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Greyhounds race past Blackhawks CHENEY – Pullman dominated the competition in a Jan. 20 swim meet against Cheney at the Eastern Washington University Aquatics Center winning 10 of the 12 events for a 286-124 victory. Cheney did win the 100-yard breaststroke, sweeping the top three spots led by Artem Sokolov in a time of 1 minute, 19.82 seconds. Alma Smith (1:32.19) and Samuel Dalton (1:42.98) were second and third. Smith also won the 1-meter diving but was the only participant. Tanner Nelson was the Blackhawks’ lone run...
Medical Lake’s Luat returns to lineup By PAUL DELANEY Cheney Free Press MEDICAL LAKE — Girls basketball head Coach Yeta Holloway is quite frank when accessing the last several weeks. “The last five games of our schedule I’d like to forget,” Holloway wrote in an email. His feelings are understandable considering life without Charde Luat was not fun for the Cardinals. The two-time All Northeast A League performer rolled her ankle prior to a Jan. 6 game against Colville and did not return until Jan. 20. What followed were five...
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...
SWIMMING: Cheney swimmers win CHENEY -- Blackhawk swimmers claimed six individual victories and won the Eastern Washington University Invite Jan. 13 at the Eastern Washington University pool. The Blackhawks edged Chiawana 98-90 with Pasco a distant third with 55. Travis Strimback won in two events, the 200-yard Individual Medley and the 100 Freestyle. Tanner Nelson earned a win in the 100 Fly, Sam Larson in the 200 Freestyle while the 500 Freestyle went to Henry Gipple. Diver Alma Smith scored a 212 to 207.2 win in diving...
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...
BASKETBALL Defense keys road win over Vandals MOSCOW — The streak continues to grow for Eastern Washington men’s basketball after the team defeated Idaho, 79-59. Eastern has now won five-straight games and is 3-0 in the Big Sky and 9-7 overall. Eastern had five players score in double figures to showcase its balanced offensive approach. Casey Jones led the team with 14 points, while Ethan Price and LeJuan Watts each scored 13. Cedric Coward and Mason Williams added 11 points apiece. The first half saw 12 lead changes and s...
The Northeast Washington girls wrestling league meet Tuesday, Jan. 16, featured schools from across the region, including Cheney and Ridgeline, pictured above. The meet was just getting underway at press time. Results were not available....
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...
Hundreds of wrestlers were in Cheney on Saturday to compete in the annual Blackhawk Invite at Cheney High School. Pictured, Cheney's Mason Bennett uses a banana split to score nearfall points on Eastmont's Brayden Lamb in a 144-pound match. Bennett ultimately pinned Lamb in 5:55 and went on to finish fifth. For more on the Blackhawk Invite and other sporting events, 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...
SPANGLE — The Liberty Lancers boys routed Jenkins and Okanogan last week. The Lancers topped Jenkins (Chewelah), 78-44, on Jan. 6. And they bested Okanogan, 59-44, on Jan. 5. The local girls also topped Jenkins, 59-28, on Jan. 6, but fell to Okanogan, 33-27, on Jan. 5. Liberty was scheduled to host Davenport on Tuesday night, Jan. 9....
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...
RICHLAND – With flu affecting the Liberty girls wrestling team, only Kariay Stobel made the trip to the Varsity Girls Winter Cup at Hanford High School. Wrestling at 140 pounds, she made the most of the trip, winning the gold medal and a pair of Winter Cup shorts. Strobel, a senior from Fairfield, pinned all of her opponents en route to the title. She pinned Marlen Eiaz of Tonasket in 43 seconds to open the tournament. She then pinned Emma Beltran of Sunnyside in 54 seconds t...
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...
