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  • West Plains Scoreboard

    Updated Feb 19, 2016

    BASKETBALL College Big Sky Conference Standings Men (Through Feb. 13, 2016) School Conf. Pct. All Pct. Hm. Aw. Stk. Montana 11-2 .846 16-8 .667 10-1 6-7 W3 Weber State 10-2 .833 18-7 .720 11-1 4-5 W2 E. Wash. 9-4 .692 15-10 .600 10-0 4-9 W6 Idaho State 8-4 .667 13-11 .542 9-2 3-8 W3 Idaho 8-5 .615 16-10 .615 8-4 7-5 W2 No. Dakota 7-6 .538 12-12 .500 7-4 4-7 L2 Mont. State 7-6 .538 12-13 .480 6-3 4-9 W3 No. Colo. 5-8 .385 8-17 .320 6-8 2-9 L4 Port. State 4-8 .333 8-15 .348 5-5 3-10 L3 Sac. State 3-9 .250 10-13 .435 7-4 3-9 L3...

  • Sports Briefs

    Updated Feb 19, 2016

    McBroom earns Big Sky, national player of the week honors Piling up the most points in back-to-back games in Big Sky Conference play in school history, senior graduate transfer Austin McBroom was selected Feb. 15 as the Big Sky Conference Player of the Week. The league’s leading scorer finished with a combined 72 points in EWU’s home sweep to extend the Eagles’ winning streak to six games. Including his 11 assists which led to 26 additional Eagle points, he had a hand in 98 of EWU’s 192 points on the weekend. The 6-foot-...

  • Jois closes in on records

    Updated Feb 19, 2016

    Senior Venky Jois, only the third player in the 53-year history of the Big Sky Conference to have more than 1,600 points and 900 rebounds in his career, is inching closer to the EWU career scoring record. Now with 1,679 points as an Eagle, he is only 62 points behind the school record of 1,741 held by Ron Cox (1974-77). If Jois equals his 16.7 scoring average the rest of the season (including one Big Sky Tournament game), Jois would finish with 1,779 to rank 13th in league history and break the school record at home on March...

  • Eastern women begin important three-game home stand

    NEWS SERVICE REPORTS|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    With three weeks left in the regular season, the Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team returns home this week for rematches against Big Sky Conference foes Sacramento State and Portland State. Eastern (17-8, 11-2 Big Sky) will take on Sacramento State tonight (Thursday, Feb. 18) at 6 p.m. and Portland State on Saturday, Feb. 20 at 2 p.m. Last week, EWU suffered only its second conference loss of the season with a 72-69 finish at North Dakota, on Thursday, Feb. 11. The Eagles bounced back from the loss by finis...

  • Medical Lake qualifies two for Mat Classic XXVIII

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    A senior will get one more chance at a state wrestling title and some younger team members get to know what Mat Classic XXVIII is all about. Two Medical Lake wrestlers, senior Nick Reed at 113 pounds and freshman Justin Warnick in the 120-pound class, each earned trips to the Tacoma Dome following last Saturday’s 1A regionals at Colville. Additionally, freshmen Weston Thomas, who wrestled at 106, will tag along as an alternate, but freshman Isaiah Schlosser at 185, just m...

  • Cardinal girls exit in round two of playoffs, look to next year

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    The Medical Lake girls basketball team’s season ended in the second round of the Northeast A League playoffs following a 56-33 loss at Newport Feb. 13. Earlier in the week Medical Lake defeated Colville in an opening-round elimination game 46-37 after losing its final league game, 39-35 to Riverside. Against the Grizzlies, a 20-8 edge in the second quarter broke open a relatively close game. “Newport shot the ball extremely good,” head coach Kyle Lundberg said. “That was the...

  • Sports Week

    Updated Feb 19, 2016

    COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Thursday, Feb. 18, EWU at Sacramento State, 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, EWU at Portland State, 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, EWU at Idaho, 1:05 p.m. Women Thursday, Feb. 18, EWU hosts Sacramento State, 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20, EWU hosts Portland State, 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27 EWU hosts Idaho, 2 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Boys Friday, Feb. 19, NEA Districts at West Valley. Times, teams TBA. Saturday, Feb. 20, NEA Districts at West Valley. Times, teams TBA HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASTICS Friday, Feb. 19, state...

  • Cardinal champs

    Medical Lake School District|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    The sixth grade Cardinal Pride girls won the YMCA 5/6 grade competitive basketball championship Feb. 10. Front row (L-R): Tyanna Newman, Ellie Haas, Sydney Lundberg, Sara Firestone, Lauryn Gerry, Morgan Bro, Jasmine Lundberg. Back row, Camaryn Clark and coach Paige Schuettler. The team finished with a 10-2 record....

  • Fairways Golf Course opens on permanent greens

    Updated Feb 19, 2016

    Due to unseasonably warm temperatures, the Fairways Golf Course is now open for play on 18 permanent greens. “We have now had golfers on the course five out of the last six winters in January and February which is a nice opportunity for our customers who normally have to drive or fly somewhere south to play this time of year” Fairways general manager Kris Kallem said. The Fairways is open for walking play, weather and course conditions permitting, starting at 10 a.m. each day. The golf course needs to firm up a little bit...

  • Lady Blackhawks upset Pullman, end season with Clarkston loss

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    Cheney High’s girls’ basketball team got a little bit of revenge for last year’s season-ending playoff-loss to Pullman. The No.4-seeded Lady Blackhawks outscored the third-seeded Greyhounds 30-21 in the second half en route to a 50-38 win in a loser-out Great Northern League playoff game last Tuesday, Feb. 9, in Pullman. Last year, Pullman eliminated Cheney in the second round, 39-36. It was the second year in a row Cheney has knocked off a higher seed in the opening round, eliminating second-seeded West Valley in 2015....

  • Hovater and Miller advance to state gymnastics competition

    AL STOVER, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    The Cheney High gymnastics team will have a couple of athletes competing in the 1A/2A/3A state championships, Feb. 19-20 at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall. Alexis Miller and Olivia Hovater qualified for state competition at the 3A Regional Championships Feb. 13 at Mead. Miller qualified for the all-around competition after she took 10th with a score of 31.350. Her teammates Makayla Miller (31.250), Katie Clemens (29.700) and Hovater (29.450) compiled an 11-12-13 finish while Jory Pryor took 15th (27.800). Alexis Miller also...

  • Eagles finally becoming team Hayford thought they would

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    When's the last time Eastern Washington showed up in a list ahead of basketball powers like Michigan, Duke, Indiana and Kansas? Try never. There has not been much the Eagles have done wrong lately in winning six consecutive Big Sky Conference games and nine of their last 11. So the status, according to Synergy Sports Technology who rank the Eagles as the nation's most efficient scoring team is not surprising. "Trust me, this got out to everyone we're recruiting because the...

  • Medical Lake can't seem to shake Lakeside

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    As the Medical Lake boy's basketball team heads down the road in the state 1A playoffs there is one image they can't seem to shake in their mirror. The Lakeside Eagles. After a split in the first two games of the Northeast A League playoffs last week, a 59-47 loss to Lakeside and a 61-44 victory over Chewelah, the Cardinals faced the Eagles again Feb. 16 in double-elimination district play, losing 73-49. Medical Lake (16-6) closed out the regular season Feb. 9 at Riverside...

  • EWU men try to stay hot on road

    NEWS SERVICE REPORTS|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    Eastern Washington’s men’s basketball team, winners of six-straight games and nine of their last 11, try to maintain their top-three position in the Big Sky Conference standings this week when they play the first two of three-straight road games. Eastern plays at Sacramento State tonight (Thursday, Feb. 18) and at Portland State on Saturday, Feb. 20 in a pair of games that begin at 7:05 p.m. Eastern took wire-to-wire victories last week over North Dakota (95-85) and Northern Colorado (97-80). The Eagles are unbeaten at hom...

  • Five Cheney wrestlers head to Mat Classic

    AL STOVER, Staff Reporter|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    The Cheney High wrestling team will take a couple familiar faces and some new ones to the Mat Classic XXVIII, Feb. 19-20, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma. The Blackhawk had five wrestlers qualify for the state championships at the 2A Region 4 tournament, Feb. 13. It's the most wrestlers who have qualified for the state tournament in a season since head coach Brad Rasmussen took over the program in 2013. Michael Ferguson (220 pounds) earned his second trip to state after winning h...

  • West Plains Briefs

    Updated Feb 19, 2016

    Cheney book club Feb. 23 How do two women, age 75 and 80, survive in the Alaska wilderness after their tribe abandons them? “Two Old Women” tells their story and is the February selection of the Book Discussion Group of the Friends of the Cheney Community Library. The group meets on Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. at the library. In her novel, author Velma Wallis recounts a story told by her mother from their Athabaskan heritage. Full of adventure and suspense, “Two Old Women” is an amazing tale of obstacles overcome. For more informa...

  • Churches

    Updated Feb 19, 2016

    Emmanuel Lutheran Church Worship with us this Sunday, Feb. 21, at 10:30 a.m. You may also watch our pastor’s sermons at www.emmanuelcheney.org or on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran, Cheney. Emmanuel invites you to attend our Lenten mid-week soup supper and worship continuing on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Soup supper will be served at 6 p.m. followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 6:30. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church A welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. Lenten reflection and discussion will follow coffe...

  • LOOKING BACK WITH THE CHENEY HISTORICAL MUSEUM

    Cheney Historical Museum|Updated Feb 19, 2016

    One hundred years ago on February 20, 1916, two trains collided at Cheney killing four people and injuring many others. The incident investigation was held at the Cheney Normal School. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org....