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AAA The Spokane Cannons conținued to remain undefeated in AAA American Legion play with a 6-0 record following a pair of wins over the Northstars. The team with a large contingent of Cheney and Medical Lake players won on the road 12-2 at Rogers High, June 1 and 7-2 at Holliday Field in Medical Lake the following day. The Cannons lost a non-league game to the Spokane Expos 7-5, May 30. A six-run fifth inning broke a 2-2 tie and the Cannons went on to ad a pair of runs in the...
Tim Collins came into the search effort to become the next athletics director at Eastern Washington University as one of three finalists. Not long after his on-campus interviews June 1 and a public forum that followed in Spokane, Collins was suddenly one of just two seeking to follow the retiring Lynn Hickey in the AD seat. Elizabeth Jarnigan, who was to have gone through the same process June 5, withdrew from the pool that also included Jim Sarrá, Jr. Jarnigan accepted the po...
The basics of the game of baseball are the focus of Cheney Summer Hawks A American Legion team head coach Aaron Rockey insists. Wins and losses will take precedent later in the game he says but for now it's learning on all levels. Rockey, a 2003 Cheney High School grad, and who has coached the better part of the prior two decades, is back as head coach after spending the past couple of seasons in what he called intermediate Little League. "I had a few of these kids on that tea...
CHENEY – In a career that spans nearly three decades, Jim Sarra Jr. has been in positions of many levels with institutions both small and large. He’s battled through the ever-present challenge of fundraising and marketing with what he termed a “10-million-pound gorilla” as his chief competition for money and fan support. Sarra is experienced in dealing with the NCAA over compliance and when all the T’s are not crossed and I’s dotted what happens then. And, perhaps, so...
When Jerry Krause interviewed for the opening at Eastern Washington State College back in 1967, he was competing for the job with another newcomer to college basketball, Jud Heathcoate. Athletic director Dave Holmes' decision was quite simple, Krause recalled in a 2008 Cheney Free Press story. "I had a Doctorate and he had a master's degree and that's the reason I got the job." Krause said. "Now I tell him now that I kept you from being fired (at Eastern) and you kept me from...
AAA CHENEY – The possible journey back to the Senior American Legion baseball state tournament for the Spokane Cannons has at least gotten off in the right direction. The AAA Legion team that draws heavily from Cheney and Medical Lake to fill its roster has begun the season with a 4-0 league record - 5-1 overall - following the start of ALB Spokane competition. "It's a pretty good start for not playing to the best of our abilities," head Coach Austin Sharp wrote in a text mess...
CHENEY – Caitlin Shaffer established a pair of personal records to go with four titles as the Cheney track and field athlete returned from the state 3A championships in Tacoma at Lake Stevens High School with the biggest haul of hardware. Shaffer, who competed as the lone entry in the wheelchair division, set a PR at 27.21 seconds in the 100-meters as well as in the javelin where her 12-foot throw was also a winner. Just a freshman, Shaffer also won the 800-meters in a time of...
Medical Lake track and field was tripped up taking the final steps to the top spot on the podium at the 1A state track meet May 25-27 at Yakima's Eisenhower High School. Last fall's state champion in cross country, Reid Headrick, and an odds-on favorite for yet another gold medal, had his opponent, Bodie Thomas of Vashon Island out kick him in the final stretch to win the 3,200 meters by just over two seconds. Thomas, a freshman, turned in a personal record time of 9 minutes,...
Cheney efforts at last weekend’s District 8 3A track and field championships brought both notable accomplishments and near misses in the Tri-Cities heat. “Joy (Assonken) and Shauna (Elliott) winning,” were some pleasant surprises head coach Derek Slaughter noted in an email. “We knew they were going to do well but winning took a lot of guts.” Assonken claimed the meet’s 3A javelin title with a personal record throw of 119 feet, 5 inches. Elliott, meanwhile, was the high ju...
There’s a longer than usual road trip coming for some members of the Medical Lake track and field team following their performances at District 7 championships last week at Riverside High School in Chattaroy. For the past 25 years when the Cardinals who earned berths to the 1A state championships, that journey was all of about 20 minutes and 10 miles to Cheney and Eastern Washington University. For this year’s group it’s a nearly three-hour and 200-mile trip to Yakima and E...
Medical Lake High School showcased one of its largest groups of letter-of-intent signees in recent memory as seven seniors officially announced May 18 where they would attend college this fall. Seven Cardinals, including members of ML’s cross country, baseball, cheer and competitive shooting signed letters in front of school officials, coaches and parents in the high school auditorium. Included were Kaleb Cain, Luke Dickey, both from baseball; cross country’s Jenna Cas...
Over the past couple of years, the Spokane Cannons AAA Senior American Legion baseball team has been inching its way towards a lofty goal. Winning a state title at the premiere level of ALB. The importance of this is the Cannons are effectively the West Plains' home team, with six players from Medical Lake, five from Cheney, two out of Reardan and several others scattered about Spokane County. Over the past two seasons the Cannons have been Spokane's representative in the...
MEDICAL LAKE — Three Cardinal golfers participated in a unique opportunity to play one of the region’s most revered and iconic courses in the Spokane Area High School Golf Championship at the Kalispel Golf and Country Club on May 11. Kali Rowe and Madi Spring represented the Cardinal girls; Mason Ashenbrenner the local boys. The tournament featured 162 competitors from 42 schools. Rowe shot a 93 and Spring a 114 on the 73-par layout for women. Ashenbrenner finished with a 98...
SPOKANE - Medical Lake's Taylor Oliver authored the Cardinals' third no hitter of 2023, May 9 against Lakeside in the District 7 playoffs at Whitworth University. But like other contests that seemed to slip away by inches with sure outs caroming off mitts, so, ironically did this game and with it the Cardinals' season. The 2-1 loss was part of Medical Lake's three-game losing streak that saw them bounced from the playoffs, one game from reaching state following a 4-1 defeat Ma...
SPOKANE — Sports success is sometimes described as a formula consisting of one part skill and one part luck, wrapped up in a neat package of talent. “You know the bats just weren’t there,” Coach Bob Beamer said of Cheney’s 3A District 8 playoff loss to Mount Spokane. “All year, we go as our top of our lineup goes, and the top of our lineup just didn’t go that day.” Cheney’s up-and-down season ended May 9 as the Blackhawks lost, 4-0, to Mount Spokane and, 4-2, at Southridg...
SPOKANE VALLEY - Competition at the Sub-District track meet at Central Valley High School last week left Cheney track and field Coach Derek Slaughter with a great deal of confidence in advance of regionals and. "We had a great Sub-District meet," Slaughter wrote in an email in advance of competition May 19-20 at Fran Rish Stadium in Richland. Both the boys and girls 4X400 ran their way into contention for state, Slaughter said. Braxton Hinton, Teagan O'Callaghan, Kordell...
MEDICAL LAKE – Cardinals track Coach Gene Blankenship approached this season with caution. "You know, we're down in numbers," Blankenship said in assessing his teams at the start of the season in March. "I think that we're gonna' have a tough time winning some dual meets." But now that his Cardinals - both boys and girls - have emerged from the Northeast A League season finishing better-than-expected, the old and bolder Blankenship is beginning to surface. Both Medical Lake b...
LIBERTY LAKE – Following play in district competition May 8 at MeadowWood golf course in Liberty Lake, the Medical Lake girls golf team will send two players to the state tournament in Chehalis. Kali Rowe finished the tournament with a two-day score of 181, which was the best score for the Cardinal girls. “Rowe’s first place finish earned her the District MVP award, which is basically District Champion, and a spot to compete in the state tournament,” head coach Jerry Ornelas...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks boys baseball team continued its late-season surge going on the road May 6 at Walla Walla, beating the Blue Devils, 5-1, in an opening-round playoff game. Walla Walla was the No. 3 seed out of the Mid-Columbia Conference. Cheney, the No. 6 seed in the District-8 3A playoffs, won its seventh consecutive game behind a complete game from pitcher Quinn Hubbs, who scattered seven hits and struck out seven as the Blackhawks improved to 12-6 overall. Hubbs h...
MEDICAL LAKE -- It was a pretty good week for Austin Sharp and his Medical Lake baseball team. The Cardinals finished 1-1-1, yes, that’s IS a tie, and played their way into what could be an extended post-season. Oh, by-the-way, Sharp and his wife Jessica became first-time parents Tuesday with the birth of son Jett Henry. Admittedly there has been little sleep last week for Sharp as he adjusts to life as a dad, juggles work as a general contractor and figures how to fit in s...
MEDICAL LAKE – The boys tennis team's 3-2 win over Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) earned the Cardinals a share of the Northeast A League regular 2023 season championship. The Cardinals next compete May 12-13 at districts at Hart Field in Spokane. The Cardinals will send a healthy contingent to that competition, a qualifier for the state championships to be played May 26-27 in Yakima. The Top 5 boys move on to a regional play off with the B schools next May 19-20 at Mead High S...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks girls fastpitch softball team concluded Greater Spokane League play last week with a win over Gonzaga Prep. The victory ended a three-game losing streak and propelled the Blackhawks into post-season play. On May 2, Cheney lost to Central Valley, 18-8. Then the May 5 game against North Central was postponed due to weather. After that, Cierra Morton had a 3-for-5 day batting with a pair of home runs and seven RBIs in a 24-18 win at G-Prep for Cheney. T...
CHENEY – The Blackhawks track and field team might use the boost it got from winning their final Greater Spokane League meets to travel the road the next several weeks to the state championships. The Blackhawks traveled to Gonzaga Prep on May 4, where the boys topped the host Bullpups, 85-56, and then edged Lewis and Clark, 73-71. Cheney’s girls won a bit more decisively, 79-67, over Prep and 88-53 against Lewis and Clark. Now begins the trek to Tacoma and the potential sta...
Medical Lake track and field is getting very much used to life on the road riding buses. The Cardinals completed a busy week with competition in the Northeast A League at Newport April 26 where the boys lost to Lakeside 94-50 and the host Grizzlies 73-71. ML's girls lost to Lakeside 93-57 and Newport 103-28. Over the weekend the squads were split with 16 athletes - eight boys and girls each - traveled to Bellevue for the Shoreline Invitational, while another 24 ventured to...
Cheney track and field picked up a number of event wins, but team victories eluded the Blackhawks April 27 at Central Valley in a Greater Spokane League meet. In the boys’ competition, Central Valley topped Cheney 85.5-59.5 and NC prevailed 74-71. Central Valley won 95.5-49.5 in the girls while North Central edged Cheney 77-73. Braxton Hinton won in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes, setting a personal record with a time of 11:10 in the 100. Calvin Hilton’s 4 minute, 25....
