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MEDICAL LAKE — They had not played in well over a year and lost the last vestiges of a core of players who brought notable success. But featuring just a handful of players with varsity experience, the Medical Lake girls began their 2021 spring Northeast A League season with what head coach Kyle Lundberg indicates is an impressive start after a 65-23 win over Newport on the road May 19. A Friday contest vs. Colville was cancelled. Over the past three seasons his teams have comp...
MEDICAL LAKE — When it comes to wrestling in the Northeast A League the competition hardly gets bigger than those Goliaths from Deer Park. When Medical Lake opened its spring 2021 season against the Stags and came away with a dramatic 33-30 win May 20 at home, they may have introduced a new “David?” Gavin Chaffee from Medical Lake tied the match 6-6 with his win via a fall over an unknown opponent in 3 minutes, 33 seconds. After double forfeits at 106 and 113 pounds, Medical L...
CHENEY - Eastern Washington has reached across the Cascades to find its new head women's basketball coach. Eagles athletics director Lynn Hickey announced May 21 that Seattle University associate head coach Joddie Gleason will replace Wendy Schuller who did not have her contract renewed. Gleason was officially introduced in Cheney on May 24. Gleason takes over after five seasons as Seattle University's associate head coach and has 12 years of head coaching experience at D-II...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — The story of the proposed Urban Grown Area boundaries swap that could free additional land for much needed residential use took a little detour at the May 23 Airway Heights City Council study session. As council was reviewing a proposed letter that would attempt to encourage the numerous stakeholders to sit across a real table from one another and discuss differences, a new wrinkle surfaced. City Administrator Albert Tripp first presented the letter for r...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — With Airway Heights being the fastest growing city in the state of Washington there is a seemingly never-ending need to find land on which to build to accommodate that surge. Two residents holding 180 acres of land east of Hayford Road and north of U.S. Highway 2 would like to help by turning that property into those sought-after lots. But the Urban Grown Area boundaries, so far at least, stand in the way. That issue was discussed at length at the May 10 A... Full story
MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake bats cooled off last week and it helped in their early exit from the Northeast A League playoffs. Playing in the semifinals against Freeman on May 12, the Cardinals were limited to just five hits in a 12-2 loss to Freeman. Then Saturday, Colville scored twice in the top of the seventh inning to rally for a 7-6 win ay Holliday Field that ended the season. Medical Lake finished 7-5 overall and 4-2 in NEA play in a COVID-shortened spring season. For t...
MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake track teams concluded their 2021 season scoring convincing Northeast A League victories May 12 against Riverside. The girls breezed 116-26 while the boys came away 89-50 winners. Distance runner Allison Payne earned special praise from head coach Gene Blankenship following her wins in both the 1,600 and 3,200-meter events. “She’s just now starting to come back and we’re looking to do really well in cross country and she’s a key,” Blankenship...
WEST TERRACE - The Lilac City Invitational Golf Tournament is back at The Fairways Golf Course June 4-6. Albeit one day shorter than most previous editions of one of the region's most notable professional tournaments some of the things that COVID-19 stripped of the 2020 event return. Traditionally when the event returned in 2012 after a five-year hiatus Lilac was contested over four days the second weekend of July. Recently, however, it moved to early June, but the...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — What might be seen as a good deal for Spokane County, the Kalispel Tribe and racers is not sitting well with some members of the Airway Heights City Council. On May 5 it was first announced the Kalispel Tribe has made an offer of $4.75 million to take Spokane county out of the racing business. The county bought the former Spokane Raceway Park at a receivership sale in 2008 for $4 million but has plowed several million more into the three-track complex s...
CHENEY — For the second time since March 31, Eastern Washington University athletics director Lynn Hickey has fired a head coach. Following her earlier decision not to retain long-time women’s head basketball coach Wendy Schuller, Hickey announced on May 10 that soccer coach Chad Bodnar’s contract will not be renewed. Bodnar, who was hired away from Walla Walla Community College in 2014, expressed shock in a Monday night Tweet that said: “Not sure why or how I wasn’t...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Medical Lake track team came away from its Northeast A League dual-meet with Freeman on May 5 with more than they expected. That's in the eyes of head coach Gene Blankenship was not only thrilled the Cardinals swept the Scotties in competition, but the weather actually cooperated. The boys came away with an 82-59 win, while the girls prevailed 84.33 to 54.66. As for that competition with the climate, "We actually had a good day, normally we go to Freeman...
MEDICAL LAKE - Medical Lake's boys' tennis team is adding some new awards to the trophy case outside the high school gym winning the Northeast A League District championship last week. "This is the first trophy to enter the school's tennis trophy case in quite a few years," boys head coach Brian Tellez wrote in an email. The two-day tournament played at Riverside High School saw Medical Lake get a pair of wins (including a bye) from Josh Burt in singles. That included a 6-1,...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel. Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date. The once-daily flights...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake boy’s tennis team’s undefeated string came to an end at four matches and did so with a pair of 3-2 losses to Lakeside and Riverside April 26 and 28. The Cardinal girls also lost their matches to the same Northeast A League opponents, 4-1. Josh Burt lost a 0-6, 4-6 opener at No. 1 doubles to Lakeside’s Kyle Dillingham. “Josh’s first match in 1st singles was a hard one, but I think he came out of the match having learned a few things,” bo...
NEWPORT — With no further competition beyond the COVID-corrected spring sports season, Medical Lake track athletes are working to establish themselves as those others will aspire to in future years. The Cardinals used a Northeast A League meet at Newport on April 28 to add to what is already a growing list of top efforts by school athletes in both track and field. Medical Lake’s girls were beyond dominating over their Grizzly counterparts with 124-22 victory against an und...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake High School baseball team has been bringing out the big bats lately, but likely not better than the rally they had April 27 at home against Freeman in a Northeast A League game at Holliday Field. Trailing 11-4 and when Freeman had to go to the bullpen, “We had new life,” head coach Austin Sharp wrote in an email. The Cardinals, led by Brent Keith’s pair of sixth-inning triples, scored nine runs on 10 hits. Keith drove in the deciding runs wi...
CHENEY — With their ranks decimated by the “out” door of the NCAA Transfer Portal, new Eastern Washington University men’s basketball coach David Riley welcomes a handful of transfers back to the team. Rylan Bergersen comes to Eastern from Central Arkansas where he played 54 games and was twice honored as a third team All-Southland Conference selection. The six-foot-six-inch guard also played 50 games at BYU and is a former high school teammate of current Eastern point g...
MEDICAL LAKE — Holding its first live, in-person meeting in over a year on April 27, the Medical Lake School Board moved forward on adding a new layer of in-person learning for students when instruction begins in the fall of 2021. Meeting in the high school auditorium, the board first heard about, and then approved the initiation of what is known as transitional kindergarten at Michael Anderson Elementary on Fairchild Air Force Base. “It’s an exciting new program for schoo...
FARGO, N.D. - For the better part of a quarter at least, the North Dakota State Bison remained quite docile. But for the final three quarters of their Football Championship Subdivision playoff game against Eastern Washington, they ran wild, literally stampeding past the Eagles 42-20 in the Fargodome on April 24. The Eagles bolted out of the gate taking early leads of 14-0 and 20-7, but the Bison scored the final 35 unanswered points and rolled over Eastern on the ground,...
MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake boys’ tennis kept its record unblemished following a pair of Northeast A League wins last week, both by 4-1 scores vs. Newport (April 19) and Deer Park (April 21). The Cardinals (4-0) swept singles play with Tristan Francis winning 6-1, 6-0 at No. 1 and Josh Burt cruising 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2. “Josh used this as an opportunity to work on serving and play strategies he’s trying to develop,” his coach, Brian Tellez wrote in an email. Ryen Gibby and Jonah...
MEDICAL LAKE - The big bats came out both for and against the Medical Lake High School baseball team last week as the Cardinals won two, lost one and had no decision in another contest. Medical Lake swept a Northeast A League doubleheader on the road at Riverside 14-7 and 13-8 April 17 and lost a slugfest 20-12 at home to Deer Park. A second game was cancelled due to rain with ML leading 3-1 and will not be made up. In the loss to Deer Park the Cardinals jumped out to a 9-0...
MEDICAL LAKE — However delivered, Gene Blankenship will gladly add his team’s recent finish to a long line of success in the recently completed Washington State Cross Country Coaches Association virtual state meet. The 2020 state cross country meet crashed by Covid-19 this past November, but as with other things dealing with the coronavirus, out of the chaos there emerged much innovation. Run at school tracks on April 13 for girls and the boys, April 14, the individual finishe...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — On a night where a large part of the agenda was devoted to a review of all things public safety in Airway Heights, city council heard a presentation on a possible new track for drivers. Officers Matt Keetch and Mikeal Suniga of the city’s police department offered the initial glimpse of a proposed new program they would like to launch called a traffic school at the April 26 study session. Just what is a traffic school? They are designed, among other thi...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — COVID-19 notwithstanding, the year 2020 ushered in a great deal of change in the Airway Heights City Hall. Weeks ago, the council went through the process to fill council vacancies left when Kevin Richey and Steve Lawrence resigned due to work constraints, appointing Art Bubb and Dave Malet to fill the openings. Now, as 2021 has moved into its second quarter, addressing some of the fallout from changes within the city’s legislative body was addressed at the...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — The Amazon footprint on the West Plains just got a bit bigger with the announcement that the online retailer plans to open another nearly 200,000 square foot facility called a delivery station. Located at 11901 West McFarlane Road the entity will be one of 250 nationwide whose role is to cover the “last mile” in an order from Amazon’s massive 1.8 million square-foot fulfillment center located on Geiger Blvd. and along Interstate 90. Packages from the building...
