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Cheney High cross country runners took part in the Blackhawks' inaugural invitational meet "Battle of the 509" Saturday, Sept. 23, at Fairways Golf Course in Four Lakes. The meet featured teams from all classifications and throughout the Eastern Washington 509 area code.... Full story
Rare have been the times that Eastern Washington University teams have come away from Missoula with a football victory. But the 2017 Eagles delivered one to new head coach Aaron Best on Sept. 23, 2017, 48-41, over Montana at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.... Full story
Football is more than just great action and hard hits. It's people doing their job as depicted in this selection of photos from Eastern Washington's Sept. 23, 2017 Big Sky Conference win, 48-41, over Montana at Washington-Grizzly Stadium.... Full story
Eastern Washington ventured to Missoula seeking a rare football win and came away with one, 48-41, delivering Eagles' new head coach Aaron Best the W. Best became the first Eastern coach to nab a win in Missoula in their initial try.... Full story
Eastern soccer plays scoreless tie, earns shutout win Eastern Washington earned a pair of shutouts in the start of Big Sky Conference soccer play in a pair of matches at home. The Eagles opened with a 0-0 tie against Sacramento State on Sept. 22 and followed that with a 4-0 victory over Northern Arizona, Sept. 24. It took the Eagles less than 20 minutes to find a rhythm as senior Chloe Williams scored the first goal for the Eagles. This marked Williams’ 37th career goal and pushed her to sole possession of second place in t...
Eastern Washington University junior quarterback Gage Gubrud was honored Sept. 25 by the Big Sky Conference as Offensive Player of the Week, sharing the honor with Sacramento State’s Kevin Thomson, A school-record 549-yard passing performance helped EWU extend its Big Sky Conference winning streak to nine games last week. Eastern rallied from a 24-6 deficit at halftime to thoroughly dominate Montana in the second half for a 48-41 victory in Missoula. Gubrud’s 560 yards of total offense were also a record, as he had a han...
If last week was any indicator, Medical Lake volleyball continues to make small steps towards its first Northeast A League win. The Cardinals lost 3-0 to both Deer Park (14-25, 12-25, 20-25) on Sept. 19 and Chewelah last Thursday, (22-25, 20-25, 6-25). “This was a great turnaround after last week and showed that the team is still willing to fight moving forward,” head coach Todd Harr wrote in an email. The best part of the night, he said, was seeing the fight within each of...
Medical Lake got the offense it expects to see from Makayla Geiger in earning a Northeast A League soccer win Sept. 19 on the road at Deer Park 2-1, but Freeman and Pullman found a way to put a stop to her in recording consecutive shutouts, 5-0 and 4-0 to finish the week. Geiger broke a scoreless tie with her goal at the 60-minute mark against the Stags (2-2 NEA, 2-3 overall) and then broke a 1-1 deadlock with her goal as time wound down in the 78th minute. Both goals came on...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The troubling trend is showing its head again with Medical Lake football. The team that saw itself shutout in six of nine contests in 2016 suffered another blanking Sept. 22, 48-0 in a Northeast A League loss to Newport. Newport (2-0 NEA, 3-0 overall) needed just one play, a 65-yard punt return on their first touch of the ball with 9 minutes, 55 seconds remaining in the first quarter to score what would work out to be all the points they needed. The Grizzlies’ Tug Smith reversed direction a...
Medical Lake’s cross country team got to test itself and its coach’s sanity last Saturday at the Wenatchee Invitational at Walla Walla Point Park. The Cardinals had to work around both head coach Gene Blankenship’s admitted mistake in timing the trip to the race, plus losing a number of girl runners to competing band competition, but saw the boys finish third (138 points) behind Eastmont (61) and Mt. Spokane (88). Tanner Henry led the boys with a personal record time of 16 mi...
The Cheney High School Blackhawks football team had their first true Friday Night Lights experience at home last Friday, Sept. 22, against Eisenhower. Despite holding the Cadets to only six points, the Blackhawks took a 6-0 loss. Cheney was held to 151 total yards on offense with 76 passing yards and 75 rushing. EHS had 316 total yards in offense, but the Blackhawks’ defense only allowed one touchdown. “We learned that we can grind it out,” head coach Bobby Byrd said. “Obviously we would have liked to score, but we played fou...
The Cheney High girls swimming team notched their first dual-meet win of the season with a 113-34 victory over visiting Clarkston last Friday at Eastern Washington University’s pool. The Blackhawks won eight of the 11 events, and went 1-2-3 in two. Lauren O’Callaghan, Juliet Richards and Courtney Hanson got Cheney going in the individual events with first-place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle, 200 individual medley and 50 freestyle. O’Callaghan took the 200 free with a time of 2 minutes, 34.52 seconds while Richards won t...
Eastern Washington University women’s soccer forward Chloe Williams has been selected as a candidate for the 2017 Senior CLASS Award. The Senior CLASS Award is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence: community, classroom, character and competition. The award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their p...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Sept. 30, EWU hosts Sacramento State, 1:35 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, EWU at Cal Davis, 6 p.m. COLLEGE SOCCER Sunday, Oct. 1, EWU hosts Southeern Utah, noon. Friday, Oct. 6, EWU at North Dakota, 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, EWU at Northern Colorado, 11 a.m. COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL Thursday, Sept. 28, EWU at Northern Colorado, 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, EWU at North Dakota, 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, EWU at Northern Arizona,...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor The Cheney High girls soccer team maintain their season-opening pattern of losing a match, then winning a match with a split of Great Northern League action. The Lady Blackhawks fell 4-1 on the road at league-leader East Valley last Thursday, but rebounded to knock off West Valley at home, 5-4, Monday for their first GNL win. Cheney rallied from an early 2-0 deficit with goals late in the first half against the Eagles. Makenna Benson connected on a...
It has been a weird couple weeks in the professional sports world. While watching the NFL this weekend to check on my fantasy football team, I couldn’t help but notice the continuing debate explode all over the television and social media over the players kneeling, sitting or standing for our anthem. On Sept. 22, President Donald Trump said at a rally that players who do not stand up for the national anthem should be fired from the NFL. A day later, he followed it up with a tweet, “If a player wants the privilege of making mi...
Cheney High’s volleyball team is off to its best start in years, running its overall record to 5-0 with a hard-fought 3-2 win last Thursday night at East Valley. The Lady Blackhawks and Knights engaged in an old-fashioned duel, trading wins and loses in the first four sets. Cheney won sets one and three 25-22 and 25-20 while East Valley collected wins in sets two and four, 25-16 and 25-12 before the Lady Blackhawks prevailed in the fifth and deciding set, 15-9. Last year’s Great Northern League most valuable player Pey...
"One play does not win or lose a football game" is a mantra that has woven its way through the fabric of Eastern Washington University football. But two plays last Saturday certainly turned fortunes in the Eagles' favor as they rallied to win their Big Sky Conference opener in Missoula over the University of Montana 48-41. Both teams are 2-2 overall, Eastern with two straight leading into Saturday's Hall of Fame Day meeting with Sacramento State, 1:35 p.m. at Roos Field. In...
No.8/9 ranked Eastern Washington vs. Sacramento State. Saturday, Sept. 30, Roos Field (8,600). TV: SWX. Radio: 700-AM ESPN and 105.3-FM in the Spokane/Cheney area. Larry Weir returns for his 27th season calling the play-by-play, with analysis handled by Paul Sorensen. Broadcasts begin one hour prior to kickoff and include an expanded post-game show....
Saturday’s Big Sky Conference football game featuring Eastern Washington versus Sacramento State with its 1:35 kickoff at Roos Field is dubbed as Hall of Fame Day as well as “Believe Day” for cancer awareness via the Community Cancer Fund. But it’s also a homecoming for two former EWU football coaches, too. Jody Sears and Paul Wulff return to Roos Field where the two shared impressive success in the mid-2000’s. But now the roles are reversed – at Eastern Wulff was the head co...
