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Cheney's Jamel Chabot is in a race with the ball to home plate May 1 at North Central in the Blackhawks' final regular season Greater Spokane League baseball game at Ryne Sandberg Field. Chabot beat the throw and successfully completed a third inning inside-the-park home run giving the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead. Cheney would eventually win 16-1 as the Blackhawks scored 13 runs in the top of the sixth inning to blow things open. Cheney won its final six games to finish 14-6...
To some, baseball is the furthest thing from being a game of inches. There’s 90-feet between bases, it’s 60 feet, 6 inches from the pitcher’s mound to home plate and it generally takes a minimum of a 300-foot-plus shot to hit a home run. But for Medical Lake last week in a crucial Northeast A League game at Colville, the difference between a Cardinal victory and the eventual 6-5 walk-off win by the Crimson Hawks April 29 was mere inches. Earlier in the season Medical Lake...
SPOKANE – The Blackhawks track and field team collected solid individual finishes April 22 at the Mooberry Relays at Rogers High School, enough to deliver notable team finishes. The Blackhawk girls topped the podium in the 4X100 throwers’ relay and the javelin relay to secure a second-place team finish, 76.32-71 to Mount Spokane. Cheney’s boys had runner-up finishes in the 4X1600 and 4X100 which was good for fourth, also trailing Mount Spokane, 116.5-66. Clara Browne, Maria...
SPOKANE – The shorthanded Medical Lake track team still made more history at the Mooberry Relays held April 22 at Rogers High School in Spokane. Named for Jack Mooberry, a hall-of-fame coach at Washington State from 1945-1973, the event features both track and field events and draws entrants of all sized schools from across the region. “It was an interesting day, unfortunately it is our prom night so we got there with maybe half of our team,” head Coach Gene Blankenship said....
CHENEY – The girls fastpitch softball team crafted a two-game winning streak and has won four of its last five outings through April 21, doing so in some dramatic fashion. Rebounding from a 13-0 rout at the hands of Mount Spokane April 18, the Blackhawks crafted an improbable win over Ferris, 16-15, April 20 before finishing the week with a 14-9 victory at Lewis and Clark April 21 in Grater Spokane League play. Mia Ashcroft drove in the winning run with a walk-off single as p...
MEDICAL LAKE – There might be plenty to forget about since the Medical Lake baseball team returned from spring break and they’ve lost five of the last six Northeast A League games. But that lone win might just stand out not just this season, but may be reflected upon for years to come? The past week saw the Cardinals lose at Freeman 11-8, April 18 and split with Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls), winning 1-0 before losing 9-1 in the second game, April 22. In that opener at Hol...
Cheney's senior keeper Austin Benson made this first-half save on a breakaway try by Gonzaga Prep's Vettle Harbuz in a Greater Spokane League match played April 19. The effort preserved a scoreless tie, but not for long as the Bullpups scored three first-half goals on the way to a 5-0 win...
Cheney Track and field piled up some notable performances in a pair of events last week. Returning to competition following spring break, the Blackhawks ventured back into the Greater Spokane League on April 13 as well as at the very crowded field in the Van Kuren Invitational, April 15. Cheney's boys lost to host Mount Spokane 105-40, but topped Ferris by a similar wide margin 105.5-43.5. Th Blackhawk girls were defeated by Mount Spokane 91-59 but tied Ferris 75-all in the...
Medical Lake's Taylor Oliver beats a Colville runner to the base in the Cardinals Northeast A League 5-3 loss vs. Colville, April 11 at Holliday Field. A.J. Michaud is the other ML player in the photo. A two-run home run by Colville's Fox Bateman in the top of the fifth inning provided the visitors their deciding runs. Bateman also pitched in the game striking out eight Cardinals....
Medical Lake welcomed Lakeside in a Northeast A League tennis match on April 17 with the Eagles going home with a pair of wins, 3-2 on the boys' side and 4-1 in girls' competition....
Decades of experience has provided Medical Lake head track coach Gene Blankenship with very solid insight on his teams. So, it came a little bit by surprise when his teams snuck away from a Northeast A League meet in Deer Park on April 12 with an unexpected victory. His Cardinal boys and girls each defeated host Deer Park, but not Freeman, as Blankenship had thought might happen. Freeman won easily, 101-43 on the boys’ side but Medical Lake edged Deer Park 76-67. F...
Medical Lake baseball was the lone West Plains team to have not taken a rest from competition during spring break, playing a non-league doubleheader against Reardan April 5. In a pair of games originally scheduled to be played at Holliday Field in Medical Lake, but moved due to poor playing conditions, the Cardinals swept both contests against the 2B Screaming Eagles 15-1 and 9-2. Played in swirling 30 mile-per-hour winds, the games saw Medical Lake win the first with a fast...
When Gary Blake first accessed his Blackhawks’ fast pitch softball team there were a great deal of unknowns. As he started his 20th season at the helm of the program Blake had yet to see his team on the field, nor did he even know what final numbers might look like. Now approaching the halfway point in the season and primed for the stretch run following spring break, there’s much more clarity. Back in late February there were 55 players on his list. But not all of those act...
SPOKANE — It began 42 years ago with an idea and 17 boys in the gymnasium at Medical Lake High School. On Saturday, April 8, at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, a projected 2,000 “little guy” wrestlers will compete at the Jason Crawford Memorial Tournament. It’s the first time in three years the massive tournament has taken place due to coronavirus shutdown mandates. Doors open for the event at 7 a.m. with admission $10. Named in honor of a young wrestler who was killed...
DEER PARK - The record-setting streak for Kyla Ramsey of Medical Lake continued, this time under far from ideal conditions at the Glenn Wolf Invite on March 31. The senior distance runner, who set a decades-old school mark in the 1,600 meters at the Ray Cockrum Relays on March 25 in Wenatchee, struck again with a best in the 3,200. Competing in what Coach Gene Blankenship termed "questionable conditions" of wind and rain, Ramsey's 11 minutes, 23.31 seconds broke what was a...
SPOKANE — Cheney’s undefeated start of the 2023 baseball season has come to an end, but the Blackhawks may have just started a new one. After starting with seven consecutive wins, and going 5-0 in Greater Spokane League play, Cheney lost its first game 7-6, on March 31 at Gonzaga Prep. The Blackhawks later split an April 3 doubleheader at Central Valley, losing 7-3 before winning the second game 2-1. At Gonzaga Prep, the Blackhawks’ win streak came to an end on a nasty weath...
The Cheney Blackhawks got some timely hitting early in and solid pitching to finish last week still undefeated in Greater Spokane League baseball play. Cheney won a pair of GSL contests over Mead, 7-5 on the road March 21 and 8-5 March 23 at home. The Blackhawks then routed Lewis and Clark 12-1 at Hart Field March 24 in a game shortened to five innings due to the 10-run rule. With Tyler Ashcroft going 2 for 3 with a pair of runs-batted-in, Cheney scored six runs at their...
The Cheney Blackhawks got some timely hitting early in and solid pitching to finish last week still undefeated in Greater Spokane League baseball play. Cheney won a pair of GSL contests over Mead, 7-5 on the road March 21 and 8-5 March 23 at home. The Blackhawks then routed Lewis and Clark 12-1 at Hart Field March 24 in a game shortened to five innings due to the 10-run rule. With Tyler Ashcroft going 2 for 3 with a pair of runs-batted-in, Cheney scored six runs at their...
It’s now all business for Medical Lake baseball following the conclusion of their 2023 pre-season with a 3-3 record. The Cardinals used a doubleheader sweep of 2A Rogers of the Greater Spokane League as a final tune-up prior to the start of league play this week. Medical Lake defeated Rogers 12-4 and 14-3 on March 21 at Holliday Field where head coach Austin Sharp got one final shot to tinker on a few things. In the definition of playing “small ball” — the art of placing...
The Medical Lake track team returned from the Ray Cockrum Relays in Wenatchee with a number of personal records but one set of very special numbers. Cardinals' senior distance runner Kayla Ramsey broke the school's 28-year record for the 1,600 meters, March 25 at Wenatchee High School. As the senior crossed the finish line ahead of a trio of other local competitors in a time of 5 minutes, 18.51 seconds she eclipsed the long-held mark of Cardinal Athletic Hall of Fame member...
Cheney track collected a pair of first place individual titles, plus a number of top-3 finishes in competition at the Ray Cockrum Relays, March 25 at Wenatchee High School. The distance medley team of Adam Estock and sophomores Cameron Johnson, Cameron Frenk and Calvin Hilton combined for a time of 10 minutes, 51.84 seconds to win the event. The effort was one second away from a school record, reported head coach Derek Slaughter. In the 4x100 throwers relay Clara Browne, Marie...
If Dan Estock can transfer his passion for the game of tennis into what happens on the courts for the Cheney High School boys’ team the Greater Spokane League might watch out. In his third year guiding the program after taking over for long-time coach Jessie Erickson, Estock is working trying to build things back after the toll COVID-19 took on his program. And Erickson has been there every step it seems. “He’s a pretty fantastic guy to have on your side,” Estock said. ...
The learning curve was a bit rough in 2022 for then first-year Cheney girls’ tennis coach Linnea Love. With victories that could be counted on one hand, Love, who played in the Greater Spokane League at Lewis and Clark — later in college before returning home — knows the scales tilt towards Spokane. “It’s been challenging because the teams we play are a lot more competitive,” Love said. That’s mainly a matter of resources such as numbers and facilities. “There’s more...
MEDICAL LAKE - Building things is second nature to Medical Lake baseball coach Austin Sharp. Because when he's not teaching the game, Sharp is in the construction business where from time to time he likely has to improvise. That is the perfect skill required for Cardinal baseball which is regularly short on players. "Right now, our numbers are about as low as I've ever had them," Sharp said. "We've got 26 signed up, but my upper classes are just very light. I have five total k...
MEDICAL LAKE — Leave it to Medical Lake’s track team to get the jump on other spring sports which have been shackled by a seemingly unrelenting winter. The Cardinals had to travel to Yakima to run and jump, competing at the Eisenhower High School Jamboree, March 11, but doing so with some notable successes. “Despite the fact that we have not been able to practice much outside, we had several excellent performances,” head coach Gene Blankenship wrote in a Facebook post. The non-scoring event produced a pair of victori...
