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Nic Sblendorio, Jake Gall and John Kreifels, a trio of 2013 redshirts for the Eastern Washington University football team, were among the players honored Feb. 22 at the annual Eastern Washington University Awards Banquet at the Pence Union Building on the EWU campus. Gall and Kreifels are linebackers and were selected as the team's co-Defensive Scout Team Players of the Year. Gall is a 2013 graduate of Cle Elum-Roslyn, Wash., High School, and Kreifels graduated the same year...
Several Cheney swimmers finished their season at the boys’ state meet, Feb. 21-22, at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. Freshman Trevor Babcock tied for seventh in the 200 freestyle in 1:52.40 in the A finals. Babcock came in 12th in the 100 freestyle in 51.09. Senior Nic Steele placed 17th in the prelims in the same event in 52.30. Steele also came in 16th of the B finals in the 50 freestyle in 23.58. Sophomore Scott Nadeau once again found himself in the B finals of the state competition after he placed n...
Medical Lake senior Ricky Petersen advanced two rounds and added one additional match in the consolation bracket in last weekend’s Mat Classic XXVI. Petersen, a senior at 145 pounds, won his first match 7-3 over Andy Madsen of South Whidby. He lost his second match 9-2 to the two-time state champion, Roberto Orosco of Connell, and his third match 12-5 to Stephen Spading of Kalama. Also competing was sophomore Nick Reed at 113 pounds. He lost his first match to Alvaro Ortiz o...
Senior Josh Wessels (170 pounds) ended his Cheney High School wrestling career on a high note after he took third place in his weight division at the Mat Classic XXVI championships, Feb. 21-22, in Tacoma. Wessels made it to state in his junior year, but was eliminated in the early rounds of the competition. This year, he defeated Othello’s Jesus Montes in the finals of the consolation bracket by decision, 5-4. Wessels’ road to third place was not an easy one. In his first match, he came back from a 5-0 deficit to pin Abe...
Whenever UFC Women’s Bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey wins a fight, it seems to cause a chain reaction where many mixed martial arts fans will voice their displeasure. But it wasn’t the champion this time that was the recipient of the crowd’s ire. Instead it was referee Herb Dean. After Rousey dropped her opponent Sara McMann with a knee to the liver and followed up with a couple of shots, Dean stepped in and stopped the fight. Fans quickly went on social media and declared their frustrations with the quick outcome. Some...
The road to the postseason for the Eastern Washington men's basketball team got a little bit dicey Monday night. And it had nothing to do with the unexpected dump of snow that perplexed some local weather predictors. The Portland State Vikings didn't let the roads - or their 2-7 record away from home - be of much concern and left Cheney with an 87-76 Big Sky Conference win that took the Eagles from possibly inching closer to a playoff berth to spinning their wheels, stuck in...
The Eastern Washington women might just be late-bloomers. With their 0-5 start to the season very much a vanishing image in their rearview mirror, the Eagles have won six of their last seven games following a tense 61-60 win at Portland State Monday and a 59-54 triumph over Southern Utah last Thursday at home. Now Eastern, 10-6 in Big Sky play and 14-11 overall will close out the Reese Court portion of the regular season with games Thursday, Feb. 27 versus Northern Colorado...
The red turf at Roos Field, nicknamed "The Inferno," might just really live up to its name. The likely dry heat of August will replace the cold of December in the Northwest and the humidity of fall in the Southeast as Eastern Washington and Sam Houston State University renew their recent football rivalry in the inaugural ESPN FCS Kickoff, Saturday, Aug. 23 in Cheney. News of the switch to an earlier season kickoff date for the game confirms an earlier story written by FCS...
1 Years Ago March 4, 2004 Construction projects at Eastern Washington University, and a boom in the building of both single and multi-family homes earned the city of Cheney a record $420,973 in building-related permit fees. U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary, Gail Norton, paid a visit to the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge and spoke to visitors about her agency’s Healthy Forests program. A proposal to rename Cheney’s Parkway Drive for longtime city engineer Dick Simpson slowed as questions began to surface over how the city...
