Ex-UW coach Lambright to have surgery for cancer

  • By John Sleeper / Herald Writer
  • Monday, May 10, 2004 9:00pm
  • Sports

SEATTLE – Former University of Washington head football coach Jim Lambright was scheduled to undergo surgery today to remove his bladder and prostate gland.

A native of Everett, Lambright has been diagnosed with bladder cancer. He underwent surgery last month to have a tumor removed from his bladder.

Today’s surgery will be at the University of Washington Medical Center.

“The good thing is it looks like they got it early enough,” Lambright said. “I want to thank everyone for their well-wishes for myself and my family at this time.”

Lambright compiled a record of 44-25-1 in six seasons as the Huskies’ head coach (1993-1998). A 1965 UW graduate, he earned all-coast and all-conference honors for the Huskies in 1964.

He won The Herald’s Man of the Year award in 1964.

Lambright began a 30-year coaching career at Washington in 1969 as an assistant to head coach Jim Owens. He was retained by Don James when James took over the Washington program in 1975.

Lambright was the Huskies’ defensive coordinator for his last 16 years as an assistant and was assistant head coach from 1987 to 1992. He was widely credited with developing Washington’s eight-man front defensive scheme that helped the Huskies win the 1991 national championship.

Lambright requested no flowers be sent to him. Instead, he requested donations be made to the Jim Lambright Niemann-Pick Foundation. Donation information is available at www.lambrightfoundation.com.

Lambright started the foundation to help raise money for research for the genetic disorder that stops the metabolism of cholesterol. His adult sons, Brad and Bart, both have the disease.

By Aaron Coe

Herald Writer

MOUNT VERNON – If Justin Petry would’ve been allowed to bowl the baseball down the first baseline, it wouldn’t have been as pretty.

Asked to lay down a bunt to keep the Marysville-Pilchuck High School baseball team’s sixth-inning rally alive, Petry put down a perfect suicide squeeze on Tuesday at Sherman Anderson Field in Mount Vernon. His bunt attempt turned RBI-base hit propelled the Tomahawks to a 6-5, come-from-behind victory over Kamiak Tuesday night in a Northwest District 4A semifinal.

The Tommies (18-4) will play Edmonds-Woodway for the district championship and a state berth 2 p.m. Saturday at Everett Memorial Stadium. Kamiak (16-6) will face Lake Stevens in a 7 p.m. loser-out game, also at Everett Memorial.

Petry may not be known as a slugger, but his lone hit of the game was as big as they come.

“He’s one of those speedy bunter guys,” chuckled James “Bubba” Day, who drove in the final two runs of the six-run sixth, of Petry. “I’ve never seen one that pretty.”

Two runs had scored thanks to RBI-singles from Donny Treat and Brady Knuth when Petry walked toward the plate with the bases loaded and his team in the process of cutting into a 5-0 hole. With the excitement of a budding rally booming, Petry – the No. 9 hitter for M-P – missed the first bunt sign sent in by Tomahawks coach Josh Rosenbach. He caught the second sign, which was much more animated.

“It was ‘Do it!” Petry said.

And he did.

The ball came off of Petry’s bat and rolled down the first base line in an apparent attempt to go foul. Then the spin kicked in and the ball died as Treat crossed the plate and the bases reloaded.

“That’s the play of the game,” said Rosebach, who had hoped simply to trim the deficit to two runs heading into the seventh. ” … Luckily guys stepped up after that squeeze and we didn’t have to go into (the bottom of) that seventh inning.”

Brandon Williams followed Petry with a sacrifice fly to pull Marysville-Pilchuck within a run. Day then punched a 2-out single between first and second base to put the Tomahawks up for good.

Reliever Brady Knuth pitched the final 2Z\c innings, including a 1-2-3 seventh for his third victory in three appearances this season on the mound.

The Knights scored four runs in the third despite recording only one hit.

Kamiak took advantage of three walks, four wild pitches and an error in a rare shaky outing by Nick Haughian, whose record stayed at 6-0 after the M-P comeback. Kamiak walked seven times and advanced runners on five wild pitches, but the Knights managed only three hits in the game.

Kamiak’s Jesse Wight singled with one out to begin the four-run third inning and scored on a wild pitch. Brian Ouellette walked and also came home after a pitch skipped over the head of Day, who caught all seven innings.

Tim Reed and Vinnie Mangano both scored on a Marysville-Pilchuck throwing error for a 4-0 lead.

The Knights scored their fifth run on a throwing error in the fifth.

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St. Clair, Brown (6) and Matthews. Haughian, Knuth (5) and Day. WP-Knuth (3-0). LP-Brown. Records-Kamiak 16-6 overall. Marysville-Pilchuck 18-4.

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