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Medical Lake's baseball team is getting the kind of leadership their coach thought was present. But Kerry Kelly would love to get wins, too. The Cardinals finished 1-2 in the first week of Northeast A League play in games played between March 22 – 26. They opened with a 10-3 win at Newport, March 22, but dropped a doubleheader to visiting Colville 6-5 in nine innings and 10-5 in the second game last Saturday at Holliday Field. "When I say the names Brayden Hale, Cole S...
How quickly things have turned for the Cheney High boys' soccer team. After suffering back-to-back heartbreakers, a 1-0 shootout loss at East Valley followed by a 2-1 overtime setback at home to Pullman, the Blackhawks have responded by rattling off four consecutive wins, two coming against Greater Spokane League opponents. Cheney equalized their Great Northern League record at 2-2 with wins over Clarkston and West Valley March 22 and March 24. Kelby Holland and Noah...
Even with some shifts in the lineup, the Cheney High boy's tennis team picked up wins over Greater Spokane League's Shadle Park, 6-1, March 23, Northeast A League's Lakeside, 7-0, March 24. Against Shadle Park, which was rescheduled from March 22 due to weather conditions, Ryan Axtell, who moved up to No. 1 singles, lost a close match to Brenden Archer, 6-3, 6-7(8-6) 10-5 (tiebreaker). Mason Van Stone, who dropped to the No. 2 singles, defeated Ian Stein (6-4, 4-6, 6-3). "Ryan...
Noah Ray and Kason Bailey swept their opponents in singles and Medical Lake’s doubles teams were equally as effective as the Cardinals breezed past Freeman 5-0 in a Northeast A League boys’ tennis match March 24 at Freeman. Ray won 6-4 and 6-1 at No. 1 while Bailey topped his opponent 6-0, 6-1. Isiah Farmen and Alex Neder teamed to win No. 1 doubles 6-0, 6-1 while the No. 2 doubles duo of Trevor Nilles and Colten Miller were 6-1, 6-0 winners, Seth Barr and Justin Lohr capped the win with a 6-1, 6-3 victory at No. 3. Both the...
There are a lot of unknowns with the 2016 Medical Lake track team but some of those mysteries went away last Saturday in Wenatchee as the Cardinals ran against teams from six 4A schools in the Ray Cockrum Relays. Cashmere, another 1A school, also competed. Staged at Wenatchee High School on a sunny spring day, the meet produced a pair of impressive individual finishes for Cardinal sprinters Dawson Lack and Lexi Rolan. Lack, a senior, edged Woodinville’s Micah Johnson in the 1...
With Peter Hanson scoring twice and Nick Rosenbach pitching in a pair of assists, Medical Lake scored a 3-1 nonleague soccer victory over Clarkston March 26. The Bantams scored first at the 15-minute mark but Hanson answered back in the 23rd minute to tie. He would add another goal in the 55th minute. Medical Lake outshot Clarkston 19-4 as they ended a three game losing streak. The Cardinals face Deer Park in a Northeast A League match today (March 31) at 4 p.m. before traveling to Spokane for another nonleague contest...
Medical Lake softball has positioned itself nicely as the Cardinals jump into Northeast A League play with wins in three of four games, including a pair of victories over Great Northern League teams. The Cardinals’ latest big victory came March 24 at East Valley, 14-8. Despite giving up eight runs to the Knights, head coach Tim Blakely wanted to credit his pitchers in his postgame review. “First off I want to give it to both of my pitchers,” Blakely said. Bradyn Wegner pitched...
The Cheney High boys and girls golf teams began Great Northern League competition last week. The boys took second place with 468 points in the GNL tournament, March 22, at Clarkston. The girls finished third with 57 points, one stroke behind East Valley at the March 24 league tournament. Team scores in the girls’ tournament were calculated via the modified Stableford Scoring system where the highest total of points wins instead of the lowest. The girls’ tournament was only nine holes due to weather conditions. According to gi...
With wins over Greater Spokane League’s Shadle Park, 5-2, March 23 and a close victory over Mt. Spokane, 4-3, March 25, the Cheney High girls’ tennis team is off to a hot start. Allanah Lewis, who moved up to the No. 2 singles spot, defeated Aalayah Lopez (6-2, 6-0). Caitlyn Strong, No. 3 singles, defeated Sophia Votana (6-2, 6-2). Zeb Potter, No. 4 singles defeated Hailey Annis (6-1, 6-0). In doubles, Amparo Contreras and Nika Kauwe, No. 2 doubles, defeated Selina Shaw and Camile Fiechtner (6-0, 6-7, 6-2). No. 3 doubles Dan...
The Cheney High girls track and field team finished eighth out of 24 teams at the Ray Cross Invitational last Saturday, March 26, in Ephrata, scoring 35 points. Hannah Spakousky led the Blackhawks on the track, finishing fourth in the 3,200-meter run with a time of 12 minutes, 5.05 seconds. Abby Hammermeister placed sixth in the 800 in 2:34.54 while Kristie McGourin was seventh in the 400 in 1:04.08, with Brette Draper and Alexis Schmidt eighth and 10th in the 1,600 in 5:56.12 and 6:01.14 respectively. In the relay events,...
The Eastern Washington University track and field teams will return to action this Friday (April 1) and Saturday (April 2) in their first meets since competing in the Whitworth Buc Scoring (March 17-18). A dozen athletes who met meet qualifying standards will head to the Stanford Invitational, hosted by Stanford at Cobb Track and Angell Field in Palo Alto, Calif. Athletes who will compete at the Stanford Invite include Jeremy VanAssche (100 meters/200 meters), Austin Upmeyer (400 meters), Joey Payne (javelin), Rebecca...
Heading into the 2016 season, Cheney High boys track and field head coach Derek Slaughter had concerns — specifically, concerns about filling gaps in events where the Blackhawks might not have a lot of experience or any athletes to take on the competitive task. Thanks to the addition this year of assistant coaches Tyler Neely and former Blackhawk Emily Stralser, those concerns appear to be alleviated. Slaughter said Neely is already making strides with Cheney’s throwers while Stralser has several high jumpers coming wit...
Wendy Schuller likely sleeps a lot better than she did a year ago. Sure, there might be the occasional flashback bad dream, reaction to the disappointment of her Eastern Eagles second consecutive 20-win season being overlooked for postseason play in 2016. Eastern, of course, controlled its destiny after a second-place finish in the Big Sky Conference’s regular season but fell to Idaho, the eventual conference tournament champs, in the semifinals. Still, things are in a b...
For Cheney High softball head coach Gary Blake, the biggest question he faces as he enters his 12th year with the Lady Blackhawks might be this: when will he get to see the full team he envisions. Injuries and medical issues have kept several players from getting into varsity competition, including two of the Lady Blackhawks three leading hitters from the 2015 campaign that ended with a 19-3 record and one win short of state. In fact when Cheney switched home dates with Clarkston and traveled south last Wednesday to take on...
