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Medical Lake Athletic Hall inducts new class Saturday at St. Anne’s Medical Lake High School will induct its eighth group of inductees into their Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner Saturday, Sept. 26 in ceremonies at St. Anne’s Catholic Church Hall. Inductees are: Carl Liggins (1965), Dave Southwick (1974), Don Gallo (1986) and Jackie McCall (2002). Inductees will also be honored at halftime of Friday’s football game versus Deer Park. Saturday’s festivities begin with a social hour starting at 5:30 p.m. with dinner and inductions a...
CROSS COUNTRY East Valley Plantes Ferry Park Boys 1. Matt Christianson 17:56.5 3. Kaleb Lerch 18:43.2 4. Drake Johnson 18:54.5 6. Jack Peabody 19:10.6 12. Ryan Axtell 19:48.2 13. Tucker Cunningham 19:57.6 14. Luke Huguenin 20:25.6 Girls 3. Alecia Brooks 22:47.6 4. Brette Draper 22:56.9 5. Abby Hammermeister 23:15.7 6. Hannah Spakousky 23:27.7 7. Lexi Brooks 23:35.2 8. Jolene Whiteley 23:39.7 11. Jessica Vietzke 24:26.7 CDA Super One Invitational Hayden Canyon, Hayden Lake Boys 2. Drake Johnson 17:05.4 4. Matt Christianson...
Medical Lake opened the 2015 Northeast A League volleyball season with a pair of 3-0 losses to Colville and Deer Park. The Cardinals (0-2) fell to the Indians 25-9, 25-14 and 25-11 Sept. 15 and the Stags 25-12, 25-17 and 25-8 in a pair of contests at home. “We lost two tough games this week,” head coach Kari Knowlton said. “Deer Park and Colville are great teams and they were great opponents to start off our season.” Claire Dormaier led the Cardinals in both kills (3) and dig...
Medical Lake’s cross country teams gave their head coach Gene Blankenship more insight into the possibilities they have moving forward following the Super One Invitational last Saturday in Hayden, Idaho. The Cardinal boys finished second to Timberlake in the small school varsity division, edged out 67-74 and kept from repeating as titlists. Fellow Northeast A League school Riverside was fourth with 102 points. The Cardinal girls matched their finish of a year ago with t...
A troubling trend has developed in the past two weeks for the Medical Lake High School football team. After playing with their opponents for half the game a serious injury occurs, the air comes out of the balloon and the Cardinals are beaten in convincing fashion. "We were pumped up in the locker room; I mean we played with these guys," head coach Wes Hobbs said. Tied after one quarter and trailing just 14-7 at the half against the 2014 state 1A playoff semifinalists Colville...
The end of the string of girl’s soccer winless streak that stretches back to 2012 and some 40 games long, came Sept. 15 for the Medical Lake soccer team. Freshman Nicole Wetherall played a huge part, or make that parts, in the Northeast A League contest. Wetherall, who scored the first Cardinal goal in regulation at the 20 minute mark, stepped into the net to stop a few shots, and then scored the first of three shootout goals as Medical Lake defeated Colville 2-1. It was t...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY Friday, Oct. 2 EWU at Washington Invitational, Seattle. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Sept. 26, EWU at Sacramento State, 6:05 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, EWU bye. COLLEGE SOCCER Friday, Sept. . 25 EWU at Weber State, 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27, EWU at Idaho State, noon. Friday, Oct. 2, EWU hosts Sacramento State, 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, EWU hosts Portland State, 1 p.m. COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL Thursday, Sept. 24, EWU hosts North...
Cheney High’s boys and girls cross country teams took a big step towards postseason aspirations with a big win at East Valley Sept. 15 in the Great Northern League meet season opener for both schools. The Blackhawks boys placed three runners in the top five, and got key performances from their four and five runners to down the Knights 26-31. They demonstrated some early season abilities to run together by placing six runners in the top eight slots to earn a 25-34 win on the 5,000-kilometer course at Plantes Ferry Park in S...
The Cheney High girls swim team picked up a couple more state-qualifying times in their 103-60 loss to Ellensburg, Sept. 19. Makenzie Norman qualified for her third state event after taking first in the 200-yard freestyle race in 2 minutes and 4.35 seconds. She also finished first in the 100 freestyle in 57.55 seconds. Alexis Schmidt qualified for the 200 individual medley after she finished second in 2:23.82. Schmidt also took first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:16.48. Other top finishers for Cheney include Evarosa Perry, who...
When the Eastern Washington University Eagles meet the Sacramento State Hornets in the opening game of the 2015 Big Sky Conference schedule it will be high-powered offense versus stingy defense. At least that’s kind of how EWU head coach Beau Baldwin viewed it when he discussed the Hornets in the past Monday’s coaches show. “Sac State (1-2) puts a lot of emphasis on defense, Baldwin said. “There’s certain things they do a little bit that reminds me of Northern Iowa.” Ba...
Start fast, finish strong. That’s the motto by which the Eastern Washington University football team marks each day, and game. The start fast concept was never more evident than in the Eagles’ opening quarter of their home opener versus Montana State last Saturday where they raced to a 21-7 lead after one quarter and went to the locker room ahead 34-17. The finish strong might need a little work, but in the end the Eagles did just that, getting a game-clinching int...
The Cheney High football team kept up their momentum as they picked up a 49-0 non-league win over the Idaho 3A Lakeland Hawks, Sept. 18. “We did everything we wanted to do, we executed the way we wanted to,” Cheney head coach Bobby Byrd said. “We worked on the little things and took advantage of opportunities.” The Blackhawks offense gave their most impressive showing so far this season. Ty Graham got things going early in the first quarter after he scored on a 15-yard rushing touchdown. Later in the quarter, Cheney recovered...
The Cheney High volleyball team had a rollercoaster week, losing a close match to the Clarkston Bantams, 3-2, Sept. 15, then sweeping the Greater Spokane League's Rogers Pirates, 3-0, in a non-league contest, Sept. 17. In the match against Clarkston, Cheney took a 2-1 lead after the third game, however Clarkston came back to win the last two sets. The game scores were 15-25, 26-24, 25-20, 13-25 and 13-15. Head coach Heather Zorrozua said KD Skillingstad was hurt early in the...
Cheney High's girls soccer team notched its first win last week in dramatic fashion. The Lady Blackhawks battled visiting Greater Spokane League 3A Shadle Park to a 1-1 tie through 80 minutes of regulation, and then hit all five of their free kicks to edge the Highlanders 5-4 in a shootout for the win. The performance impressed Cheney head coach Nels Radtke, who felt not only did his team play well during regulation, but stepped up to hit all five shootout shots, something...
Cheney book club Sept. 29 “The Round House,” a powerful novel about Native American life is the September selection of the Book Discussion Group of the Friends of the Cheney Community Library. The group meets Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. at the library. All are welcome to attend. Louise Erdrich, author of “The Round House,” tells the story of love, violence and retribution through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy. The action takes place on an Indian reservation in North Dakota. Elements of Indian folklore and tradition are wov... Full story
Judith Stout was born Oct. 30, 1936 in Puyallup, Wash., and raised in Sumner, Wash. Judy was a part of her high school band and Rainbow Girls. She graduated in 1955 and married her high school sweetheart, Robert D. Abbott on Dec. 23, 1955. They traveled with the Air Force and lived in Reno, Nev., Eielson AFB in Alaska as well as duty in Virginia and Homestead Air Force Base in Florida before settling at Fairchild. Judy lived in Medical Lake and Spokane, Wash. for over 40... Full story
Sept. 29 is the 150th anniversary of the birth of William J Sutton. He was the principal of the Cheney Public School from 1887 to 1890. He then became the principal of the Cheney Normal School from 1892 to 1897. He taught history and philosophy of education. He is credited for keeping the Normal School operating through the funding veto of Gov. McGraw in 1893. Sutton served in the state Senate starting in 1913, where he once again persuaded the Legislature to overturn an appropriations veto of for the Normal School. Sen....
Emmanuel Lutheran Church You may watch our pastor’s sermon on our website emmanuelcheney.org or on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Cheney. Christian education for grade school through adult begins at 9 a.m. Mark your calendars for the following events: Reformation Sunday, Oct. 25. Holiday Bazaar and Luncheon, Saturday Nov. 7, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church A welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. Fellowship breakfast is Thursday at 7:30 a.m. Come, bring a friend and enjoy g...
1 Years Ago Sept. 29, 2005 With the addition of lights and a scoreboard, football was about to return to the Cheney High School campus for the first time since 1992. The Blackhawks had been playing home games at Woodward Field at Eastern Washington University. Despite recent improvements that had helped reduce accidents, State Route 904 was still in need of widening to four lanes, local officials said. The road was the busiest two-lane highway in Eastern Washington with upwards of 17,000 vehicles traveling between Cheney...
My sister, Lorraine, and her boyfriend, Aaron, were arguing about my sister’s cat. They had been in the living room for about an hour while I was in another room ironing clothes and pretending I hadn’t heard their arguments. Lorraine’s voice was soft and pleading, “Aaron, please don’t kick Sir Catskill like that. He’s—” Aaron’s return remark showed his contempt, “What do you care? He’s just a thing always in the way.” Lorraine continued, “He’s my cat, not just a thing. I love him.” Aaron laughed, “He’s just a thing,...
City of Cheney • Sept. 25, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0 – 18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • Sept. 26, American Legion Auxiliary Harvest Bingo, 10 regular games pay $15, two blackout's for $50, 116 College Ave., 2 – 6 p.m. • Sept. 26, Cheney Firefighters Benevolent Fund fundraiser, Zentropa Pizzeria and Pub, 122 College Ave., 5 – 11 p.m. • Sept. 28, Feed Cheney, Sutton Park Gazebo, 805 Washington St., 5:30 p.m. • Sept. 28, Dance Class, Wren Pierson Community Center, 7:15 – 8:15 p.m. • Sept. 29, Sen... Full story
