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Twenty years. That was how long a district championship eluded the 2015 No. 4 top-10 story Cheney High boys tennis team, who capped off a stellar year with a Great Northern League regular season championship. The team had a mix of varsity veterans and newcomers heading into the 2015 season. Two starting returners in the singles spots were Britton Williams (No. 3 singles), who bounced back-and-forth between singles and doubles in 2014 and Ryan Axtell (No. 2), who played on...
COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Saturday, Jan. 9, EWU hosts Idaho, 12:05 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, EWU hosts Southern Utah, 6:05 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, EWU hosts Northern Arizona, 12:05 p.m. Women Saturday, Jan. 9, EWU at Idaho, 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, EWU at Southern Utah, 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, EWU at Northern Arizona, 5:30 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Boys Friday, Jan. 8, Cheney hosts Clarkston, 7 p.m. Medical Lake hosts Newport, 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, Cheney at Pullman, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, Medical Lake at...
eating the Medical Lake girl’s basketball team any better as the Cardinals dropped a nonleague game to the Omak Pioneers last Saturday, Jan. 2. Playing at home for the first time since Dec. 15, Medical Lake fell 50-39 for their sixth consecutive setback. Trailing just 13-10 after one quarter, Medical Lake scored just six points in the second quarter when Omak built a lead that never went away. In the second half Medical Lake played even with the visitors from the Caribou Trail league but were unable to get the margin under d...
The Medical Lake boy’s basketball team needed to knock a little rust off the moving parts and used the Omak Pioneers to do it last Saturday night, Jan. 2. The Cardinals got a solid defensive effort on one end and big nights from Cole Soliday with 17 points and eight rebounds, plus 15 points each from Jaelon Stith and Cory Wagner on the way to a 75-45 nonleague win in Medical Lake. “Defensively we did a fairly good job,” head coach Arnold Brown said. The Cardinals raced to a 20-7 lead after one quarter and led 35-15 at the h...
Medical Lake got wins it might have expected during a string of holiday wrestling tournaments with senior Nick Reed. But when freshman Weston Thomas picked up a pair of victories it proved to be an unexpected surprise for new head coach Josh Edmondson. Holidays were busy time as Cardinals wrestled at the Tri-County Tournament at Central Valley (Dec. 22), Rogers M2 (Dec. 30) and just returned from the Clearwater Classic in Lewiston, Idaho and Reed claimed wins at 113-pounds in all three outings. Triston Keith, a senior, was...
The Cheney High boys’ and girls’ basketball teams saw limited action over the holiday break, but action producing good results. The Lady Blackhawks were the busier of the two squads, taking part in the West Valley Tournament Dec. 28-29 where they opened with a 58-38 loss to 1A classification LaSalle High School on Monday but finished with a 65-43 win over 2B Lake Roosevelt Tuesday. The Blackhawk boys downed Northeast A League’s Deer Park, 51-38, Dec. 29 in the away portion of their home-away season series with the Stags...
The Cheney High wrestling team had a busy week in tournament action, competing in the Freeman Winter Classic, Dec. 30 and the Blackhawk Invite, Jan. 2. At the Freeman Invite, Zack Nguyen won the 132-pound weight division. Nguyen tore through his bracket, pinning East Valley’s Chase Miller, Newport’s Chase Malbury, Colville’s Chris Jones and Deer Park’s Jake Miller in the finals. “It’s been fun to watch Zack open up like he did at Freeman, we knew he had potential,” head coach Brad Rasmussen said. Saul Bautista (120) and Devon...
They haven’t wandered in the desert for 40 years like Moses. Nor have they floated aimlessly lost at sea, taken for dead like Louis Zamperini, the 1936 Olympic runner turned World War II hero. It just seems like the Eastern Washington men’s basketball team has been MIA when it comes to wearing their white uniforms at Reese Court. The calendar bears that out with the Eagles playing 17 of their last 20 game son the road. But this Saturday at 12:05 they get to hear Dave Spe...
At the beginning of the 2015 season, Cheney High School cross country coach Derek Slaughter wasn’t sure what he had in his Blackhawks boys team. By the time season’s end came at state competition on the green fairway grass of Pasco’s Sun Willows Golf Course, Cheney’s first-year head coach couldn’t wait to get the 2016 campaign underway. The emergence of the Blackhawks has landed them in the No. 5 slot of the Cheney Free Press Top 10 stories of 2015. The young and inexperienced Cheney squad made the best of their talents o...
