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"The players had so much fun at the game," head coach Brian Baxter wrote in an email. "They were so excited about the crowd and the energy. Give out kudos to Derek Slaughter and Jenna Tamera for organizing the Spirit Game and including my basketball players."...
SPOKANE - Cheney advanced nine wrestlers to the next stop on the road to Mat Classic, including two individual champions, from the Greater Spokane League 3A tournament at the Spokane Convention Center, on Feb. 2-3. Mason Bennett was a champion at 144 pounds and Trenton Moore won at 175 as the Blackhawks finished fourth as a team behind Mead, University and Mount Spokane. That pair, as well as Camron Bogle (132-pounds/3rd), Wyatt Wells (175/4th), Gauge Seubert (190/4th), Aiden...
It’s been just about three weeks since the Northeast A League shrunk from a size-7 to a much trimmed-down size-4. Had this been a human-driven weight loss program, it might have been a welcome outcome. However, this is high school athletics. And when a conference loses that much weight, that fast, it generates potentially unhealthy side effects. NEA athletic directors knew in advance what was about to hit when the board of directors of the Washington Interscholastic A...
CHENEY -Eight area girls are heading to regional wrestling tournaments on Saturday, Feb. 10. Four Cheney girls will compete at the 3A/4A girls regionals in Sunnyside on Saturday, Feb. 10. And in the girls small school (1B-2A) division, three Liberty (Spangle) wrestlers and one Medical Lake girl will are heading to Quincy. Cheney Blackhawks Cheney has the largest local girls contingent moving on. The Blackhawks girls wrestling program emerged from subregional competition at...
MEDICAL LAKE — Peaking at the right time in sports is critical to success and if winning three of their last four games in any indicator the Medical Lake boys basketball team is doing just that? The Cardinals engineered a notable turnaround over this time a year ago, splitting their final two Northeast A League games and nabbing not only a playoff spot, but getting a home game to boot. Medical Lake lost Jan. 30 at Freeman, 68-46, but dished up a fitting Senior Night p...
CHENEY - The Blackhawk boys collected a pair of basketball wins last week topping Rogers 66-45 in the "Railroad Rumble" rivalry game and then 50-43 over University in their next-to-last game. The Blackhawks (3-5 GSL, 9-10 overall) looked to cap the 2023-24 basketball season with a win at home, Feb. 6 vs. North Central (5-3, 14-5). Led as usual by Evan Stinson and his 24 points, Cheney raced to a 40-25 halftime lead in the non-league game with Rogers (5-1, 11-4). Liam Carver...
The Cheney girls earned their first basketball victory of 2024 amidst the memorable setting of the school's rivalry game on Jan. 31. The Blackhawks used a solid second half to put distance between themselves and the Rogers Pirates to win 61-44 in their part of the "Railroad Rumble" played at Eastern Washington University's Reese Court. That ended a 10-game losing streak dating back to Dec. 22. Cheney capped the week with a 65-38 loss at home to University in a Greater Spokane...
The 2023-24 basketball season is winding down for the Blackhawks. Pictured, Blackhawk Macey M.Richards tries to block a shot by Ridgeline's Emma Myers in a 49-26 loss Jan. 23....
CHENEY - Gymnastics took some big leaps in the 2023-24 season, and that was before they got on the floor in competition. The team features 10 athletes, seven from Cheney and three out of Medical Lake. "I'm excited for this season because our team has doubled in size since last year," head coach Melissa Linton said earlier in the season. Cheney gymnastics had its birth in 2015 with its first coach hired just days before the start of competition. That inaugural season produced...
CHENEY — The Cheney boys may have let post-season play slip through their fingers following a pair of Greater Spokane League basketball games last week on the road. The Blackhawks (2-5 GSL, 7-10 overall) let a possible victory slip away Jan. 23 at Ridgeline where the Falcons used a 21-7 fourth quarter to erase a Cheney lead in a 62-50 loss. Then, Cheney kept GSL leading Mount Spokane in check before falling 56-52, Jan. 26. “Ridgeline (4-3, 13-4) is a team that doesn’t quit, an...
CHENEY — The Cheney girls’ basketball team remained winless in Greater Spokane League play following losses on the road last week to Ridgeline and Mt. Spokane. The Blackhawks’ streak increased to seven following setbacks to Ridgeline, 49-26 on Jan. 23 and 42-29 to Mt. Spokane, Jan. 25. “This last week of basketball brings with it more highs and lows, similar to how our entire season has played out so far,” head coach Meredith Richards wrote in an email. While not winning m...
Medical Lake's Cody Peterson scrambles for the ball against Deer Park on Jan. 9. For more on basketball, see Page 10....
SPOKANE -- Cheney wrestlers started off strong by winning the first seven of eight weight classes and cruised to 64-11 Greater Spokane League win at North Central, Jan. 10. Juan Tercero (113 pounds) and Aiden Carr (120) both won by pins and Alex Kurakin (106) had a forfeit in that starting streak. Camron Bogle (132) and Kaden Rasmussen (138) also pinned their opponents to start the second run of four victories. Mason Bennett (144) and Jacob Estock (150) also won by forfeits...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake’s boys’ basketball team emerged from last week with a split in a pair of Northeast A League games. The Cardinals topped Deer Park 65-56 on Jan. 9 and fell to Freeman 65-51, Jan. 12, both at home. Medical Lake (2-3 NEA, 3-9 overall) had a big push after halftime where they led 30-26 and led by double-digits before Deer Park closed to within four. Solid free-throw shooting down the stretch delivered the final margin. Maverick Rasmussen led the C...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks collected a big Greater Spokane League boys' basketball win on the road last week after losing its home meeting with Gonzaga Prep. The Blackhawks opened with a 71-59 loss to the Bullpups on Jan. 9 before topping the Bears 57-52 Jan. 12 with their scoring leader, Evan Stinson, out of the lineup. Cheney built at 30-23 halftime lead that held up throughout the remainder of the contest. "We knew that we could not overlook them and playing without Evan w...
CHENEY -- “The most difficult part of our schedule” as Cheney girls basketball Coach Meredith Richards called it, is so far living to the description. Cheney lost at home Jan. 9 to Gonzaga Prep, 63-39 and then on the road Jan. 12 to Central Valley 68-28. At CV (3-0 GSL, 10-3 overall), the Bears raced to a 26-3 first-quarter lead against the Blackhawks (0-3, 3-10) and by halftime they were up 46-9. Cheney was shutout until the final 30 seconds of the period. Richards des...
With the main gear in its basketball machine still in the shop for repair, the Medical Lake girls struggled with a winless week. Cardinals' leading scorer and playmaker Charde Luat was sidelined with an ankle injury during last week's three losses, two in Northeast A League play. Medical Lake lost Jan. 9 to Deer Park 71-23, to Idaho's Timberlake 50-15 (Jan. 10) and Freeman, Jan. 12. They now have four losses in a row since Luat rolled her ankle in an earlier practice. "Last we...
Just what if Cheney became Spokane County seat as it had long desired, and Benjamin P. Cheney decided in fairness to locate his institution of higher learning to Spokane? What might it have meant to the how Eastern Washington University grew and developed since its founding as Benjamin P. Cheney Academy in 1882. How might it have existed with its higher-ed regional rivals, all established later than Eastern — Washington State College and Whitworth both in 1890, Gonzaga 1887 a...
CHENEY – Three area wrestlers took home silver medals from the Blackhawk Invite on Jan. 6. For Medical Lake, Carsen Buenzli was the runner-up at 150 pounds. For Cheney, Cameron Bogle won silver at 132 and Shadrach Mason was second at 144. Buenzli lost in the final round to Shadle Park's Tyrese Guzman who improved to 22-2 on the season after a fall in 2 minutes, 44 seconds. The Cardinals other notable finisher was Hudson Raulston who claimed third place at 126 in a sudden v...
CHENEY - In the third quarter of their Greater Spokane League opener against Ferris on Jan. 4, the Cheney girls quickly turned a 30-25 Saxon halftime lead into an early fourth-quarter tie. Then twice in the final quarter Cheney had leads of four points. But in the final 149 seconds Ferris broke from a 44-44 tie with a 9-0 run that sunk Cheney with a disappointing 53-44 loss. "Unfortunately, we let down a little defensively and fell back into bad habits with not taking care of...
CHENEY — The Cheney boys have been playing some pretty good basketball lately with five wins in their last six games and five points away from being undefeated in that stretch. But the Blackhawks arguably played their best game in the Jan. 4 Greater Spokane League opener, a 72-50 victory over Ferris at home — leading from tipoff to final buzzer, never much faltering. “We executed our game plan and really focused on having zero lapses in effort all four quarters,” head coach Tr...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Cardinals boys basketball returned to Northeast A League play last week after the holiday break and left with a pair of road losses. The Cardinals lost 64-31 to Riverside, Jan. 3. and Colville 82-75 in overtime, Jan. 12. Colville (1-2 NEA, 1-9 overall) first rallied to tie in regulation — knotting it with just three seconds to play — and then outscored Medical Lake 13-6 in the extra period to win their first game of the season. The Cardinals’ failing...
CHENEY — Winning on the road is a vital ingredient in success in the Big Sky Conference and the Eastern Washington women returned home with two critical victories. On Dec. 28, the Eagles took 68-58 win at Portland State and capped the road trip with a 60-33 dismantling of Sacramento State, Dec. 30. The Eagles held Sacramento St. to a 23.7 field goal percentage and 6.3 percent from three-point range. This despite starting in an 8-0 hole to the Hornets and finishing the first q...
KENNEWICK – Five words summed up Cheney girls basketball Coach Meredith Richards’ thoughts on her Blackhawks loss in their final non-league game. “Southridge, man what a heartbreaker,” she said following Cheney’s 40-33 setback at Southridge of Kennewick on Dec. 29. A paltry point production in the second quarter where Cheney (3-7) was outscored 10-5 was a big difference for the Suns (4-6) of the Mid-Columbia Conference. “Only scoring 5 points in the second quarter definitely h...
SPOKANE VALLEY - The Medical Lake boys basketball team wrapped up non-league play at the West Valley Eagle Classic last week with a pair of losses. The Cardinals opened Dec. 28 with an 83-50 loss to the state's No. 5-ranked 2B school, Tri Cities Prep, then fell to the Greater Spokane League 2A's East Valley, 51-49 the following day. "I actually thought we did some great things that day, just couldn't sustain it," Coach Brett Ward said about Tri-Cities Prep game. After falling...
