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Drag racer Justin Cooper of Medical Lake took home not one, but two trophies as he pulled off the rare double win in the NHRA Lucas Oil Series at the 48th annual NAPA Auto Parts Ignitor at Firebird Raceway near Boise, Idaho, May 6. Cooper, driving cars owned by Tom Clark of Spokane Valley knocked out Mike Hiatt, of Fallon, Nev., in Super Comp running 9.159 seconds at 161.56 mph to Hiatt’s 9.171, 161.56. In Super Street, Cooper met up with Al Quigley out of Aldergrove, British Columbia. Cooper’s 1967 Chevelle covered the qua...
Arizona Christian University senior Kinsey Pease (Cheney High School 2014) concluded her college athletic career with a victory in the javelin competition at the Golden State Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships, hosted by Westmont College in Monticeto, Calif. near Santa Barbara. Pease had a throw of 38.33 meters. She also finished third in the 400-meter hurdles, an event she just picked up two years ago. According to her father, Kerry Pease, who was in...
Cheney High’s girls golf team placed third at the fourth Great Northern League tournament with 147 points on May 3. West Valley took first with 227. Using the Stableford scoring system, Katarina Ljubisic tied for second overall with 48 strokes. Alyssa Amann from West Valley earned first with 58. After this performance, Ljubisic ranks third overall in the GNL with an average of 47 points. Amann is also first in the league with 54. Other competitors for the Blackhawks included Halle Sargent, earning 30 points. Shelby Draper (...
The Cheney High School boys golf team had a good showing at the first round of districts at MeadowWood Golf Course in Liberty Lake on May 7 as three golfers advanced to the second round. Tyler Koohns took second overall with 72 strokes for the Blackhawks. Eric Martin from Pullman was the only other competitor in front, hitting for 71 strokes. Thomas Baycroft placed fourth with 76 and Nate Koohns earned fifth with 77. The three Blackhawks competed on Wednesday, May 9, at the Liberty Lake Golf Course. The top seven advance to...
Medical Lake’s Sierra Brock shot a 103 on Monday, May 7, and finished 16th out of 50 players to advance to 1A golf district play next week in Chewelah. There were a couple things that helped Brock get to the next level, her coach, Jerry Ornelas wrote in an email. “One thing was to focus on her own game,” he said. “She did not become concerned with what others were doing.” Another element was Brock relied on her irons more than usual. “Her fairway woods were not working for...
The odds were certainly stacked against the Medical Lake High School baseball team in order to keep its season alive. The mission: win every one of the contests in the four-games in four-days weather-affected schedule that closed the season. The Cardinals lost all four, 13-9 at Newport May 1, 9-1 at Riverside May 2, on May 3 by a 7-3 count at home to Deer Park and finally, 13-3, May 4 at Deer Park. The Cardinals finished the season on a 12-game losing streak and were 1-13 in...
Medical Lake softball finished with a flourish and played themselves back into the Northeast A League playoffs. Following a 2-1 week with wins of 19-0 over Newport and 15-5 over Riverside sandwiched around a 12-8 loss to Freeman, the Cardinals improved to 5-8 in NEA play, 7-10 overall. With the regular season headed to a little bit of overtime in order to fill in missing games due to postponements, head coach Tim Blakely said it was uncertain exactly who his team may play....
Cheney High School's Alsatta Bakana signed a national letter of intent last week to compete in track and field at the University of Washington next fall. The senior is the reigning 2A state champion in the 400-meter dash, and currently holds the top time in the 2A classification in that event....
Noah Ray continued his solid play, but his teammates were unable to follow that lead as the Medical Lake boys tennis team finished Northeast A League play with a pair of losses last week. In 4-1 losses at Newport on May 1 and Lakeside, May 3, the Cards’ No. 1 singles player, Ray earned wins of 6-2, 6-0 over his Newport opponent, and topped Lakeside 6-1, 6-0. While Palladin Goldberg lost to Rylan Hastings 0-6, 1-6, at No. 2 singles, he earned the praise of co-head coach Dawn E...
Before traveling to districts in Pullman this Friday, May 7, the Cheney High School boys tennis team had two wins against East Valley and West Valley while also falling to Clarkston. The first match was at Clarkston on Tuesday, May 1, where Cheney lost 5-2. “It was kind of a mixed bag,” head coach Jesse Erickson said about the lineup. Hunter Pohl played at the No. 1 singles spot and fell 6-1, 6-2. Logan Ray lost 6-0, 6-0 in No. 3 while Jared Adams lost 6-1, 6-3 and Jairus Kuhn lost 6-1, 7-5 in their respective single spo...
With the regular season winding down, the Cheney High School girls tennis team picked their first Great Northern League win in the last match with a 4-3 victory over West Valley on Monday, May 7. No individual scores were available as of press time. Previously in the week, the Blackhawks had a 5-2 loss to Clarkston on May 1, followed by falling 7-0 to East Valley on May 3. Against the Bantams, there was a win on both the doubles and single side. The No. 1 doubles that featured Nika Kauwe and Zab Potter won 6-3, 6-2. In the...
The Cheney High School equestrian team finished their third meet in Moses Lake earlier in April and will send riders to state competition in Moses Lake at the Grant County Fairgrounds May 17 - 20. State qualifiers include: Maddie Merriott won gold in barrels; Rachelle Dean won gold in dressage, hunt seat equitation, and hunt seat over fences; Morgan Barton won bronze in pole bending; Maddie Merriott and Destiny Otoupalik won bronze in team sorting....
Cheney High School’s boys soccer team ended their season in a shootout, which was the way most of their games went this season. This time it was against Clarkston in a 2-1 loss in the first round of the Great Northern League playoffs. “The game was a microcosm of our entire season,” head coach Rene Caro said. “We are the better team for a majority of the game. However, a quick mental lapse costs us the lead and eventually, the game. I’m proud of the effort my boys put in throughout the season. It’s easy when your team wins a...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) HIGH SCHOOL GOLF Boys Monday, May 14, 1A Districts at Chewelah, times TBD. Girls Monday, May 14, 1A Districts at Chewelah, times TBD. HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL Thursday, May 10, Medical Lake at District playoff, teams, times TBD. Tuesday, May 15, Cheney hosts team TBD, 5 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS Boys Friday, May 11, 2A districts at WSU, 3:30 p.m. 1A districts at Mead High School, times TBD. Saturday, May 12, 2A districts at WSU, 9 a.m.1A...
The same magic that propelled Cheney to a baseball state tournament appearance last season - and seemed poised to do so again this year - faded last Thursday against visiting Clarkston. The fourth-seeded Bantams got all the scoring they would need in the first inning, taking a 1-0 lead on a two-base throwing error by the Blackhawks. Clarkston proceeded to add nine more runs in eliminating third-seeded Cheney 10-0 in Great Northern League first-round playoff action. Cheney...
It’s been three years, and I’ve finally had enough. If anybody with ESPN is reading, please, I implore you, get rid of the strike zone box on your baseball broadcasts. It’s called the “K-Zone,” and it began with the Cardinals-Cubs game in early April 2015. A roughly square box graphic superimposed above home plate that stretches from either side of the plate and roughly parallel to each hitter’s midsection. The box moves as the hitter crouches or stands more erect and is touted as representing the true, strike zone. Whate...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter With their league-leading goal scorer all wrapped up in smothering defense, and a second sniper hard-pressed to pick up the slack, Medical Lake lost its first-round playoff game 1-0 to Colville in overtime on May 3 at Holliday Field. Colville’s Pedro Zarate took a cross from Noah Rarrick and tapped it past Cardinals’ keeper Taye Jones 2 minutes, 30 seconds into overtime for the deciding goal. Medical Lake, which had won three-straight to finish the regular season and earn the runner-up slot and...
Featuring the introduction of new Eastern Washington University Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lynn Hickey, the 37th Annual Orland Killin Dinner/Dance/Auction on April 28 raised a record total in excess of $117,000. Net proceeds from the event benefits the areas of greatest need in the department, including scholarships for Eagle student-athletes. Hickey gave a passionate plea for additional funding for scholarships prior to the live auction portion of the event. Besides a “paddle-raise” for scholarships, ther...
All the Cheney High softball team needed last Saturday at West Valley was a split of their doubleheader with the Eagles, and they would be assured the Great Northern League’s top-seed into the upcoming playoffs. Instead, the Lady Blackhawks swept their Millwood hosts, and assured themselves something else when it comes to the GNL regular-season title. “It’s all ours,” head coach Gary Blake said Monday evening. With wins of 11-9 and 16-1, Cheney secures its second league title in four years, and gives itself a good shot at...
StageWest Community Theatre ended it’s 2017-2018 season with a bang. The past weekend saw StageWest last three performances of “Seeds of Change” by local author Craig Rickett. We had great audiences all three performances with our dinner theatre being sold out. StageWest would like to thank Mike Hartman for once again serving up a delicious dinner for Saturday night. StageWest would also like to humbly thank the congregation of Emmanuel Lutheran Church for their very generous allowance of the use of their building for all o...
According to data from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, reported in a national NBC investigation “Policing the Schools” (Feb. 27, 2017), during the 2013-2014 school year the rate of student referral to law enforcement in the Cheney School District was 9.86 per 1,000 students. This was over twice the national rate of 4.47, and over three times the Washington rate of 2.94. Twelve of the 43 (28 percent) of these students were reported as having a disability; four of the 12 disabled students referred to...
