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Medical Lake's Katelynn Houger (white shorts) watches as her goal in the 69th minute sails by the Freeman keeper in last Thursday's Northeast A League soccer match. Twice the Cardinals rallied to tie, the first time on a Makayla Geiger goal in the 22nd minute. Ultimately, the Cardinals lost 3-2 in a shooutout where Kayla Pruitt and Sofia Novachekhova scored....
Eastern soccer earns playoff berth After clinching its first Big Sky Conference Tournament bid since 2009, the Eastern Washington women’s soccer team will face Big Sky leader Montana for its last game of the regular season at home Friday, Oct. 31, at 2 p.m. EWU will be recognizing a total of eight seniors prior to the match in honor of Senior Day. They will include Nathalie Schwery, Katie Cashman, Marianne Johnson, Jessica Wallace, Meghan Sorensen, Cassie Black, Haley Stading, and Kayla Sutter. Eastern (8-7, 5-4 BSC) saw i...
Arlene Helsing was not perfect this week, but she has now won three straight weeks of the Cheney Free Press football contest. She wins another $50 merchant’s gift certificate. David Ophus claimed second place in a tiebreaker and wins a $20 Owl Drug gift certificate. No entries beat or tied the Free Press “experts,” this week. Winners must come to the Free Press office at 1616 W. First St. in Cheney to pick up their prizes. Be sure to test your skills with the entry form below....
CROSS COUNTRY District 7 – Clarkston (Three miles) Boys 4. Steaven Zachman 16:05.00 10. Kameron Galm 16:54.00 13. Kaleb Lerch 17:09.00 18. JT Gould 17:43.00 20. Carson Kerr 17:48.00 26. Britton Williams 18:08.00 27. Matt Christianson 18:12.00 Official Team Scores 1. East Valley-Spokane 40 2. Pullman 53 3. West Valley-Spokane 56 4. Cheney 65 5. Clarkston 148 Girls 6. Hannah Spakousky 19:30.00 8. Jolene Whiteley 20:04.00 9. Mattie McNair 20:24.00 13. Alecia Brooks 20:52.00 17. Jessica Vietzke 21:36.00 19. Lexi Brooks 2...
The Cheney High girls’ swimming team finished their regular season on the road, Oct. 25, losing their final meet of the regular season to defending state champions the Pullman Greyhounds 106-62. Despite losing in team points, several Blackhawk swimmers did well at the meet. Makenzie Norman qualified for state in the 200-yard freestyle, after she finished first in 2 minutes and 4.31 seconds. She also took first in the 100 freestyle in 56.16. Alexis Schmidt placed first in the 100 butterfly in 1:03.32. Schmidt also took s...
The Cheney High girls' soccer team enters postseason play this week as winners of three of their final five games. The Lady Blackhawks earned a split of their two games last week, giving up three second half goals in a 3-0 loss to Great Northern League regular-season champion and top seed West Valley on Senior Day last Thursday. Cheney rebounded on Saturday at Pullman, scoring three first half goals en route to a 4-1 win over the winless Greyhounds. "I know I said I thought...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school websites to confirm.) COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Women) Thursday , Oct. 30, EWU hosts Central Methodist, 6 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY Saturday, Nov. 1, Glue-In District 5 & 6, location and time TBA. Thursday, Oct. 30, Districts at Chewelah Golf Course, 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, State Cross Country at Pasco, time TBA. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday. Nov. 1, EWU hosts North Dakota, 2:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, EWU hosts Montana, noon. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Friday, Oct. 31, Cheney... Full story
The Cheney High volleyball team defeated West Valley in a Great Northern League (GNL) match on Senior Night, Oct. 23, but it wasn’t easy. While the Blackhawks swept the Eagles in their previous encounters this season, Cheney had to dig deep to beat West Valley, 3-2. The game scores were 9-25, 25-13, 23-25, 25-19 and 15-10. The Blackhawks had a rough start in the first game after West Valley took a strong lead early. Cheney found their groove to win game two. They went back and forth with West Valley in game three, until t...
No matter what the end results were, Cheney High School cross country head coach Jay Martin knows his runners gave it all they had at last Saturday’s District 7 competition in Clarkston. For the girls, that resulted in a second-place finish and one more weekend to try to earn a team berth to the state meet in Pasco. For the boys, leaving everything on the course at Clarkston High School proved to be not quite enough in a very tough Great Northern League field, finishing fourth overall and out of the running for a shot at P...
Long before the University of North Dakota was making headlines for having one of the most controversial mascots, The Fighting Sioux, Eastern Washington State College found itself in its own storm over the use of the name Savages. The mascot issue naturally percolates at a slightly more intensive boil when the UND no-names come to Roos Field this Saturday for a Big Sky Conference football game against the Eastern Washington University Eagles. Because on Homecoming Weekend,...
The big Northeast A League cross country showdown went just as Medical Lake head coach Gene Blankenship boldly predicted it would at the beginning of the season. His look into the future back in August allowed Blankenship to think his team would most likely claim another regular-season title, even with the addition of former 2A powerhouse, Deer Park to the NEA. With Cardinal runners sweeping the top three spots, Medical Lake earned a 24-31 win over Deer Park and a 24-81...
Missed opportunities and lack of a break or two last Friday night at Clarkston may have cost the Cheney football team its clear path to the playoffs, but it hasn’t left them out of the end of the season cold just yet. The Blackhawks rallied from a 13-point first half deficit to tie the game with the league-leading Bantams, and had a chance to win it in regulation. In the end, after Clarkston scored a touchdown in the second overtime period, Cheney came up a fourth-down conversion short in the 20-13 loss. “We had our opp...
One football playing member of Medical Lake's class of 2015 certainly had an evening to remember on Senior Night. Jackson Tappero was nearly unstoppable, rolling up 252 yards on 32 carries - a full 60 percent of the Cardinals offense that night - as he led his team to a 42-23 Northeast A League victory over Riverside last Friday night at Holliday Field. Tappero scored once and fell just two yards short of matching or surpassing his career-high yardage, 254 yards in the 2014...
Eastern Washington's trip to Flagstaff, Ariz. to play the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks in a Big Sky Conference football game didn't begin on a good note, and it certainly didn't end on one, either. The Eagles' charter flight last Friday had mechanical problems, forcing the need for a replacement plane. The mechanics of the football team had a miss, too, in Saturday's 28-27 last minute loss in the Walkup Skydome that ended Eastern's 14-game conference winning streak. The Lumber...
SPOKANE — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the presence of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) in Spokane County. The CDC testing confirmed that two children hospitalized in September had respiratory illness associated with EV-D68. The children were between the ages of 0 and 10 years old and both were discharged. “We are not surprised to find that EV-D68 caused some illnesses in Spokane given the widespread nature of this virus in other parts of the country,” Spokane Regional Health District (SHRD...
Cheney’s Emmanuel Lutheran Church is holding their annual Holiday Bazaar and Luncheon Saturday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. There will be crafts, a White Elephant sale in addition to a large selection of baked goods. Enter the raffle drawing to win a “Family Night Basket,” or a quilt. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., after which all White Elephant items go on sale for half price. The raffle drawing takes place at 2:30 p.m. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans will match funds that are raised. Emmanuel Lutheran is locate...
City of Cheney • Oct. 31, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0 – 18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • Nov. 1, Friends of the Cheney Library Book Sale, community library, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. • Nov. 3, Dance Class, Wren Pierson Community Center, 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. • Nov. 4, Senior Light Fitness, Wren Pierson Community Center, 9 – 10 a.m. • Nov. 5, Toddler Play and Learn Storytime (ages 1 1/2 – 3), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • Nov. 5, Kids Explore and Discover Club “Converted Creatures,” community libr... Full story
Kids out for some Halloween goodies might want to swing by the Iron Skillet Restaurant just off Interstate 90 at the Medical Lake exit. From 4 – 5 p.m., kids dressed in costume can trick-or-treat for candy from some of the Iron Skillet staff "ghouls" in the restaurant. From 5 – 6 p.m., those age 12 and under still present will get a chance to win one of three prizes - a large M&M, a medium M&M and a Minnie Mouse - for best costume. According to Iron Skillet's general man... Full story
One-time Cheney resident Hilda Christine Schmidt Smith, 93, died Oct. 20, 2014, at Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Ala. She was born in Manchester, Iowa, June 19, 1921. She was a second-generation German-American, born into and instructed in the Lutheran faith. Immigrating to the U.S. from Germany in the mid-1800s, her grandparents settled in rural Iowa. Hilda was one of nine children born to John August Carl Schmidt and Matilda Catherine Eiben. Her father, John, died of scarlet fever when Hilda was 8 years old. A... Full story
Devota Evangeline (Dow) Goodwin On the morning of Oct. 24, Devota Evangeline (Dow) Goodwin passed away at Hospice House South in Spokane. She was 85 years old. Devota was born in 1929 to Albey and Emily Dow, on a small farm outside of Cheney. There were four children, Alvin, Wally, Devota and Delores. She attended school in Cheney ,graduating in 1948. In June of 1948 she married William Goodwin and they had two children, David and Anna. She was a wife, mother and housewife.... Full story
1 Years Ago Nov. 4, 2004 Jeff Sale officially became Cheney's newest police chief following the completion of a five-month transition from his former post with the Washington State Patrol. The Republican Party's 70-year hold on the 9th Legislative District remained intact as voters promoted state Rep. Mark Schoesler to the Senate. David Buri earned his seat in the House where Schoesler had previously served. The Medical Lake girls' cross country team earned its first berth...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Emmanuel Lutheran Church invites you to worship with us this Sunday, Nov. 2, at 10:30 a.m. Christian education begins at 9 a.m. You may also watch our pastor’s sermons on our website www.emmanuelcheney.orgor on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Cheney. Mark your calendars for Saturday, Nov. 8 for our annual Holiday Church Bazaar and Luncheon from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. United Church of Christ Since Sunday is the day after All Saints’ Day, please bring a Bible or other mementos of a person who was an in...
Bridget Calvert is an energetic sophomore at Cheney High School. She is in a leadership class. That is what Bridget does; she leads. Soon the class will host an assembly service to honor our veterans on Nov. 1. The class will lead a canned food drive. Bridget said, "All people are welcome to bring canned food to the high school. On the first and second weeks of November, food will be distributed to the needy. We will let kids know they can bring any food back that they got...
