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Eastern routs Richmond at Roos Registering its first shutout in its last 102 games, third-ranked and No. 2 seeded Eastern Washington rolled past the 12th-ranked University of Richmond Spiders 38-0 in the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs Dec. 10 at Roos Field. Eastern’s defense recorded its first shutout since a 16-0 victory over Northern Colorado on Sept. 19, 2009. The 205 yards Richmond had were the fewest EWU has surrendered in its last 28 games. The Eagles, 12-1 and winners of 11 s...
CHENEY Nov. 28 An investigation from May 18 was concluded. A 13-year-old male was arrested for third-degree theft. He stole cash from another student at Westwood Middle School as well as cash from students on a school bus. Dec. 5 Jennifer A. Blakeslee, 39, was arrested for third-degree driving while license suspended (DWLS) on the 100 block of West First Street. A 16-year-old female was arrested as a runaway on the 400 block of North Sixth Street. Dec. 6 Melissa R. Chaney, 33, was arrested for first-degree DWLS on the 2800...
Junior Delaney Hodgins became just the 17th player in Eastern Washington women’s basketball program history to score 1,000 points on Thursday, Dec. 8, as the Eagles scored an 84-67 victory over Cal State Fullerton at Reese Court. On Sunday, Dec. 11, Eastern was handed its first loss at home this season as the Eagles fell to regional rival Gonzaga, 73-54. Hodgins scored her 1,000th career point with a 3-point field goal in the third quarter and ended the day with 28 points to give her 1,015 points for her career. “Delaney has...
The Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team jumped out to a 27-2 lead and went on to beat Great Falls handily 103-76 in non-conference game Thursday, Dec. 8 at Reese Court. The Eagles had a 59-percent to 47-percent shooting advantage over the Argos, a member of the Frontier Conference in the NAIA. The finals week romp followed five games Eastern won by a collective total of 24 points and featured five overtime periods. Sophomore Ty Gibson scored 13 points in a less than four minute span in the first half and f...
The Cheney High gymnastics team began their season with a fourth-place finish (122.25 points) at the Dec. 7 Greater Spokane League 3A gymnastics meet. Mead won the event with 167.025 points. Head coach Jaelyn Gardner said she was proud of her athletes, especially those who were competing in their first high school meet. She noted that some of her athletes had what she referred to as “first meet jitters.” “We definitely have areas to improve on,” she added. Top finishers for the Blackhawks include junior Alexis Miller,...
Josh Edmondson is very much happy with the little victories that show up in his wrestling program at Medical Lake in his second season on the job. That helped the 66-12 thumping the Cardinals took last Thursday at the hands of the defending 1A state champions from Deer Park go down just a little easier. The match saw five of the final six bouts decided by forfeit because the Cardinals did not field wrestlers in the heavyweight, 220, 285, 113 and 106 pounds. “I don’t have a 220...
As the Medical Lake girls' basketball team prepares for the part of the season that really counts - the Northeast A League games - the Cardinals seem to be prepared for the grind of the next several weeks. "I'm very happy with this week, I saw lots of good things," head coach Kyle Lundberg said of a 2-1 week. That included a 66-34 nonleague win over Rathdrum, Idaho's Lakeland High School Hawks, another dominant outing in the NEA opener, a 48-28 win at home versus Riverside. It...
Toni Herley of Reardan, Wash. was the grand prize winner in the 2016 Free Press football contest. Herley’s winning entry was drawn from among all weekly contest entries who beat our Cheney Free Press experts. She wins a $100 gift card from Wild Bills Long Bar in Cheney. The Cheney Free Press thanks everyone who participated in this year’s contest....
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Sunday, Dec. 18, EWU at Northern Kentucky, 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, EWU at Xavier, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, EWU at Colorado, 5:30 p.m. Women Sunday, Dec. 18, EWU at Air Force, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, EWU vs. Tulane (Tulane Tournament), 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, EWU vs. Auburn/Drake (Tulane Tournament) 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Dec. 10, EWU hosts NCAA playoff versus Youngstown State, 3:30 p.m. HIGH SC...
The Cheney High wrestling team added several more bright spots to the beginning of their season last week, including a fourth-place finish at the Dec. 10 West Valley Wrestle-Rama dual tournament. The Blackhawks wrestled five dual meets in one day, defeating Lakeside (42-39) and Gonzaga Prep (75-0), tying with Ephrata (42-42) and losing to Idaho's Lake City (51-27) and Timberlake (42-39). "It was good for us to get that much mat time," head coach Brad Rasmussen said. "We had...
For Cheney head coach Gregg Smith, the reasons for the Blackhawks overtime loss at West Valley last Friday boiled down to one simple fact. “We didn’t take care of business,” Smith said of the 71-68 road setback. The game was Cheney’s to win as much as it was the Eagles’. The Blackhawks had a lead late in the game against West Valley, only to have several costly turnovers allow the Eagles to pull even and force overtime, where they made some big shots to secure the win. One reason Smith pointed to was free throw shooting....
Greetings sports fans. Those of you who know me and remember when I used to write regularly in this column probably know that if it’s December and John’s writing, then it must be that time of year again. Yep — it’s bowl season! This bowl season is particularly interesting because it’s like year three or four of a phenomenon that gets more disappointing every year. By that I mean the selection of teams who have mediocre to losing seasons as participants worthy of playing in the postseason — such as it is for the NCAA’s Foot...
When the Youngstown Penguins last visited this part of the country, Dec. 13, 1997 to face the Eastern Washington Eagles, Cooper Kupp was 4, Gage Gubrud and Samson Ebukam were each 2, the latter likely still in his native Nigeria. One guy who still remembers it all well - the Pens' 25 -14 escape from a cold and snow-covered Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane in a semifinal-round playoff game - is Aaron Best, then an Eagles offensive lineman for head coach Mike Kramer. "The memories fr...
It’s Deja vu time again. A battle between Eastern Washington and Youngstown State University on a cold December Saturday and on a likely slippery artificial turf field with a trip to the national title game in Frisco, Texas on the line. Not a lot different in many ways than 19 years ago when the two teams met in Spokane’s Joe Albi Stadium and the Jim Tressel-coached Penguins topped Mike Kramer’s Eagles, 25-14. Different is this game is in Cheney, on red artificial turf, but w...
Using the right measure of the gas pedal and brake has the Medical Lake High School boys' basketball team off to a fast start. The Cardinals wrapped nonleague wins Dec. 6 over Idaho 4A school Lakeland of Rathdrum, 62-40, and 77-56 against 2B Liberty, Saturday, Dec. 10 around a 59-44 win over visiting Riverside in their Northeast A League opener. With those contests, the Cardinals ran their overall record to 4-0 for a cautious new head coach Noel Hachtel, who is also 1-0 in...
So far, so good for the Cheney High School girls basketball team in 2016-2017. Four games, four wins - including two last week, one of which came down to the wire against new head coach Lorin Carlon's former team. The Lady Blackhawks endured a see-saw battle at West Valley last Friday against the Eagles, but managed to pull out a 47-46 win. Cheney was up by seven points on a couple of occasions in the contest, led 20-19 at the half, but fell behind by seven in the third and tr...
Seventy-five years ago on December 19, 1941, Cheney established several war time civil defense committees. Their headquarters were in the Cheney Free Press office. Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
INBC Cheney community blood drive is Dec. 23 Inland Northwest Blood Center along with the Cheney community blood drive volunteers led by Duane Isaac will be coordinating a blood drive Friday, Dec. 23, at the Marketplace Bakery & Eatery, 1011 First St. Donation hours are from 1 – 5 p.m. INBC needs an average of 200 blood donors every day to meet the needs of more than 35 hospitals in the Inland Northwest. A single donation can save the lives of up to three people....
Cheney • Dec. 16, Light Fitness Hour (adults 50+), Wren Pierson Community Center, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. • Dec. 16, Baby Play & Learn Storytime (ages 0–18 months), 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • Dec. 16, Texas Hold’em (adults 50+), Wren Pierson Community Center, 1 – 3 p.m. • Dec. 16, Middle School Dance, Westwood Middle School, 6:30 – 8 p.m., $5 per student. • Dec. 17, Annual Cheney Fire Fighters Local 1919 Candy Cane Ride: Due to cold weather, the event will take place at the fire station from 6 – 8 p.m. • Dec. 19, Country Quilters (adu... Full story
Richard Randall died April 8, 2016 in Cheney. Since his youth, Richard loved farming, fishing, forestry and boating. He built his own watercraft at age 10 to sail across Lake Coeur d’Alene. Summers were often spent at a family lake cabin fishing, water skiing and sailing with friends. A music lover, he played both piano and drums, graduating from Ferris High School in 1966. Richard loved small aircraft and attended pilot training. Later, he worked for the Army Corps of Engineers, operating heavy equipment and also became a r... Full story
After an escort from the Medical Lake Fire Department, and giving out candy canes, Santa Claus presses the button to turn on the city's Christmas tree during the Dec. 10 Winter Festival....
Emmanuel Lutheran Church All are welcome to worship with us this Sunday, Dec. 18 at 10:30 a.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church. You may also watch our pastor’s sermons at our website or on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Cheney. Sunday school classes for grade school through adult begin at 9 a.m. Advent mid-week services conclude on Wednesday, Dec. 21, with a soup supper at 6 p.m. followed by Holden evening prayer at 6:30 p.m. Please plan to join us next Saturday, Dec. 24, for our traditional candlelight Christmas Eve w...
1 Years Ago Dec. 14, 2006 Eastern Washington University’s student population passed the 10,000 mark. This made preserving and improving EWU’s facilities one of the biggest challenges for the university. Windsor Elementary School employed help from the Washington National Guard in its annual holiday food drive in partnership with KHQ and Second Harvest Food Bank. EWU dean Judd Case, and his fossil hunting partner James Martin, unveiled a “mini-Nessie” fossil skeleton found in the Antarctica. The duo traveled to Washing...
Why have many American workers abandoned the Democratic Party? During the last 50 years, Republicans have systematically weakened the unions, historically a Democratic Party base. This has led to members’ distrust of union leadership and of its endorsement of Democratic candidates. Union membership among workers has dwindled from 1-in-3 in 1960 to 1-in-10 today. Yet Democrats have failed to successfully oppose Republicans’ weakening of unions. Additionally, Republican policies promoting extreme wealth inequality have als...
