Northwest -- NW College Hires Langston

Kathy Langston, who coached girls basketball at Sammamish High School for 30 years until her contract was not renewed after last season, is the new women's basketball coach at Northwest College in Kirkland.

She replaces Lynn Kennedy at Northwest College. Kennedy resigned to become an assistant coach at Eastern Washington University.

Langston was the Totems' head coach for 22 seasons after serving as an assistant for eight years. She helped start the girls basketball program at Sammamish in 1967 when the sport wasn't yet a WIAA-sanctioned sport.

After Sammamish went 9-12 last season, Langston, who retired from teaching at Sammamish two years earlier, was informed last spring that her coaching contract was being terminated. It wasn't about wins and losses, Athletic Director Bill Neal said, but rather because the school "wanted to go in different direction."

Sammamish replaced Langston with Lorinda Flikkema, who was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Washington State the past two seasons.

Ehlo takes prep job

Craig Ehlo, whose 14-year NBA career ended when the Seattle Sonics released him before the 1997-98 season, is the new boys basketball coach at Rogers High School in Spokane.

Ehlo played one season (62 games in 1996-97) with the Sonics after three seasons in Houston, seven in Cleveland and three in Atlanta.

At Rogers, Ehlo replaces Rick Mergenthaler, who resigned after five seasons to accept a similar position at Sumner High School. It will be the first coaching job for Ehlo, who was a volunteer assistant last season at his alma mater, Washington State, in addition to doing radio commentary for Cougar broadcasts.

Parrott, Bujan in final

Unseeded Travis Parrott, a sophomore-to-be at the University of Georgia, continued his string of upsets in the 108th annual Pacific Northwest Open Tennis Tournament. Today, he'll play for the men's singles championship at noon against No. 7 Tony Bujan at the Tacoma Lawn Tennis Club.

Parrott, a Portland native who helped Georgia win the NCAA championship last season, knocked off second-seeded Glen Michibata 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in one of yesterday's semifinals. Bujan, a former Texas Christian University player who lives in Palm Desert, Calif., beat No. 4 Frank Salazar 6-1, 6-2 in the other semifinal.

Parrott beat the No. 8 seed and the third seed in earlier matches.

Top-seeded Leona Matzenauer faces No. 6 Stephanie Mabry for the women's singles title today at 10:30 a.m. In yesterday's semifinals, Matzenauer beat Breanna Kray 6-1, 6-1, and Mabry beat No. 3 Peggy Wu 6-1, 6-1.