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A farmer along Spangle-Waverly Road has erected a hay tribute to the Washington State University Cougars men's basketball team for reaching the national championship "March Madness" tournament. The Cougars, however, have subsequently been eliminated....
CHENEY — The Blackhawks boys soccer team improved its record to 3-1 with a pair of non-league wins last week that followed a loss on the neutral turf at ONE Spokane Stadium. Cheney raced past Clarkston 6-0, March 18 at home as Sam Woller had a pair of goals. Viliami Finau opened scoring early in the fourth minute and that’s the way to stayed until Peter Koster’s goal in the 45th minute opened the floodgates of a 5-0 second half. Oliver Cagle and Breckin Austin added singles wrapped around Woller’s connections. Jackson Reagan...
CHENEY — The Cheney track team continued its warmup for Greater Spokane League competition with a jamboree at North Central High School, March 13 and a trip to Lewiston, March 15 for the Sweeney Invitational. While the NC event was mainly designed for junior varsity competitors, Cheney did send vaulters, high jumpers and pole vaulters. In the latter competition Andrew Strawn established a new school record in the pole vault where his 14-foot effort broke the former school record of 13 feet, 10 inches. At Lewiston, the B...
CHENEY - The girls tennis team split a pair of non-league matches last week falling to West Valley 7-0, March 12 and topping Medical Lake at home 5-0, March 14. Highlights of the meeting between West Plains rivals, Cheney's No. 1 doubles duo of Hailey Magalsky/Kylee Hahn won 7-6, 6-4 over Medical Lake. Morgan Weathers and Ellerie O'Regan won 6-2 6-1 in No. 2 doubles. Singles players Sydney Lincoln and Madison Anderson played No. 3 doubles at this match and won 6-0, 6-0....
‘This is a treat for us to get to play on this national stage’ Eastern Washington women’s basketball head coach Joddie Gleason has a pretty vivid memory of what she was doing the last time her Eagles qualified for the NCAA Tournament. It was 37 years ago in 1987 when Eastern lost to Oregon at Eugene in a first-round game 75-56. Gleason quickly recalls she was in high school and was following her dad’s Colusa High School boys’ basketball team on the way to a state championship. Joddie Vossler, her name prior to marriage...
Mark Lonsky controls the ball in the March 11 game against East Valley....
BASEBALL Cardinals toss no-hitter, then get no-hitM MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake baseball opened its season much like it did in 2023 with a no hit victory over Connell March 12 in a doubleheader sweep, 28-1 and 15-2. The Cardinals, however, found themselves on the opposite side of things losing their final three contests to Rogers 11-7 and Tri Cities Prep 17-7 and 19-0, that last game a no hitter. AJ Michaud not only threw a five-inning complete game no hitter at Connell, but also had five hits and four RBI. Levi Brower had t...
MEDICAL LAKE Following a series of meetings over the past couple of months the Northeast A League has charted its path for the immediate future. "We finally know that we will still be the Northeast A League, but with just four teams total," Medical Lake athletic director Dawn Eliassen wrote in an email. Following the results of reclassification in late 2023 that sliced three teams from the 1A NEA, the surviving members include Medical Lake, Lakeside, Riverside and Colville....
YAKIMA - The Medical Lake track team kicked off the 2024 season at the Eisenhower Jamboree on Saturday, March 9. Testing out the facility that will host the state 1A track meet in May, the Cardinals got notable performances including three first places. Chiche Okemgbo was first in the shot put and third in the discus. In a jamboree, competitors a limited to entry in two events. Freshman Autumn Trout won the 300 meters and was third in the 100. The Cardinal girls 4x400 team of Hazel Grubaugh, Maryna Bell, Hannah Luzier and...
BOISE, Idaho — For the first time since 1987, Eastern Washington women’s basketball is going to the NCAA Tournament. Eastern defeated Northern Arizona, 73-64, in the Big Sky Tournament finals to capture the conference’s automatic bid on Wednesday afternoon. Jacinta Buckley had a monster game with 21 points and 11 rebounds. The Eagles had five players score in double figures as well. “This team is tough and resilient, they don't waver or panic. We knew if we upped our urgency at the defensive end to get more stops; we knew we...
BOISE, Idaho — The Eastern Washington men's basketball team was upended in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament for the second-straight season on Sunday in Boise, losing to the No. 10 seed Sacramento State Hornets, 74-69. The Eagles entered the tournament as the regular season champions and top seed, just as they did last year, and finished with a 21-11 overall record. Eastern fell in similar fashion last season, losing their first game to No. 8 Northern Arizona. Sacramento State led wire-to-wire in the first half, p...
MEDICAL LAKE - Youth rarely serves a coach well at the time but tends to pay future dividends. Except, perhaps, for Medical Lake baseball Coach Austin Sharp, where the bulk of his 2024 team are young in years only. Sharp will confidently count on a collection of battle-tested underclassmen to carry a lot of the weight this year. Medical Lake finished last season as the Northeast A League's No. 6 - and last - seed in the playoffs. But behind the arm of Luke Dickey they got a...
LAKE ROOSEVELT - The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a "rapid response" plan to take extraordinary measures to kill northern pike found in waterways like Lake Roosevelt. Released last week, the plan would allow state officials and tribes to draw down reservoirs, using Rotenone to poison the fish, netting and seining, quarantining waterways and more after declaring a northern pike emergency. State Aquatic Invasive Species Policy Coordinator Justin Bush...
CHENEY - Cheney wrestling left Tacoma and Mat Classic IIIV a few weeks ago minus sought after state titles. However, they returned home to be honored in a memorable way, landing Greater Spokane League accolades with Coach-of-the-Year awards for both boys and girls - each a first-year head coach. Brian Skaff guided Cheney's boys to a 5-4 regular season record in GSL dual meets while Jeremy McGee took the reins of a new girls team that five of its members selected for...
BASKETBALL Riley repeats as Coach of the Year FARMINGTON, Utah — After winning the outright regular season conference title for the second consecutive season, the Eastern Washington Eagles was recognized with several 2023-24 Big Sky Conference honors, as announced by the league office on March 7. EWU Honorees in 2023-24 Big Sky Men’s Basketball Awards • David Riley — Co-Coach of the Year • LeJuan Watts — Freshman of the Year (unanimous) • Cedric Coward — First Team All-Conference (unanimous) • Ethan Price — Second Team All...
MEDICAL LAKE - Anxious anglers are getting their itch scratched. In excess of two-dozen lakes in in the state opened for business March 1 for fishing, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. Nearby, Medical, Liberty, Amber and Downs lakes are open. Coffeepot Lake in Lincoln County also opened March 1, with selective gear rules in effect. Those rules include, but are not limited to, artificial flies with barbless single-point hooks or lures with barbless...
MEDICAL LAKE - Cardinal girls basketball Coach Yeta Holloway likes to think with a little more time that his first season guiding the team might have been just a bit better. Elevated to the girls' job in mid-summer following moves among existing staff, this year's Cardinals had an 8-0 start and won nine of their first 10. They doubled overall win totals, finishing 14-11 before star Charde Luat was sidelined for a few weeks with an ankle injury. Medical Lake andLuat recovered...
Once upon a time when March rolled around in these parts, there was only one meaning for post-seaso: Hockey. March madness was still decades away from being a trademarked phrase and meant it was time for raucous regional rivalries between Spokane with tiny communities in British Columbia to reach a boiling point. And if the post-season reached April, as today, it meant things were going well. April playoff opponents were likely Calgary or Edmonton as the Jets of Flyers...
Members of the Eastern Washington University men's basketball team hoist the Big Sky Conference regular season champions trophy amid a rain of confetti Feb. 29 at Reese Court. An 89-79 victory over Montana secured a second consecutive regular season title for the Eagles and a No. 1 seed in the conference tournament in Boise on March 9-13. Eastern's first game is March 10 against either the No. 9 or 10 team....
MOUNT SPOKANE - Spokane County investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying a man believed to have stolen a snowboard outside Mount Spokane Ski Lodge last month. The snowboard is a GNU Billy Goat X-Temple Cummins. It has a purple and blue wolf and lightning bolt graphic, and a Flow NX2 Hyrbid bindings, white in color. It is valued at approxiamtely $800. Anyone with information on the theft or who can identify the man in the photos is asked to call Detective...
CHENEY - The Eastern Washington team that launched the school's basketball program into a level of success that it maintains to this day will be honored Saturday, March 2 vs. Montana State. Many members of the 2003-04 Eagles squad that earned the program's first tournament bid will be on hand to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their achievement. The team started the season 3-9 but ended up as the Big Sky regular season champions and hosts of the conference tournament at...
Liberty boys eliminated by Wahkiakum CHEHALIS — The Liberty (Spangle) boys basketball season came to an end Feb. 24 after a 66-53 loss to the Wahkiakum Mules. The playoff game at W.F. West High School featured the No. 13 Lancers agains the No. 12 Mules I the opening round of state 2B action. Individual statistics were not reported for the game. — Spring football schedule released CHENEY — Eastern Washington University football will hit Roos Field for spring practices starting with the first two sessions in mid-March befor...
CHENEY — The Eastern Washington women’s basketball team ran its latest winning streak to seven and maintained their lead in Big Sky Conference standings following a sweep of a pair of Reese Court games last week. Eastern staved off an upset bid from Northern Colorado, 68-63 on Feb. 24 and won in dominant fashion over their closest pursuers in the regular season, Northern Arizona, 67-42, on Feb. 22. Not only did that win allow the Eagles to take sole possession of first place in the Big Sky but with the victory the Eagles set...
CHENEY — The Eastern Washington men’s basketball team let a late lead slip away Feb. 22 in a 78-71 loss at Northern Arizona. But they made sure that didn’t happen two days later in Greeley against Northern Colorado and following an 85-76 Big Sky Conference victory were able to maintain their two-game lead atop the standings with three games to play. Cedric Coward poured in a career-high 30 points and Ethan Price scored the 1,000th in his career as part of a double-double snapping a two-game skid for Eastern (12-3 BSC, 18-10...
MEDICAL LAKE — The turnaround the Medical Lake boys’ basketball team made in 2023-24 was quite remarkable under first-year coach Brett Ward. Ward — who moved from the girls bench last year as their head coach with the departure of Jordan Starr back to his home territory at Selah — helped orchestrate the program going from 1-19 in 2022-23 to 8-14 this season. The Cardinals went from 1-11 in Northeast A League play to 6-6 this season, qualifying not only for the playoffs but getting within a game of qualifying for state....
