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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...
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...
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....
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 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....
Five regular season games remain and it is now time “where the rubber meets the road” for Eastern Washington’s men’s and women’s basketball teams. Eagle hoops are in the rarest of atmospheres this season. Both EWU teams are on top of their respective standings and poised to take tandem titles to the Big Sky Conference tournament in Boise, March 9-13. The Eagle women, guided by Joddie Gleason, have worked their way back into a tie for the top with Northern Arizona following...
FEDERAL WAY - A Cheney High School junior has won back-to-back state diving titles. Alma Smith returned home from the 3A state diving championships last week with a gold medal after successfully defending the title he won in 2023. Smith easily outdistanced runner-up James Ferrier of Gig Harbor, 401.90 to 297.35 in the Feb. 15 competition at the King County Aquatic Center. Smith, who just began diving in 2021 and is coached by Aaron Gilfoyle from the Inland Empire Diving Club,...
TACOMA - Cheney's Trenton Moore made a move at Mat Classic XXXV last weekend, but it was not exactly where he wanted to be. A sixth-place finisher in 2023, Moore battled some high-end competition ending up fifth at 175-pounds, topping Mead's Caden Brooks, 8-2. Along the way Moore lost to the eventual third-place finisher, Ever Yamada (Edmonds-Woodway) 10-5 and fourth-place Garrett Goade (Bainbridge). "One-hundred seventy-five pounds was a strong bracket and second- to...
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...
TACOMA – Cheney will send four wrestlers to Mat Classic XXXV in Tacoma this weekend, including one individual champion following 3A Region 4 competition Feb. 9-10 at University High School in Spokane. Topping the list is Trenton Moore who captured the 175-pound title and looks to improve on his 2023 trip to Tacoma where he was sixth. Mason Bennett participated in his first state competition last year as an alternate, but goes this time as runner-up at 144 pounds. C.J. B...
CHENEY – The Cheney girls basketball team ended the season on a positive and in the direction the program will trend following a 53-41 win over North Central on Feb. 9. In the battle for who avoids the basement in the Greater Spokane League, a decisive fourth quarter in which the Blackhawks outscored the Wolfpack 14-9 allowed Cheney to grab its lone league win to finish 1-8 (5-15 overall). The trio of Kiah Klauss, Natalie Richards and Mia Ashcroft each scored 10 points, sendin...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks’ budding girls wrestling program had big growth in 2023-24. That continues this weekend when the team doubles its Mat Classic attendees. Jalisca Holmgren will wrestle at state in the 125-pound class and Jenny Tian at 110 pounds. Meanwhile, Liberty’s Kariyah Strobel will wrestle at state at 140 pounds and Medical Lake’s Lyla Heinemann will be an alternate at 130 pounds. “Last year, we took one and this year Cheney builds on that and gets two girls int...
"The players had so much fun at the game," head coach Brian Baxter wrote in an email. "They were so excited about the crowd and the energy. Give out kudos to Derek Slaughter and Jenna Tamera for organizing the Spirit Game and including my basketball players."...
SPOKANE - Cheney advanced nine wrestlers to the next stop on the road to Mat Classic, including two individual champions, from the Greater Spokane League 3A tournament at the Spokane Convention Center, on Feb. 2-3. Mason Bennett was a champion at 144 pounds and Trenton Moore won at 175 as the Blackhawks finished fourth as a team behind Mead, University and Mount Spokane. That pair, as well as Camron Bogle (132-pounds/3rd), Wyatt Wells (175/4th), Gauge Seubert (190/4th), Aiden...
It’s been just about three weeks since the Northeast A League shrunk from a size-7 to a much trimmed-down size-4. Had this been a human-driven weight loss program, it might have been a welcome outcome. However, this is high school athletics. And when a conference loses that much weight, that fast, it generates potentially unhealthy side effects. NEA athletic directors knew in advance what was about to hit when the board of directors of the Washington Interscholastic A...
CHENEY -Eight area girls are heading to regional wrestling tournaments on Saturday, Feb. 10. Four Cheney girls will compete at the 3A/4A girls regionals in Sunnyside on Saturday, Feb. 10. And in the girls small school (1B-2A) division, three Liberty (Spangle) wrestlers and one Medical Lake girl will are heading to Quincy. Cheney Blackhawks Cheney has the largest local girls contingent moving on. The Blackhawks girls wrestling program emerged from subregional competition at...
MEDICAL LAKE — Peaking at the right time in sports is critical to success and if winning three of their last four games in any indicator the Medical Lake boys basketball team is doing just that? The Cardinals engineered a notable turnaround over this time a year ago, splitting their final two Northeast A League games and nabbing not only a playoff spot, but getting a home game to boot. Medical Lake lost Jan. 30 at Freeman, 68-46, but dished up a fitting Senior Night p...
CHENEY - The Blackhawk boys collected a pair of basketball wins last week topping Rogers 66-45 in the "Railroad Rumble" rivalry game and then 50-43 over University in their next-to-last game. The Blackhawks (3-5 GSL, 9-10 overall) looked to cap the 2023-24 basketball season with a win at home, Feb. 6 vs. North Central (5-3, 14-5). Led as usual by Evan Stinson and his 24 points, Cheney raced to a 40-25 halftime lead in the non-league game with Rogers (5-1, 11-4). Liam Carver...
The Cheney girls earned their first basketball victory of 2024 amidst the memorable setting of the school's rivalry game on Jan. 31. The Blackhawks used a solid second half to put distance between themselves and the Rogers Pirates to win 61-44 in their part of the "Railroad Rumble" played at Eastern Washington University's Reese Court. That ended a 10-game losing streak dating back to Dec. 22. Cheney capped the week with a 65-38 loss at home to University in a Greater Spokane...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake girls snapped a two-game Northeast A League losing streak with a notable win and in the process earned a home playoff game. The Cardinals did something they had not accomplished in five seasons by beating Freeman 43-29 on Jan. 30 and finished out the regular season with a 35-29 loss at home to Lakeside on Senior Night. In the process Medical Lake (5-7, 12-9) earned a first-round home playoff game — a rematch with Freeman — that was played on Fe...
