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‘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....
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 future of Cheney High School football is now in the hands of a man who has been a success at the collegiate level and has strong ties to the local community. Former Eastern Washington University assistant coach and defensive coordinator John Graham was announced to succeed Bobby Byrd who stepped down following the 2023 winless 0-10 season. "I'm super grateful for the opportunity given me so I just I hope I can pay it forward," Graham said. "It was something I...
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....
The UFC is the Cinderella story of organized sports. Founded in 1993, it was at risk of bankruptcy in 2001 when brothers Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta purchased the organization. They put Dana White in charge, who revamped the format to make it palatable to the general public and bought broadcasting rights to make the sport easily viewable worldwide. These actions have led to rapid growth, with more than 600 events and counting. One of the UFC's biggest success stories is in...
TACOMA - Three Liberty wrestlers returned home from the state Mat Classic XXXV wrestling tournament with medals. Maddex Strobel won silver at 150 pounds, Clae Holling bronze at 165 and Joey Matherly was fifth at 175 in the tournament Feb. 16-17 in the Tacoma Dome. As a team, the Lancers tied for seventh with Davenport, each with 61.0 team points in the 1B/2B division. Tonasket won the division with 217.0 team points. Strobel opened with a bye and then pinned his next two...
CHENEY - In the world of sports there's always the opportunity or desire to glance into in the "what-if" mirror. And Cheney boys' second-year head coach Travis Peevey is no more immune to the practice than anyone following his team's 3-8 Greater Spokane League finish and 9-13 overall record. Those marks, however, are ticks in the right direction after going 0-9 and 6-14 his first season. "Our record does not reflect how close we really were to being one of the top teams in...
CASHMERE — The stellar career of Charde Luat and the season for the Medical Lake girls basketball team came to an end Feb. 17 at Cashmere, where the Bulldogs blew past the Cardinals 53-32 in a state 1A play-in game. “We didn’t respond like our season was on the line, Cashmere did, and I give them props for that,” Cardinal Coach Yeta Holloway wrote in an email. Cashmere (18-5) and the Caribou Trail regular season champions used a big second half to erase a 21-17 Medical Lake lead. The home team outscored the Cardinals 16-2 in...
BASKETBALL Eastern teams on the court CHENEY — Eastern Washington University’s men’s and women’s basketball teams play common opponents this week, but on opposite ends of the map. The Eagle men are on the road with an 11-2 Big Sky Conference record and a two-game lead over Northern Colorado (9-4). Eastern is at Northern Arizona, Feb. 22, and in Greeley to face UNC, Feb. 24. The Eastern women (21-5 overall) will try to top the program’s all-time single season win mark Feb. 22 against Northern Arizona at home. — TRACK Track...
