Up
to 4 more inches of snow possible on the Palouse today reports Pullman Radio News (PRN)
on 2/13/2019.
Evan Ellis of PRN said, “The National Weather Service has updated
its Winter Storm Warning for the Palouse.
Up to 4 inches of additional snow is possible by 1:00 this afternoon.
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WSU Women’s
Basketball Apple Cup Series
Info from
WSU Sports Information
UW Huskies
(8-16, 1-11) at WASHINGTON STATE (8-16, 3-10)
| Fri.,
Feb. 15 | 7 p.m.
Live Stats | WSUCougars.com
Watch | Pac-12 Networks (Greg Heister &
Joan Bonvicini)
Listen | WSU IMG Radio Network
OPENING
FIVE
> Round
2 of the Boeing Apple Cup Series tips off Friday as the Cougs go for the season
sweep of the Huskies at Beasley. The Cougs last swept the season series in 2014
the only time since the 1970s.
> WSU
came up with a huge win over Arizona last time out, defeating the Wildcats
90-88 to snap a 7-game skid. The Cougs were led by Borislava Hristova and
Chanelle Molina as the duo combined for 65 points in the win.
>
Borislava Hristova, a Cheryl Miller Watch top-10 nominee, became the 7th player
in program history to record 500+ points in a season entering the week with
505.
> Alexys
Swedlund and Chanelle Molina are in a tight race for the team-lead (and
possibly the single season record) for three-pointers. Swedlund has hit 57
(T6th all-time) while Molina has netted 53 (10th all-time)
> The
Cougars big three of Molina (38.1 min), Hristova (35.9 min), and Swedlund
(33.9) are on pace to play the most minutes in single season history with
Swedlund on pace to become the only Coug to play 1,000 min in multiple seasons.
GAME
INFORMATION - VS WASHINGTON
The Cougs
clash with the Huskies in round two of the Boeing Apple Cup Series in their
lone contest of the week. The Cougars look for their first sweep of UW since
the 2014 season, the only year WSU swept the season series since the 1970s. WSU
took the first meeting, 79-76, at Seattle in Dec. behind the career effort of
Borislava Hristova who scored 38 points (the third highest single game total in
program history).
The
Huskies have lost seven-straight contests including falling to Arizona in what
became their lone game of the week due to a snow out in Seattle Saturday. Amber
Melgoza, who scored 27 in the loss to the Cougs in Dec., enters the week
averaging 18.8 points per game, eighth best in the Pac-12.
LAST TIME
OUT
Behind a
combined 65 points out of Borislava Hristova and Chanelle Molina, Washington
State (8-16, 3-10) outgunned the visiting Wildcats of Arizona (15-8, 5-7),
90-88, Saturday afternoon at Beasley Coliseum. The Cougars stars put on a show
in front of their home crowd, splitting the scoring duties over the 40 minutes
of action to take down the Wildcats' the nation's second leading scorer.
Hristova's 37 was tied for the 4th most points in a single game by a Coug in
program history.
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Borislava Hristova
of WSU Women’s Basketball named to Cheryl Miller Award ‘Top-10’
2/13/2019
from WSU Sports Info
SPRINGFIELD,
Mass. - With the regular season hitting its final stretch award season is in
sight as star forward Borislava Hristova was named one of the final 10 players
considered for the prestigious 2019 Cheryl Miller award Wednesday afternoon as
announced by the Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Coaches
Association. The award recognizes the top small forward in women's NCAA
Division I college basketball. Hristova made the cut to the top-10 and will
await to see if she becomes one of the five finalists for the honor with the
final list coming out in early March.
Hristova
has put together one of the finest seasons in program history as a
redshirt-junior as the Bulgarian native enters the week averaging 21.0 points
per game in 24 starts. Her 21.0 ppg ranks 13th in the nation entering the week
and ranks as the third-best scoring average in WSU history. Hristova has gone
for double-figures in 23 of 24 games on the year and started the season with a
19 game double-digit scoring streak that ranked as the sixth-longest streak in
program history. On the year, the scoring sensation has eclipsed 20 points 13
times while posting at least 30 points four times. She has scored 505 total
points on the year as she became just the seventh player in program history to
eclipse 500 points in a season. In addition to her scoring, Hristova has posted
a career-best 6.0 rebounds per game and has tallied five double-doubles on the
year.
She was
named the Pac-12 Player of the Week on Dec. 31 after scoring a career-best 38
points in 37 minutes against Washington to begin Pac-12 play. The 38 points
ranked as the third-best scoring game in program history. Even more
impressively, Hristova made her money from the floor, hitting a record 16 field
goals on just 24 shots (66.7%). From deep, Hristova tied a career best with four
triples on six attempts. She would add five rebounds and two assists to her
game totals.
Cheryl
Miller Award is named after the three-time Naismith Player of the Year and
Class of 1995 Hall of Famer, the annual award in its second year recognizes the
top small forwards in women's NCAA Division I college basketball.
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WSU Soccer
goalie Ella Dederick gets sixth year of eligibility, says WSU Sports Info on
2/13/2019
Washington
State star goalkepper, Ella Dederick, was granted a sixth-year of eligibility
after his extension of clock waiver was approved by the NCAA Tuesday.
One of the
top keepers in the country, Dederick will enter 2019 among the best to ever
play for the Cougars. Among the all-time WSU keepers, Dederick ranks second in
wins (35), second in goals against average (0.87), third in shutouts (20.5),
third in minutes played (6,072) and fifth in win percentage (.606). The senior
saw her 2018 campaign come to an end just five games into the season after
suffering a late game injury against Idaho. The season prior, Dederick led the
Cougs to the third round of the NCAA Tournament, defeating #20 Tennessee in the
second round in penalties, stonewalling the Volunteers three times in four
attempts from the penalty spot.
Dederick
and the Cougars will look to continue their run of excellence after advancing
to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in each of the last two seasons. In
2018, WSU moved as high as No. 7 in the country, the program's highest ranking.
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BASEBALL: WASHINGTON
STATE at SAINT MARY'S
From WSU
Sprts Info
Moraga,
Calif. | Louis Guisto Field (1,500) | Feb. 15-17, 2019
Friday, 2
p.m. | Saturday, 10 a.m. (DH) | Sunday, 1 p.m.
PROBABLE
STARTERS
A.J. Block
| Jr. | LHP | 1-4, 4.91 ERA, 48 K, 44.0 IP vs. Ken Waldichuk | Jr. | LHP | 8-4,
2.05 ERA, 118 K, 92.1 IP
Ky Bush |
Fr. | LHP | Collegiate Debut vs.Kevin Milam | Jr. | RHP | 6-4, 3.68 ERA, 81 K,
85.2 IP
Dylan
Steen | Jr. | RHP | 12-1, 2.21 ERA, 101 K, 105.2 IP - JUCO Stats vs. Carlos
Lomeli | So. | RHP | 0-2, 4.21 ERA, 23 K, 36.1 IP
Hayden
Rosenkrantz | So. | RHP | 0-2, 4.95 ERA, 25 K, 36.1 IP vs.Tyler Thorton | Fr. |
RHP | Collegiate Debut
COUGARS
OPEN 2019 CAMPAIGN AT SAINT MARY'S
Washington
State Baseball heads to the Bay Area to open the 2019 season with a four-game
series at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, Calif. The series opens Friday at 2
p.m. followed by a doubleheader at 10 a.m. Saturday and concludes Sunday at 1
p.m.
FOLLOW
ALONG
Cougar
baseball fans can follow all the season's action on the Washington State
baseball official twitter page @CougBaseball, instagram page @Coug_Baseball and
wsucougars.com. Links to live stats and radio streams will be available at the
baseball schedule page on wsucougars.com. Every Cougar home game will be
webstreamed through Pac-12.org. All four games at Saint Mary's are scheduled to
be webstreamed by smcgaels.com
ABOUT
WASHINGTON STATE
Washington
State posted a 16-33-1 overall record in 2018 including a 8-21-1 in Pac-12
Conference play. The Cougar pitching staff recorded a pair of no-hitters for
the first time since 1976 and the defense was fourth in the Pac-12 in double
plays turned (46)
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= > On
March 1 on Pullman campus in the CUB, WSU The School of Hospitality Business
Management holds its annual “Bellhop” celebration of the hospitality program
that began in the 1940s.
= > During
the event Terry Umbreit, a News
for CougGrouper, and four others will be included into the School’s Hall of
Fame
Source: Sue
McMurray, WSU Carson College of Business 2/13/2019
The School
of Hospitality Business Management will host its annual Bellhop — a celebration
of the hospitality program that began in the 1940s and features a dinner and
dancing — on Friday March 1, on the WSU
Pullman campus.
The event
also includes a celebration of new inductees into the SHBM Hall of Fame.
Tickets
are $125. Registration is available through 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the WSU
Bellhop website or by calling 509‑335‑5766.
The event
will begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, in the CUB Senior Ballroom. The public
is invited.
Hall of
Fame inductees include:
TED
BASELER (’76)
President
and CEO
Ste.
Michelle Wine Estates
PATRICK
FOLEY (’55)
Retired
Chairman and CEO
DHL
Express
GRETCHEN
MATHERS (’62 DECEASED)
Operating
Partner
Schwartz
Brothers Restaurants
BILL
NEWMAN (’58 DECEASED)
Senior
Vice President of Marketing
Westin
Hotels and Resorts
TERRY
UMBREIT (’84)
Emeritus
professor
WSU School
of Hospitality Business Management
The
Bellhop was a longstanding fundraiser that ran from the 1940s to the 1980s and
was revived in 2017. Students turned the women’s gym into a nightclub for an
annual dance, drawing attention to the hotel and restaurant program and raising
money for their seniors to travel and tour some of the finest hotels in the
country. Each year, the club selected a national bellman or hotel sales manager
to honor and bring to Pullman for a series of events.
“The
purpose of bringing the Bellhop back is to honor the past, celebrate the
present, and build the future of the School of Hospitality Business
Management,” said Nancy Swanger, SHBM director and Carson College of Business
associate dean.
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Cougar
Country Drive-In closes temporarily, employees say they haven’t been paid
Former
employees say management was not up to par, owner would ask for money from
register since November
Owner
Rhonda Witt-Miller, who came out of retirement after five years, originally
told the Evergreen via Facebook message that she feared some employees had
possibly stolen from the drive-in. Some employees now say Witt-Miller would
request money from the register.
By Kaye
Gill and Jayce Carral, WSU Daily Evergreen, Feb 13, 2019
Cougar
Country Drive-In has been temporarily closed for the past few days, and the
owner said she hopes to re-open the restaurant by the end of next week.
“We need
funds to pay for supplies and the crew for back pay,” said Rhonda Witt-Miller,
Cougar Country Drive-In owner.
Witt-Miller
said they were approved for financing to pay her crew what they are owed. She
said she will receive the funds by the end of next week.
She said
she does not know how long there has been trouble with paying Cougar Country
employees because she was retired for five years.
Danielle
Kack, a former supervisor at Cougar Country, said she believes the reason the
restaurant is temporarily closed is because Witt-Miller only has three-quarters
of her staff saying they will not return, and only four people said they were
going to stay.
“We had a
meeting on Sunday where she told us she had a loan coming in, which she is
going to use to pay us all,” Kack said.
Kack said
she will not be returning to work at Cougar Country. She said she received the
last cashable check compensating her work on Jan. 24, and she has been
compensated with cash after her Jan. 10 paycheck bounced.
A post on
the Cougar Country Facebook page read: “I believed I had a honest and mature
crew that took responsibility serious. I have hired a thief … will be taking
care of that situation and will return to work after retirement of 5 yrs (i
worked behind the counter for 40 yrs).”
Witt-Miller
said she does not want to resurface the allegations she made about one of her
employees stealing from the business. She does not want to shed a bad light on
her employees or make it difficult for them to seek employment elsewhere.
“To my
knowledge,” Kack said, “there has not been one of my co-workers stealing.”
Kack and
Chelsea Emerson, another employee, said they have both witnessed Witt
requesting to take money from the cash register.
Witt-Miller
has requested $100 to 300 from the register in the past, Kack said. This would
happen almost on a weekly basis and Kack said she noticed a pattern of this
starting in November. She has given Witt-Miller money from the register in the
past because she had asked for it.
Emerson
said her experience at Cougar Country started out great until her former
manager left in December. She then noticed Witt-Miller coming in and asking the
current manager and other employees to take out money from the register for
her. She also said she had the first-hand experience with Witt-Miller asking
her to take money out.
“That’s
when I noticed things started going downhill fast,” Emerson said. “Checks
started bouncing [and] people weren’t getting paid.”
Emerson
added that Pepsi and Coke would not work with Cougar Country unless they were
paid in cash.
Zoey
Rodriguez, former Cougar Country employee, said Witt-Miller would frequently
purchase items from OfferUp, an app where people can buy, sell or trade items.
The items, which once included a pair of Nike shoes, were delivered to Cougar
Country and Witt-Miller would instruct the employees to pay for the items with
money from the register.
Witt-Miller
would also cash her personal checks with money from the register, Rodriguez
said. After each payday, her stepson would also cash his check with money from
the register.
“She was
constantly using Cougar Country tills as a kind of transaction for her personal
life,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez
began working at the drive-in May 2017 but said she left her position in August
2018 because several of her checks bounced. She was paid every two weeks, but
did have four checks bounce during her employment.
“There
were more than a few times we were told not to cash our checks,” Rodriguez
said. “There was one point where, one after another, we all came in and handed
[the checks] to our boss with our bank statements stating all of the fees we
had been charged.”
After her
checks had bounced, Rodriguez said she would notify the old manager, who
reimbursed employees with funds from the safe or the register.
“Sometimes
if they knew [the checks] were going to bounce, they would let us know,” she
said, “but sometimes, like the first time it happened, it was completely
unexpected for all of our checks to bounce.”
Rodriguez
said once Witt-Miller began her position as owner, Witt-Miller would only come
in to the drive-in to reprimand employees, order food or ask for money from the
safe.
“All of
her family got free food, including her stepson,” Rodriguez said. “He would
come in with 10 to 15 friends after school and they also got free food.”
Rodriguez
said Witt-Miller’s stepson was hired after Rodriguez began working for the
drive-in.
“He was
held to a completely different standard than we were,” she said. “He would
always show up late. He sometimes wouldn’t show up at all.”
Rodriguez
said Witt-Miller had taken money from Cougar Country since Rodriguez first
began.
“I know
she’s been posting a lot that there is an employee thief, but all of us
employees know that there is not one,” Rodriguez said. “I am also waiting to
hear that one though, because we all know it’s her, but I’m sure she will pick
one of us at some point to target.”
Rodriguez
said Cougar Country had been a great environment and was a home to her.
“As long
as [Witt-Miller] is the owner I would never go back,” she said. “Rhonda didn’t
even know our names when we worked there. The whole time I worked there I don’t
think she knew my name at all.”
Emerson
said she had not noticed any problems with the manager, assistant manager or
supervisors during her time. They worked to make sure people were paid and that
schedules are in check.
“I am
tired of the lies,” she said. “I just want her to admit the truth.”
This story has been updated to reflect the
correct information regarding Kack’s statement about the reason for Cougar
Country’s temporary closure, not returning for employment and her paycheck.
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Mike Leach
says ‘things are looking good’ for WSU course this spring on football, war
UPDATED:
Tue., Feb. 12, 2019, 8:35 p.m.
By Kip
Hill Spokane S-R
Mike Leach
encouraged Washington State University students on Tuesday to begin preparing
for his football and warfare class, first floated late last year.
The head
Cougars football coach tweeted the course would be offered this spring, but not
for college credit. Taught in tandem with Spokane County Treasurer Michael
Baumgartner, the course would combine the study of underdog forces in warfare
with football strategy, areas where both men have academic and practical
expertise.
“Things
are looking good for our Insurgent Warfare & Football class,” Leach tweeted
from his personal account to more than 140,000 followers Tuesday evening.
“Interested WSU students will need to write two short essays to apply for
admission. Stay tuned for more details on how to apply.”
Those
essays ask potential applicants, who Leach wrote must be current WSU students,
to answer questions about the British response to communist insurgency in
present-day Malaysia in the 1940s and ’50s, and using the unconventional
wishbone offense in the NFL. Elements of the wishbone, which combines a
fullback with two traditional running backs in the backfield, are key
components of Leach’s “Air Raid” offensive attack.
Phil
Weiler, vice president of marketing and communications for the university, said
Tuesday some details still need to be worked out if the course is to be offered
this spring. He said the university’s athletics department would have more
details in the coming days.
Leach
tweeted out a tentative class schedule that includes five night sessions, with
the final meeting being broadcast online and open to members of the Cougar
Athletic Fund, the athletic department’s fundraising arm. A previous syllabus
for the course listed required readings that include Leach’s book on the Native
American leader Geronimo and a 2011 work written about Leach’s time with Texas
Tech University.
Each class
session would be open to as many as 40 current WSU students, Leach wrote on
Twitter.
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Take a
listen to this audio from the Spokane S-R
Feb 12,
2019 - WSU beat writer Theo Lawson of Spokane S-R talks with Larry Wier in the
S-R “Pressbox” about Cougar men’s basketball sweep and QB Gage Gubrud, moving from
EWU to WSU
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