NW Briefs | Gymnast tour to stop in Tacoma

Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin and fellow gold medalist Shawn Johnson will be part of a post-Beijing tour that makes a stop Sept. 27 at the Tacoma Dome.

The two will be joined in the tour by Chellsie Memmel, Morgan Hamm, Shannon Miller and Blaine Wilson for the 36-city Tour of Gymnastics Superstars, which begins Sunday in Reno, Nev., and ends Nov. 16 in Kansas City, Mo.

They will be in Portland on Sept. 26 and in Spokane on Sept. 28. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.com.

Prices range from $29 to $79; there are group rates.

For more information, see gymnasticssuperstars.com.

Seattle Pacific

women win in OT

Amanda Johnson scored two goals, including the game-winner with less than two minutes left in the second overtime to lift eighth-ranked Seattle Pacific to a 3-2 victory over No. 24 Cal State Dominguez Hills in a nonconference soccer game at Interbay Stadium.

Johnson's goal turned back a Dominguez's rally — the Toros overcame a 2-0 deficit — to force overtime. The sophomore forward stopped just outside the box after a long dribbling run down the center of the field and launched a 20-yard blast into the upper right corner to end the game.

The Falcons (2-0-1) took the early lead on a 35th-minute goal by Johnson and a 52nd-minute strike from Jenkins.

SPU men

are shut out

Greg Piechota assisted on the first two goals Wednesday, leading No. 8 Cal State Dominguez Hills to a 3-0 victory over the Seattle Pacific men in a nonconference soccer game at Interbay Stadium.

SPU (0-1-1) lost to the Toros (3-0) for the seventh straight time. Goalkeeper Ben Lovelace made four saves for the Falcons, who were outshot 20-8.

The SPU men now face a four-game trip, beginning Friday at fourth-ranked Sonoma State in Rohnert Park, Calif.

Runner slain

in Tacoma

Joshua Thomas Gatbunton, 20, of Lakewood, was one of two men shot early Wednesday at an apartment in Tacoma's South End.

Gatbunton died about 4:30 a.m. at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma.

Gatbunton attended Mount Tahoma High School and had been a member of the Saint Martin's cross country and track and field teams.

The other man's injuries were described as serious.

More soccer

Whitworth University men's soccer (2-0) is nationally ranked for the first time this season, making its debut at 15th in the NSCAA/Adidas NCAA men's Division III poll. The 10th-ranked women's team, coming off a season-opening 2-0 win over Chapman University, heads to California for a Friday afternoon match against No. 22 UC Santa Cruz.

Notes

Kim Gregory, owner of USA Racing on the hydroplane circuit, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 58. His boat competed in July at Seafair in Seattle.

• The Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team has acquired center Colin Haas from the Prince George Cougars, in exchange for right wing Isak Quakenbush.

• The Aflac Iron Girl 10K & 5K Run/Walk will begin at Greenlake Park at 8 a.m. Sunday. It will include more than 1,600 women from all fitness levels and ages. To register (online deadline is today) or for more information, visit www.active.com.

On-site registration is available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and from 6 to 7:45 a.m. Sunday at Green Lake Park.

• Beth Taimi of SeaTac, a graduate of the University of Puget Sound, has been named an associate athletic director for external relations at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. Taimi had been an assistant director for the Lobo Club at the University of New Mexico.

Compiled from sports-information reports and other sources.