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Medical Lake has passed its biggest test of the season so far on the baseball diamond. Now the exams continue, and probably get tougher. Following a 6-0 win Saturday morning over Brewster, plus surviv...

Medical Lake’s baseball team has conducted its massive turnaround in the traditional ways. In crafting a 19-3 overall record that has earned the Cardinals one of 16 berths in the state 1A tournament that will trim things down to a single winner...

Forward Trevan Estrellado played a part in all three of Cheney’s goals while goalkeeper Joe Scott was solid defending the net as the Blackhawks topped a physical and skilled Toppenish team 3-1...

The only place the Cheney girls’ track team didn’t dominate last weekend’s District 7 meet at West Valley was on the scoreboard. The Blackhawks won nine district event championships and placed...

Cheney boys’ tennis team saw some positive results in its districts’ play at Pullman last Friday. While the results don’t display the type of play quality shown by players, head coach Jesse Erickson said the effort was phenomenal. “The guys...

Sprinter Brad Wall made history May 11 at the Big Sky Conference Outdoor Championships, as the Eastern Washington University senior closed out his career with his fourth league title in the 400 meters to highlight the final day of competition for...

Dates and times of activities are subject to change. For updated information call the Cheney High School activity line at 559-4120 or the Medical Lake High School activity line at 565-3232, goeags.com or spokanealb.com. HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL...

Medical Lake will send a third and fourth place singles entry, plus a doubles team that earned fourth place in last weekend’s district championships to regional competition Friday and Saturday at...

The softball season, and the latest stint for head coach John Higgins ended for Medical Lake last Saturday in Suncrest. After a thrilling 14-13 win in 12 innings over Chewelah last Tuesday that got them into the postseason, a pair of losses in the...

Medical Lake’s doubles team of Anton King (left) and Hunter Barr (right) finished second last Saturday in district play, falling to Chewelah 7-5, 7-5, but will be in action as the only Cardinal...

The emotions of a between-games Senior Day recognition ceremony may have gotten to Adam Paulson, but few Riverside batters did last Friday. Paulson, a four-year letter winner at Medical Lake in...

With the Great Northern League’s No. 5 seed secured and no chances of moving up, the Cheney girls softball team on paper didn’t have much to play for Saturday against last place Pullman – other than head coach Gary Blake’s appeal to end...

A hat trick by junior Ian Schmandel helped power the Cheney boys’ soccer team past East Valley 4-1 and to their second consecutive District 7 title in 80-degree temperatures Tuesday, earning them a...

The Medical Lake girls’ golf team is in a place they have not been before, or at least for some time. The Cardinals sit on top of the Northeast A League standings as regular season champions at a perfect 5-0 with four golfers in the league’s...

The Medical Lake girls’ tennis team will carry a 7-1 Northeast A League record and a shared championship with Chewelah into district competition beginning Friday and continuing Saturday at Mead High School. The Cardinals finished the regular...

Cheney’s regular season-ending doubleheader was the story of two different teams – one that struggled at the plate and on the mound and the other the exact opposite. Blackhawks’ pitchers had...

Cheney Mathawks wrestler Dylan Straley placed first in the 9-10 year old, 74-pound weight class at the Jason Crawford Memorial Wrestling Tournament held April 13 at the Spokane Convention Center....

By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter After a long, hard-fought rebuilding season, the Cheney boys’ tennis team moved up in the GNL standings with a final record of 7-7. In its final week of regular season play, the team lost to Pullman 7-0, facing tough...

By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter A young Cheney girls’ tennis team was persistent throughout the season and finished with a 5-9 record on the year. The team started out their final two matches in a tough fashion against Pullman, losing 6-1. Katelyn...

By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter If Gene Blankenship is as good at predicting outcomes in postseason as he was in the preseason Medical Lake track could have a memorable couple of weeks ahead. “(We finished) 3-3 just like I predicted,” the...

By JOHN McCALLUM Editor The Cheney boys and girls track and field teams ended their Great Northern League regular season meet schedule with wins last Wednesday in Clarkston. The boys downed the Bantams 83-45, finishing with a 3-3 record overall...

By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake’s soccer woes against Lakeside continued last week, but that was the least of the Cardinals’ worries as they quickly exited postseason play. The Cardinals fell 1-0 to the Eagles as Cody Constant broke...

Resiliency. That might be the word that best describes the Medical Lake Cardinals baseball team this season. Because after each of their three losses so far this year, they’ve rebounded well,...

As much as I loved the Seattle SuperSonics and wish professional basketball would return to the region, part of me hopes the bid to bring the Sacramento Kings north doesn’t succeed. The NBA’s Relocation Committee on Monday shot down the proposed...

Officially it was the Red-White Spring Football Game, but last Saturday’s final scrimmage of spring football for Eastern Washington University might as well be called Cooper Kupp’s coming out...