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Medical Lake's Cody Peterson scrambles for the ball against Deer Park on Jan. 9. For more on basketball, see Page 10....
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...
SPOKANE VALLEY - Perfection came to an end for the Medical Lake girls last week in the West Valley Eagle Classic. While the Cardinals (8-1) handily won their opener over East Valley, 50-21 on Dec. 27, they lost their primary presence in the paint when Chiche Okembgo rolled her ankle - after scoring a game/career-high 19 points. The injury likely played a part in Medical Lake's loss the following afternoon, 40-36, to Liberty (Spangle), head Coach Yeta Holloway suggested. "With...
FREEMAN – Cheney wrestlers had a busy close to the holiday with back-to-back competition at the Hanford and Freeman tournaments. The Blackhawks brought home a pair of wins and a sixth-place finish at the Freeman Winter Classic that took place Dec. 30. At Hanford on Dec. 29, seven wrestlers placed in Top 5. As a team at Freeman, Cheney scored 121 points in sixth place behind champion Post Falls with 178.5. Camron Bogle scored four wins in capturing the 132-pound title, while T...
KENNEWICK – A strong fourth quarter carried Southridge to a 65-61 non-league basketball victory over Cheney on the road, Dec. 29. The game with the Mid-Columbia Conference Suns (4-5) was the final before the start of Greater Spokane League play Jan. 4 when the Blackhawks host Ferris (2-6) at 7:30 p.m. Southridge used a 22-11 fourth quarter to get past Cheney (5-5), which led 50-43 after three quarters. “We didn’t do a good enough job getting stops and sprinting back in trans...
CHENEY — The Eastern Washington men’s basketball team certainly made a statement in the opening weekend of their Big Sky Conference schedule winning convincingly in a pair of games. The Eagles opened play with 91-57 win over Portland State, Dec. 28 and 87-61 over Sacramento State, Dec. 30 at Reese Court improving to 6-7 overall. “We’ve been working really hard this whole preseason,” EWU head coach David Riley said. “We faced a uniquely challenging schedule to start and p...
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...
EAST WENATCHEE – The Cheney girls capped off play in the GESA Winter Shootout at Eastmont High School with a win and now have one more tune-up before the start of Greater Spokane League play when Ferris visits Jan. 4. “Last week in Eastmont was great for us,” Coach Meredith Richards wrote in an email. “Our record for the tournament didn’t portray the amount of learning and adjusting and ‘team play’ that I saw on the court for all three games.” The Blackhawks got 12 points e...
SPOKANE VALLEY – Cheney wrestlers emerged from the day-long Tri-Country Classic on Dec. 21 with a variety of solid finishes. Tops for the Blackhawks was Shadrach Mason at 150 pounds who finished third. Mason, who won his first three bouts, his first two by fall. He won his third by an 8-7 decision over Carsen Buenzli of Medical Lake. He lost his fourth to Jameson Davis of Selkirk, by fall 4-0 in 4:19. He capped the day with a pair of wins, including a pin of Mead’s Tyler Van...
EAST WENATCHEE – The Cheney girls capped off play in the GESA Winter Shootout at Eastmont High School with a win and now have one more tune-up before the start of Greater Spokane League play when Ferris visits Jan. 4. “Last week in Eastmont was great for us,” Coach Meredith Richards wrote in an email. “Our record for the tournament didn’t portray the amount of learning and adjusting and ‘team play’ that I saw on the court for all three games.” The Blackhawks got 12 points e...
EAST WENATCHEE – Call it an early Christmas present if you will for Cheney boys basketball coach Travis Peevey. The four-game winning streak the Blackhawks find themselves riding has Peevey sounding like a kid who got just what he wanted from under the tree. Cheney returned home from the Eastmont’s 2023 GESA Winter Shootout with wins over Monroe, 58-46, on Dec. 20, Wenatchee — again — 59-24, on Dec. 21, and Spanaway Lake, 62-55, on Dec. 22 to push its record to 5-4 followi...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Cardinal girls basketball team sits at a perfect 7-0 as the 2023-24 season gets into its serious stage. Considering the Cardinals have been through the changes authored from having been guided by three different coaches in as many seasons, this early success is quite satisfying for ML’s latest bench boss, Yeta Holloway. “Every game, the bond between coach and player grows,” Holloway wrote in an email. The schedule was light leading into the holiday break las...
SPOKANE VALLEY – The Medical Lake boys basketball winds down the preseason with a pair of games this week last the West Valley tournament in Spokane knowing at least a couple of things to be true. In their 2-6 start under new Coach Brett Ward, the Cardinals have already doubled the win output of the entire 2022-23 season. And one of those victories put them at 1-0 in Northeast A League play. “I’m happy with our league win,” Ward said. “That’s the most important record and we a...
CHENEY – Saddled with limited numbers, Cheney gymnastics had a bright spot emerge Dec. 13 in the season’s first Greater Spokane League meet. Co-op team member Makaila McKenney of Medical Lake finished third in vault with a score of 8.225, behind the 8.975 from Jacquie Bonnett of Mount Spokane. “(Makaila) did really well at her first meet,” Coach Melissa Linton said. “Vault is one of her strongest events. She works hard at it and is currently working on upgrading to an even m...
— Editor’s note: Yet another controversial year in determining the four teams who will play for the national championship of the Football Bowl Subdivision is at hand. We revisit a column written in December 2011 that suggested a possible way to construct a true playoff based on rankings and utilizing the existing bowl games. It’s not unlike the Football Championship Subdivision in which Eastern Washington plays.) Roos Field sat in the evening chill, dark but silhouetted by th...
CHENEY -- The Blackhawks boys basketball team split a pair of non-league games last week, losing Dec. 12 at Lewis and Clark, 59-43, before topping Shadle Park, 61-52, at home Dec. 16. Once again, a slow start sunk the Blackhawks (2-4) into a deep hole. LC’s 16-5 edge in the first quarter set the stage for the Tigers to lead 33-20 at half. “It’s never easy to play from behind early like we did at LC,” head coach Travis Peevey wrote in an email. “We have to come ready to play a...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Medical Lake girls' basketball team ran its preseason record to a perfect 6-0 following wins last week against Greater Spokane League Rogers, Northeast A League Newport and 2B St. Georges. Using a dominating third quarter and outscoring the Prates 25-4 to break a 21-all tie at halftime, the Cardinals won going away 63-32 at Rogers, Dec. 12. Medical Lake capped the week with a 40-24 win against NEA foe, Newport, Dec. 15 and 46-30 at St. Georges', Dec. 18. A...
CHENEY – In what might be termed their toughest week of wrestling outside what could occur in February at district, regional and state competition but Cheney exited the gauntlet with a number of plusses. Wrestling on back-to-back nights on Dec. 13-14, the Blackhawks came away with a split in Greater Spokane League competition, losing to Mount Spokane 42-34 before handling Central Valley by the same score. To cap the week the Blackhawks were at the Tri-State tournament in Co...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Cardinal boys basketball team had a pair of one-sided losses wrap themselves around a win last week. While the Cardinals were thumped by Greater Spokane League, Rogers 70-26, Dec. 12 and 2B St. George's, 73-35, Dec. 18, they did win handily in their Northeast A League opener vs. Newport, 57-37, Dec. 15. "They punched us in the mouth," head coach Brett Ward wrote in a text message regarding Rogers, which led 21-5 after the first quarter. Trailing at halftime...
SPOKANE — The Cheney girls let Shadle Park have the lead for one quarter last Saturday afternoon before shutting the door on the visitors to claim a 58-44 non-league basketball victory, Dec. 16 at home. The win, Cheney’s second of the season in six games, gave them a 1-1 record for the week following a 43-30 loss at Lewis and Clark, Dec. 12. The Blackhawks trailed 15-14 to the Highlanders (0-5) after the opening eight minutes but then gave up just 11 points in the next two...
