Mark Nelke
Sports Editor at Coeur d’Alene Press
Coeur d'Alene Press sports editor Mark Nelke covers North Idaho high school and North Idaho College sports, with a touch of Idaho Vandals mixed in
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1 week ago |
cdapress.com | Mark Nelke
By MARK NELKE Sports editor COEUR d’ALENE — The pop fly to second baseman Chloe Burke was caught for the final out. The district softball championship for the Coeur d’Alene Vikings was secured, thanks to a 15-5 victory at Lake City on Thursday, the celebration was on ... And then ... It was time to film a video for TikTok. "Every year I’ve been here we’ve won districts,” said Burke, who has played on district title teams all four of her seasons at Coeur d’Alene.
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1 week ago |
cdapress.com | Mark Nelke
By MARK NELKE Sports writer COEUR d’ALENE — Lake City entered the bottom of the seventh inning of Saturday’s winner-take-all title game of the 6A District 1 baseball championship game with a five-run lead over Coeur d’Alene. So naturally, Lake City coach Mike Criswell said, “I was terrified.” With good reason. After all, Lake City led by four runs in Game 1 on Tuesday before Coeur d’Alene scored five in the bottom of the sixth to win 8-7.
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2 weeks ago |
cdapress.com | Mark Nelke
By MARK NELKE Sports editor Coeur d’Alene High is bringing back a familiar face to coach the Vikings’ boys basketball team. Kent Leiss, who coached Coeur d’Alene’s boys for nearly 10 seasons (2003-13), was hired this week to coach the Vikings again. “I miss coaching,” said Leiss, who taught one more year at Coeur d’Alene High after his coaching stint ended. He’s in his 11th year as a teacher at Sandpoint High, and was the Bulldog boys basketball coach his first four years there.
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1 month ago |
cdapress.com | Mark Nelke
By MARK NELKESports editorBlake Buchanan, the former Lake City High basketball star who played the past two seasons at the University of Virginia, is transferring to Iowa State, he announced recently on his Instagram page. Buchanan told The Press on Tuesday he first met Iowa State coach TJ Otzelberger a few years ago, when he was invited to a USA Basketball minicamp.
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2 months ago |
cdapress.com | Mark Nelke
By MARK NELKE Sports editor COEUR d’ALENE — Round 1 of a new format — on a weekend afternoon, but attracting some 1,500 fans — went to the home squad. Senior Reese Strawn and sophomore Jordan Carlson scored 20 points each as the top-seeded Lake City Timberwolves beat the second-seeded Post Falls Trojans 69-57 in Game 1 of a best-of-3 series for the 6A District 1 boys basketball title Saturday afternoon at Lake City. Game 2 is Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Post Falls.
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No. 6 Timberlake 10, No. 7 Preston 2 in state 4A softball loser-out game at Skyview High in Nampa. Timberlake faces the loser of No. 1 Kimberly and No. 5 Teton today at 12:30 p.m. PDT
Coeur d'Alene softball suffers another heartbreaking loss. This time the sixth seed Vikings fall to No. 2 Timberline 2-1 on a walk-off single with two out in the bottom of the seventh. Coeur d'Alene's season is over after two tough losses at state.
RT @tim_stebbins: Reds-Guardians first pitch moved up to 5:10 ET due to tonight’s forecast.
