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  • Young Cheney girls capture league track and field title

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated May 7, 2015

    It didn't take long for the Cheney High girls track and field team to return to the top of the Great Northern League. The Blackhawks scored in all events save one for a 94-56 win over visiting West Valley, giving the Cheney girls their first league title in two years, finishing the season 4-0. The Blackhawks had reeled off a string of six titles in a row before finishing second in 2013 to East Valley. A young Cheney boys team still has a bit of a ways to go before returning...

  • Blackhawks drop GNL games to East Valley, Pullman

    AL STOVER, Staff Reporter|Updated May 7, 2015

    What started out as a strong regular season for the Cheney High baseball team continues to go through the grinder of the regular season after losing to East Valley, 5-0, April 28, and dropping both games of their doubleheader against Pullman, 10-0, 7-0. Besides fielding errors, Cheney’s biggest challenge lately is putting the ball in play. In their last five games, the Blackhawks had only 19 hits. “We’re just in a funk right now,” head coach Mike Cagle said. “We just need to execute and hit the ball.” During the game agains...

  • ML boys, girls score tennis wins over Lakeside

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated May 7, 2015

    Nonleague tennis competition dominated Medical Lake’s schedule last week as the Cardinal boys and girls each sandwiched a pair of 3-2 wins over Lakeside around matches against Lind-Ritzville-Sprague plus competition in the annual Inland Empire Invite. In their victory over Lakeside the Northeast A League leading Cardinal boys got a sweep in doubles play to improve to 6-1. Isiah Farmen and Austin Brown won in straight sets, 6-4, 6-0 at No. 1 doubles. The No. 3 doubles team o...

  • West Plains Scoreboard

    Updated May 7, 2015

    BASEBALL Great Northern League (Through May 2, 2015) League All Games Team W L W L West Valley 11 4 11 4 Cheney 7 8 10 8 Clarkston 7 8 8 8 Pullman 7 8 7 10 East Valley 6 11 6 13 Northeast A League (Through May 2, 2015) League All Games Team W L W L Freeman 13 1 15 3 Colville 11 2 14 2 Deer Park 9 5 12 6 Lakeside (WA) 8 5 10 8 Medical Lake 6 7 8 11 Chewelah 4 9 6 11 Riverside 1 10 1 12 Newport 0 11 0 11 WEST PLAINS LITTLE LEAGUE AAA Baseball Team W L T Pts Pct. S. Jarms 5 1 1 11 .830 S. A. Martinssen D.D.S 5 2 0 10 .710 N....

  • League track losses not that concerning for ML coach

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated May 7, 2015

    If Medical Lake is to repeat as 1A state track champions later this month at Eastern Washington University it will happen because of their experience and finishes in bigger meets against larger schools. That means the Cardinals twin losses April 28 to Deer Park and to Lakeside (team scores unavailable) in a boy’s triple dual meet April 28 at Medical Lake does not particularly worry co-head coach Gene Blankenship. “The results tell us that we are a very good district and sta...

  • Out of synch Cardinals try to end softball skid

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated May 7, 2015

    Not a lot’s clicking and meshing these days with the Medical Lake girl’s softball team and it’s showing with six consecutive losses in the Northeast A League. The most recent of those came last week with an 11-8 loss to Riverside April 28 and a doubleheader loss Saturday to Deer Park, 4-2 and 11-6. “We made too many mistakes both offensively and defensively,” Cardinals’ head coach Tim Blakely wrote in an email after he watched his team fall into sixth place in the NEA standin...

  • Rosa's Pizza hangs on for West Plains Little League play win

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated May 7, 2015

    Rosa's Pizza ran their record to 4-2 with a 6-4 win last Friday night over Cheney Free Press in West Plains Little League Majors Division action at Medical Lake's Waterfront Park. Rosa's Anthony Aguilera tripled to right centerfield in the top of the second inning to open the scoring, bringing home Brent Keith and Jalijah Meacham for an early 2-0 lead, and later scoring on a wild pitch. In the third, Karl Barsness singled to center to score Carson Jeffries, and eventually...

  • Sports Week

    Updated May 7, 2015

    (Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) HIGH SCHOOL Baseball Tuesday, May 12, 2A districts, location, times TBA. 1A districts, location, times TBA. Wednesday, May 13, 2A districts, location, times TBA. 1A districts, location, times TBA. Saturday, May 16, 2A districts, location, times TBA. 1A districts, 1A districts, location, time TBA. Golf Tuesday, May 12, NEA Sub-District at Colville, 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 13, Great Northern League championships, location, times TBA....

  • Marchand finishes first in GNL tournament

    AL STOVER, Staff Reporter|Updated May 7, 2015

    The Cheney boys and girls golf teams had some success in the April 28 Great Northern League tournament at Fairways Golf Course. Cheney’s Cheyenne Marchand, who hit a 63, edged out Clarkston’s Grace Frazier, of Clarkston, who shot a 62 by one stroke, to finish in first place. As in the previous tournaments, the GNL used a modified Stableford scoring system, where the highest total of points wins instead of the lowest. “Cheyenne has a powerful smooth swing, great touch around the greens,” head coach Gerald Morton said. “She is...

  • Blackhawks mixed doubles teams place in I. E. Classic tennis

    AL STOVER, Staff Reporter|Updated May 7, 2015

    The Cheney High boys and girls tennis teams capped off a busy week with a successful outing at the Inland Empire tournament, May 1-2. JT Gould and Leanna Eik, No. 2 mixed doubles, finished second in their bracket while Katelynn and Ryan Smedley, No. 1 mixed doubles, took third in theirs. As a team, Cheney finished 13th out of 50 with 84 points. Both teams also earned wins over Northeast A League's Deer Park, April 28, and Great Northern League rivals East Valley, April 30. On...

  • Shining the weekly light on the West Plains Little League

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated May 7, 2015

    This is probably a long time coming, 11 years long time is likely, but the Cheney Free Press has decided to add a new feature to our sports coverage line up. Beginning this week, the intrepid Free Press reporting staff will be bringing you a West Plains Little League game of the week. The idea is to pick one game from among the Majors and AAA divisions of WPLL’s baseball and softball leagues and cover it, providing a write up as best we can along with pictures. We hope to get as many of the teams in our pages as possible duri...

  • Medical Lake tops Lakeside for NEA soccer lead

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated May 7, 2015

    There was certainly no rust in Dallas White. Inserted into actual competition for the first time this season, Medical Lake's top goal scorer in 2014 took just seconds to get his Cardinals even and headed on their way to one of their biggest soccer wins in several years, 3-2 at Lakeside April 30. The victory, the Cards first over the Eagles since rejoining the Northeast A League three years ago, helped break a three-way tie atop the standings. The win, coupled with an 8-2...

  • Blackhawks goal is to keep playing, and not go home

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated May 7, 2015

    The Cheney boys soccer team missed winning their fourth consecutive Great Northern League soccer title by one game and two points - and in a way, head coach Mark Kiver is OK with that fact. In the league's five-team alignment, the regular season winner has an automatic berth in the District 7 title game while the other four teams slog it out through a pair of loser-out rounds. That means league champion Pullman has to wait until May 12 to take the pitch again as hosts for the title game that will determine seeding into the...

  • League champs has nice ring for Lady Blackhawks

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated May 7, 2015

    Cheney High’s softball team accomplished a major goal last week — one every Lady Blackhawks team sets at the beginning of the season, but never attained in the 23 years the sport has been played at the high school. Julia Boyd turned in a two-hit shutout, and Cheney produced just enough offense to take advantage of eight East Valley errors and down the visiting Knights 10-0 last Tuesday. In the process, Cheney’s softball program won its first league title at any level — Great Northern League, Frontier League, Border League or...

  • Looking Back

    Updated May 7, 2015

    1 Years Ago May 5, 2005 The third attempt to land a hotel across from the Cheney Plaza Shopping Center on Betz Road — this time a Holiday Inn Express — is contingent on whether the obstacle of a city-owned road can be cleared. An investigation showed two anonymous complaints made against the Wagon Wheel Tavern Bar and Grill in Medical Lake to the Washington Liquor Control Board were unfounded. Rumors that Medical Lake head basketball coach Arnold Brown would move to an opening at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane wer...

  • Margaret Edith Wagnon

    Updated May 7, 2015

    Margaret Edith Wagnon was born Dec. 1, 1922 and passed away April 28, 2015. She was preceded in death by her loving husband Winfred Wagnon and two children, Dee Dee Wagnon and Bob Wagnon. She is survived by her sister Sylvia Campbell and brother in-law Orbin Campbell, two children Michael Wagnon and Sue Hill, one sister in-law, two daughters in-law, many loving grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews. She is very much loved and...

  • Delray Standerfer

    Updated May 7, 2015

    Del was born in Spokane to Cody and Marie Standerfer Nov. 23, 1933, and passed away at home February 21, 2015 of prostate cancer. He spent his first 16 years in Spokane then moved to Four Lakes and graduated from Cheney High School in 1953. He is survived by his wife Marlene who he married July 31, 1954; three children, Bonita and husband Bill Hawker, Virgil and wife Becky and Rita and husband Tom Henson; one brother Willie and wife Sheila. He has six grandchildren and 12...

  • David Allen Osmonson

    Updated May 7, 2015

    David Allen Osmonson came into this world Feb. 22, 1957 in Moscow, Idaho and lost his battle to cancer on April 13, 2015. He was always kind, generous, a gifted artist, gourmet cook and gentleman. A great teacher to all in his life, a true heart, a true grit survivor of life, and he had uncommon courage in the face of adversity. A true Norwegian, to live, love, laugh and be happy. He loved family gatherings, camping, fishing, swimming, skiing, all sports especially football, his brothers Stephen and Randy and their friends,...

  • Gladys M. Henry

    Updated May 7, 2015

    Gladys M. Henry, age 94, of Medical Lake, Wash., passed away April 25, 2015 at the Cheney Care Center in Cheney, Wash. Gladys was born March 12, 1921 in Reardan, Wash., to Walter and Mary (Anderson) Nunn and graduated from Reardan High School in 1940. She married Vern Pietz shortly after graduation and they started a dairy on Four Mound Prairie and continued to farm until Vern had to retire for health reasons. He passed away in 1972. She later married Robert “Rosie” Henry and they enjoyed traveling with their motorhome and fi...