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On Monday, Aug. 6, a series of fires were started along Interstate 90 between Cheney and Medical Lake. Ultimately called the Silver Lake, as of Thurs., Aug. 9 the blaze was listed at having consumed 340 acres of timber, grass and farm land. Updated mapping of the fire shows there is 11 miles of fire line around these 2 fires The fire forced periodic closures of the freeway and was battled by resources from a variety of agencies. As of 8 a.m. on Aug. 9, the Washington...
Tamarick Pierce (24) and Trevor Davis Jr. (41) had quite a battle for the ball during drills at an Aug. 6 practice for the Eastern Washington University football team. The Eagles will practice at the Sports and Recreation fields before moving on Aug. 15 to Roos Field in preparation for their season opener Sept. 1 at Roos Field against longtime in-state rival Central Washington, an NCAA Division II program that routinely presents challenges to Eastern....
Mark Funkhouser of the Lacrosse Fanatic Camp instructs a session Aug. 3 at Roos Field. This is the fifth year for the camp that helps players fine tune their skills in this fast-growing sport....
Kurt Kraemer. the high-flying former Eastern Washington University All-America triple jumper will be among the 18th class of inductees into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 22, 2018. Kraemer was a four-time Big Sky Conference Champion while competing from 1999-2003 for the Eagles. His career culminated in All-America honors in the triple jump in 2003 to become just the second EWU track and field athlete to accomplish that feat in the school’s NCAA Division I history. The induction breakfast and ceremony will s...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE FOOTBALL Schedule of EWU Preseason Football Practices Times and locations are tentative and subject to change. Practices usually last for two hours. Thursday, Aug. 9 – No Practice Friday, Aug. 10 – 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 – 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 – 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13 – 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14 – 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15 – 3 p.m. – First Practice at Roos Field Thursday, Aug. 16 – No Practice Friday, Aug 17 – 9 a.m. S...
The Eastern Washington University football team has been ranked ninth in the STATS preseason top 25 poll announced Aug. 6. That poll, as well as a poll of coaches now conducted by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), will be released on a weekly basis once the season begins in September. Picked to win the Big Sky Conference title by the league’s head coaches and media, just one of EWU’s 2018 opponents are ranked in the top 25. Weber State is No. 8, while three others received enough votes to rank in the top 31...
I’ll admit, I’m not as much up to speed on the Urban Meyer situation at Ohio State University as I should be, given that one of my many hats here at the Cheney Free Press is one of sports guru. Or more accurately, one of several gurus. Meyer, as has been documented in the media, stands accused of essentially looking the other way when it came to knowing and acting upon allegations of domestic abuse by one of his assistant coaches. That’s about as nutshell as I can get for this space. Meyer denied he knew about these alleg...
The two-time defending Big Sky Conference champions were selected to defend their title, as the Eastern Washington University soccer team was picked to finish first in the Big Sky preseason soccer poll for the second-straight season, the conference announced Aug. 7. The poll is voted on by the league’s 10 head coaches who cannot vote for their own team. The Eagles totaled 78 points and captured eight of the 10 first-place votes in the preseason poll. Northern Colorado was picked to finish second with 69 points and one f...
Life for Eastern Washington University soccer will carry on after Chloe Williams. Both head coach Chad Bodnar and the rest of the Big Sky Conference seem to agree on that for the two-time league tournament champions and NCAA qualifiers. The Eagles earned eight of 10 first-place votes among league coaches in a preseason poll. Williams will not soon be forgotten as the Lewis and Clark High School grad set both EWU and Big Sky records for scoring. Along the way she became the...
Medical Lake’s Phoenix Hanks was not the recipient of a scholarship offered by the U.S. Army and awarded at ceremonies surrounding the 2018 inductions into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last weekend. The memories he took away from his time in Canton, Ohio, however, far surpass the $2,500. Earlier this year, Hanks was singled out as one of 25 high school seniors across the nation to be part of the program that honors one of the group and each year centers around the i...
