CROSS COUNTRY
Blackhawks shine at 509
Cheney’s Calvin Hilton completed the 5,000-meter Spokane Polo Grounds course in a time of 16 minutes, 00.42 seconds finishing fourth overall and helping the Blackhawks’ boys to a runner-up finish to Mead in the Battle for the 509 on Oct. 1.
Hilton, a sophomore, trailed individual champ, Mead’s Noah Holden who finished at 15:38.43 leading the Panthers to a 53-117 team title.
Other top Cheney boys’ finishers included another sophomore duo, Cameron Frenk (12/16:39.76) and Brayden Martin (21/16:50.55).
Cheney’s top female finisher was Sam Habegger, whose 19:40.06 was good for 14th behind individual champ Logan Hofstee (17:48.54) from East Valley in Spokane.
The Blackhawks raced against Lewis and Clark and University on Oct. 5.
ML wins NEA openers, runs Sunfair
Medical Lake cross country teams swept their Northeast A League opening dual meets Sept. 28 at Deer Park.
The Cardinal boys topped both Freeman (18-35) and host Deer Park (18-40) with the top three finishers being Reid Headrick, Nakai Ornelas and Hector Gomez.
Medical Lake’s girls were winners over Freeman (21-35) and Deer Park (21-34)
as Kayla Ramsey, Jenna Castro and Jasmine Cruz were top finishers.
Members of the team traveled to Yakima on Oct. 1 to compete in the 49th Annual Sunfair Invite, a unique event where runners are paired in flights according to their current standing on the team. In other words, the number 6 and 7 run together, 4’s and 5’s and 2’s and 3’s — both boys and girls in the same race.
Number one runners all compete together, in separate flights. Headrick was ML’s top boys’ runner and finished in 15 minutes, 51.12 seconds on a three-mile course. Lincoln High’s Samy Anderson won in a time of 15:19.99.
Kayla Ramsey from ML also finished fourth individually (19:28.00) to the winner from Issaquah, Katherine Yahn (18:47.97) in girls’ competition.
Medical Lake takes part in the Nike Hole-In-The-Wall Invite at Lakewood High School in Tacoma Oct. 7-8 and then returns to NEA competition hosting Lakeside and Newport on Oct. 12 — a meet that will likely determine the league’s regular season champions.
SOCCER
Back-to-back shutout losses for Cheney
A year ago, the Cheney girls’ soccer team was making its run to the state playoffs with an impressive array of wins and head coach Nels Radke hoped they could replicate that during the current stretch.
With a pair of shutout losses in Greater Spokane League matches at home to Gonzaga Prep, 3-0 on Sept. 26 and at Mead — also 3-0 — two days later, makes it apparent the road will be much tougher. An 8-0 victory Sept. 30 over 1A Lakeside from the Northeast A League helped salvage the week.
“Last week was a tough week,” Radke wrote in an email. “We played with them in the first half but got behind 0-2 from some very uncharacteristic mistakes that were very hard to overcome,” he added of the contest against league-leading Gonzaga Prep (4-0 GSL, 8-2 overall).
Mead (3-1, 7-2) may have had some added skin in the game vs. Cheney, Radke suggested. “Mead was definitely ready to play this game and I think us ending their season last year gave them some extra motivation.”
Cheney got some healing with their dominating victory over Lakeside.
“This was a great game for us to get back on track,” Radke said.
Six different goal scorers this game, led by Ally Deutsch and Alex Miller, each with pair on goals. Paige Evans, Megan Collins, Ellie Barden, and Ellie Fisk had other Blackhawks’ scores. Miller and Evans also each had an assist.
Kiah Klauss and Clara Browne split halves in goal and got the shutout.
“This will be another tough week with home games vs. LC (4-0, 10-1) on Monday (Oct. 3) and then we travel back to Union Stadium on Oct. 5 to play against Mt. Spokane (2-2, 5-3).
After the Mt. Spokane game, Cheney will get a much-needed break from as they won’t have a game until Oct. 12.
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Player shortage hampers ML
Describing it as “The week that wasn’t,” Medical Lake head girls soccer coach reported that last week’s matches have been either postponed or cancelled due to player shortages — on both teams.
“We were supposed to play two games, but we were short players due to injury, illness, and absences,” Collins wrote in an email.
One will be made up on Monday October 10 vs. Lakeside. The other, a contest against Reardan, neither team had enough players and it’s not certain this non-league match will be made up.
The Cardinals have three games this week. Tuesday, Oct. 4 was Senior Night vs. Newport and played under the lights on the football field, Thursday (Oct. 6) is a road contact at Riverside and Saturday at East Valley at noon.
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VOLLEYBALL:
Cardinals winless in busy week
Medical Lake volleyball completed a busy week of matches with a mix of competition in both league and non-league play.
The Cardinals opened with a 3-0 loss (19-25, 15-25, 13-25) Northeast A League rival Lakeside, Sept. 27. Madi Spring and Ailahni Viloria each led the team with 12 digs and Zoe Wilson added nine assists.
The following night the Cardinals played at Greater Spokane League West Valley, losing 3-1 (17-25, 20-25, 25-19, 14-25) with Viloria topping the team with 14 digs, Rylie Spring having 11 kills and Wilson adding 10 kill assists.
The week concluded with a 3-1 loss on the road to 2B Davenport (30-28, 21-25, 19-25, 21-25). Viloria, Zoe Wilson and Rylie Spring each had 15 digs. Rylie Spring had 15 kills, while Wilson added 15 kills assists.
The Cardinals had another busy week with NEA competition against Newport (Oct. 4) and at Riverside (Oct. 6) before hosting Reardan in a non-league match Oct. 8 at 2:30 p.m.
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