, 289, through round one of play.
The Cougars will hit the green for round two of the Nanea
Pac-12 Preview Tuesday at 7:30 a.m.
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Emily Baumgart bio info from WSU Sports Info:
HIGH SCHOOL CAREER = Played four years of golf and three
years of basketball for the Fighting Irish at DeSales Catholic High
School…golfed under Lon Olson earning varsity letters every year…led the
Fighting Irish golf team to back-to-back State titles her sophomore and junior
seasons…competed in the 2015 Junior World Championships and won her
third-straight WIAA State Championship…named to Girls Junior America’s Cup Team
and Junior Worlds Team her senior year…named to the all-conference and
all-State basketball teams during junior year.
PERSONAL = Born Emily Elizabeth Baumgart, August of 1997 at
Walla Walla, Wash.…parents Brad and Kristi…older brother Ryan played golf at
WSU…has younger brother Matthew…aunt Susan Richard and uncle Spence McMurdo
graduated for Washington State in 1988 and 1994, respectively…uncle Brian
Richard played football at Oregon and uncle Todd Richard played baseball
professionally for the Cleveland Indians
and Seattle Mariners.
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MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK: It was a team effort in WSU
yarn-spinning
By DALE GRUMMERT of the Lewiston Trib Nov 5, 2018
PULLMAN — This time, even the opposing quarterback got
involved in telling the Tale of Gardner Minshew.
With defeat almost assured in the waning seconds, Chase
Garbers of the Cal Bears overthrew a streaking Moe Ways, and the ball sailed
over a queue of mirthful players on the Washington State sideline.
Guess who was the only person with a chance to catch it. It
was the person who, 18 game-clock seconds earlier, had thrown the game-winning
touchdown pass.
With his right hand clutching his helmet at his side, in
pre-celebration mode, Minshew took a step backward and casually snagged
Garber’s misfire with his left hand. Easop Winston Jr. couldn’t have done it
better.
A born showman, Minshew then instinctively faced the student
section of the capacity crowd, raised the ball aloft for its approval, then
spiked it to the Martin Stadium turf. Legions of fans, many of them sporting
fake mustaches inspired by Minshew’s real one, went wild for the thousandth
time of the night, and the quarterback turned to his teammates and did a
jive-turkey, “Ain’t I a bad one” dance. Then, as usual, he chose the perfect
moment to drop the act and break into a smile.
“Can you believe this season?” he seemed to say.
Thanks to a steady light rain and an oppressive California
defense, Minshew failed to throw for a gajillion yards Saturday night (just
334) and uncharacteristically went 59 minutes and 28 seconds without tossing a
touchdown pass.
But the climax of WSU’s 19-13 victory nonetheless belonged
to the Mississippi Mustache, along with one of his favorite sidekicks, and in
retrospect the whole drama seemed scripted from the start.
The authors? Everyone in the stadium — everyone, who’s heard
the story of how this former walk-on at Troy University wandered through the
college-football desert for four years and was ready to put himself out to
pasture as an Alabama bench-rider before Air Raid guru Mike Leach invited him
to Wazzu for his senior year. Now he’s beginning to challenge one of those Bama
QBs in the Heisman Trophy race.
The Cougars, of course, can’t afford to buy into this story
wholesale. They’re riding a five-game winning streak, they stand eighth in the
College Football Playoff rankings and they’re 8-1 for the first time since
their Rose Bowl season of 2002. But all six of their conference games have been
nerve-jarring, at least until the fourth quarter, and they’re headed for a fall
if they start assuming their grad-transfer quarterback is a mustachioed
messiah.
Still, the legend grew Saturday night, if only because the
Cougars, despite a mostly dominant performance, declined to upstage the
Mustache by putting the game away by any other means.
It was the legend of Minshew, let’s say, that caused Wazzu
rush specialist Willie Taylor III to squander a third-quarter interception by
fumbling into the end zone, where the wet football slithered like a cat toy
from the grasp of pouncing linebacker Jahad Woods. In truth, what had popped
the ball loose from Taylor was a deft bit of ball-targeting by the embarrassed
Cal quarterback, Garbers. But let’s not spoil the narrative.
On the same Cal possession, it was the legend that prompted
young WSU cornerback George Hicks Jr. to gratuitously manhandle receiver Vic
Wharton and draw a third-and-8 holding call. On the ensuing Bears drive, it was
the legend that caused a zebra to get ticky-tacky on 195-pound Cougar
nickelback Hunter Dale as he tried to cover 6-foot-7 tight end Ian Bunting.
Later that drive, on another third-down play, it was the
legend that told Coug pass-rusher Dillon Sherman to slap Garbers on the helmet
in an age when roughing-the-passer is being completely redefined. For the game,
the Bears gleaned six first downs by penalty, versus zero for the Cougs.
Finally, after the Bears had knotted the score 13-13, it was
the legend that caused Wazzu kicker Blake Mazza, a crunch-time hero the
previous week at Stanford, to line up for a 30-yard field goal with 3:31 left
and boot the ball in a straight, seemingly purposeful line, directly to the
right of the right upright.
From there, as the script would have it, the Cougars
dispensed with the self-harm and got down to business. The defense forced a
3-and-out and Minshew directed his third game-winning May Day drive of the season,
capped by two catches by Winston — a fallaway dazzler and, with 32 seconds on
the clock, a pretty end-zone fade.
Then, as if saying a point-after kick would deny Minshew the
last word, the long-snapper whisked the ball over the holder’s head and sent
Mazza scurrying like a man chasing his hat.
On this night, The Tale of Gardner Minshew wanted what it
wanted. And everyone conspired to make it happen.
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WSU football
Upon reflection, Washington State stayed golden thanks to
sequence of big plays
Sun., Nov. 4, 2018
By Thomas Clouse of S-R Spokane
The scoreboard reflected a 19-13 win for No. 10 Washington
State on Saturday night. But only a couple of key plays allowed the Cougars to
celebrate a win over the Golden Bears.
The first game-turning play came on defense when Cal (5-4,
2-4 Pac 12) had driven down to the Washington State 12-yard-line with 7:34 to
play in a game that was tied at 13.
The defensive line forced an errant pass by Cal quarterback
Brandon McIlwain and WSU safety Skyler Thomas went up, caught it and got a foot
down.
“That was definitely a huge play we really needed,” WSU
quarterback Gardner Minshew said. Thomas “is a guy who typically can’t catch a
cold, but man, he sure came up when we needed him to. I was so proud of him and
how our defense battled all night.”
Thomas, a 5-foot-9, 185-pound sophomore safety, saw the ball
floating his way.
“I kind of thought it was going to go out of bounds. I saw
it sailing, kind of, so I’m like, ‘I’m going to go up and try to get it.’”
The interception kept the game tied and allowed the offense
to take chances without the added pressure of playing with a deficit.
“I felt great,” Thomas said. “We never give up. We are never
out of the fight. I love winning close games because you really work for it.”
Minshew’s arm provided the opportunity for the second set of
plays that allowed Washington State (8-1, 5-1) to remain in the driver’s seat
for the Pac 12 North.
After the defense forced a Cal punt, Minshew and the offense
got the ball at the WSU 31-yard-line with only 2:39 to play. With just over a
minute to play, Minshew hit Easop Winston Jr. on a fade for a 24-yard gain to
the Cal 10-yard line.
Minshew looked over and found Winston, a 5-foot-11,
190-pound junior receiver, again in single coverage and let it fly. Winston
made the grab for what turned out to be the game winner with 32 seconds left in
the game.
“I can’t say enough how good he is and how hard he works on
that route,” Minshew said of Winston. “Once I saw it was one-on-one with him, I
was going to take it.”
Winston, who had a highlight reel 89-yard touchdown
game-winning touchdown against Utah, said the route he snagged the touchdown on
against Cal is one he has run thousands of times in practice.
“Coach Leach, If there is one thing I remember he says is,
‘Make routine plays,’” Winston said. “For me it was just trying to make a
routine play for my team. I was glad I got that one.”
But it’s one thing to make a catch. It’s another to do it on
national television to win a game that could decide the outcome of the Pac-12.
“Doing it on this level is like a dream come true,” said
Winston, who transferred to WSU in 2017 from City College of San Francisco.
“I’ve dreamed of moments like that, like literally. To be able to come up for
my team is great but … I just try to do my part.”
Leach said Winston, who led the team with 92 receiving yards
on seven catches, continues to find himself in game-winning situations for a
reason.
“He’s getting better and better,” Leach said of Winston.
“He’s one of our most improved players without a question. And then the other
thing is he has a lot of skill as far as running routes and setting routes up.
Yeah, he did an impressive job on both of those” catches.
Minshew, who finished the night 35-of-51 passes for 334
yards and the touchdown to Winston, said winning always feels good. But it’s
more rewarding to win a game that could have gone either way.
“You know it comes down to one or two plays,” he said. “When
the margin of victory is that small, it makes it really, really sweet.”
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Washington State Football adds 6-foot-5, 230-pound defensive end to 2019
recruiting class
UPDATED: Sun., Nov. 4, 2018, 9:49 p.m.
By Theo Lawson S-R Spokane
PULLMAN – The Cougars have added some edge-rushing prowess
to their 2019 recruiting class.
On Sunday night, 24 hours after Washington State beat Cal
19-13 at Martin Stadium, the Cougars received a verbal commitment from Tyler
Garay-Harris, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound defensive end from Bishop O’Dowd in
Oakland, California.
Garay-Harris is considered a three-star prospect by the
247Sports Composite Rankings and listed two other offers from Pac-12 schools,
Utah and Arizona State, in addition to Mountain West schools Colorado State,
Utah State, UNLV, Nevada and New Mexico.
The second-leading tackler for an 8-2 Bishop O’Dowd team,
Garay-Harris has recorded 74 takedowns from his defensive end position this
year and has notched 10 tackles-for-loss – all of them sacks. He also has one
forced fumble and four fumble recoveries on the season.
Garay-Harris and his O’Dowd team are gearing up to play
Benicia this Friday in the second round of the North Coast Section
Champsionships. The Dragons, who beat Hawyward 35-7 in the first round of the
playoffs, are coached by former Washington standout running back Napoleon
Kaufman, who played six years with the NFL’s Oakland Raiders.
Garay-Harris shows good quickness and aggression off the
edge – as indicated by his sack total through 10 games – but is also more
plenty reliable when it comes to stuffing the run. He’s the first defensive
line commit for the Cougars in the class of 2019.
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WSU men’s basketball
Behind 17 3-pointers, Washington State pounds New Hope
Christian 138-63 in exhibition
Sun., Nov. 4, 2018, 9:09 p.m.
By Theo Lawson Spokesman, Spokane
PULLMAN – The Washington State Cougars will see 24 teams
throughout the course of this basketball season – and 24 teams with
significantly more talent than the one they saw Sunday afternoon in a preseason
exhibition game.
New Hope Christian College, a small bible college from
Eugene with an enrollment of 100, didn’t do much in the way of giving Ernie
Kent’s 2018-19 team a true litmus test, but Sunday’s exhibition did help a new
wave of Washington State basketball players adjust to a setting they’ll spend
plenty of time in over the next four months and the Cougars looked comfortable
enough in their first live action at Beasley Coliseum, thumping the Deacons
138-63.
The fresh nets at Beasley got plenty of use Sunday, as WSU
pumped in 17 3-pointers – on 27 attempts – connecting on 62 percent from beyond
the arc. Exhibition games aren’t counted officially, but the Cougars fell one 3
short of the school’s single-game record of 18.
Freshman Aljaz Kunc led WSU with 24 points on 10-of-11
shooting and was one of eight Cougars to finish in double digits. Junior
college transfer Jervae Robinson had 16 points, eight rebounds and seven
assists, while another freshman, CJ Elleby, finished with 14 points, 10
rebounds and six assists. Carter Skaggs spearheaded the 3-point barrage,
canning 5-of-9 to finish with 15 points.
“We needed a game just to show the college community and
show people in this community just what we’ve brought in,” said Kent, who
enters his fifth season as the WSU coach. “Our talent level, our skill set, the
ability to pass, dribble and shoot the ball. I’m hoping people had the chance
to see them and don’t worry about the score, but worry about the feel.”
From that standpoint, the exhibition didn’t lack
entertainment value.
After forcing a turnover in the second half, Viont’e Daniels
advanced the ball to Ahmed Ali who dribbled through the open court and slipped
a bounce pass to a trailing Isaiah Wade. Wade, who’d signaled to his teammate
for an alley oop, collected the ball anyway and stepped toward the rim before
flushing down a one-handed dunk.
“I told (Ali) ‘off the glass,’ but he told me to stay
humble,” Wade said.
The Cougars roused a small crowd with their dunks – of which
there were 10 – and 3-point bombs, but Kent and his staff were more encouraged
by another number. WSU moved the ball cleanly and efficiently, totaling 35
assists on 56 made baskets. The Cougars only committed nine turnovers.
“That’s one thing we’ve been working on since summer, since
we all came together,” Elleby said. “Just sharing the ball, trying to find our
chemistry together. It’s been a process but I feel like we’re on the right
track.”
Kent’s starting five consisted of three guards, Ali, Daniels
and Elleby, and two forwards, Jeff Pollard and reigning Pac-12 Most Improved
Player Robert Franks. The coach wants to start games with a “defensive unit
that can get stops.”
Kent pointed out that 13 times against New Hope the Cougars
were able to string together three consecutive defensive stops.
“The thing I like about them,” Kent said, “is they can play
a multitude of defenses because they’re so long and we have so many
interchangeable pieces.”
WSU opens up the 2018-19 season in earnest next Sunday at
home against Nicholls State. Tipoff is set for 4 p.m. and the game will air on
the Pac-12 Networks.
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Banged up CU Buffs depending on Winfree, Ento at receiver
Colorado seniors made big plays for offense in loss to
Arizona
By Brian Howell, Denver Post
Although the Buffaloes lost at Arizona, 42-34, on Friday,
the two seniors stepped up and proved they could be important players down the
stretch.
Winfree led the Buffs (5-4, 2-4 Pac-12) with a career-high
eight catches and 101 yards. Ento, who had two receptions all season, finished
with a career-high five catches for 82 yards.
"We're hungry. We're real hungry," Winfree said.
"We haven't gotten much opportunities this season so far, so we were just
ready to make those plays. We were preached to all week about how much we were
going to have to make plays. This game was going to rely on the offense. That's
how we approached it day in and day out; just work hard as we could."
CU's Kabion Ento, right, can not catch this ball due to pass
interfearance by USC's Iman Marshall in the fourth quarter at Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum on Oct. 13 in Los Angeles. (John McCoy / Getty Images)
Although their efforts came in a loss, the Buffs might need
to lean on Ento, Winfree and freshman Jaylon Jackson (career high six catches
for 25 yards against Arizona) in the final three games.
Riding a four-game losing streak, the Buffs have been hit
hard by the injury bug, especially at receiver.
Star sophomore Laviska Shenault has missed three consecutive
games with a toe injury and it's unclear if he will return this season.
No. 2 receiver KD Nixon, fresh off a 13-catch, 198-yard
performance, injured his hip early in the loss to Arizona, and his status is
unclear, as well.
Jay MacIntyre, who came into last week fourth on the team in
receptions, left the Arizona game after a hard fall on his head. For the second
time in less than a month, he is going through concussion protocol, and it's
unknown when, or if, he will return.
"It's been super tough," Winfree said of the team
battling injuries. "We all have to deal with that this whole season,
including myself. I missed four games (with an ankle injury), Laviska has been
out. You never know when it's going to happen."
Luckily for the Buffs, their depth at receiver has shown up.
Winfree, Ento and Jackson came into last week with a
combined 15 catches on the season, but had 19 between them against Arizona.
Meanwhile, Tony Brown caught three passes for 37 yards and
his first touchdown as a Buff. A transfer from Texas Tech, Brown's only other
college touchdown came on Oct. 3, 2015.
"I feel our guys stepped up and made plays,"
Winfree said of the receiving corps. "We didn't make enough plays, but I
felt the people who came in for the injured players definitely stepped up. We
just have to deal with adversity. Injures come with football, so that's
expected. It's just how you bounce back from that."
True freshmen Daniel Arias and Dimitri Stanley have also
proven capable, as they made plays when called upon at Washington on Oct. 20.
Buffs on national TV
CU will look to snap its losing streak on national TV this
week.
Saturday's game against No. 10 Washington State (8-1, 5-1)
will kick off at 1:30 p.m. at Folsom Field and will be televised on ESPN.
The Buffs have a tough task in front of them. Under head
coach Mike MacIntyre, they are 2-18 against ranked opponents, but in both wins,
the Buffs were ranked ahead of the opponent.
CU has lost 22 in a row against teams ranked in the top 15
of the Associated Press poll, dating back to a 27-24 upset of No. 3 Oklahoma on
Sept. 29, 2007.
Unranked CU teams have lost 27 in a row against ranked
opponents, dating back to a 34-30 upset of No. 17 Kansas on Oct. 17, 2009.
Notable
Winfree, who had seven catches for 55 yards in the first
seven games, has 12 catches for 155 yards in the last two. ... Ento had just 10
catches during his CU career before getting five last week. ... Among Power 5
conference teams, CU has the fourth-longest losing streak. Only Rutgers (eight
games), Louisville (six) and North Carolina (five) have longer current losing
skids.
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