Articles from the October 4, 2012 edition


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  • Blackhawks runners easily out-distance Pullman in GNL meet

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Oct 18, 2012

    Smoke from regional wildfires limited action for Cheney’s cross country teams to one meet last week, a relatively easy pair of wins Wednesday over visiting Pullman. The Blackhawks’ boys finished in the top nine spots – only five to score – in downing the Greyhounds 15-50 in a combined varsity/junior varsity race while the girls tightened up their gaps among the varsity seven en route to a 20-38 win on the home turf at Salnave Park. Cheney was to have traveled to Yakima...

  • Medical Lake girls score huge cross country win at Nike Pre-Nationals

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 18, 2012

    The fortunes of the Medical Lake cross country program continue to improve with the most recent accomplishment a girls’ championship in the 2012 Nike Pre-Nationals and Micah Dingfield’s individual victory in Division 2. The event, staged last Saturday at Portland Meadows’ 5,000-meter course, drew 80 teams and over 3,000 athletes from eight states. Senior Kelby Wegner led Cardinal girls’ runners with a time of 20 minutes, 23.2 seconds. Freshman Sakaiya McCoy clocked a 20:59 and...

  • Lady Hawks’ mettle tested in three Great Northern League matches

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Oct 5, 2012

    The best way to sum up last week for the Cheney volleyball team is to let head coach Brianne Lowe do the talking. “This whole week was a fighting week for us, being up, being down this was a good week for the girls,” Lowe said Monday. “If we had only beaten Pullman, it would have been a perfect week.” And the Lady Hawks came close, fighting back from a 0-2 hole to force a fifth and deciding game with the visiting Greyhounds Saturday, losing 15-13 in the end to the Great Northern League’s third-place team. The loss capped a we...

  • Cheney girls’ soccer shows sign of turnaround despite three losses

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Oct 5, 2012

    In the midst of a five-game losing streak, new Cheney girls’ soccer head coach Nels Radtke thinks he sees signs of a turnaround of fortune. The Lady Hawks played with intensity and spirit Saturday against visiting Pullman, despite surrendering two, second half goals in the 2-0 loss to the Great Northern League-leading (6-0, 9-1, 18 points) Greyhounds. “We fought hard and that’s a big thing for us,” Radtke said. For the second straight game the Lady Hawks didn’t fall victim to a bugaboo that has plagued them most of the seaso...