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It was a winless week for the Medical Lake girl’s volleyball team that was compounded by a season-ending injury to a key player. The Cardinals dropped a pair of Northeast A League contests to Freeman last Tuesday 17-25, 13-25, 10-25 and then 23-25, 19-25, 19-25 to Newport Thursday. But the wins an d losses on the court were not all that important when news came about Cheyenne Wollitz’s injury. Wollitz, a starting middle blocker, broke her ankle in practice and will be out for...
Medical Lake head football coach Wes Hobbs was just slightly perplexed when he read back some key statistics from the Cardinals’ Northeast A League game last Friday at Holliday Field against Lakeside. “We controlled the ball for almost 30 minutes – that’s what, two 2 1/2 quarters – they lit us up for 63 points in a quarter and a half,” Hobbs said. “We put 34 points on them and 497 yards, and that’s just not computing.” Hobbs was hardly alone trying to figure out how Medical La...
If anything about last week’s Cheney girls soccer team’s 1-1 record is evident, it’s that they are making strides towards improving – giving what head coach Nils Radtke said is “something to build on.” The Lady Hawks came very close to ending their losing streak Tuesday at Pullman, taking the early lead before eventually falling 2-1 in double overtime to the third-place Greyhounds. Thursday, the losing streak became part of history as Cheney smothered an out-gunned Deer Park squad 10-1 on the road in Great Northern Le...
Cheney’s cross country teams broke into the Great Northern League win column with victories Oct. 1 in Pullman. The girls sprinted past the Greyhounds 23-42 while the boys earned the top three spots and placed all seven runners in the top 10 for a 17-46 win. Mariah Brenton led the girls with a time of 21 minutes, 39 seconds, followed by Johanna Sherman in 21:49, Kelsey Schwendiman in 23:01, Mattie McNair 23:14 and Claire Lunde 23:19 for Cheney’s scoring five. Karlie Eaker finished in 24:55 and Linsay Sweitzer in 25:21 to wra...
Cheney volleyball remains the top dog in the Great Northern League after a mixed week of matches. The volleyball team split its two matches last week, winning and losing one. Despite that, Cheney remains on top of the GNL standings, at 5-1 in league play and 6-2 overall. Against Pullman last Tuesday night, Cheney fell behind early and, although the team made a spirited attempt to come back, was unable to overcome in the end. Pullman took all three sets in the match. “That was a tough road trip,” head coach Brianne Lowe sai...
The 2013 Cheney Tigers earned the championship of the Men’s Senior Baseball League with a pair of wins Oct. 5 in games played at Cheney High School. The Tigers beat an area law enforcement team, The Iron Pigs, as well as the Spokane Angels en route to the title in the 35 and over league. Top row (left to right): Rich DeAndre, Roger Coston, Jim Straw, Mike Lee, Russ Frickey, Dan Pitman, Greg Ryan. Bottom (left to right): Kerry Pease, Eddie, Hugh Stine, John Lehman, Kevin H...
If the Eastern Washington University hockey team is to challenge Selkirk College there were two things that became evident following the Eagles 7-2 loss in their season opening game last Friday at the Castlegar, British Columbia Recreation Complex. The Eagles will get a chance to see if what they needed to get fixed got done this Saturday, Oct. 12 when they have their home opener at the University Recreation Center rink with a 7 p.m. faceoff against the University of...
At the risk of being saddled with another label, here goes. I think the Washington Redskins should change their name. There, I said it, let the labeling and derision begin. For those not up on this, the Oneida Nation, based in central New York state, launched a “Change the Mascot” campaign a couple months ago to get the football team in the nation’s capital to change its 80-year-old name. The Oneidas, and many other Native American tribes, consider the word “redskin” to be insulting and a racial slur, something akin to t...
Medical Lake’s boys’ cross country likes the view from the top and the challenge it appears to present. The state’s No. 1 ranked 1A team scored an impressive runner-up finish at last Saturday’s Curtis Invite in Tacoma, a feat that followed their first Northeast A League wins Tuesday in Newport. Medical Lake’s boys beat both Freeman and Newport by identical 15-50 scores while the girls beat Newport 15-50 but fell to Freeman 27-28. At Tacoma, the Cardinals got a sixth place fini...
Grand Forks might be new territory for the Eastern Washington University football team, but not to their head coach Beau Baldwin. While the Eagles (1-0 Big Sky, 3-2 overall) will visit the city of some 50,000 that sits smack dab on the eastern border of the state, Baldwin has been to the Alerus Center before and he wants to make sure the result of the last visit is not duplicated. That was Sept. 15, 2007 when his Central Washington University Wildcats fell short in a 35-28...
On paper and the scoreboard - the obvious numbers that mattered - offense appeared to rule the day in Eastern Washington’s 41-19 Big Sky Conference football victory last Saturday over Weber State at Roos Field. But Eagles head coach Beau Baldwin was quick to point out that it was really the defense that provided the springboard to the win. The visiting Wildcats’ first three possessions to open the game resulted in just 22 total yards as the swarming and energetic Eagle def...
Sometimes it’s the little things that come up big. When Cheney punter Cruz Galm’s kick died at the Sandpoint two-yard line with 2:19 left in the first half Friday night, it might not have seemed significant at the moment. In just a short 87 seconds, it would become huge. The reason is the visiting Bulldogs fumbled on their own 29, giving the Blackhawks a chance to cut into a 3-0 deficit before intermission. Quarterback Andrew Graham’s 28-yard scramble on second and 10 to the o...
There's dirty work afoot at Ye Olde Wayside Inn, home of the eccentric Saltmarches, Hepzibah and Arabelia, cousin Ebenezer, and old Uncle Silas the oldest living lunatic in Massachusetts. The inn is haunted by the ghost of an old soldier who deserted Washington at Valley Forge while foul weather turns cousin Ebenezer grim and dangerous and he lures victims to the inn to get revenge for a past wrong. So when a storm forces several strangers to take shelter at the inn, the chilling – or is it killing? – time begins and not eve...
City of Cheney • Oct. 11, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0-18 months), 10:30 a.m., Cheney Library • Oct. 16, Toddler Storytime (ages 1 1/2-3), 10:30 a.m., Cheney Library • Oct. 17, Preschool Play and Learn Storytime (ages 3-5), 10:30 a.m., Cheney Library City of Medical Lake • Oct. 12, Mobius science Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Medical Lake Library • Oct. 16, Play and Learn Storytime (ages 2-5), 10:30 a.m., Medical Lake Library City of Airway Heights • Oct. 12, Mobius science Saturday, 11 a.m., Airway Heights Library • O...
Mardell Irvin (Ostrum) was born Sept. 2, 1931 to Emma and Cornelius Ostrum in Roscoe, Mont. She passed away peacefully on Sept. 24. Mardell graduated from high school in 1950 and married Darrell B. Irvin in Aug. 1956. She was a loving Army wife, mother, sister and friend to all she knew. Her greatest joys in life included her faith, her family and her football. Mardell’s enthusiasm for life was a lesson to us all in how to live our lives. Mardell’s three grandchildren were her ultimate pride and joy. She lived her life as... Full story
Claudia Madge Nelson passed away Sept. 28, at the Cheney Care Center where she resided following a stroke in February 2008. Claudia was born March 6, 1920 in Danville, Wash. and was the oldest child of Claude and C. Madge Brinkman. On Dec. 17, 1939 Claudia married Albin Nelson and for the next 50 years they lived on Little Goosemus Creek, outside of Curlew, Wash. Not only was Claudia his lifelong partner, but she was also Albin’s book keeper for his sawmill/logging operation, Nelson Lumber. Together they raised three c... Full story
Cooking is part necessity, but it’s also partly cultural. The way we cook says a lot about the societies we live in and the traditions that influence our families. I know that a lot of what I do in the kitchen is an echo of what my mother taught me. When I crack an egg into a mixing bowl, I scoop out that last little bit of raw egg white in the shell with my finger and scrape it off on the edge of the bowl. My mother grew up in the Great Depression and learned not to waste food. Some of her habits have been passed down to m...
1 Years Ago Oct. 17, 2003 Cheney police were busy with problems related to Eastern Washington University’s Homecoming celebration activities that produced over 30 alcohol-related arrests. After seven months of meetings and discussions, the Cheney Planning Commission unanimously approved recommending to the City Council that off-street parking requirement for businesses in the downtown commercial zone be discarded. EWU announced Oct. 8 that for the 10th consecutive year the s...
