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MEDICAL LAKE — As the complicated times of COVID-19 and its aftermath confound things, the Medical Lake girls soccer program will have a familiar face to help guide it. And it’s not who you think. Coming off two back-to-back campaigns in 2018 and 2019 in which the team posted a combined 1-26 record, longtime head coach Zane Higgins resigned last spring, but assistant Dan Collins has stepped into the role. “I was willing to do it as an interim position with that once thing...
MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake head cross country coach Gene Blankenship went into his team’s first Northeast A League meet March 13 at Deer Park with many unanswered questions. After his boys and girls teams came away each with a pair of wins, albeit the girls ran virtually unopposed, he’s got a much better idea of where things stand. The Cardinal boys took a topped Riverside 20-36 and recorded a 15-43 win over Deer Park. The girls claimed identical 15-50 wins over the same two...
POCATELLO, Idaho — The Idaho State Bengals have to be excited that the next time they meet Eastern Washington that Eric Barriere and Andrew Boston will not be across the line of scrimmage. That combination of quarterback and wide receiver combined for two touchdowns, the most damaging of which coming with 25 seconds remaining capping the most unlikely of comebacks as Eastern escaped from Holt Arena with a 46-42 Big Sky Conference spring football victory. “We witnessed number t...
BOISE, Idaho — Combine three solid defensive efforts with offense in just the right doses and Eastern Washington emerged from the Idaho Central Arena in Boise as the 2021 Big Sky Conference men’s basketball champions, earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament. In just its third trip to the national championship tournament in school history, Eastern faces the University of Kansas, March 20 in Indianapolis where, because of COVID-19, all games will be played at various venues in th...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS —Airway Heights City Council made quick work of its agenda at its March 15 with work centering primarily around first readings of ordinances. That one exception came with unanimous approval of the draft Airway Heights Strategic Plan that had been the subject of previous meetings. Otherwise, council heard from planner Zach Becker who provided one more overview of the 2020 Zoning Map Amendment. In his presentation Becker showed changes over the past several y...
BOISE — There’s a familiar suspect that can be easily identified as the post-season’s public enemy No. 1 of the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team: Portland State. For the fourth time in as many years the Vikings eliminated the Eagles in the Big Sky Conference Tournament following their 71-51 victory March 8 at Boise’s Idaho Central Arena – Eastern’s eighth consecutive loss. Four Eagles scored in double figures, led by Maisie Burnham with 13 points. Grace Kirsche...
MEDICAL LAKE — In years gone by Medical Lake head cross country coach Gene Blankenship might have gotten himself in trouble with a haughty boast on how his team would fare in the coming months. “Normally I could tell you the league is going to do this, this and this,” Blankenship said March 8. But not this year. But as we all know there’s nothing normal about this 2020 fall sports season that is being contested in winter/spring 2021. Thanks COVID-19 for steering the coach w...
MEDICAL LAKE — A variety of standpoints made the Medical Lake Cardinal football team’s first game of the 2021 spring schedule hardly an envious task. For starters the contest was on the road at perennial Northeast A League power Colville where the Indians have been the dominant force since joining the league in 2014, dropping from 2-A play. Then consider the Cardinals had not played a down of football since November of 2019 and a roster featuring just one senior with game exp...
CHENEY — If Eastern Washington didn’t have to do things the hard way it just might not be the same. So that might be the approach the Eagles take as they pursue the Big Sky Conference men’s basketball tournament this week in Boise. No. 2 seed Eastern will tip off Thursday at 4 p.m. at Idaho Central Arena vs. the winner of the game featuring No. 7 Portland State (9-12, 6-8) and No. 10 Northern Arizona (5-15, 4-10). It could have been an easier road, perhaps, back to their first...
CHENEY - Maybe Eric Barriere also caught that notion expressed on broadcast of Eastern Washington's opening week spring football loss to Idaho: That the defenses were ahead of the offenses at this early juncture. Because the Barriere of old emerged, threw for 413 yards on 29-of-49 passes and three touchdowns in a 45-13 Big Sky Conference spring season football victory over Northern Arizona March 6 at Roos Field. It was the first game on the stadium's new AstroTurf installed...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — The road map to help guide what is sometimes referred to as the sleepy little town of Airway Heights moved yet another step closer to enactment following its review by Airway Heights City Manager Albert Tripp at a March 8 City Council study session. Subtitled “Awaken Airway Heights 2020” Tripp introduced the topic with what might have been a puzzling analogy asking members if they had ever changed their own oil in their vehicles? And if so had they used a fun...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Water contamination has been something dogging Airway Heights since the summer of 2017 when it was found that city wells had been contaminated by firefighting chemicals from Fairchild Air Force Base. The mitigation process could get some additional help from the federal government in the form of slices of the pending $1.9 billion COVID Relief bill circulating through Congress, the Airway Heights City Council was told at its March 1 meeting. City Manager A... Full story
MEDICAL LAKE — Just like almost every other team in the country, Medical Lake football players have not snapped a ball in real competition in about 15 months. Unlike most everyone else, however, Cardinals head football coach Jeremy Bahr finds that in the absence of actual competition since his team was roughed up by Deer Park 62-12 on Nov. 1, 2019, a number of players have simply gotten on with real life. The team has 50 players turning out, 28 on varsity and junior varsity w...
MOSCOW, Idaho - Eastern Washington scored early, but the University of Idaho got its points when things mattered the most to claim a 28-21 Big Sky Conference spring season football victory Feb. 27 at the Kibbie Dome. In collecting their second consecutive victory over Eastern, Idaho slowly recovered from an early 14-0 deficit. The Vandals scored the winning points with just 54 seconds to play on a Mike Beaudry to Hayden Hatten 25-yard touchdown pass. The game was the first in...
MEDICAL LAKE — The easy part seems to have been accomplished when the Medical Lake School Board approved its 2021-22 school calendar at its Feb. 23 monthly meeting. Projected to start on Wed., Sept. 1 and finish June 15, the school year will do its best to launch amidst hopefully diminished COVID-19 restrictions, but confident because of measures taken in the 2020-21 term There were, as always, a number of options presented to the calendar committee, and one consideration w...
CHENEY — Call them matched bookends — identical victories over the Griz. Eastern Washington’s men’s basketball team moved closer to defending their Big Sky Conference title by not only sweeping the Montana Grizzlies in a home-and-home series last week, but did so by identical scores as well, 90-76. The Eagles capped the week that started Thursday in Cheney at Reese Court with a fast start —they had 49-27 first-half lead — and followed a similar script Saturday morning, Fe...
CHENEY — The Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team completed a month of February they will want to maybe forget with a pair of losses to Montana last week. The Eagles dropped a 65-53 decision Feb. 18 in Missoula and 65-62 Feb. 20 at Reese Court in their final home game of the season. Eastern went winless for the month and extend their losing streak to six. “I’m proud of our kids for being resilient and continuing to battle throughout the course of the game an...
CHENEY — With a pair of rallies from 0-2 set deficits, Eastern Washington’s volleyball team posted a sweep of Montana with 3-2 match wins Feb. 21 and 22 at Reese Court. After losing 25-18 and 25-22, to open their Feb. 22 contest, the Eagles, behind a career-high 22 kills from Maya McClellan, rallied for 25-18, 25-22, 15-9 set wins that produced their first sweep of Montana since 2016 following their Sunday win (25-14, 12-25, 25-21, 25-22, 15-7). Eastern has won its last fou...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Citing the inability to come to an agreement to negotiate a different lease term, Spokane County Raceway operator Craig Smith will step away from the facility leaving both the 2021 season, and the track’s future up in the air. Neither Spokane County Commissioners, nor officials with Spokane County Parks who oversee the facility returned requests for comments by deadline time. They were asked on Monday to address the rampant social media chatter that the tra...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — There’s homework aplenty for members of the Airway Heights City Council — even the new ones — following a Feb. 22 study session. In a lengthy 2-hour session, the deliberative board for the city’s government actions will be dealing with things like a sewer connection with the city of Spokane, the adoption of a 2020 zoning map, the future of public safety, sale of some park property and whether to engage with governmental affairs professionals. Assignmen...
Eastern Washington University grounds crews plow new snow at Roos Field last Friday, Feb. 19, in order to prepare the red turf for football practice. The Eagles open their winter/spring six-game schedule this Saturday, Feb. 27, against Idaho in Moscow....
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Citing the inability to come to an agreement to negotiate a different lease term, Spokane County Raceway operator Craig Smith will step away from the facility leaving both the 2021 season, and the track’s future up in the air. Neither Spokane County Commissioners, nor officials with Spokane County Parks who oversee the facility returned requests for comments by deadline time Tuesday evening, Feb. 23. They were asked on Monday to address the rampant social med... Full story
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Art Bubb and Dave Malet were chosen out of a pool of six finalists at the Feb. 16 meeting to fill two vacancies on the Airway Heights City Council. On a motion by councilmember Veronica Messing, Bubb will fill Pos. 2 and Malet Pos. 4, filling openings left when Steve and former Mayor Kevin Richey resigned in 2020. What started out with a pool of 13 was shaved to six. Each of that group had a 15-minute interview at the Feb. 8 council meeting. Other c...
BOZEMAN - The offense was on display in a big way Feb. 13 in Worthington Arena against Montana State. But it was defense that more quietly helped Eastern Washington topple the Bobcats 85-69 in a Big Sky Conference men's basketball game. Saturday's victory, coupled with a 93-77 triumph Feb. 11, gave Eastern (9-2 Big Sky, 10-6 overall) a sweep of road games and allowed the Eagles to remain on a seven-game winning streak. It also moved them into a 1 ½ game lead over a hand...
CHENEY — Eastern Washington University women’s basketball head coach noted the improvement between Thursday and Saturday games, but it was not enough to snap out of the team’s current four-game losing streak. The Eagles dropped a of Big Sky Conference contests to Montana State, 73-42 Feb. 11 and 76-64 Feb. 13 at Reese Court. “We did some things better than we did Thursday, but we have to shoot the ball better, they beat us at our own game – lots of held defense and kicking i...
