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Medical Lake head volleyball coach Todd Harr can check off yet another preseason goal for his team. A 3-1 win over visiting Newport last Thursday, Sept. 13, ended a winless streak in Northeast A League play dating back to Oct. 27, 2015, a string of...

The Cheney High School boys cross country team got its Great Northern League schedule off to a good start with a 25-34 win over West Valley at Millwood Meadows last Wednesday. A young Blackhawk girls squad fell to the host Eagles in their...

Short column this time around, and for good reason. This Crunch Time is designed to highlight one of the good aspects of amateur sports. We call them student-athletes, not athletic-students. There’s a reason for that — namely the student part...

The Cheney Blackhawks girls swimming team had an excellent showing at their Sept. 15 meet, overtaking the Ellensburg Bulldogs 98-72 and notching five first-place finishes. The team relied on some heavy hitters to dominate both 200-yard relays, with...

The Lady Blackhawks volleyball team started the week slow with a 3-0 loss to Pullman but rallied in the following days, taking the edge over Clarkston 3-2 in their Sept. 13 Great Northern League match at home and conquering Rogers 3-0 in a...

In a physical fight to the finish with Clarkston Sept. 14, the Lady Blackhawks lost 1-0 in a shootout despite dominating the game with more than 80 percent possession. The team’s defense was on-point as it has been all season, only giving up three...

(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY Friday, Sept. 28, EWU at Montana Invitational, Missoula, 4 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Sept. 22, EWU hosts Cal Poly, 1:05 p.m....

A basic math lesson shows that a high school football game is 48 minutes long. Perhaps that’s the drill Medical Lake head football coach Jeremy Bahr needs to impart this week — along with the traditional Xs and Os — to help put an end to his...

Medical Lake’s boy and girls cross country teams got some stellar efforts last Saturday at the Seaport Classic in Clarkston, Wash. Running against a field of a number of bigger schools, the Cardinal boys repeated their 2017 runner-up finish to...

As predicted, senior defender Jaxyn Farmen was going to find a role in the offense for her Medical Lake girls soccer team. And it was Farmen who provided all the goals in the Cardinals lone win last week, a 3-2 victory over Newport on Sept. 13 in a...

After a half-dozen seasons of playing against teams that few fans knew, and one’s that because of a talent gap routinely roughed up Eastern Washington University’s feathers, the Eagles are back in familiar territory for the school’s hockey...

Cheney High football fans at Albi Stadium last Thursday got a taste of the true power of special teams to make an impact in a football game. After fumbles created some early adversity for the Blackhawks against Rogers High School, it was a pair of...

Finally, I had a reason to tune into Monday Night Football and it was nothing more complex than the opportunity to watch Cooper Kupp on one side and John Gruden on the other. Kupp’s Rams prevailed over Gruden’s Raiders 33-13 in the...

By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor Cheney High’s boys and girls cross country squads made their 2018 debuts last Saturday — albeit in different locations about 105 miles apart. The Blackhawk girls had the farthest to travel, competing in the Moses...

(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY Saturday, Sept. 14, Eastern Washington at Cougar Classic (Colfax Golf Club), 5:15 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Sept. 15, EWU at...

Nothing like testing one’s self right at the start. That’s what the Medical Lake volleyball team did last week as they jumped into the deep end of the Northeast A League pool and faced perennial power Lakeside in Suncrest, losing in straight...

By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The football competition seems to be getting tougher, yet the Medical Lake Cardinals have shown they can hold their own. Their losing streak now dates back to the beginning of the 2016 season and sits at 20 games...

TRACK/CROSS COUNTRY Cheney’s Spakousky signed by EWU The Eastern Washington University track and field team has added 15 new high school athletes and three junior college transfers to their roster for the 2018-19 season. Twelve female and nine...

That didn’t take long. Led by two touchdown passes from quarterback Alex Long and the stout defense of linebacker Jacob McGourin, the Cheney Blackhawks football team put an end to their 12-game losing streak with a 27-22 win over visiting Colville...