After writing my post on high school athletic associations in Alabama and Texas suspending activities because of the recent swine flu outbreak in those states, I e-mailed the Idaho High School Activities Association to ask if they have a plan in place if an outbreak were to occur in Idaho. The Spokesman-Review reported today a Spokane man is believed to have come down with the illness.

The IHSAA...read more

Athletic bodies that oversee high school athletic events in at least two states have suspended activities because of the recent swine flu outbreak.

We had a front page story in today's Sports section about the postponements in Texas. You can read more about what is happening in the following articles from sine Texas' newspapers. Here is a story on the University Interscholastic League's...read more

Interesting story out of Florida where a high school pitcher will try for his fifth consecutive no-hitter Tuesday.

If you haven't seen the story, you can read about Patrick Schuster's feat here. I was just watching ESPNews and the network plans to show all of his pitches in a playoff game. According to The New York Times' story I linked to, more than 1,000 people attended his last...read more

Homedale School District superintendent Tim Rosandick annouced Friday night the hiring of Matt Holtry as the Trojans new football coach.

Holtry has been the defensive coordinator at Nampa, where he is also the head track coach and assistant girls basketball coach. The Bulldogs had the top defense in the 4A SIC last season and advanced to the state quarterfinals.

Holtry replaces Rob Kassebaum, who...read more

An interesting story was passed on the AP wire today. Sandpoint head football coach Mike Mitchell has hired Jake Plummer as an assistant coach.

The Capital High grad and former NFL quarterback has lived in Sandpoint since retiring. Plummer has said in the past he wanted to coach, and a good source told me Plummer was helping out a team at a local elementary school. There is no word if Ben Stein or...read more

Northwest Nazarene just sent out a release to announce the signing of Capital forward Paul Egwuonwu. Egwuonwu is 6-foot-8, but spent a lot of time on the perimeter for the Eagles. He received honorable mention honors on the 5A SIC All-Conference team this season.

Here is NNU's release:

Crusaders sign Capital High School standout Paul Egwuonwu

NAMPA, Idaho - Northwest Nazarene University...read more

One of the area's top distance runners has signed a letter of intent with the University of Idaho. Lars Lunstrum is the second Wildcat track/cross country athlete to sign a letter of intent, as Barak Watson plans to attend Northwest Nazarene.

Lustrum won the 1,600 at last year's 4A state track meet and finished second -- to Watson -- in the 3,200. He also finished fourth place at last...read more

A couple quick recruiting notes:

— Vallivue senior Jesse Vermillion has signed a letter of intent to play college baseball at the College of Idaho, according to his father. As of last week, Vermillion was 2-0 with 27 strikeouts in 19.1 innings.

— Also, Vallivue softball pitcher Sydnee Jerome has received a scholarship offer to continue her career at Wenatchee Valley College in Washington...read more

This one set up nicely for the Queston of the Week: How will Aaron Sanders do as Skyview's head basketball coach?

If you haven't heard, Sean Yeager has resigned after two years as head coach. Skyview athletic director Dan McGee quickly announced the promotion of Sanders, an assistant coach for the Hawks since 2002, as Yeager's replacement.

Returning what they do from this year's...read more

Several more Treasure Valley senior standouts know what they will be doing next year.

We reported this earlier in the spring by Bishop Kelly golfer Katie Skinner has signed a letter of intent to golf at Georgetown. Skinner should be in the running for the 4A state golf title next month.

Two of the 5A SIC's top scorers in boys basketball are headed to the junior college level. Borah's Dennis Mikelonis...read more

I hope everybody has enjoyed the last few days of sunshine. It is a nice change of pace, even if it is only supposed to last for a few days.

Now for the question of the week: A big vote is taking place Wednesday at IHSAA's board of directors' meeting on whether or not to cut the regular season for ALL sports by 10 percent (i.e. one less football game, two less basketball games.) Are...read more

A pair of Melba athletes are scheduled to sign college letters of intent next week.

Three-time state wrestling champion Kyle Johnshoy will sign a letter of intent with Western State College of Colorado. The NCAA Division II school is in Gunnison, Colo. Also signing a letter of intent is Amy Wadkins, who will compete in cross country at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. Wadkins finished 10th...read more

Here is the first addition of the Honor Roll for softball and baseball. Just so you know, the stats are provided by coaches and compiled by sports reporter Bruce Mason. (Thanks Bruce!) To provide stats, e-mail information to sports@idahopress.com by Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

Honor Roll

Through Mar.30

Softball

5A

HITTING

Batting Average

Name, School AB H AVG

Ashley VanHorne, Caldwell 44 23...read more