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  • Switch work to create outages in north Cheney

    Updated Oct 16, 2015

    Switch replacement work taking place Saturday, Oct. 17, in north Cheney will result in some scheduled power outages to a good portion of that section of the city. Cheney’s Light Department will be replacing the switch and cabinet located at the southwest corner of the intersection of Betz Road and North Sixth Street. The switch was damaged last winter when a vehicle failed to negotiate the left-hand turn off Betz and, due to icy conditions, slid into the cabinet, causing a power outage. The Light Department will begin r...

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  • West Plains Scoreboard

    Updated Oct 15, 2015

    CROSS COUNTRY Northeast A League Top finishers Oct. 7, 2015 at Riverside (Bear Lake Park) (From athletic.net) Boys Team scores 1. Lakeside 24 2. Medical Lake 31 3. Riverside 45 Individuals Boys Pos./Yr./Name Time School 1 10 Mason Williams 17:07 Med. Lake 2 11 Troy Traeger 17:25 Lakeside 3 11 Ryan Duclos 17:53 Lakeside 4 11 Andrew Ames 18:02 Lakeside 5 12 Dylan Bleth 18:07 Lakeside 6 10 Brandon McCoy 18:18 Med. Lake 7 10 Evan Peterson 18:21 Med. Lake 8 10 Tyler Pena 18:22 Med. Lake 9 10 Tanner Supanchick 18:23 Riverside 10...

  • Sports Briefs

    Updated Oct 15, 2015

    Eagles’ soccer streak ends in Missoula It took 108 minutes and double overtime to end Eastern Washington University’s eight game soccer wining streak, 2-1 last Friday, Oct. 8 to the University of Montana in Missoula. Allie Lucas of the Grizzlies scored off of a flurry of shots for the winner as the Eagles drop to 10-2-1 overall and 4-1-0 in Big Sky Conference play while the Grizzlies improve their record to 5-7-2 overall and 2-2-1 in conference play. After Montana scored in the 16th minute of play, Eastern evened the sco...

  • Medical Lake volleyball drops pair of matches

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 15, 2015

    The streak was short lived at one game. Medical Lake volleyball dropped a pair of Northeast A League matches last week to Chewelah (2-6 Northeast A, 2-7 overall) and Colville (5-3, 6-3) by identical 3-0 scores. Chewelah’s win Oct. 6 came by scores of 25-19, 25-18 and 25-14. Taylor Fritz topped Medical Lake (1-7, 1-8) with four aces and four blocks. “Chewelah was a difficult game to lose,” head coach Kari Knowlton said. “We weren’t mentally prepared to battle with them.” Kn...

  • Cardinals find cross country competition tough, fall to Lakeside

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 15, 2015

    The two-time defending state 1A boy’s cross country champions from Medical Lake are realizing what they knew all along heading into the 2015 season. That is there was likely to be a new king of the hill, but it would quite possibly still come from the Northeast A League. Following their first two Northeast A League meets against Deer Park, Riverside and Lakeside, Cardinals’ head coach Gene Blankenship is seeing the Stags as the team keeping the 1A title in Eastern Was...

  • Geiger stays on fire in ML soccer split

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 15, 2015

    Medical Lake got its usual effort out of scoring machine Makayla Geiger and earned a split in a pair of soccer matches last week. The Cardinals (1-6 Northeast A, 2-8 overall) used the sophomore forward’s five goals — scored all in a row — to defeat Rogers (0-6) of the Greater Spokane League 6-3 in a nonleague contest Oct. 5. They then got a Geiger goal in their lone Northeast A League outing of the week, a 4-1 loss at Colville (1-6, 1-7), last Thursday, Oct. 8. Geige...

  • O'Donnell collects Week 3 win

    Updated Oct 15, 2015

    Cheney’s Michael O’Donnell claimed the top spot in Week 3 of the of the 2015 Cheney Free Press football contest, earning a $50 merchant’s gift certificate, missing two games. Arlene Helsing won a $20 Owl Drug gift certificate for her runner-up finish as she missed three games, claiming the prize in a tiebreaker. Eighteen players qualified for the season-ending prize by beating the Free Press experts. Winners must come to the Free Press office at 1616 W. First St. in Cheney to pick up their prizes. Be sure to try to beat...

  • Newport tops Medical Lake in final seconds, 34-33

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 15, 2015

    It was seen as Medical Lake’s best chance to earn its first football win of the 2015 season. For 47 minutes and 40 seconds the Cardinals had Friday’s road game at Newport within their grasp and a happy bus ride home. But the Grizzlies completed a rally from a 21-0 deficit, helped by inopportune penalties, and scored a 34-33 Northeast A League victory on Homecoming. Medical Lake never relinquished the lead until those final seconds. Otis Smith’s 1-yard run with 20 secon...

  • Sports Week

    Updated Oct 15, 2015

    (Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY Saturday, Oct. 17, EWU men at Inland Empire Classic, Lewiston, Idaho, time TBA. EWU women at Univ. of Louisville Pre-Nationals Invite, times TBA. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Oct. 17 at Idaho State, 1:35 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, EWU at Northern Colorado, 12:35 p.m. COLLEGE SOCCER Friday, Oct. 16, EWU hosts Northern Arizona, 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, EWU hosts Southern Utah, 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, EWU at Northern...

  • Lady Blackhawks searching for GNL win

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Oct 15, 2015

    The Cheney High girls soccer team is still searching for its first Great Northern League win of the 2015 season, but there are indications they are getting closer. The Lady Blackhawks got back into the scoring column in a 4-2 loss to visiting West Valley Oct. 8, snapping a string of three consecutive shutouts by GNL opponents. Reba Eaton tied the game at 1 with a goal in the 22nd minute off an assist by Gabby Nguyen, and pulled Cheney back within one at 3-2 with an unassisted...

  • Cheney volleyball sweeps West Valley, Clarkston

    AL STOVER, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 15, 2015

    The Cheney High volleyball team overcame one of their biggest hurdles to returning to the top of the Great Northern League - the Clarkston Bantams. Two days after their Oct. 8 win over West Valley, 3-0, the Lady Blackhawks swept Clarkston, 3-0. The Bantams defeated Cheney in their first two matches earlier in the season. The game scores for West Valley were 25-20, 25-18 and 25-19. Head coach Heather Zorrozua said her team took advantage of an extra practice last Tuesday, due...

  • Now is the time for Mariners, McClendon to move forward

    AL STOVER, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 15, 2015

    The Seattle Mariners are gearing up for 2016 and they are going to have to do it without manager Lloyd McClendon. The team announced McClendon’s release on Friday, Oct. 9. This came less than two weeks after Seattle hired former Anaheim Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto as the team’s new GM, replacing Jack Zduriencik, who was fired in August. McClendon accumulated a 163-161 record during his two-year stint with the Mariners, becoming only the second manager to have a winning record in the franchise’s history. The other...