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SPOKANE -A pair of Greater Spokane League losses to Gonzaga Prep in back-to-back games has sent Cheney into a four-game slide. Prep scored four runs in their half of the fourth inning March 28 on the way to a 7-4 victory. Carter McPherson had three of the Blackhawks' six hits. Of note was Cheney escaping a bases-loaded, no-outs bottom the first with a rare triple play. According to coach Rob Beamer the play west like this: "Ground ball to Jace Vega at third he steps on third...
It was a gorgeous morning on the last Saturday of March with the outdoors teaming with people and the occasional top down on the convertible that passed on the street. And despite what beckoned outside, thousands filled much of the Spokane Veterans’ Memorial Arena for the latest edition of the Jason Crawford Memorial wrestling tournament. The JCM officially closed out the season for Little Guy Wrestling from across the region for a 38th season. Boy what an eight months it has been for one of the key cogs behind this event, W...
Cheney Free Press SPOKANE - Here are the Cheney Mat Hawks Wrestling Club's Top 3 placers at the Jason Crawford Memorial Tournament that took place Saturday, March 30, in Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena: Champions Age/Weight 9 / 10 64-64 - Elliot Colliflower 9 / 10 132-139 - Kasen Webber Second-Place 7 / 8 55-56 - Maverick Gibson 7 / 8 65-66 - Levi Burgess 7 / 8 89-96 - Beau Byrd 7 / 8 120-127 - Logan Frachiseur 9 / 10 65-66 - Brady Ridl 9 / 10 82-84 - Wesley Olin 11 / 12...
A farmer along Spangle-Waverly Road has erected a hay tribute to the Washington State University Cougars men's basketball team for reaching the national championship "March Madness" tournament. The Cougars, however, have subsequently been eliminated....
CHENEY - The Blackhawks boys soccer team saw its four-game winning streak come to an end and its Greater Spokane League record evened at 1-1 following a 2-0 loss at Ridgeline, March 25. The Blackhawks (1-1 GSL, 5-2 overall) opened the week, and GSL play, with a 3-1 win over Oprah Central at ONE Spokane Stadium, March 22. Ridgeline (2-0, 5-1) snapped a 0-0 halftime tie with an Andre Chaker goal in the 61st minute and Griffyn Rider sealed with a goal it in the 77th minute....
CHENEY — The Blackhawks girls fastpitch softball team started out last week on the rugged side, but finished strong with three consecutive Greater Spokane League victories. The Blackhawks were beaten at home 15-0 by Mount Spokane, but turned things around to capture wins 16-6 at Ferris on March 21, 19-6 at Lewis and Clark on March 22 and 16-6 at Ridgeline on March 25. Scoring seven runs in the first and another five in their next turn at the plate, GSL power Wildcats (4-0 GSL, 5-1 overall) raced to the win. A six-run fifth in...
Golf Cardinals compete in scramble CLARKSTON — The Medical Lake girls golf team competed in a two-person scramble at Quail Ridge Golf Course in Clarkston on March 19. Kali Rowe and Trinity Shull scored 76 followed by Madi Griffis and Brooklynn DeVore with 83. Kristen Dickey and Madi Spring scored 92. — SOCCER Medical Lake wins two games MEDICAL LAKE — The boys soccer team collected a pair of Northeast A League victories to start the week and finished with a loss to a perennial playoff-bound opponent. The Cardinals (2-1 NEA,...
CHENEY — The track and field took a slimmed-down team to Hart Field on March 23 for the Lewis and Clark Invite but still came away with some notable results. With what head coach Derek Slaughter called a “diminished squad due to 7v7 football, PNQ Volleyball and club basketball,” the Blackhawks landed both school and personal records. Calvin Hilton’s 1:59.21 was good for both a win and personal record in the 800 meters. A 10:50.03 time from Lucas Matos, Kordell Laher, Ethan Martin and Hilton meant a new school record in the...
MEDICAL LAKE - Entering what he knew was going to be the toughest part of the Northeast A League schedule, Cardinals Coach Austin Sharp set a goal of exiting a series of games with Colville, Deer Park and Freeman with three wins. Sharp's Cardinals are well on their way to satisfying that wish following a doubleheader sweep of the defending league champion, the Colville Crimson Hawks (formerly the Indians), on March 23 at Holliday Field. Medical Lake broke an eight-game losing...
CORVALLIS, Ore. - For 10 minutes at least in the opening game of the NCAA Tournament game at Gill Coliseum against Oregon State, the Eastern Washington women kept their opponent in check. In the following 30 minutes, however, the Pac-12 Beavers' height and wingspan took over helping them advance to round of 32 following a 73-51 victory over Eastern Washington, March 22. OSU would defeat Nebraska 61-51, March 24 and reach the round of 16 against Notre Dame. Eastern faced an OSU...
WENATCHEE — Rain greeted the Medical Lake track and field team early, but the sun shined both literally and figuratively for the Cardinals later in the day at the Ray Cochram Relays on March 23. “We got lucky with the weather,” Coach Gene Blankenship wrote in a social media post. “It did rain a bit in the morning, but we had sunshine for the rest of the day.” Among those bright efforts was a first-place in the 4x100 Throwers Relay by Allison Appel, Chiche Okemgbo, Feodora Lalicker and Autumn Trout in a time of 56.92 sec...
CHENEY — The Blackhawks boys soccer team improved its record to 3-1 with a pair of non-league wins last week that followed a loss on the neutral turf at ONE Spokane Stadium. Cheney raced past Clarkston 6-0, March 18 at home as Sam Woller had a pair of goals. Viliami Finau opened scoring early in the fourth minute and that’s the way to stayed until Peter Koster’s goal in the 45th minute opened the floodgates of a 5-0 second half. Oliver Cagle and Breckin Austin added singles wrapped around Woller’s connections. Jackson Reagan...
CHENEY — The Cheney track team continued its warmup for Greater Spokane League competition with a jamboree at North Central High School, March 13 and a trip to Lewiston, March 15 for the Sweeney Invitational. While the NC event was mainly designed for junior varsity competitors, Cheney did send vaulters, high jumpers and pole vaulters. In the latter competition Andrew Strawn established a new school record in the pole vault where his 14-foot effort broke the former school record of 13 feet, 10 inches. At Lewiston, the B...
CHENEY - The girls tennis team split a pair of non-league matches last week falling to West Valley 7-0, March 12 and topping Medical Lake at home 5-0, March 14. Highlights of the meeting between West Plains rivals, Cheney's No. 1 doubles duo of Hailey Magalsky/Kylee Hahn won 7-6, 6-4 over Medical Lake. Morgan Weathers and Ellerie O'Regan won 6-2 6-1 in No. 2 doubles. Singles players Sydney Lincoln and Madison Anderson played No. 3 doubles at this match and won 6-0, 6-0....
‘This is a treat for us to get to play on this national stage’ Eastern Washington women’s basketball head coach Joddie Gleason has a pretty vivid memory of what she was doing the last time her Eagles qualified for the NCAA Tournament. It was 37 years ago in 1987 when Eastern lost to Oregon at Eugene in a first-round game 75-56. Gleason quickly recalls she was in high school and was following her dad’s Colusa High School boys’ basketball team on the way to a state championship. Joddie Vossler, her name prior to marriage...
Mark Lonsky controls the ball in the March 11 game against East Valley....
BASEBALL Cardinals toss no-hitter, then get no-hitM MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake baseball opened its season much like it did in 2023 with a no hit victory over Connell March 12 in a doubleheader sweep, 28-1 and 15-2. The Cardinals, however, found themselves on the opposite side of things losing their final three contests to Rogers 11-7 and Tri Cities Prep 17-7 and 19-0, that last game a no hitter. AJ Michaud not only threw a five-inning complete game no hitter at Connell, but also had five hits and four RBI. Levi Brower had t...
MEDICAL LAKE Following a series of meetings over the past couple of months the Northeast A League has charted its path for the immediate future. "We finally know that we will still be the Northeast A League, but with just four teams total," Medical Lake athletic director Dawn Eliassen wrote in an email. Following the results of reclassification in late 2023 that sliced three teams from the 1A NEA, the surviving members include Medical Lake, Lakeside, Riverside and Colville....
YAKIMA - The Medical Lake track team kicked off the 2024 season at the Eisenhower Jamboree on Saturday, March 9. Testing out the facility that will host the state 1A track meet in May, the Cardinals got notable performances including three first places. Chiche Okemgbo was first in the shot put and third in the discus. In a jamboree, competitors a limited to entry in two events. Freshman Autumn Trout won the 300 meters and was third in the 100. The Cardinal girls 4x400 team of Hazel Grubaugh, Maryna Bell, Hannah Luzier and...
BOISE, Idaho — For the first time since 1987, Eastern Washington women’s basketball is going to the NCAA Tournament. Eastern defeated Northern Arizona, 73-64, in the Big Sky Tournament finals to capture the conference’s automatic bid on Wednesday afternoon. Jacinta Buckley had a monster game with 21 points and 11 rebounds. The Eagles had five players score in double figures as well. “This team is tough and resilient, they don't waver or panic. We knew if we upped our urgency at the defensive end to get more stops; we knew we...
BOISE, Idaho — The Eastern Washington men's basketball team was upended in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament for the second-straight season on Sunday in Boise, losing to the No. 10 seed Sacramento State Hornets, 74-69. The Eagles entered the tournament as the regular season champions and top seed, just as they did last year, and finished with a 21-11 overall record. Eastern fell in similar fashion last season, losing their first game to No. 8 Northern Arizona. Sacramento State led wire-to-wire in the first half, p...
MEDICAL LAKE - Youth rarely serves a coach well at the time but tends to pay future dividends. Except, perhaps, for Medical Lake baseball Coach Austin Sharp, where the bulk of his 2024 team are young in years only. Sharp will confidently count on a collection of battle-tested underclassmen to carry a lot of the weight this year. Medical Lake finished last season as the Northeast A League's No. 6 - and last - seed in the playoffs. But behind the arm of Luke Dickey they got a...
LAKE ROOSEVELT - The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a "rapid response" plan to take extraordinary measures to kill northern pike found in waterways like Lake Roosevelt. Released last week, the plan would allow state officials and tribes to draw down reservoirs, using Rotenone to poison the fish, netting and seining, quarantining waterways and more after declaring a northern pike emergency. State Aquatic Invasive Species Policy Coordinator Justin Bush...
CHENEY - Cheney wrestling left Tacoma and Mat Classic IIIV a few weeks ago minus sought after state titles. However, they returned home to be honored in a memorable way, landing Greater Spokane League accolades with Coach-of-the-Year awards for both boys and girls - each a first-year head coach. Brian Skaff guided Cheney's boys to a 5-4 regular season record in GSL dual meets while Jeremy McGee took the reins of a new girls team that five of its members selected for...
BASKETBALL Riley repeats as Coach of the Year FARMINGTON, Utah — After winning the outright regular season conference title for the second consecutive season, the Eastern Washington Eagles was recognized with several 2023-24 Big Sky Conference honors, as announced by the league office on March 7. EWU Honorees in 2023-24 Big Sky Men’s Basketball Awards • David Riley — Co-Coach of the Year • LeJuan Watts — Freshman of the Year (unanimous) • Cedric Coward — First Team All-Conference (unanimous) • Ethan Price — Second Team All...
