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Cheney win streak snapped
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,... — Updated 3/28/2024
Cheney softball wins 3-of-4 games
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,... — Updated 3/28/2024
Sports Briefs
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 G... — Updated 3/28/2024
Blackhawks set records at Hart Field
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... — Updated 3/28/2024
Cardinals sweep Colville
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... — Updated 3/28/2024
Cardinals compete at Cochram Relays in Wenatchee
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 wea... — Updated 3/28/2024
Cheney wins pair of non-league matches
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... — Updated 3/25/2024
Blackhawks score track wins at Lewiston
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 w... — Updated 3/21/2024
Cheney girls tennis team split matches
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... — Updated 3/21/2024
Basking in a tournament glow
‘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 Tourn... — Updated 3/21/2024
NEA League settles with 4 teams
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... — Updated 3/21/2024
Cardinal track opens at Eisenhower
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... — Updated 3/15/2024
One and done - again - for Eastern men
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. T... — Updated 3/15/2024
Young Cardinals ready for season
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... — Updated 3/15/2024
Cheney's Skaff, McGee voted top GSL coaches
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... — Updated 3/14/2024
Fishing opens early at some lakes
MEDICAL LAKE - Anxious anglers are getting their itch scratched. In excess of two-dozen lakes in in the state opened for business March 1 for fishing, according to the state... — Updated 3/8/2024
Coach wishes Cardinal girls season a bit better
MEDICAL LAKE - Cardinal girls basketball Coach Yeta Holloway likes to think with a little more time that his first season guiding the team might have been just a bit better.... — Updated 3/8/2024
Thank hockey for that
Once upon a time when March rolled around in these parts, there was only one meaning for post-seaso: Hockey. March madness was still decades away from being a trademarked phrase... — Updated 3/8/2024
Repeat the feat
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... — Updated 3/8/2024
New Cheney coach announced
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... — Updated 2/29/2024
Eastern women maintain BSC lead
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 sta... — Updated 2/29/2024
Eastern men maintain lead
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 follo... — Updated 2/29/2024
Cardinal boys have big turnaround
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 depar... — Updated 2/29/2024
Cheney's Moore climbs Mat Classic ladder
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... — Updated 2/22/2024
The 'what-if's' of Cheney season
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... — Updated 2/22/2024