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Members of the Eastern Washington University men's basketball team hoist the Big Sky Conference regular season champions trophy amid a rain of confetti Feb. 29 at Reese Court. An 89-79 victory over Montana secured a second consecutive regular season title for the Eagles and a No. 1 seed in the conference tournament in Boise on March 9-13. Eastern's first game is March 10 against either the No. 9 or 10 team....
CHENEY - The future of Cheney High School football is now in the hands of a man who has been a success at the collegiate level and has strong ties to the local community. Former Eastern Washington University assistant coach and defensive coordinator John Graham was announced to succeed Bobby Byrd who stepped down following the 2023 winless 0-10 season. "I'm super grateful for the opportunity given me so I just I hope I can pay it forward," Graham said. "It was something I...
CHENEY — The Eastern Washington women’s basketball team ran its latest winning streak to seven and maintained their lead in Big Sky Conference standings following a sweep of a pair of Reese Court games last week. Eastern staved off an upset bid from Northern Colorado, 68-63 on Feb. 24 and won in dominant fashion over their closest pursuers in the regular season, Northern Arizona, 67-42, on Feb. 22. Not only did that win allow the Eagles to take sole possession of first place in the Big Sky but with the victory the Eagles set...
CHENEY — The Eastern Washington men’s basketball team let a late lead slip away Feb. 22 in a 78-71 loss at Northern Arizona. But they made sure that didn’t happen two days later in Greeley against Northern Colorado and following an 85-76 Big Sky Conference victory were able to maintain their two-game lead atop the standings with three games to play. Cedric Coward poured in a career-high 30 points and Ethan Price scored the 1,000th in his career as part of a double-double snapping a two-game skid for Eastern (12-3 BSC, 18-10...
MEDICAL LAKE — The turnaround the Medical Lake boys’ basketball team made in 2023-24 was quite remarkable under first-year coach Brett Ward. Ward — who moved from the girls bench last year as their head coach with the departure of Jordan Starr back to his home territory at Selah — helped orchestrate the program going from 1-19 in 2022-23 to 8-14 this season. The Cardinals went from 1-11 in Northeast A League play to 6-6 this season, qualifying not only for the playoffs but getting within a game of qualifying for state....
Five regular season games remain and it is now time “where the rubber meets the road” for Eastern Washington’s men’s and women’s basketball teams. Eagle hoops are in the rarest of atmospheres this season. Both EWU teams are on top of their respective standings and poised to take tandem titles to the Big Sky Conference tournament in Boise, March 9-13. The Eagle women, guided by Joddie Gleason, have worked their way back into a tie for the top with Northern Arizona following...
FEDERAL WAY - A Cheney High School junior has won back-to-back state diving titles. Alma Smith returned home from the 3A state diving championships last week with a gold medal after successfully defending the title he won in 2023. Smith easily outdistanced runner-up James Ferrier of Gig Harbor, 401.90 to 297.35 in the Feb. 15 competition at the King County Aquatic Center. Smith, who just began diving in 2021 and is coached by Aaron Gilfoyle from the Inland Empire Diving Club,...
TACOMA - Cheney's Trenton Moore made a move at Mat Classic XXXV last weekend, but it was not exactly where he wanted to be. A sixth-place finisher in 2023, Moore battled some high-end competition ending up fifth at 175-pounds, topping Mead's Caden Brooks, 8-2. Along the way Moore lost to the eventual third-place finisher, Ever Yamada (Edmonds-Woodway) 10-5 and fourth-place Garrett Goade (Bainbridge). "One-hundred seventy-five pounds was a strong bracket and second- to...
CHENEY - In the world of sports there's always the opportunity or desire to glance into in the "what-if" mirror. And Cheney boys' second-year head coach Travis Peevey is no more immune to the practice than anyone following his team's 3-8 Greater Spokane League finish and 9-13 overall record. Those marks, however, are ticks in the right direction after going 0-9 and 6-14 his first season. "Our record does not reflect how close we really were to being one of the top teams in...
TACOMA – Cheney will send four wrestlers to Mat Classic XXXV in Tacoma this weekend, including one individual champion following 3A Region 4 competition Feb. 9-10 at University High School in Spokane. Topping the list is Trenton Moore who captured the 175-pound title and looks to improve on his 2023 trip to Tacoma where he was sixth. Mason Bennett participated in his first state competition last year as an alternate, but goes this time as runner-up at 144 pounds. C.J. B...
CHENEY – The Cheney girls basketball team ended the season on a positive and in the direction the program will trend following a 53-41 win over North Central on Feb. 9. In the battle for who avoids the basement in the Greater Spokane League, a decisive fourth quarter in which the Blackhawks outscored the Wolfpack 14-9 allowed Cheney to grab its lone league win to finish 1-8 (5-15 overall). The trio of Kiah Klauss, Natalie Richards and Mia Ashcroft each scored 10 points, sendin...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks’ budding girls wrestling program had big growth in 2023-24. That continues this weekend when the team doubles its Mat Classic attendees. Jalisca Holmgren will wrestle at state in the 125-pound class and Jenny Tian at 110 pounds. Meanwhile, Liberty’s Kariyah Strobel will wrestle at state at 140 pounds and Medical Lake’s Lyla Heinemann will be an alternate at 130 pounds. “Last year, we took one and this year Cheney builds on that and gets two girls int...
"The players had so much fun at the game," head coach Brian Baxter wrote in an email. "They were so excited about the crowd and the energy. Give out kudos to Derek Slaughter and Jenna Tamera for organizing the Spirit Game and including my basketball players."...
SPOKANE - Cheney advanced nine wrestlers to the next stop on the road to Mat Classic, including two individual champions, from the Greater Spokane League 3A tournament at the Spokane Convention Center, on Feb. 2-3. Mason Bennett was a champion at 144 pounds and Trenton Moore won at 175 as the Blackhawks finished fourth as a team behind Mead, University and Mount Spokane. That pair, as well as Camron Bogle (132-pounds/3rd), Wyatt Wells (175/4th), Gauge Seubert (190/4th), Aiden...
It’s been just about three weeks since the Northeast A League shrunk from a size-7 to a much trimmed-down size-4. Had this been a human-driven weight loss program, it might have been a welcome outcome. However, this is high school athletics. And when a conference loses that much weight, that fast, it generates potentially unhealthy side effects. NEA athletic directors knew in advance what was about to hit when the board of directors of the Washington Interscholastic A...
CHENEY -Eight area girls are heading to regional wrestling tournaments on Saturday, Feb. 10. Four Cheney girls will compete at the 3A/4A girls regionals in Sunnyside on Saturday, Feb. 10. And in the girls small school (1B-2A) division, three Liberty (Spangle) wrestlers and one Medical Lake girl will are heading to Quincy. Cheney Blackhawks Cheney has the largest local girls contingent moving on. The Blackhawks girls wrestling program emerged from subregional competition at...
MEDICAL LAKE — Peaking at the right time in sports is critical to success and if winning three of their last four games in any indicator the Medical Lake boys basketball team is doing just that? The Cardinals engineered a notable turnaround over this time a year ago, splitting their final two Northeast A League games and nabbing not only a playoff spot, but getting a home game to boot. Medical Lake lost Jan. 30 at Freeman, 68-46, but dished up a fitting Senior Night p...
CHENEY - The Blackhawk boys collected a pair of basketball wins last week topping Rogers 66-45 in the "Railroad Rumble" rivalry game and then 50-43 over University in their next-to-last game. The Blackhawks (3-5 GSL, 9-10 overall) looked to cap the 2023-24 basketball season with a win at home, Feb. 6 vs. North Central (5-3, 14-5). Led as usual by Evan Stinson and his 24 points, Cheney raced to a 40-25 halftime lead in the non-league game with Rogers (5-1, 11-4). Liam Carver...
The Cheney girls earned their first basketball victory of 2024 amidst the memorable setting of the school's rivalry game on Jan. 31. The Blackhawks used a solid second half to put distance between themselves and the Rogers Pirates to win 61-44 in their part of the "Railroad Rumble" played at Eastern Washington University's Reese Court. That ended a 10-game losing streak dating back to Dec. 22. Cheney capped the week with a 65-38 loss at home to University in a Greater Spokane...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake girls snapped a two-game Northeast A League losing streak with a notable win and in the process earned a home playoff game. The Cardinals did something they had not accomplished in five seasons by beating Freeman 43-29 on Jan. 30 and finished out the regular season with a 35-29 loss at home to Lakeside on Senior Night. In the process Medical Lake (5-7, 12-9) earned a first-round home playoff game — a rematch with Freeman — that was played on Fe...
The 2023-24 basketball season is winding down for the Blackhawks. Pictured, Blackhawk Macey M.Richards tries to block a shot by Ridgeline's Emma Myers in a 49-26 loss Jan. 23....
CHENEY - Gymnastics took some big leaps in the 2023-24 season, and that was before they got on the floor in competition. The team features 10 athletes, seven from Cheney and three out of Medical Lake. "I'm excited for this season because our team has doubled in size since last year," head coach Melissa Linton said earlier in the season. Cheney gymnastics had its birth in 2015 with its first coach hired just days before the start of competition. That inaugural season produced...
CHENEY — The Cheney boys may have let post-season play slip through their fingers following a pair of Greater Spokane League basketball games last week on the road. The Blackhawks (2-5 GSL, 7-10 overall) let a possible victory slip away Jan. 23 at Ridgeline where the Falcons used a 21-7 fourth quarter to erase a Cheney lead in a 62-50 loss. Then, Cheney kept GSL leading Mount Spokane in check before falling 56-52, Jan. 26. “Ridgeline (4-3, 13-4) is a team that doesn’t quit, an...
CHENEY — The Cheney girls’ basketball team remained winless in Greater Spokane League play following losses on the road last week to Ridgeline and Mt. Spokane. The Blackhawks’ streak increased to seven following setbacks to Ridgeline, 49-26 on Jan. 23 and 42-29 to Mt. Spokane, Jan. 25. “This last week of basketball brings with it more highs and lows, similar to how our entire season has played out so far,” head coach Meredith Richards wrote in an email. While not winning m...
Just what if Cheney became Spokane County seat as it had long desired, and Benjamin P. Cheney decided in fairness to locate his institution of higher learning to Spokane? What might it have meant to the how Eastern Washington University grew and developed since its founding as Benjamin P. Cheney Academy in 1882. How might it have existed with its higher-ed regional rivals, all established later than Eastern — Washington State College and Whitworth both in 1890, Gonzaga 1887 a...
