College Report: Huskies' Wallace sporting 'battle scar'
Saturday, December 20, 2008 6:36 PM PST
By Rick McCorkle
Printable version
E-mail this articleToledo’s Artem Wallace, a senior forward with the University of Washington men’s basketball team, was questioned about stitches under his right eye during a recent press conference in Seattle.
“Is that a Jon Brockman (UW teammate) battle scar?” the reporter inquired.
Wallace laughed.
“That is a Jon Brockman battle scar, yes,” he replied. “Just caught a good old-fashioned Jon Brockman elbow.”
“Jon is a physical player,” Wallace explained. “He’s got those elbows of his. We play a physical style of basketball and try to rebound hard. It just happens in practice. No hard feelings.”
Wallace is averaging 1.2 points and 1.7 rebounds coming off the bench for the Huskies.
• Mark Morris grad Dan Lingenfelder, a junior wing with the George Fox University men’s basketball team, is one of eight returning players on the Bruins’ roster.
“Dan is a fundamentally sound player who has given us a nice spark off the bench, both offensively and defensively,” George Fox coach Mark Sundquist said on the team’s Web site. “We will just look for more consistency from him.”
Lingenfelder has averaged 3.1 points and 2.5 rebounds in 15 minutes per game coming off the bench for the Bruins.
Another former MM player, Felix Freidt, exploded for 18 points and grabbed 16 rebounds for Whitworth University in a recent 88-38 drubbing of the Cal-Tech Beavers in the CIT/Oxy Thanksgiving Classic in Los Angeles.
Freidt is averaging 6.2 points and 3.7 rebounds for the Pirates.
• A pair of ex-MM student-athletes are in their final collegiate basketball season in the Big Sky Conference. Mickey Polis is averaging 4.4 points as a reserve guard at Portland State University, and Josh Wilson is averaging 9.6 points and four assists at Northern Arizona University.
Polis and Wilson will square off for the final time on Feb. 5 when Northern Arizona visits Portland State.
Polis’ younger brother, Tony Polis, is a sophomore point guard averaging seven points and two assists as a sophomore at Pacific Lutheran University. Polis has appeared in all seven games
• Kelso’s Nathan Downs is a freshman guard averaging 2.6 points at Northwest University in Kirkland, and R.A. Long High grad Scott Pisapia is a redshirt non-participant with the Lewis and Clark College men’s basketball team.
• MM’s Brady Bergeson is a first-year assistant coach with the Humboldt State University men’s basketball team in California, and Naselle graduate Robin Andrea Jr. is an assistant coach with the Western Oregon University men’s basketball program.
• A pair of former LCC guards are now part of the coaching staff with the Central Washington University men’s basketball team. Chris Bannish is a graduate assistant in his third season, and Jason Buffum is a second-year student assistant coach.
• Also at Central Washington, Castle Rock’s Brooke Fernandez is a first-year administrative assistant with the women’s basketball team.
• R.A. Long’s Samantha Johnson, a freshman guard with the Linfield University women’s basketball team, has appeared in three games for the Wildcats and averages 2.3 points.
• Emily Deichsel, a Mark Morris grad and senior center at Lewis and Clark College, has appeared in five games for the Pioneers this season.
• Kelso High graduate Josh Miller, a freshman wrestler at Clackamas College, recently showed his mettle against NAIA national runner-up Brendon DeCock from the University of Great Falls. Miller won his 174-pound duel 4-2, but the Cougars dropped the match 24-18.
• Also at Clackamas, Kelso teammate Mitch Giberson is a 141-pound freshman and Kalama’s Joe Fistolera is competing as a freshman at 149.
• Another former Kelso grappler, Jared Dalgleish, is a sophomore wrestling in the 125-pound division at Southern Oregon University.
• A pair of former Mark Morris swimmers had success with their respective teams in the recent Northwest Invitational hosted by Whitworth University in Spokane.
• Dan Neal, a sophomore with freshman eligibility at Whitworth, helped the Pirates win the meet with a seventh-place finish in the 500 freestyle. Chase Mesford, a freshman at Pacific Lutheran University, placed sixth in the 500 freestyle, helped the 200 free relay and 400 medley relay to second-place finishes, and assisted the 800 relay to a third-place finish as the Lutes placed fourth in the meet.
• Kelso’s Sydney Wheeler is a junior with the Washington State University crew team.
• Two former area prep football standouts were named to the all-Frontier Conference football team after leading Eastern Oregon University to a third-place finish in conference play.
• Wahkiakum grad Jeff McNally and Rainier’s Chris Ware were among seven Mountaineers named to the all-conference squad. McNally, a junior defensive back, finished the season second in the conference and 12th in the country among all NAIA players with five interceptions in 10 games.
Ware, a freshman quarterback, was ranked third in the conference and 16th among all NAIA players in total offense (2,790 yards), which included completing 193-of-344 passes (56 percent) for 2,357 yards and 19 touchdowns.
Past Month's Most Commented Stories