Fisher goes sky high for Navy track team
Sunday, December 25, 2005 9:38 PM PST
By Rick McCorkle
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E-mail this articleMark Morris High graduate Bo Fisher is flying high in his sophomore season with the United States Naval Academy track team.
At the recent nine-team U.S. Navy Invitational Indoor Track and Field Meet held in Annapolis, Md., Fisher won the pole vault at 15-feet-9 and qualified for the both the indoor and outdoor Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America Championship meets. The distance also tied his career-best indoor mark set at last season's Patriot League Championships.
Another MM graduate, Laura Wright, has had her ups-and-downs recently with the Central Washington University women's basketball team.
Wright erupted for a career-high 32 points, including 23 in the first half, and grabbed 13 rebounds in a 91-77 victory over Cal-State Monterey Bay in the Dave Cox Classic at Seattle University. The point total included 10-of-14 field goals and a perfect 11-11 at the free throw line, and was four shy of the single-game school record. It surpassed her previous career-high of 26 points. In addition, the 13 rebounds matched her season-high and was a carom short of her single-game career-best.
But her fortunes were short-lived as she suffered an injury to her right knee the next evening prior to the Wildcats' second game of the Dave Cox Classic. Wright, who is averaging 15.3 points and 8.2 rebounds, underwent arthroscopic surgery and hopes to return to the hardwood sometime in January.
For her career, Wright, a 6-foot-3 junior center, is ranked 37th on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference all-time scoring list with 852 points.
Toledo's Beth Layton continues to be a consistent scoring threat for the St. Martin's College women's basketball team.
Layton, a senior guard, scored a game-high 22 points as the Saints turned away Abilene Christian 87-74, and hit all 12 of her free throw attempts for 26 points in a 89-83 triumph over Cal-State Stanislaus at the Budd Bay Embroidery Christmas Classic hosted by St. Martin's College. She earned all-tournament honors after hitting 19 points in the Saints' 106-65 loss to Chico State.
Layton is ranked 18th on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference all-time scoring list with 1067 points, and needs fewer than 270 points to break into the conference's top-five all-time scorers.
Former Kelso High and Lower Columbia College basketball standout Sara Burgoyne made three steals for the Northwest Nazarene University women's team in a recent 80-55 triumph over Adams State.
Burgoyne, who has appeared in all seven of NNU's games, is averaging 2.1 points in 10 minutes per game for the Crusaders.
Another ex-LCC standout, Chris Bannish, knocked down a team-high 23 points and handed out four assists for the Central Washington University Wildcats in an 84-81 loss to Western Washington University in the men's Showdown in the Sound tournament held in Seattle.
Bannish, who graduated from Willapa Valley High in Menlo, Wash., is second among the Wildcats in scoring at 17.2 points per game.
Former Mark Morris High and LCC player Doug Dietz is a senior guard with The Evergreen State College men's basketball team. Dietz, who is averaging 7.9 points per game, hit 7-of-11 shots including 4-6 from outside the three-point arc for a team-high 19 points in the Geoducks' recent 71-59 loss to Simon Fraser of Canada.
Kalama's Josiah Wilfong, a senior cornerback with the Central Washington University football team, was one of nine Great Northwest Athletic Conference players named to the Northwest All-Region Team by Football Gazette.
Wilfong earned second-team honors, and Scappoose's Eliot Vinzant was named to the third-team. Vinzant completed his junior year as a running back at Western Oregon University.
Kelso's Jenny Larson, a senior tennis player at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Penn., was one of six LVC players named to the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Conference Fall All-Academic Team.
Larson, an English major, went 7-6 at third singles and advanced to the quarterfinals of the MASCAC Tournament. She was also 9-5 in doubles play while competing at second doubles. In her final singles win of the season, Larson set the LVC career record for combined singles and doubles wins at 58. She also has the school's career record for doubles wins with 33.
Rick McCorkle is a sportswriter for The Daily News. If you know of a local athlete in college sports who hasn't been mentioned in this report, call McCorkle at 577-2529 or e-mail him at rickmc@tdn.com
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