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FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS Tevin McDonald, a two-year starter at safety at UCLA, has transferred to Eastern Washington University to play football for the Eagles, EWU confirmed April 9. McDonald is enrolled in classes and will begin practicing with the team as early as Thursday. The son of six-time NFL All-Pro safety Tim McDonald, he was recently dismissed from UCLA’s squad for violating team policy. Tevin McDonald had 135 tackles in 27 career games at UCLA, plus four interceptions and 14 passes broken up. The 6-foot-1, 1...
NORFOLK, Va. – Savannah State freshman Amanda McDowell was named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Rookie of the Week in softball for the week ending April 7, the conference announced from Norfolk, Va. Monday evening. The Cheney, Wash. native pitched the Lady Tigers to a 5-1 win over North Carolina Central on Saturday with a 0.00 ERA. She allowed one unearned run on three hits with six strikeouts. The Lady Tigers swept the weekend MEAC series with the Lady Eagles, i...
After a real honest to goodness break from actual competition for most Medical Lake High School sports teams during spring break, activity resumes. Both Cardinal tennis teams gat back on the court for non-league matches at Lind-Ritzville-Sprague today, April 11. They resume Northeast A League competition hosting Lakeside, April 15 and Chewelah, April 16, both at 3:30 p.m. Medical Lake track was at Freeman for an NEA meet this past Wednesday and will host the Undeberg Invite Saturday at 11 a.m. Cardinal golf teams will both...
Medical Lake used a pair of 10-run innings that provided plenty of insurance to earn a sweep of Chewelah in Northeast A League softball play last Friday in Medical Lake. The Cardinals (5-3) watched at the Cougars used a 9-run sixth inning to tie, but Medical Lake bettered that with a 10-run sixth of their own for a 19-9 victory. Kelby Wegner got the win, improving to 4-2 on the season. Wegner contributed to her cause with a 2-hit game, including a double. Faith Keister, Kayla...
A solid defense, with a little help from timely offense, is paying dividends for Medical Lake soccer this spring. With those tools the Cardinals put together two wins last week, a 3-2 nonleague shootout victory over former Great Northern League foe Colville, and a crucial 3-1 Northeast A League victory Saturday at Newport. “Yeah, two good wins for us,” head coach Zane Higgins said. The result was Medical Lake evened its record at 1-1 in NEA play, 4-4 overall, with a game thi...
After one Great Northern League meet, the Cheney girls’ golf team is in the middle of the pack in the league standings. Cheney scored 568 points in the inaugural lead match Monday, March 25 at the Clarkston Country Club, which put them in fourth place overall. Deer Park and Pullman ran away with the top two spots while East Valley squeezed by Cheney, with a score of 563. Head coach Gerald Morton said his team of 12 girls is playing well and have been pretty solid in their other invites this year. Among the top performers o...
When Deer Park scored a goal in the third minute of last Tuesday’s game with Cheney it was only the third time in 10 games the Blackhawks found themselves trailing early. That feeling didn’t last very long. Ian Schmandel’s goal off an assist from Ian Shirey tied things in the sixth minute, with Carson Lamphere feeding Trevan Estrellado for a goal two minutes later for a 2-1 lead that only grew in Cheney’s 10-1 Great Northern League win over the host Stags. Schmandel’s second goal came in the 13th minute, again assisted...
The Cheney High School girls’ tennis team has held its own this season, maintaining a 3-3 record midway through the 2013 season. Head coach Jason Overland is in his first year with the team, and said he’s very happy with the girls’ performance thus far. “We have 29 terrific young girls and we’re just bringing a new attitude, a new energy, a new focus and a new way of playing tennis than we had before,” he said. Overland is the general manager and director of tennis at the Spokane Racquet Club, where for the past two years h...
When hitting and pitching struggle it’s often a team’s defense that keeps them in games. Saturday against visiting Colville, even Cheney’s defense found itself floundering as the Lady Hawks dropped a doubleheader to the league-leading, one-loss Indians. “We had terrible games defensively,” head coach Gary Blake said. “We made four errors in both games and you can’t do that against the good teams.” Colville, at 9-0 in the Great Northern League, 10-1 overall, is a good team, bu...
It’s a much happier Erik Meyer this time around. The former Eastern Washington University quarterback has emerged from a potentially career-ending injury a year ago March to become the Arena Football League’s leading passer with the undefeated (3-0) Spokane Shock. Meyer leads his team into Friday’s 7 p.m. home opener against defending AFL champion Arizona after tossing nine touchdown passes in Spokane’s 66-43 win last Friday over the Iowa Barnstormers. In three games this se...
The wrestling tournament that began 25 years ago to remember a young wrestler has done amazingly well in its mission. Little did organizers likely know when they sought to simply memorialize 12-year-old Jason Crawford that efforts would last this long and in the process officially become world renown. The 26th edition of the Jason Crawford Memorial, which began at a five-team, 150-wrestler event in 1988 in Medical Lake, takes place Saturday at the Spokane Convention Center beg...
For a workday the smiles sure were plentiful last Thursday. That’s likely because the Eastern Washington University Eagles hit the football field for the first time since Dec. 17 of last year and their gut-wrenching 45-42 loss to Sam Houston State University in the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals. They appear quite eager to try to get the taste of that bitter defeat out of their mouths and begin preparation to hopefully make another deep playoff run in 2013. T...
The early-season baseball showdown between Medical Lake and Chewelah certainly lived up to expectations, and maybe then some. The Cardinals got a walk-off homerun from Kasey Kelly in the bottom of the seventh inning in the opener – one of just three hits on the day for his team – to claim a 4-3 victory and then got the bats going in game two to score the sweep with a 9-2 win. The Cardinals’ Adam Paulson pitched a complete game, struck out 15 and never issued a walk and scatt...
Here it is the second week in April, half way through the high school spring sports season and some of you are probably wondering why you haven’t seen your son or daughter’s team mentioned in the pages of the Cheney Free Press. Or perhaps there was some coverage, but very miniscule – nothing that reflected the season so far. Well, we’re trying. One of the things we take pride in is our local sports coverage, particularly high school and Eastern Washington University, and we take it seriously when we don’t feel we are provi...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor On days when things don’t go especially well, having character can help a team find a way to win. In the case of the Cheney High baseball squad, make that two wins. The Blackhawks struggled hitting Colville pitching, didn’t execute its patented short game well, but still came out on top 1-0 in an extra-inning win in the first game of a doubleheader with the visiting Indians Saturday. In the nightcap the Blackhawks again struggled until late, fin...
Cheney High baseball player Robbie Cook gives a future Blackhawk a high-five after scoring at the annual Blackhawks baseball camp last Wednesday....
Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is holding the second annual free spring nature festival May 18, with activities for families and individuals of all ages. The festival runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., with some activities requiring reservations. For more information please see the refuge web page at www.fws.gov/refuge/turnbull....
