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Colville used two big plays, both long touchdown pass connections from Cale Roy to Allan McKeragan for 53 and 52 yards respectively, putting up 27 first quarter points on the way to a 54-0 Northeast A League football win over Medical Lake Sept. 30 in Colville. Roy would toss two more TD strikes and finish with 188 yards passing as the Crimson Hawks improved to 2-0 in league play and 5-0 overall while the Cardinals remained winless (0-2, 0-5). Medical Lake was outgained 391 to...
With Joyalise O’Dell winning in four events, including teaming in the 200 and 400 Freestyle Relay, Cheney swimmers won two of three team competitions Sept. 30 at the Eastern Washington University pool. The Blackhawks collected victories over Kennewick 88-80 and Clarkston 106-34 but lost to Hanford 99-69. “The swimmers did pretty well considering the increase in training that they experienced in the week leading up to the meet,” head coach Jennifer Hochwalt wrote in an email...
At first glance Cheney’s heartbreaking 12-10 Greater Spokane League football loss to Lewis and Clark at Union Stadium in Mead came as result of a blocked field goal. But Blackhawks’ head coach Bobby Byrd knows better. “People look at a game and may think it comes down to one play, but as well as we did play, we could have taken advantage of other opportunities earlier in the game,” Byrd wrote in an email. The Tigers’ James Sheridan will someday maybe have a story to tell his...
The University Titans left Cheney on Sept. 23 with a solid 27-8 Greater Spokane League football win where they rolled up nearly 300 total yards and got a pair of touchdowns from Malaki Miller. But the Blackhawks contributed mightily to the outcome in the game at Tom Oswald Field according to head coach Bobby Byrd. "The U-High defensive front was good, but at the end of the night it was our own mistakes that defeated us," Byrd wrote in an email. "We had opportunities and big...
A group of Medical Lake cross country runners got to toughen up Sept. 24 at the Nike XC in Portland. This meet attracts dozens and dozens of teams and hundreds of athletes, many the crème-of-the-crop from the West Coast and the Cardinals came away with a number of notable performances and even some “I told you so’s” to their veteran octogenarian coach. Senior Reid Headrick jumped out of team competition and ran in the elite Danner division where he clocked a time of 16 minute...
Cheney soccer was, perhaps, within a shot of a perfect week. The Blackhawks lost 3-2 on penalty kicks, Sept. 19 but followed with a 2-1 win over Central Valley (Sept. 21) and a rout of Rogers 13-0 on Sept. 24. Tied at 2-2 on goals from Kayelee Kohlman in the 34th minute and Kaiti Low in the 77th minute — both assisted by Alex Miller — Cheney lost 3-2 on penalty kicks. “Emersyn Heuett and Paige Evens each made their penalty kicks and Kiah Klauss had a big save in the PK’s...
Jake Gaffaey scored three times, Tyler Lenze and Gavin Jaeger each had a pair of scores as the Riverside Rams beat Medical Lake 52-0 Sept. 23 in a Northeast A League game at Holliday Field. The Rams led 14-0 after one quarter and 38-0 at the half and outgained the Cardinals 361 to 121 in total yards, 236 of that on the ground. Lenz had seven carries good for 87 yards rushing but added 90 more receiving. Gaffaney ran for 71 on seven attempts as the Rams evened their league...
On paper, and in the record books, Cheney’s 15-0 Greater Spokane League football win Sept. 9 at Tom Oswald Field illustrated that the Blackhawks played some solid defense. But as head coach Bobby Byrd pointed out, the goose egg on the scoreboard just scratched the surface. “Across the board our defensive unit did well,” Byrd wrote in an email. “(We) brought pressure when needed, stayed discipline in our reads at linebacker and the secondary.” Linebacker Curran Moore coralled...
The Rogers Pirates took advantage of everything Medical Lake gave them Sept. 9 at Holliday Field and returned to Spokane with a 42-6 non-league football win. In their first meeting between the schools on the football field, the 2A Pirates (1-1) used a combination of a short field and turnovers to go on a scoring spree, racking up a 21-0 first quarter lead and were up 35-0 at the halftime break. Game stats favored Rogers 208 to 144 in total yards and the Pirates had an 11 to 9...
It was somewhat of a carbon-copy finish for Medical Lake’s cross country teams at the Seaport Invitational staged in Clarkston Sept. 10. Once again, as they did in 2021, the Cardinals collected individual titles. And once more the ML girls were team champs, scoring a runaway 19-42 win over 2A Pullman and the boys’ runners-up, also to Pullman by a 37-62 margin. “I would say that was the highlight of the day to be honest with you, winning both individuals and then winning the g...
For a relatively out of the way league, tucked away in the largely rural parts of far Eastern Washington, the Northeast A has become mighty tough when it comes to girls’ soccer. Deer Park is the defending 1A state champions with plenty of additional horsepower coming from Freeman and Lakeside on a regular basis. It’s Dan Collins’ challenge as he approaches his third season as head coach to try to make Medical Lake competitive in the NEA after a drought where since 2018 the p...
There's some excitement in Heather Zorrozua's voice for a variety of reasons as she leads her Cheney Blackhawks volleyball team into the 2022 season. One is the prospect of the experience her team possesses. There's also the ever-expanding foundation that appears to be being built with the program. And, as other coaches have echoed, hopefully the currently waning specter of COVID-19 continues to be just a memory. Cheney technically enters its third season as a 3A school...
Hailey Van Soest answered the call last season when needed in a pinch and that was later rewarded with her being named as head volleyball coach at Medical Lake High School. Now it’s her ship to captain with a bold vision in mind for the future. It’s Van Soest’s goal to build a program that can someday soon have a banner on the Cardinals’ gym wall that honors the many different champions from the past. Van Soest went to school at Cheney High where she naturally played volleyb...
Eastern Washington's redshirt freshman defensive back Joseph Obeto knocks away a pass in the Aug. 26 scrimmage at Roos Field. It was the final opportunity for game-style preparation for the Eagles who open regular-season play Saturday at home - 1 p.m. - vs. Nashville's Tennessee State Tigers....
New Eastern Washington University President Shari McMahan got to meet and greet members of the West Plains Chamber of Commerce at that group's annual breakfast at Roos Field on Wednesday, Aug. 17. Football Coach Aaron Best also addressed attendees as the season-opener nears for his team, Sept. 3 at home against Tennessee State....
When Medical Lake High School went to hire another head football coach there were likely many capable candidates - and certain ah-ha moments in the interview process? But what may have set Nick Puzycki apart from the pack was having been part of the significant speedy turnaround at Sunnyside High School in the Yakima Valley? "His experience at Sunnyside and their program turnaround is significant," Medical Lake Athletics Director Dawn Eliassen wrote in a text message. The soon...
Like everyone else on the planet, Cheney High School head football coach Bobby Byrd certainly hopes COVID and its wide-ranging effects are firmly and far away in life’s rearview mirror. Even as the virus waned in 2021 allowing the return to football being played in front of fans, Cheney struggled through a 1-win, 9-loss season, its second in a transition to the 3A division of the Greater Spokane League. But there was a silver lining. “The good thing last year we had a sma...
For Cheney cross country co-coach Derek Slaughter there's the sense of 2022 being a restart for many of his program's runners. Working with counterpart Camille Moseley, the pair will attempt to shake off the rust that remains from the many delays and cancellations surrounding COVID-19. "A lot of the kids had not really had competitive running because of COVID," Slaughter explained. "So, our freshmen coming in didn't have competitive sports since sixth grade, our juniors and...
It's nothing new that Medical Lake's veteran cross country coach Gene Blankenship is prone to make bold predictions about his teams' future. One can do that with the success he's tendered at the school in distance running since arriving in 2010. There's 1A titles in 2013, 2014 and 2017, back-to-back runners-up in 2015 and 2016, a third in 2019 and last season fourth. And as for 2022, Blankenship is once again confident his teams can make another appearance the first Saturday...
Eastern Washington freshman offensive line prospect Dylan Conner gives the blocking sled a workout in the team's summer workouts on Aug. 10. The Eagles will hold the first of two scrimmages Friday, Aug. 19 at 3 p.m. on Roos Field. The public is invited to attend as Eastern prepares for its season opener Sept. 3 at Roos against Tennessee State....
It was just a matter of time before it would happen. The Fairways golf course in West Terrace has announced that the final day of play as an 18-hole facility will be Sunday, Aug. 14. Fittingly, perhaps, the men's club championship will be the final official events that play the entire course. The public, however, will have their opportunity afterwards. Word came to regulars at the course via an email newsletter last week but the loss of the front-nine that essentially borders...
The West Plains Little League had one of its best outings in recent times at the state tournament - and it came from, perhaps, an unexpected corner. The All-Star team from the 8-9-10 year-old AAA league traveled to Vancouver, Wash. and came home with a fifth- place finish and kudos for a job very well done. "This is a huge," WPLL President Stacy Ashcroft wrote in an email. "Little League is the biggest youth sports organization in the world and competing at the state level is...
Funeral services for former Eastern Washington University soccer coach Chad Bodnar will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 9 at 3 p.m. in Richland at Einan's Funeral Home. According to his obituary in the Tri City Herald, Bodnar, 44, passed away suddenly on July 18, 2022. Bodnar was hired as coach at Eastern in December 2013 and guided the program to its most successful period in history until his contract was not renewed in May 2020. In seven seasons at Eastern, Bodnar compiled an...
The heat of summer will soon give way for the sights and sounds of fall sports where preparation kicks off Aug. 17 for football at both Cheney and Medical Lake. And while Cheney's programs, which compete in the Greater Spokane League, will have familiar faces guiding their programs, Medical Lake, a member of the Northeast A League, sees quite a few changes. The Cardinals will have a new athletics director in Dawn Eliassen, the long-time tennis coach, taking over for Justin...
