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Jim Hayford could have agonized over the what-ifs after watching his team lose a lead in the final two minutes of the semifinal game of the Big Sky Conference men’s basketball tournament last week in Missoula. But he chose to take a positive out of the Eagles’ 74-66 loss to eventual NCAA tournament qualifier, Montana. “It got away from us at the end but I was really proud of how the guys played,” he said. The defeat ended Hayford’s first season on the job as head coach at...
The journey from his 1-7 start as head football coach at Medical Lake in 2008 was one that was often said was made in baby steps Wes Hobbs would say. And like the progress a child sees from the dependency of infancy to that of an energetic 5-year-old might also be a good way to measure the progress the program has experienced under Hobbs’ watch. One of those first milestones came on Hobbs’ birthday back in 2008 when the Cardinals defeated Riverside on he road 21-13 for the...
Going into the state cross country championships at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco, this past Nov. 3, Medical Lake’s head coach Gene Blankenship made a prediction. Blankenship thought a finish anywhere from third to sixth for the boys was not out of the question, while the girls could place from sixth to ninth in team competition. “Pretty close, huh,” Blankenship said with a laugh after the Cardinal boys finished third and the girls eighth on the 5,000 meter course. The M...
