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The numbers certainly speak for themselves in confirming the improvement Cheney High School volleyball had between 2021 and 2022. The jump helped affirm head coach Heather Zorrozua's claim of "What a season my girls had." In their first true season as a Greater Spokane League 3A school in 2021, the Blackhawks finished ninth in the league at 1-8 and 3-13 overall - tied for the basement with University. The 2022 squad improved to sixth at 4-5 in league, 11-8 overall and had thre...
In his 13 years as head cross country coach at Medical Lake there have been few things Gene Blankenship’s teams have not been able accomplish. But Reid Headrick checked off one of those boxes Nov. 5 at Sun Willows Golf Course in in windy Pasco at the WIAA 1A state championships when raced across the finish line first to win the Cardinals’ first-ever individual championship. Headrick led all the way, clocking a 16 minute, .01 second time to turn back a late challenge from And...
PASCO – When Caitlin Shaffer rolled her wheelchair across the finish line first in the girls state cross country wheelchair race Nov. 5 at Sun Willows Golf Course, she was not only very excited but continuing a tradition at Cheney High School. “It was really it was really amazing and thrilling,” Shaffer said in an interview. “I’m only a freshman. So, being able to go to state was really amazing.” Saddled with cerebral palsy, Shaffer, the lone participant, wheeled through the...
PASCO – It has been quite a turnaround for Medical Lake cross country runner Reid Headrick. From doubting his future with the sport as a sophomore to a state champion in his senior season, Headrick's efforts have opened the doors to extending his career into college. "Sophomore year was definitely my worst year ever in cross country," Headrick said in an interview Monday. "I was struggling with not enjoying running at the time, not enjoying being out there and competing l...
Cheney's trip down U.S. 395 on Nov. 5 to compete at the WIAA state cross country championships certainly had its high points. But, perhaps, the biggest takeaway might be what the Blackhawks' showing did for the future? Most notable was yet another individual championship in the wheelchair division by freshman Caitlin Shaffer in a time of 12 minutes, 58.7 seconds to claim the championship on the 5,001-meter course. She's pointing to follow Isaiah Rigo who, from 2014 to 2017...
MEAD – The Cheney Blackhawks (11-8) girls volleyball team's post-season prospects were swept away Tuesday night, Nov. 8. Cheney (11-9) lost to Mount Spokane, 3-0, in a winner-to-state/loser-out matchup. Set scores were 25-22, 25-11, 25-17. The 16-4 Wildcats earned a state 3A berth. The Blackhawks season ended. Individual statistics for the game were not available prior to press time. Cheney, the No. 7 seed in the tournament, wasn't expected to reach the game. But on Nov. 1, t...
Cheney concluded its regular season with a 28-20 non-league win over the Eisenhower Cadets, Oct. 28 in Yakima. The Blackhawks got a pair of short touchdown runs from Jakeb Vallance and an insurance pick-6 interception return by defensive end Miles Hoover to seal things for a 3-6 overall record. Cheney will board the bus once again to meet Hermiston, Oregon Nov. 4 in a cross-over match up. Cheney led 13-7 at half-time following Vallance’s first score and a 30-yard pass to C...
Cheney boys' and girls' cross country teams have traded places from a year ago and both earned berths in the state championship meet Nov. 5 on Pasco's Sun Willows Golf Course. "We had an amazing weekend, a complete flip from last year," head coach Derek Slaughter wrote in an email. The Blackhawk boys' races from a fifth to third in Greater Spokane League competition while the girls went from last to third. Mt. Spokane (31) was the team champ followed by Mead (53) with Cheney...
Concerns that his teams might be left at home for Saturday’s state meet on Pasco’s Sun Willows golf course faded relatively quickly for Medical Lake cross country coach last Friday and Saturday. With Reid Headrick racing to yet another dominating performance in an entirely new environment at Apple Ridge XC course in Yakima on Friday, he helped the Cardinals earn yet another team berth to state. Lakeside with 38 points easily won the team title with Medical Lake (86) and Rivers...
Cheney’s final week of work in the regular season of the Greater Spokane League — both on the road — helped earn the Blackhawks at least one more night of play. Cheney traveled and lost 3-2 to Gonzaga Prep (5-3 GSL, 8-7 overall) on Oct. 25 before wrapping up their schedule with a 3-0 win at North Central (1-8, 4-11) Oct. 27 on Senior Night. The Blackhawks (4-5, 10-6) had to rally twice to force the fifth set at G-Prep (13-25, 25-23, 20-25, 26-24, 18-16). “The match was a b...
Behind a pair of touchdowns each from Hayden Fatherree and Kanoa Rogan, the Freeman Scotties scored a 51-8 Northeast A League football win over Medical Lake, Oct. 28 at Holiday Field. The Scotties (5-1 NEA, 7-2 overall) scored all of their points in the first half with Andrew Roberts scoring the Cardinals (0-6, 0-9) touchdown on a 2-yard run. No other statistics were available for the game. Medical Lake will have one more game, Friday, Nov. 4 in a cross-over Caribou Trail...
Two former members of the staff at Eastern Washington University, Dick Zornes and Dave Cook, were inducted into the Inland Northwest Sports Hall of Fame in ceremonies Oct. 25 at the Spokane Veterans Arena. Zornes, hired during Eastern’s transition to NCAA Division I football, is a new member in the coaches’ category. Zornes laid the foundation for an Eastern football program that now ranks among the elite in the Football Championship Subdivision. He won a Big Sky Con...
For the second consecutive week the Cheney Blackhawks have faced the top of the Greater Spokane League in a team from Mead — this time the Panthers. And for the second time in seven days Cheney has lost in a decisive way — this time 41-7 on the road at Union Stadium to Mead on Oct. 21. The Blackhawks lost at home to Mt. Spokane 45-29 on Oct. 14. Mead used three Colby Price scores a pair of Colby Danielson touchdowns and assembled a 41-0 lead before Cheney’s Jakeb Valla...
After further review the good news is that Cheney girls’ soccer has once again reached the Greater Spokane League playoffs after last week’s results. But things would have been vastly different had replay been in place following the Blackhawks’ 4-2 loss to Ridgeline, Oct. 17. “Monday, we played at Ridgeline and scored a goal to go up 2-1 but the referee disallowed the goal,” Cheney head coach Nels Radke reported. Video evidence shows the ball clearly bounced past the goal line...
Cheney cross country had a memorable Senior Day Oct. 18 as both boys and girls scored victories in their final Greater Spokane League dual meet. The Blackhawk boys topped Gonzaga Prep 21-36 and Ridgeline 21-79. In those victories Calvin Hilton won his first HS XC race ever according to his coach, Derek Slaughter. The sophomore Hilton recorded a 16 minute, 23.94 second time to lead three Cheney runners, including Brayden Martin (16:48.83) and Adam Estock (17:06.64) across the...
Cheney High Cheer held a camp for younger cheerleaders throughout the district where those who took part were able to perform at intermission of the Blackhawks’ volleyball match with Mead on Oct. 20. Cheer coach Curtis Lewis requested an opportunity for the young, upcoming cheerleaders to perform. Last year he held this event during a home football game and while “Friday Night Lights” are always ideal, it was a bit cold out, and he felt the shift to volleyball would help,...
The finishes keep getting better for Medical Lake football. If only the starts could match? But that is maybe just part of the process and task head coach Nick Puzyski is embracing in his first season on the job for the Cardinals? As has been the case all season, the Cardinals dug themselves into a 36-0 halftime hole Oct. 21 at home vs. the Quincy Jackrabbits but unlike many other games the Cardinals offense got untracked, ultimately falling 43-30. The non-league game against...
Medical Lake cross country will have the benefit of a solid finish to their Northeast A League season to launch them on the road to state. Both boys and girls wound up as runners-up in the NEA, each with a 6-1 record, to regular-season champ Lakeside. The No. 4 state-ranked Cardinal girls cruised past both Colville (21-34) and Riverside (19-36) while the unranked boys edged Riverside (26-29) and Colville (15-45). The girls’ team, with only six runners and Jenna Castro r...
CHENEY - With Calvin Hilton logging a fifth-place finish - and breaking the 16-minute barrier - in a time of 15 minutes, 55.7 seconds, and Adam Estock just out of the top-10 (11th/16:18.9), Cheney's boys captured the team title at the Lewis & Clark XC Invitational in Estacada, Ore. Jacob Friesen from Forest Grove won the individual title in a time of 15:26.1. Run on the 5,000-meter Milo McIver State Park, the Blackhawks finished with 95 points to its nearest competitor,...
CHENEY - Cheney has shown the ability to play with the some of the best teams in the Greater Spokane League this football season. But unfortunately, the Blackhawks have not been able to fully finish those games, the latest being a 45-29 loss to league co-leader Mt. Spokane Oct. 14 at Tom Oswald Field. The Blackhawks led 21-17 with 8 minutes, 44 seconds remaining in the third quarter on a Jakeb Vallance to Gabriel Bradley 11-yard pass, but the Wildcats (6-0 GSL, 6-1 overall) wo...
MEDICAL LAKE - In a season where scoreboard struggles have been a regular occurrence for Medical Lake football, one takes little victories where they can. Taking on No. 8 ranked Lakeside on the road in Suncrest Oct. 14, the Eagles raced to 50 first quarter points and led 59-0 at the half on the way to a 66-14 Northeast A League win. That opened the door for the Cardinals to dive into their bag go tricks and have a little fun? Quarterback Isiah Giles played the role of wide...
CHENEY - Sometimes following a Homecoming football game fireworks are scheduled to add a finishing touch to the festivities. There was certainly no need for pyrotechnics at Ridgeline High School’s Homecoming celebration Oct. 7 and the Falcon’s football game with Cheney. They all took place in the final few minutes of the Greater Spokane League contest won by Cheney 31-21 in Liberty Lake. After a largely defense-dominated game in which Cheney led 17-3 on Joshua Bingham’s 46-ya...
Cheney volleyball split a pair of Greater Spokane League matches last week defeating Ferris 3-1 (29-27, 26-24, 17-25, 25-18) at home Oct. 4 before losing 3-0 (12-25, 21-25, 24-26) at Ridgeline Oct. 6. “We came out with high energy and fed off our home crowd,” head coach Heather Zorrozua wrote in an email. “We battled to pull off set one 29-27 and continued into set two with a final score of 26-24.” “Watching our team start and maintain high energy and a competitive spirit wa...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Medical Lake Cardinals lost their sixth straight game, falling 44-0, at home Oct. 7 to Deer Park (1-2 NEA, 3-3 overall) in a Northeast 1A league football game. No further details were available. The Cardinals (0-4, 0-6) travel to Nine Mile Falls to take on the Lakeside Eagles (3-0, 6-0) on Oct. 14 for a 7 p.m. kickoff. The Stags lost to the Eagles, 28-7, on Sept. 15. Deer Park next faces the Newport Grizzlies in another NE1A matchup. Lakeside comes into t...
CROSS COUNTRY Blackhawks shine at 509 Cheney’s Calvin Hilton completed the 5,000-meter Spokane Polo Grounds course in a time of 16 minutes, 00.42 seconds finishing fourth overall and helping the Blackhawks’ boys to a runner-up finish to Mead in the Battle for the 509 on Oct. 1. Hilton, a sophomore, trailed individual champ, Mead’s Noah Holden who finished at 15:38.43 leading the Panthers to a 53-117 team title. Other top Cheney boys’ finishers included another sophomo...
