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Medical Lake volleyball did something last week they had not done in quite some time when the Cardinals went 2-0 in a pair of matches – both on the road. Beginning last Tuesday with a 3-1 Northeast A League victory at Kettle Falls, the Cards ended with a 3-1 nonleague win Thursday over the 2B Liberty Lancers. “It was a long trip up to Kettle Falls (0-4 NEA, 1-6 all games)but it was totally worth it,” head coach Amanda Higgins said of the win by scores of 25-18, 25-15, 20-25, 2...
The football field at Riverside High School in Chattaroy was the site of one of Medical Lake head coach Wes Hobbs’ most memorable victories. After last Friday’s 48-19 win by the Rams over the Cardinals, it is now etched in his memory as the place where he’s suffered one of the most perplexing losses as a coach. In October 2008, Hobbs’ first season on the job, his Medical Lake team showed all the grit and determination they appeared to lack this time in the Cards’ 22-13 vic...
The Cheney High School girls’ swimming team continued an already good start to the season last week, defeating Clarkston 85-60 at home. Head coach Jennifer Hochwalt said the meet went pretty good overall, and was yet another solid stepping stone for the young team. Many girls are still getting their rhythm down and building a strong foundation for future meets. “We have a few more girls who hadn’t been to a meet yet, so it was exciting to see them get some experience,” she said. “The new girls are really starting to improv...
The Cheney High cross country teams did something last Wednesday they hadn’t done in quite a few years – open up their league seasons with a pair of losses. In competition at East Valley between the host Knights and Deer Park it was the Blackhawks coming up on the short end of the scores. The boys just missed nabbing a win against either or both schools, losing 26-29 to East Valley and 27-29 to Deer Park while the girls fell 23-32 and 24-31 respectively. Kyle Lerch led the boys with a third-place finish overall in a time of 1...
Cheney volleyball continued an already dominant season last week, defeating both West Valley and Clarkston to improve to 5-1 on the season. The team is even getting some recognition at the state level, placing fifth in week four of the Seattle Times’ 2A rankings across Washington. Against West Valley, the team won 3-0 in three sets with senior Ashley Seiler’s 23 kills, aided by 28 assists from senior Kinsey Pease. “I think we did a really good job of controlling the pace of each of the sets,” head coach Brianne Lowe said. T...
It may not seem like it from the results, but Cheney girls soccer head coach Nils Radtke believes the Lady Hawks are getting better. Cheney ran its losing streak to five games with close losses last week at home to West Valley and on the road at Clarkston, losses that with a favorable bounce or two here and there might have turned into wins. Tuesday the Eagles Halie Gronenthal provided the offensive punch with goals in the fourth minute and with four minutes left in the game...
Led by the pitching of Taylor John and some clutch hitting, the U14 West Plains Bandits softball team finished tied for third in the Gold bracket at the Spokane Crash Fall Invite Sept. 21-22 at the Dwight Merkel Field complex in Spokane. The Bandits dropped their first two games, 8-0 to the Crash 2000 and 11-0 to a travel team from Montana, Big Sky Blitz. West Plains had six hits against Crash 2000, with both Makayla Tamietti and Glori Cheevers going 2-for-3, but couldn’t b...
Don’t let Weber State’s 1-4 record fool you into thinking Saturday’s Big Sky Conference football opener will be a cake-walk. That’s the cautionary tone Eastern head coach Beau Baldwin offered during this past Monday’s coach’s show. Despite limping into Cheney with four straight losses, including a 31-3 setback at home last Saturday at home to Sacramento State, Baldwin says there’s more to look at besides scores. Weber played “A very, very tough nonconference schedule, a bun...
If anything, Cheney’s 29-26 Great Northern League loss Friday to Pullman provided a good learning experience. The Blackhawks learned a number of things, one being they have the ability to rally from a big deficit. But they also learned something that might prove just as valuable. “When you get up on somebody, you never let off the gas,” head coach Jason Williams said. Cheney fell behind 14-0 to the visiting Greyhounds in the first quarter, rallied to score the next 26 point...
That sure was an abrupt change in weather. No, we’re not talking about the nearly clockwork shift from summer to fall a couple of weeks ago but rather the last weekend’s football results. After having the winds in their proverbial sails for the first month of the season our West Plains football teams entered the doldrums this past weekend. With Eastern returning from Texas following a 49-34 loss to Sam Houston in Huntsville, Cheney seeing their 12-point lead vanish in the fin...
Finally an Eastern Washington – Sam Houston football game wasn’t decided on the final play or with the heartbreak of a comeback that fell short. In Saturday’s 49-34 victory at Bowers Stadium in Huntsville, Texas in contest delayed 90 minutes by a thunder storm, the Bearkats trailed just once. They got the expected big game from Timothy Flanders and improved their record to 4-1, and 3-0 versus the Eagles. “They did a good job – they have a very good offense,”head coach Beau Bal...
Welcome to ObamaWreck! Americans nationwide spent Tuesday struggling with the much-hyped “Affordable Care Act” health insurance exchanges. Server meltdowns, error messages and security glitches plagued the federal and state government websites as open enrollment began. But when taxpayers discover exactly who will be navigating them through the bureaucratic maze, they may be glad they didn’t get through. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius controls a $54 million slush fund to hire thousands of “navi...
I’m a newspaper reporter. It isn’t good for the stomach, but it can be good for reflection on those quiet, cool autumn night shifts in the middle of the week when nothing’s on fire and the street crime is of the ignorable, drug-driven, non-fatal kind. And the circa-1987 florescent lights in the newsroom buzz like sleepy bees, and it’s time to get my baloney sandwich out of the crowded office fridge. And, because I am not without some guile when it comes to things modern, I slip on my earplugs, find YouTube on my compute...
No wonder Congress doesn’t pay attention to “we the people.” Even though the government may come crashing down on our heads, they still get their pockets stuffed with our tax money. How’s that working for you? Luella Dow Cheney...
