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BASKETBALL Merritt passes away at 43 TACOMA — A heart attack at age 43 has claimed the life last week of former Eastern Washington University basketball standout Brandon Merritt. Merritt, a hard-nosed player, was an integral part of the Eagles’ 2004 team that was the program’s first trip to the NCAA tournament. His work in the Big Sky Conference tournament led to him being named the tournament MVP. Before coming to Eastern, Merritt graduated from Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma and Tacoma Community College. Funeral services will be...
CHENEY - Boys tennis coach Daniel Estock is truly passionate about the sport and wants to do what he can to sprinkle some of that enthusiasm around the community this summer. For the months of June and July, the Salnave Tennis Courts will be open on Saturdays from 9 to 11 a.m. for any member of the community to come play tennis. Not a tennis player you say? Estock will do his best to fix that, no matter your age. There will be at least one coach there to welcome you, give...
Its name comes from the most unlikely source. The solitude that surrounds it is immense. And the ever-changing river corridor scenery is, perhaps, unparalleled? A just right El Niño winter weather pattern where the storm track punishes California sometimes rewards whitewater rafters with both perfect water and weather on Oregon’s Owyhee River. Flowing 280 miles, the headwaters of this river originate in northern Nevada with the Owyhee’s name derived from an original spel...
YAKIMA - Medical Lake is sending six athletes to the state 1A track meet at Zaepfel Stadium this weekend. But it could have been a bigger number, lamented head Coach Gene Blankenship following the District 7 meet May 17 and 18 at Riverside High School. The Top 2 finishers from each event qualified to compete at Eisenhower High School's Zaepfel, but had a state qualifying number been attained they, too, would have been able to attend. As it stands the Cardinal girls are...
MEDICAL LAKE - His vacation lasted just about a week, if that, before Medical Lake baseball Coach Austin Sharp turned his focus to a summer job of running the AAA American Legion Cannons. Newly named as the West Plains Cannons - opting to drop Spokane from the title - the team opened its bid to return to the state playoffs for a fourth consecutive season May 19 with a non-league game 7-6 win at home against River City of Post Falls. Cheney's Brayden Martin drove in the...
CHENEY - The Cheney Blackhawks were playing some pretty good baseball recently, just not good enough to extend their season. Cheney (10-14) was ousted from postseason May 11 following a 9-6 loss in district play to Mount Spokane where they were unable to quell the Greater Spokane League co-champ Wildcats. A five-run fifth did in the Blackhawks who were led by Clayton Wood's two hits and three RBIs. That game followed Cheney's 7-0 win over University earlier in the day where...
CHENEY — There will be plenty of cheering to be done for Cheney athletes during this week’s state 2A, 3A and 4A track and field championships at Tacoma’s Mount Tahoma High School. The Blackhawks are represented in a dozen events following District 8 championships staged last week at Central Valley High School. “We had a better year at districts this year,” head coach Derek Slaughter wrote in an email. “It wasn’t 100 degrees and we had one more allocation for state.” The Greater Spokane League — a.k.a. District 8 — was...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Twenty years ago, Medical Lake’s Garrett Johnson had completed one of the most storied wrestling careers in the history of the Cardinal program having won three consecutive state titles. Fast forward to the last weekend of April and Johnson proved he’s still a force on the mat having captured two national championships in competition at Las Vegas, Nevada. It was there that Johnson won his weight class at the U.S. Open Championships Greco competition April...
CHENEY — Cheney registered its fourth complete game in as many outings at Ridgeline in a District 8 playoff game on May 4 and beat the top-seeded Falcons 9-1. Quinn Hubbs struck out six and scattered just three hits for No. 8 Cheney broke a 1-1 tie with a three-run fifth. The Blackhawks added three more in the sixth and two in the seventh and will play Southridge at Kennewick, May 7. Carter McPherson had a pair of hits for Cheney (9-12) while Clayton Wood and Hubby each had a...
CHENEY — It’s time for Noah Prophet to get back to the other half of his life — the portion that is not soccer. With the Cheney boys’ season finished following a 1-0 District 8 playoff loss at Southridge of the Mid-Columbia Conference on May 5, Prophet will get back to helping his father in the business they own. “My father and I run a small construction company that does home accessibility work,” Prophet explained. They install wheelchair ramps, zero entry showers, do door wi...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Cardinals baseball season came to an end following a 4-1 loss to Colville in a loser out playoff game May 4 at Holliday Field. The Cardinals closed out Northeast A League play April 30 scoring the winning run in the top of the seventh in a 4-3 win at Newport. Medical Lake (7-5 NEA, 11-11 overall) finished fifth in the regular season which earned them the meeting with No. 4 seed Colville. Colville (11-11) jumped to an early lead scoring twice in the first...
MEDICAL LAKE - Just what are most 80-somethings doing regularly these days other than probably making sure their meds are in order? Likely not what Gene Blankenship and Gary Blake do? Both currently spend large parts of the days fueling their passion as coaches molding better young people. Blankenship, the senior of the pair at 82 guides the track and cross-country programs at Medical Lake High School. Blake, who just turned 80 in April, has coached Cheney softball since...
SPOKANE — The game plan last week for Cheney fastpitch softball played out just as Coach Gary Blake hoped. The Blackhawks got the wins they knew were possible, 14-2 over Ridgeline and 8-7 on the road at Mead. The 20-0 loss to undefeated Greater Spokane League leader University was not unexpected. As a result, Cheney’s 10-5 record is tied with Mead for third-place and the Blackhawks remain well-positioned for the postseason with three games to play. “We did what we needed to do,” Blake said. “We won the two games that we n...
The annual Red-White game at Eastern Washington University on April 26 provided fans with a spring glimpse of what's to come next fall when the Eagles take to Roos Field. The defense started with a 31-point lead, and ultimately won, 41-20. Above, quarterback Kekoa Visperas puts his feet to work signaling a first down. At right, under pressure by Trevor Thurman,Visperas launches the ball downfield. The Eagles will open the 2024 season Aug. 29 against Monmouth University of New...
The Spokane Stealth select girls lacrosse team wrapped up its season Monday night against Sandpoint in a battle at the Southeast Sports Complex in Spokane. The team includes several players from Cheney and Rosalia. Additional information was unavailable at press time....
SPOKANE — Cheney baseball put an end to a three game Greater Spokane League losing streak last week in a memorable manner. The Blackhawks earned back-to-back wins over Ferris, 10-3 and 6-3, and then North Central, 14-4 with pitchers all notching complete games. Quinn Hubbs tossed a three-hit, 10 strikeout game April 23 in Cheney against the Saxons (2-15). He added his bat to the mix, too, stroking a pair of hits — including a home run – while scoring twice and driving in a pair of runs. Tate Heuschkel had three hits while...
PULLMAN — Cheney boys golf competed in a pair of tournaments last week, one a non-league and the other in Greater Spokane League play. At the non-league event, played April 25 at Palouse Ridge in Pullman, the Blackhawks finished eighth with a 29-over par. Kamiakin from Kennewick won at seven-over. Individually for Cheney Ryan Howe shot a 77 and got a 79 from Brayden Anderson, 80 from Blake Kernen and 81 from Kyren Fleming. In the Greater Spokane League’s fourth match and concluding of the season was played at Qualchan in wha...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinals boys soccer team completed regular season Northeast A League play the way one wants with postseason in grasp by keeping a winning streak alive. The Cardinals concluded the NEA schedule with sixth straight wins following a 3-1 victory at Deer Park, April 23 and a 2-1 overtime decision at home vs. Lakeside, April 27. “The run is a result of senior leadership and the desire to make it out of our league and on to the state tourney,” assistant coach Dan Collins wrote in an email. That senior leade...
MEDICAL LAKE - The boys baseball team did what it needed to do to earn a spot in the Northeast A League playoffs. Following a split in which they lost to Deer Park 13-3 on April 23, topped Riverside 7-0 on April 27 and played at Newport on April 30, the question remains just who and where the Cardinals play next? With Lakeside's 9-2 record a lock for first-place, four other teams battled this week for positioning with a potential four-way tie entirely possible between Medical...
Cheney track and field competed in its next-to-last Greater Spokane League meet April 26 with the boys scoring a pair of easy wins and the girl’s narrow losses. The Blackhawks’ boys topped Ferris 107-38 and Ridgeline 90-55 while the girls lost to Ferris 74-66 and Ridgeline 71-69. Later in the week, both teams competed at the Shoreline Invitational where the Blackhawk boys were sixth out of 44 teams and girls seventh in a 50-team field. “It was a great senior night, but we were gearing up for Shoreline, so most kids only...
CHENEY - A 2-1 week has kept Cheney fast pitch softball on a recent hot streak in Greater Spokane League play. Following an 11-1 loss to Mt. Spokane, April 16, the Blackhawks got victories over Ferris, 10-8 on April 18 and Lewis and Clark, 8-1 the following afternoon. Cheney has five wins in its last six games. A 5-run first inning set the tone against Mt. Spokane who limited Cheney (8-4 GSL, 8-6 overall) to just four hits. The 11-1 Wildcats trail GSL leader University at...
MEDICAL LAKE - A dramatic overtime win highlighted Medical Lake's perfect week of play in Northeast A League soccer. The Cardinals (7-3 NEA, 9-6 overall) began the week by topping Northwest Christian (Colbert), 2-1, on April 16 and followed with wins of 9-2 against Newport on April 18 and 5-0 over Colville on April 19. Medical Lake got goals from brothers Kaden and Kaison Rudy in the win over Northwest Christian (Colbert) with Kaden Rudy scoring on a penalty kick in overtime...
MEDICAL LAKE — When is a loss a good thing? When it teaches lessons, perhaps? That might be the way Medical Lake baseball coach Austin Sharp looks at last week’s 16-10 non-league loss during the inaugural Flashback Friday at Colfax. Earlier in the week the Cardinals earned an 11-1 Northeast A League win over Newport. The game between the 2B Bulldogs and 1A Cardinals first filled a void in the Colfax schedule and put a big crowd in the stands to watch teams compete in 1990s-era uniforms. It may be the start of a tradition dep...
CHENEY — Cheney track and field athletes scored several individual wins in their Greater Spokane League meet April 18, but those were not enough to lift the Blackhawks to any team victories. Competing at North Central and with Mead, Cheney boys lost to the hosts 77-68 and 89-56 to Mead. The Blackhawk girls were edged by North Central, 77-73 with Mead winning handily, 112-33. On April 20 both teams finished fourth in the annual Mooberry Relays at Rogers High School in Spokane. Calvin Hilton ran a 9-minute, 23.44 second s...
MEDICAL LAKE —On a freezing and cold blustery day, the Medical Lake girl’s track and field team had to supply some measure of warmth with its performance. The Cardinals breezed past Riverside 99-36 and Deer Park 80-66 establishing a dozen personal records along the way in an April 18 Northeast A League win at home. Medical Lake’s boys, meanwhile, also topped Riverside but lost a painfully close competition 73.33 to 70.67 to Deer Park. “It was windy and cold as can be, I was freezing death all day long,” head coach Gene Blan...
