High School Sports Feature: Lake City's Jessica Ross

The Spokesman's Greg Lee just did this feature on Lake City's Jessica Ross, who made the change from centerfield to catcher this season and has done well.

Well, that's an understatement.

Ross, who hits second in LC’s lineup, brought a team-leading .474 average into the week. She also leads the squad in stolen bases (seven) and doubles (five) through 11 games.

Ross and Work want to get LC back to state. The T-Wolves haven’t qualified for state since their freshman year.

That year, LC had to win a play-in game to earn a state berth. The T-Wolves trailed Borah 5-1 going into the bottom of the seventh, but they rallied to score five runs to win.

Tolzmann used Ross as a pinch hitter to lead off in the decisive inning, and Ross hit a home run. Work, the final hitter in the inning, capped the comeback with a two-run homer.

LC finished second at state, losing to rival Coeur d’Alene in the title game.

Currently sitting 8-0 in league play and 14-1 overall, the T-Wolves are well on their way to state this year, meaning that we'll see more from Ross when all is said and done.

High School Feature: Lake City softball and Cheney soccer

Lake City pitcher Lela Work ran her record to 10-0 on the season, as the Timberwolves defeated Coeur d'Alene on Tuesday. She allowed just two hits and struck out 14.

In other words, if this happened in the majors, she'd be on SportsCenter.

Overall Lake City is 11-1 on the season, 5-0 in league and they hold a two-game lead over Post Falls in the Inland Empire League.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, Cheney boy's soccer remained atop the Great Northern League after beating Medical Lake 2-1. Evan Cook and Xavier Day scored a goal to lead the Blackhawks to their seventh victory of the season. They're undefeated by the way and are a game ahead of Pullman, which is 6-1.

Big thanks to Greg Lee and Mike Vlahovich for doing such a great job of writing about high school sports in the Spokesman Review. Without them, this would be pretty much impossible for me to do.