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MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake’s boys’ and girls’ tennis teams both earned victories over Freeman April 17. The boys won 4-1 and girls 3-2 both at Freeman. While boys lost their No. 1 singles match as Tristan Francis was defeated 4-6, 2-6 by Freeman’s Ben Chadduck, the rest of the afternoon belonged to Medical Lake. “It was a tough match for Tristan, but he learned a lot,” head coach Brian Telez wrote in an email. “After the match we had a good chance to discuss new strategies...
MEDICAL LAKE — If last Saturday’s first meet is any indicator, the girls track and field season at Medical Lake could be fun — and successful. The Cardinal girls raced, threw and jumped its way to pair of impressive victories in an April 15 Northeast A League triple dual meet at home breezing past perennial power Deer Park 84-38 and then Colville 86-43. The Cardinal boys were beaten by Deer Park 65-53 and tied Colville 54-54. Mayah Eberhart swept top finishes in the 100 and 40...
CHENEY - Ty Graham returned to his hometown for days like this Saturday when his Eastern Washington football team takes on North Dakota State in Fargo during round one of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. But the former Idaho Vandal - and before that Cheney Blackhawk - will have to do his work not on the field at the Fargodome, but rather on the sidelines as an inspirational leader following a season-ending injury vs. his former team, the Vandals, on April 10....
CHENEY — The foe in Eastern Washington’s round one of the Football Championship Subdivision’s spring season tournament is quite familiar. Having to gather together all the gear for a road playoff game in the Fargodome on Saturday, April 24 against the North Dakota State Bison? Maybe only head coach Aaron Best has memories of the last time the Eagles played away from Roos Field in postseason? Not including championship games in 2010 and 2018, Eastern’s last 17 games in the pla...
CHENEY - Through three quarters of their game with Eastern Washington on April 10 at Roos Field, the Idaho Vandals ran, ran - and ran some more. The ground game had been good to Idaho with 278 yards on the day and helped them earn a 31-24 lead on the red turf through the halfway point of the third quarter. Sure, they used the pass too, but pretty sparingly considering their quarterback Zach Borisch had not taken a "live-fire" collegiate snap since graduating from Kamiakin...
MEDICAL LAKE - Medical Lake head cross country coach Gene Blankenship walked away from the Northeast A championships staged April 9 pretty much the way he approached them. Overall Blankenship was not surprised. The Cardinal boys prevailed over Lakeside on their 5,000-meter home course while the ML girls lost to the Eagle ladies. It was what happened inside those two races that had the veteran coach quietly smiling. Just six days earlier Medical Lake and Lakeside hooked up in...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — It’s been over a year since meetings far and wide went from live to Zoom. While working to get the job done in business, family and especially with government, there’s certainly some desire to go live and that was topic among things the Airway Heights City Council grappled with at its April 12 meeting. As might be expected, there were plenty of thoughts as to whether to return to normal with live meeting in council chambers, remain in a remote setting or a...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — An article in a recent edition of the Pacific Northwest Inlander has levied a variety of charges including domestic violence and sexual assault against Airway Heights police detective Curtis Tucker. The 15-year veteran officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the conclusion of an investigation currently taking place by the Spokane Police Department. Airway Heights Police Chief Brad Richmond referred to an April 8 press release when addressing t...
CHENEY — There’s plenty that’s different from when Eastern Washington and Idaho met to begin the winter/spring Big Sky Conference football season some seven weeks ago. This time around it might be the wind, not a piece of scoreboard that affects field goals when Eastern Washington and Idaho meet in the final Big Sky Conference winter/spring game of the season. And in this second go-around with the Vandals to be played Saturday, April 10 at Roos Field, Eastern head coach Aaron...
MEDICAL LAKE — Gene “Swami” Blankenship had it nailed again when it comes to his cross country runners. The Cardinals coach predicted last week that his boys would prevail last Saturday, April 2 against Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls) in the Northeast 1A League winter/spring regular season finale. They did by a 26-29 count on their home track. Blankenship also saw that Lakeside might just be a bit too good on the girls side. They were by a 23-32 count. Lakeside boys crafted a 1-2...
CHENEY - After 20 years on the bench at Eastern Washington, women's basketball coach Wendy Schuller will not return for a 21st. In a March 31 statement EWU Athletics Director Lynn Hickey announced that "Wendy Schuller will not return as head coach of the women's basketball program," following a 5-12 finish in Big Sky play, 6-17 overall in a COVID-19 complicated season. Schuller had declined an initial request for an interview from the Cheney Free Press. Schuller was hired as...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — A tight and brief agenda, coupled with the idea that members of the Airway Heights City Council and city staff had some place else they wanted to be meant the April 5 meeting seemed to be over almost before it started. While city business was the primary focus, the tug of a national college basketball title game between Gonzaga and Baylor was present as business finished in just a shade over 21 minutes — not including a brief executive session after reg...
COLVILLE — Medical Lake cross country made it two in a row with the biggest meet of the season upcoming Saturday, April 3 when they host Lakeside and Freeman at 11 a.m. Ben Henry led a sweep of the top five spots clocking a 5,000 meter time of 17 minutes, 9 seconds. Kyler Castro (17:30), Connor Paimen (17:41), Quintin Collins (17:57) and Sam Ornelas (19:19) were the test of the leaders who delivered a 15-49 win over host Colville and 15-50 vs. Newport. Kayla Ramsey clocked a...
CHENEY — The last time Eastern Washington and the University of California-Davis met on the football field a trip to Frisco, Texas and the Football Championship Subdivision national title game lay in the outcome. That was on Dec. 8, 2018 in Cheney on Roos Field where the Eagles scored in the final minute for a 34-29 victory that sent them to the semifinals and a win over Maine. Eastern got the trip to Texas with a 50-19 win over the Black Bears, ultimately falling to North Dak...
CHENEY - It was a great day to wear Eastern Washington red; it was not at all a good day for a group of Cal Poly coaches who once wore those colors. Jump started by scoring four first-quarter touchdowns and using just 3 minutes, 59 seconds off the clock to do so, the Eagles performed their own stampede on the way to a 62-10 victory over the Beau Baldwin-led Mustangs at sunny Roos Field. Along with Baldwin, who spent nine seasons as Eastern's head coach (2008-2016) and four as...
SPOKANE — The wide open spaces of the West Plains continue to become slightly less so each day. In a report from the Inland Northwest Business Watch, Selkirk Pharma has announced that the pharmaceutical manufacturer has construction underway on a 147,600 square foot facility for the injectable drug manufacturing and packaging start-up. When complete later in 2021 it is estimated that the facility will employ about 300. Located along Flint Road, just north of Spokane I...
MEDICAL LAKE — Meteorological spring arrived March 1. The astrological version graced us March 20. But Medical Lake High School’s athletics director Justin Blayne is still stuck in fall, and winter, and summer — along with whatever edition of spring with which you might subscribe in this COVID-19 world in which we all live. That’s at least how he seemed to describe things at the March 23 school board meeting where he gave a report on the, perhaps, bewildering state of sports...
CHENEY - Continuing the tradition of hiring from within and rewarding program loyalty, Eastern Washington promoted associate head coach David Riley to fill the vacancy left when Shantay Legans was hired away by the University of Portland on March 22. Previously Aaron Best in 2017 was named to succeed Beau Baldwin in football and Legans, in the same year, were both assistant coaches who earned promotions. The 2021-22 season will be Riley's 11th in Eastern's program and his...
MEDICAL LAKE — In the span of two days last week the Medical Lake girls soccer team not only scored their first goals of the season, but also recorded the program’s first victory on March 22, 4-3 at Colville. The win was the first for the program since Sept. 13, 2018 and a 3-2 win over Newport. Ellie Acord scored two times while Jasmine Simmens scored once and had a pair of assists. Hailey Cross had the other goal in the win. That followed a 4-3 loss to Newport in which Acord,...
MEDICAL LAKE — Darci Mock has had a soft spot in her volleyball heart for years, all the way back to her days in the early 2000s when she played the sport for Cheney High School. So it seemed natural that Mock would be the person to step in to guide the program during his hybrid winter/spring COVID-complicated season. “I actually played club volleyball through my whole high school, and we actually had a lot of our volleyball practices at Medical Lake,” Mock explained. “I ki...
CHENEY — Eastern Washington University football fans who might have hoped to say hello to a group of former Eagles who relocated to warmer climes in California at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo will just have to wait for another time. The Beau Baldwin-led Mustangs (0-2) gallop into Roos Field Saturday, March 27 for a Big Sky Conference encounter with Aaron Best’s Eastern Eagles (2-1) for a 1:05 p.m. kickoff. Baldwin will be accompanied back to Cheney by former EWU head coach Pau...
INDIANAPOLIS — The ebb and flow, floods and drought found in the game of basketball are arguably unique in the sports world. And it was one of those things — a 25-7 stretch of the second half by the Kansas Jayhawks — that drown out Eastern Washington’s chances in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in Indianapolis, Ind., March 20 at Indiana Farmers Coliseum. The No. 13 seeded Eagles, who led right from the tip 9-0 and then as late as by 10 points — 52-42 on...
CHENEY - Eastern Washington's ever-improving basketball program has launched another coach out of Cheney. Fresh from guiding his team to only the program's third berth in the NCAA Tournament, losing 93-84 to one of the legends in the sport, Kansas, Shantay Legans will next take over the University of Portland Pilots of the West Coast Conference. At Eastern, Legans was a very impressive 75-49 (.605) overall and 53-20 in the Big Sky Conference (.726). Legans' .726 conference...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — It was another quick study session by the Airway Heights City Council at its March 22 study session with all eyes focused on the next legislative meeting on April 5. A series of ordinances, six in all, that require further readings, examination and a public hearing, will all be addressed April 5. Because March has five Mondays and the council meets on four, there is no meeting March 29. Planner Zach Becker reported that the city’s new interactive GIS map...
SPOKANE - Members of the Spokane County Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Air Force and Spokane County will partner in building and operating a new Spokane Regional Indoor Small Arms Range. The deal was announced at a March 15 press conference at Northern Quest Casino and Resort. The facility will be built along the south side of State Route 902 near its intersection with Craig Road just East of a current Spokane County satellite shop facility. The agreement is the first of its kind...
