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FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS After 50 years of competition, the Big Sky Conference will soon begin a year-long journey celebrating the league’s success both on and off the playing field by honoring 50 years of men’s athletics and 25 years of women’s athletics. Eastern Washington University will join in the celebration as a long-time member of the Big Sky Conference for both men and women. The 2013-14 season will be the 27th for the Eagle men, and 26th for the women. Easte...
Cheney High School seniors Theo Petropoulos and Eric Igbinoba have signed letters of intent to play football at NCAA Division III Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore. Igbinoba, 6-feet, 180 pounds, has signed as a wide receiver for the Wildcats. The 2013 graduate was a three-time All-Great Northern League first-team selection and a 2012 second-team All-State pick as a senior. He earned 11 varsity letters in football, basketball and track and was team captain in all three...
The May 22 edition of Eastern Washington University’s student newspaper, The Easterner, reported that two members of EWU’s women’s basketball team, junior Chenise Pakootas and redshirt sophomore Morganne Comstock have transferred to schools in Hawaii. Pakootas, a two-year letter winner out of Inchelium, Wash. will finish her senior season at Division II Chaminade University in Honolulu. Comstock, from Kent, Wash. plans to play at Hawaii Pacific, also a Division II school just four miles from Chaminade. Both players, who w...
FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS Eastern Washington University hockey has announced that forward Dylan Tappe from Spokane has committed for the 2013-14 season. Tappe comes to EWU after finishing his hockey career with the Spokane Braves of the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League. He spent parts of four seasons with the Braves amassing 177 points in 158 games. Between tours of duty with the Braves he also played for three different British Columbia Hockey League franchises in Westside, Trail, and Prince George earning 20...
Just a few strokes, it seems, separated the Medical Lake boys’ doubles tennis team from another trophy at state. At least that’s how head coach Justin Blayne saw it in their pivotal opening-round match against Chelan May 24. After a solid 6-1 win in the opening set, the Card’s duo of Hunter Barr and Anton King had been on a hot streak that saw then enter state competition in Yakima with a 24-3 won-lost record through the previous four games. “So when we hit the court and bea...
Cheney High School boys’ soccer and girls’ track and field athletes each had respectable showings on the All-Great Northern League lists for spring sports. Both Blackhawks squads landed seven players as first and/or second team selections, with the 2A state champions soccer team also receiving most valuable player awards for offense and defense as well as coach of the year for head coach Mark Kiver. The 2A state third-place girls had All-GNL selections for best sprinter, distance runner and jumpers. Baseball First Team: Saw...
Next time you’re at an American Legion or West Plains Little League baseball game, a Pop Warner football contest, or some other sporting event outside of school please take a moment and look around. Find somebody who is coaching, doing concessions, officiating, or anyone you know who volunteers for the organization responsible for putting on the activity and thank them. Volunteerism is what makes our society work, and sadly there’s probably not enough of it. Volunteers are important not only in non-profit charitable wor...
Cheney High School’s girls’ track and field team takes the podium at Mt. Tahoma High School May 29 to receive their trophy for finishing third in state 2A team competition....
