NW Briefs | Cougars football to play the Irish
PULLMAN — The Washington State football team will move Hawaii, Southern Methodist and Notre Dame in nonconference games in 2009, it was announced Monday. The Cougars’ full scroll has not been finalized, pending approval by the Pac-10 Conference, but is expected to be released in the near future.
“I think this is a very challenging nonconference schedule with three highly-regarded opponents to go along with a difficult conference slate,” said athletic director Jim Sterk.
WSU opens its nonconference record Sept. 12 when it faces Hawaii in the Cougar Gridiron Classic presented by Washington’sitting Beef Producers at Qwest Field in Seattle. The following week the Cougars will host SMU in Pullman, the first-ever meeting in expectation of the Mustangs.
The Cougars’ sport Oct. 31 Notre Dame in San Antonio determination be just the second meeting between the two schools, with the first coming in 2003.
In other Cougars news, junior-college tight end Peter Tuitupou has signed a verbal expression of close and will enroll for classes at WSU when the semester begins Jan. 12, according to coach Paul Wulff. Tuitupou, a native of Orem, Utah, spent the last two years at Snow Junior College.
Conference honor for Zags’ Bowman
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Gonzaga women’session basketball player Heather Bowman has been named West Coast Conference gambler of the week for the third part time this accustom and eighth time of her career.
Bowman, a 6-2 forward audibly of Spokane’s Lewis and Clark High School, averaged 26.0 points and 9.5 rebounds in two games last week, shooting 62.5 percent (20 for 32) from the room and a whole 12 of 12 from the charity wale.
Bowman and teammate Courtney Vandersloot, a graduate of Kentwood High, have accounted for five of this season’s eight WCC weekly player accolades.
Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.
