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One theme that was a uniting thread for the winners of the 2013 Eastern Washington University Alumni Awards handed out last Saturday was the help the recipients received from others. In the event...

The smiling face with the gray handlebar moustache who greets some by name and friendly kidding to others who visit the Eastern Washington University surplus sales locks the doors one final time...

Medical Lake’s track team continues to surprise many people. But not their co-head coach Gene Blankenship. The Cardinals emerged from last Saturday’s regionals at Riverside High School with a...

Medical Lake had a pair of memorable innings during last Saturday’s state quarterfinal baseball playoff at Eastmont High School in East Wenatchee. They just needed more of them after falling out of the postseason play following a 17-7 loss to...

Medical Lake has passed its biggest test of the season so far on the baseball diamond. Now the exams continue, and probably get tougher. Following a 6-0 win Saturday morning over Brewster, plus surviv...

Medical Lake’s baseball team has conducted its massive turnaround in the traditional ways. In crafting a 19-3 overall record that has earned the Cardinals one of 16 berths in the state 1A tournament that will trim things down to a single winner...

Medical Lake will send a third and fourth place singles entry, plus a doubles team that earned fourth place in last weekend’s district championships to regional competition Friday and Saturday at...

The softball season, and the latest stint for head coach John Higgins ended for Medical Lake last Saturday in Suncrest. After a thrilling 14-13 win in 12 innings over Chewelah last Tuesday that got them into the postseason, a pair of losses in the...

A 45-day deadline to clean up their property at Fish Lake passed May 1 for Michael and Dennis Myers. So now what? “They’ve pled guilty to a couple of misdemeanor charges for failing to clean up th...

The emotions of a between-games Senior Day recognition ceremony may have gotten to Adam Paulson, but few Riverside batters did last Friday. Paulson, a four-year letter winner at Medical Lake in...

The Medical Lake girls’ golf team is in a place they have not been before, or at least for some time. The Cardinals sit on top of the Northeast A League standings as regular season champions at a perfect 5-0 with four golfers in the league’s...

The Medical Lake girls’ tennis team will carry a 7-1 Northeast A League record and a shared championship with Chewelah into district competition beginning Friday and continuing Saturday at Mead High School. The Cardinals finished the regular...

Lunnell Haught has fond memories of Fish Lake. “I can remember when they had the best French fries in Spokane County at Myers’ Resort,” the longtime area resident said. “I go back that...

Resiliency. That might be the word that best describes the Medical Lake Cardinals baseball team this season. Because after each of their three losses so far this year, they’ve rebounded well,...

Officially it was the Red-White Spring Football Game, but last Saturday’s final scrimmage of spring football for Eastern Washington University might as well be called Cooper Kupp’s coming out...

Medical Lake boys’ soccer coach Zane Higgins certainly liked the results his team produced last week as they rebounded from a last-minute 3-2 loss April 18 against regular season champion Lakeside. The team’s two wins, 5-1 over Newport last...

Medical Lake’s girls’ tennis team improved to a perfect 6-0 in the Northeast A League following a 4-1 win over Riverside last Tuesday. The Cards completed their NEA schedule this past Tuesday at Lakeside. “After the previous week, last week...

It only took moments for the thrill of victory to turn to the agony of defeat. Last Thursday’s Medical Lake boy’s Northeast A League soccer showdown with Lakeside at Medical Lake Middle School...

The Medical Lake Cardinals continue to carefully march towards a potential Northeast A League baseball regular season championship. With a 3-0 week behind them following wins of 12-0 last Tuesday...

Last year about this time the players and coaches involved in Medical Lake baseball could have easily packed it in. The Cardinals were in the process of exiting the Great Northern League and that was about as comfortable as getting tossed out of a...

The Medical Lake girls’ tennis team’s undefeated week has vaulted them into the lead in the Northeast A League. “This was a huge week for Lady Cardinal tennis,” head coach Dawn Eliassen said. “Holy cow, three league matches, three league...

The wind might not have been so much of a factor as the week before but the Lakeside Eagles certainly were as they won both ends of a Northeast A League track meet last Wednesday at Medical Lake. The visiting Eagles scored an 85-60 boy’s victory an...

A big win can produce a big fall. So after Medical Lake earned a crucial Northeast A League baseball sweep over Chewelah April 6 it was not out of anyone’s imagination they might serve up a clunker. That happened with a 4-0 loss last Thursday at...

The first Northeast A League track meet produced some pleasant surprises for Medical Lake. The meet, which featured Medical Lake and Newport visiting Freeman last Wednesday saw the Cardinals turn in...

Medical Lake’s girls’ tennis team ended last week’s return to competition with a pair of close non-league losses, 4-3 to West Valley last Tuesday and 3-2 at Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Thursday. The Cardinals did well in doubles’ play at home...