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The non-league schedule is behind them and now the Cheney boys will focus on the future, that being the start of Greater Spokane League play. The Blackhawks closed out the pre-season with a 61-37 humbling at the hands of Mt. Spokane Jan. 3 and then a 59-49 league loss to Ferris, Jan. 6. Toss out the second and third quarters where Cheney was outscored 37-15 and the Blackhawks (0-1 GSL, 5-6 all games) played with the Wildcats (1-0, 10-1). “I have to do a better job at making...
The holiday schedule for the Cheney boys’ basketball team may not have gone completely as head coach Travis Peevey wished, but he appears pleased with what did transpire. The Blackhawks (4-4) lost both their outings in the Eagle Holiday Classic at West Valley in Spokane. The host Eagles rallied to win 50-48, Dec. 28 and Colfax breezed past Cheney 62-49, Dec. 29. Cheney concluded its three-game-in-three-day schedule with a 61-56 win over Wenatchee, Dec. 30, a game that had been...
Responsibility for the Cheney girls’ basketball team’s two losses in the Eagle Holiday could land on a variety of shoulders, but head coach Ken Ryan said that number is much more easily defined. Ryan said the outcomes, a 64-61 loss Dec. 28 to West Valley and a humbling 46-22 loss to Colville, Dec. 29, are largely his responsibility in one way or another. The Blackhawks turned things around by topping Wenatchee 46-26 Jan. 2 in a game rescheduled following an earlier wea...
The Medical Lake girls put the sting of a close loss to Greater Spokane League Shadle Park behind them and split a pair of games in the Eagle Holiday Classic following a win over Northport. And all of it from a 4-4 preseason leads the Cardinals into the resumption of Northeast A League play this week. Medical Lake, playing without one of its premiere players in Charde Luat in the second half, watch Shadle rally from a 28-20 deficit at half-time and lost a 47-46 thriller Dec....
If there’s one thing for which second-year Cheney gymnastics coach Melissa Bradley might be thankful it might be she has better numbers. It might have even been a stretch to consider Bradley’s 2021-22 team a team in the first place. Coming off of COVID, her first team had but just two competitors — and one of those landed on the injury roster. But the sole survivor, Emma Ayers, a newbie to the sport at the high school level would go on to earn runner-up honors at JV distr...
After the fall sports season, Cheney High School is in first place for the Scholastic Cup for 3A schools in the state of Washington. The Scholastic Cup recognizes performance in the classroom as well as on the playing surface. Schools that finish at the top of their respective classifications in state athletic competition receive points, as do schools that finish at the top in team academic performance. At the end of the year, the school with the most points in their classific...
Five games into the 2022-23 season and things appear to be headed in the right direction for the Cheney boys' basketball team. Following a week where the Blackhawks collected wins in two of three games, pushing their record to 3-2, Cheney sits just one victory shy of its entire 2021-22 campaign. Last week the Blackhawks topped Lewis And Clark 53-43 on Dec. 13, lost 80-71 Dec. 16 at Ridgeline, but rebounded to breeze past Shadle Park 76-45 the following afternoon. "We are...
As if the spotlight on new Cheney boys’ basketball head coach Travis Peevey is not bright enough as he works to rebound from a 4-15 record in the 2021-22 season, there’s this. Peevey married into the Hatch family with its generations of ties to Cheney High School athletics. His wife is Jenna whose parents are Jimmy and Celia Hatch and grandparents Betty and the late Jim Hatch. The Jim Hatch gymnasium where Peevey’s team plays is home court is named for the long time Black...
The Cheney girls' basketball team won two of three non-league games last week, including the first of the season. On Dec. 13 the Blackhawks beat Lewis and Clark 46-42, Cheney's initial victory for 2022-23, then went on the road for two games where they lost to Ridgeline 47-32, Dec. 16 before topping Shadle 46-33 Dec. 17. Coming out of the halftime break and outscoring LC 13-5 allowed Cheney to withstand the visitor's fourth-quarter 17-12 rally. Shauna Elliott led all scorers w...
Medical Lake head boys ‘basketball coach Jordan Starr knew this season might be a challenge with many new faces and mixed experience. Last week’s results, a 90-36 loss Dec. 15 at home to Greater Spokane League North Central (6-0) and a 44-37 setback on the road the following night to Newport (1-1 Northeast A, 2-2 overall) appears to be a good illustration? “North Central is the real deal,” head coach Jordan Starr wrote in an email. “They have great balance and skill at all po...
The Medical Lake girls got their Northeast A League season off to a good start last week with a 44-13 win at Newport, Dec. 16. The previous night, Greater Spokane League North Central won 33-15 at ML. In the win the Cardinals got the stoutest of defensive play outscoring the Grizzlies 30-2 in the first half. "The box score is correct," head coach Brett Ward wrote in an email. "Basically, they scored two points in three quarters against our varsity kids." Medical Lake played...
Medical Lake boys’ head basketball coach summed things up in just three words when asked to access his team’s winless week. “Yup, tough week,” Jordan Starr wrote in an email following the Cardinals’ non-league losses to Northwest Christian 61-25 on Dec. 6, and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague’s 69-14 demolition Dec. 9. NWC blew its game wide open in quarters two and three leading just 10-7 after the opening eight minutes. The 1B Crusaders would outscore the Cardinals 43-5 in that spa...
Dalton Taylor of Cheney earned a win in last week's West Valley Duals over Tyson Mogan of West Valley at 160 pounds. The decision came via a fall in a time of 2 minutes, 54 seconds. Host West Valley won in its match vs. Cheney 45-27 but the Blackhawks finished the day with a 2-1-1 record, tying Lake City 36-36 while defeating East Valley of Spokane 43-30 and Ephrata 46-30. Following a Dec. 14 match at Mead, the Blackhawks open the home portion of their Greater Spokane League...
The Travis Peevey era of Cheney basketball launched last week with the Blackhawks’ boys earning a split in a pair of non-league games. Cheney dropped its opener to University, 53-47, Dec. 6 but then topped North Central 58-49 on Dec. 9. A game Saturday at home vs. Wenatchee was cancelled due to effects of a storm with efforts underway to possibly reschedule. In their opener, the Blackhawks led 33-18 at half but U-High dominated third-quarter as the Titan’s raced out of the...
Despite being saddled by sickness, the Medical Lake girls’ basketball team found what it needed to collect at least one win out of two games last week. “It was a crazy week for us,” new coach Brett Ward wrote in an email. “For pretty much the entire week we had three of our nine varsity players out sick.” At one point half of the whole program was out sick Ward said. Despite that, the Cardinals lost to Northwest Christian 43-22 on Dec. 6 on the road but topped Lind-Ritz...
While the Cheney girls’ basketball team lost its opening two games of the season at home, 50-30 to University, Dec. 6 and 49-29 to North Central, Dec. 9, the good news is both were pre-season contests for the Greater Spokane League. How the Blackhawks improve to when things count will have a pretty good measuring stick. The same teams meet again for the final two games of the regular season in February at U-Hi and NC. Cheney head coach Ken Ryan assessed the outcomes writing in...
New Medical Lake girls head basketball coach Brett Ward will be bringing some higher-level learning and practices to his job. Ward, who spent the past six seasons as an assistant for the Medical Lake boys, plans to integrate some of what he took in while a student at Washington State University. He worked inside the WSU athletic department. He got to see first-hand and be involved in practices and games what a college program really looks like,” Ward said. In particular, he w...
Technically speaking, this is year-two at the wheel for Cheney girls’ basketball head coach Ken Ryan. But he kind of likes to think of it more as his first season. “I got the job late,” Ryan said, noting he took over not long before the start of the season. “We didn’t have a summer (program) last year. I didn’t know the players or the coaches.” The Blackhawks finished 2-7 in Greater Spokane League play, 7-15 overall. A veteran of having coached previously at Deer Park for...
CHENEY — Jason Connor spends his days as a biologist for the Kalispel Tribe working to improve the health of fish species that travel the Pend Oreille River and its watershed. Since 2018, however, he's spent much of his free time trying to perform similar duties as head coach with Cheney Blackhawks wrestling, of which he's both competed and coached for years. Connor, who wrestled for and graduated from Cheney High School in 1991, has woven his way in and out and very much t...
The building blocks were placed in 2021-22 for what head coach Garrett Roulston thinks could be a resurgence for Medical Lake wrestling. "Last year we had a really young team and a lot of freshmen - three quarters of our team were freshmen," Roulston said in a recent interview. The result was a fifth-place finish in the Northeast A League, arguably, year-in, year-out, one of if not the most competitive 1A league in the state of Washington. The NEA has produced three of the...
With snow on the ground across large parts of the Pacific Northwest, serious cross country runners like Medical Lake High School’s Reid Headrick and Kayla Ramsey headed to the warmth of California last weekend. A group of elite competitors traveled to Walnut, Calif. compliments of Bloomsday and Mount San Antonio College to compete in another edition of the Champ Sports West 5K race where both Headrick and Ramsey ran in the seeded divisions. Ramsey, who led her team to a t...
Cheney swimmers sent a number of swimmers to state competition Nov. 14 with notable outcomes. Blackhawks’ head coach Jennifer Hochwalt insists that the 3A classification in the state of Washington is arguably to best around. When, for instance, Cheney swimmer Joyalise O’Dell came away from competition at the King County Aquatics from the 200-yard Freestyle, her 20th, “Was still pretty well,” Hocwalt said of the 2 minute, 4.07 second time. The 3A swimming ranks, particu...
A Memorial Day weekend staple in Cheney and at Eastern Washington University for the past quarter century will have a new home in 2023. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association's 1A, 1B and 2B state track meet will move to Yakima and Zaepfel Stadium for its next edition, taking with it an estimated 1,600 athletes and an untold number of fans. The event will take place May 25-26-27 as part of a two-year contract. The Yakima facility had undergone a significant...
For Eastern Washington football in 2022 the season began with a win and ended the same way. Scoring 28 consecutive points, Eastern erased an early second quarter 14-7 Northern Colorado lead and went on to defeat the Bears on a cold and breezy day 45-21 at Roos Field. Eastern has now won 13 consecutive games against UNC with the Bears’ only win coming in 1981 as an NCAA Division II program. The victory provided a bit of a bright spot for the Eagles who finished 2-6 in the B...
Officially the high school cross country season ended Nov. 5 in Pasco at the state championship meet. But the sport requires a dedicated training regimen that expends to off-season training and competition. A big group of Cheney High School athletes traveled to Boise Nov. 12 to the Nike Cross Regionals and had some notable performances — particularly for the Blackhawks boys. Running as the 509ers, Cheney not only finished third as a team but placed two runners in the t...
