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Preseason college football magazines Sporting News and Lindy’s have both picked the Eastern Washington University football team in the top 10 the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision in a pair of rankings full of Big Sky Conference teams. Sporting News ranks EWU ninth while Lindy’s has the Eagles slotted for 10th. Last month, Athlon Sports announced the Eagles were 12th in its preseason rankings. Two of Eastern’s pre-season opponents – North Dakota State and Northern Iowa -- were ranked first and fourth, respect...
Sixty runners braved inclement weather conditions last Saturday to take part in the annual Happy Hoofer Fun Run during Cheney Rodeo weekend. Runners competed on a 3.6-mile course that started and finished at Veterans' Memorial Park. Kari Silvers was the overall winner with a time of 24 minutes, 53 seconds with Tim Gainer finishing second in 25.28. Top three results in three categories are as follows. Women 18-plus: Kari Silvers 24:53, Amber Marsh 27:25, Melissa Graham, 29:22...
Medical Lake's return to American Legion baseball in 2016 after a season away was a success, the proof being their earning of a playoff spot. After struggling in the Wood Bat Classic tournament over the Fourth of July weekend, the team finished the regular season in second place in the Single A American League with a 10-4 record, winning two of three contests at Holliday Field. The playoffs begin Sunday, July 17 against teams and at sites to be determined. The results were...
With no traffic in the rearview mirror, Derek Barron was able to concentrate on the road ahead. And for the 31-year-old 2016 Lilac City Invitational champion, that journey is hopefully playing more on weekends. Not in front of a handful of spectators - although he relishes playing in front of family and friends - but rather crowded galleries and television cameras on the PGA Tour. The $8,000 he won last Sunday will help pave that path. Barron's now on an old-fashioned...
The Cheney 17U Summerhawks baseball team swept North Central in a July 7 doubleheader, 7-2, 15-3. Two days later they were swept in a doubleheader against the Prairie Cardinals, a 19U team out of Rathdrum, Idaho, 4-0, 11-5. In game one against North Central, Cheney took a 2-0 lead after the first inning and added three runs in the third. They finished their scoring with two runs in the sixth. At the plate, Andrew Witt was 3 for 4 with two runs scored, Dylan Arthur was 2 for 4...
For a change, the Lilac Invitational Golf Tournament had little drama at the finish. Derek Barron, the teaching pro from Lakewood, Wash., earned an easy four-stroke victory over Kevin PomArleau, from East Wenatchee, and Tacoma's Shane Prante on a windy and cool Fairways Golf Course last Sunday. Since its return to The Fairways in 2012, the tournament has seen some nail-biting finishes, including Brian Miller's one-shot victory in 2015 and amateur Hank Frame's two-hole sudden...
For the third time in four years, the Cheney High School girls’ basketball program is searching for a new head coach. Former head coach J.T. Johnson was forced to step down in June after just one year at the Lady Blackhawks’ helm due to a clause in his state employment contract triggered by a desire to take early retirement. CHS athletics director Gregg Hare said they knew about the clause and potential for Johnson’s retirement when he was hired in 2015, but at the time were told there would be no issue regarding Johnson cont...
Kane Briggs passed away at the young age of 24 on July 3, 2016. Kane loved life, lived it to the max and touched every life he was part of. Graduating from Christian Heritage School in 2010, he was a varsity athlete and loved anything that got him outside and his adrenaline going like wakeboarding, dirt biking and snow skiing. After high school Kane proudly served in the U.S. Army, including a tour in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division. He was very much loved and will be mis...
Ray Hamel, 76, a longtime Cheney resident, Eastern Washington University professor and former member of the City Council passed away June 25, 2016. He was born Oct. 29, 1939. Ray 's education began early and those values were reflected in all that he did during his lifetime. His commitment to education, to community and to family centered his life. Growing up in Madison, Wis., he served on the Mayor's Commission on Human Rights during his senior year in high school, and, as a...
1 Years Ago July 13, 2006 A new road will soon run from the Eastern Washington University end of Washington Street into the heart of a new 137-home addition to the Golden Hills community. Unsecured properties led to a string of burglaries and thefts around Medical Lake neighborhoods. Four Cheney Track Club athletes qualified for national competition in Baltimore, Md. Shyann Morton (high jump), Kinsey Pease (javelin), Courtney Hutchison (shot put, discus and javelin) and Joe Zimmerman (javelin). 20 Years Ago July 11, 1996 Che...
Tucked in neatly on the Cheney-Spokane Road next to a pond that seasonally hosts otters is the home of Dr. Keith Quincy. Nationally recognized for his university teaching, he is also a prolific author. His latest book, “Poking Lions,” published in England, is now available in the U.S. Fiction in name only, this book recounts the “real life” and career of Eddie Dooley. Born in New York to an abusive household, and brutalized at parochial school, Eddie finds a new home with an old German safecracker who treats him like a son....
Cheney's Sutton Park should be a rockin' place next Wednesday, July 20, with the sounds of rockabilly and the 1950s as the Spokane-based band "The SpoCats" come to town for the second concert in the Summer Concert Series 2016. The SpoCats are composed of Doug Roberts on bass and vocals, Dan Garcia on drums and vocals and Dave Smith on guitar and lead vocals. Roberts and Garcia formed the band about six years somewhat by happenstance. "Craigslist had a lot to do with it,"...
About two years ago when the wood shop at the Cheney Care Center became usable, a new group was formed by the name of the "Cheney Chipsters." Members of this group consist of residents from the Cheney Care Center. The Chipsters come together once a week to make wooden toy trucks for kids. The trucks are sent to kids in hospitals and children that live overseas, who may have not received a toy truck before. The McDonald's Shiners have also received trucks from the group to...
