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CHENEY Oct. 28 Third-degree theft was reported on the 2700 block of First Street. Beer was stolen. Third-degree theft was reported on the 1500 block of West First Street. Electronics were stolen from two vehicles at Cheney Public Storage. A two-car, non-injury collision occurred on the 500 block of Third Street. Oct. 29 Josia D. Rivera, 20, was arrested for third-degree driving while license suspended (DWLS) on the zero hundred block of G Street. He was also arrested on a warrant from the Spokane County District Court for...
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Former Ceney High School cross country star Sanne Holland was named the Mountain West Conference's Freshman of the Year for her time in the conference's cross country championships last Friday, Nov. 1. Holland turned in a time of 22 minutes, 51.20 seconds to finish 31st on the six-kilometer course at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs to help her Colorado State University team to a third-place finish overall behind Boise State and conference champion New Mexico in...
Jay Lemaster from Medical Lake lost just one game and was the week seven winner of the 2013 Cheney Free Press football contest, winning a $50 merchant’s gift certificate. Patricia Conrath also missed just one game but lost in the tie-breaker and wins a $20 Owl Drug gift certificate. Twenty four entries beat the Free Press “experts” and also go into the grand prize drawing. Be sure to try to beat the Free Press experts by playing this week. See the entry form below....
The glimmer of good news that came out of Medical Lake's final regular season football game was that the Cardinals became the first team all season to take a lead on Freeman. The bad news was that it seemed to get the regular-season Northeast A League undefeated champion Scotties riled up and they rolled to a 49-7 win. "Basically we kicked over a beehive and got 'em mad," Medical Lake head coach Wes Hobbs said as he watched his team finish 4-4 overall and 3-3 in NEA play headi...
A pair of second half goals sent the Pullman Greyhounds to a 2-1 win over the visiting Cheney soccer team last Thursday, eliminating the Lady Hawks from postseason play. Pullman’s Maddi Cillay broke a scoreless tie by fielding a pass from Diana DeWald and sending home a goal in the 54th minute. Cillay then found Anne Mari Petrino six minutes later with a pass the sophomore sent into Cheney’s net for a 2-0 lead. The Lady Hawks kept battling, and cut Pullman’s lead in half late in the game when Jasmine McCauley won a ball...
Cheney High School’s girls’ swimming team placed fourth overall at districts, with numerous swimmers advancing to the state competition later this month. The district championships where held in Ellensburg, Wash. at Central Washington University Nov. 1 and 2. The state championships are set to take place in Federal Way, Wash. Nov. 15-16. “This year was really, really good,” head coach Jennifer Hochwalt said. The team started with a number of novice swimmers, who either had no experience or just under a month from the previou...
It’s “wait until next year” for the Cheney High football when it comes to postseason play. Needing a win at Colville and some help from West Valley against Pullman, the Blackhawks got neither. The Eagles fell to the Greyhounds in double overtime, setting up a showdown this Friday with Colville for the No. 2 and final playoff berth while Cheney’s rally came up short in a 19-13 loss to the Indians. “Everybody played hard,” head coach Jason Williams said. “It was just one of those games.” Injuries and illness helped sideline...
After playing seven of its last 10 matches on the road, the Eastern Washington women’s volleyball team returns to the friendly confines to Reese Court this week for the start of a four-match home stand. The Eagles open with Northern Arizona Thursday, Nov. 7, before taking on Southern Utah Friday. Both matches begin at 6 p.m. Eastern (8-17, 5-9 Big Sky) is coming off a split at the Montana schools last week, falling to Montana in four sets on Thursday, Oct. 31, before ending a four-match skid with a win over Montana State S...
The Eastern Washington men’s basketball team will open their 2013-14 season Sunday versus Pacific University of Forest Grove, Ore., Sunday, Nov. 10 at Reese Court. Tipoff is 2:05 p.m. for the Eagles who return four starters and seven letterwinners from a team that finished 10-21 overall and just missed the Big Sky Conference Tournament with a 7-13 league mark. Among the returnees are Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year, Venky Jois. “We are eager to see how we stack up against outside competition,” Eastern head coach...
Senior forward Aubrey Ashenfelter led four players in double figures with a game-high 23 points as the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team held off a game Master’s College squad, 87-74, in an exhibition contest Friday, Nov. 1, at Reese Court. Ashenfelter’s 23 points came on 8-of-12 shooting, including a near-perfect 6-of-7 from the free throw line. Junior Kylie Huerta finished with a double-double, notching 17 points and 11 assists to go along with three steals. Sophomore Hayley Hodgins and senior Laura Hughes talli...
Cheney's boys and girls cross country teams proved the old axiom that "it's not how you start but how you finish," might need a little tweaking. For the Blackhawks to make return trips to 2A state competition, it was all about starting and finishing. Both Cheney squads came out aggressive, raced hard and finished strong in earning second-place finishes in District 7 competition last Saturday at Plantes Ferry State Park, pulling a couple of upsets in qualifying once again for...
When the Eastern Washington University Eagles used a second half surge to pull away from, and ultimately beat Idaho State 55-34 last Saturday in Pocatello, the win allowed all the luster to remain for this week’s home game and Big Sky Conference showdown with Montana State. The game at sold-out Roos Field kicks off at 12:05 p.m. and will decide who exits Cheney with the top spot in the conference. Both the No. 3 Eagles and fourth-ranked Bobcats are 5-0 in Big Sky play and 7-2...
The Medical Lake Cardinals will return en force to the state cross country championships this Saturday at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco, this time with a legitimate chance at taking home the school's first title in the sport. Following a predictable finish in last Saturday's Bi-District championships at windy Plantes Ferry Park with a team and individual win in 1A boys, the Cardinals head to Pasco as one of the teams to beat. With junior Micah Dingfield leading the way in...
If one of his Medical Lake teams emerge from their scramble over the 5,000 meters that make up the course at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco and claim a state cross country championships Saturday, Gene Blankenship will be able to cross a big item off his “To-Do” list. No “bucket list” for Blankenship who is an avid runner and ought to be far away – he hopes at least – from kicking the bucket. “My burning desire is to win a state championship in the state of Washington,” Blank...
Some big plays by special teams and another drive-stopping interception were the turning points Eastern Washington needed to finally shake the Idaho State Bengals last Saturday in the Eagles’ 55-34 Big Sky Conference football win at Holt Arena. Trailing the Bengals (1-5 Big Sky, 3-6 all games) 24-17 after Luke Austin’s 49-yard touchdown catch from Justin Arias with 5 minutes, 5 seconds to play in the first half, a Shaquille Hill 80-yard kickoff return helped ignite a 31-3 run...
