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Punt block, interception return for touchdown 59 seconds apart turn tide in Eastern win By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Two years ago on their trip to Bozeman it was a 35-7 thumping at the hands of Montana State that Eastern Washington head coach Beau Baldwin later admitted helped jump-start his team’s run to an 11-game winning streak and a national championship. How last Saturday’s 27-24 upset win by the then No. 6 Eagles over the then No. 2 Bobcats shakes out in the 2012 Football Championship Subdivision championship pic...
Even though the Cheney girls’ soccer team lost two of its final regular season games last week, head coach Nels Radtke sees positive results from those outcomes. The games were against three of the top four teams ahead of the Lady Hawks in the Great Northern League standings, and all were 2-1 results – including an upset of second-seeded West Valley. “The second time around we were much closer to these three teams and that’s key in heading into the playoffs,” Radtke said. Cheney went to a shootout to down the Eagles on...
Cheney’s volleyball team wrapped up a fourth-place finish in the Great Northern League by winning two of its final three matches last week. The Lady Hawks played well and showed potential for advancing in the coming postseason with 3-1 wins over West Valley last Tuesday in the home finale – Senior Night – and at Clarkston Thursday. The lone loss came in the final match of the season Saturday at Pullman, a 3-0 setback that head coach Brianne Lowe said was disappointing given Cheney’s earlier five-set loss to the third-s...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor The Cheney girls’ swimming team wrapped up its dual meet portion of the 2012 season with competition last Tuesday in Pullman, losing 121-39 to the much deeper Greyhounds. The Blackhawks 400-yard freestyle A relay team of Kaylie Geschke, Kaylie Watters, Brittany Meyer and Katie Shea had the highest finish for Cheney, placing second with a time of 4 minutes, 34.16 seconds. The B team of Erin Moseley, Kierra Heiydt, Sophie Schwalbe and Samantha Abbott finished third in 4:58.45. Third place was the h...
How much is riding on the outcome of Friday’s final regular season home football game at Medical Lake with Freeman? For one it’s the difference between burning a lot of diesel fuel the following Friday. But the best reason is the winner of the 7 p.m. Holliday Field game holds onto home field for a playoff game against an as yet unknown Caribou Trail League team. The CTL, like the Northeast A League, closes out the regular season Friday. Cascade of Leavenworth (5-1, 5-2) and...
FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS The nagging futility streak finally ended Monday night for the Eastern Washington University volleyball team, which saw its 22-game losing streak come to an end at Reese Court. The Eagles swept past Sacramento State 3-0 with wins of 29-27, 25-18, 25-22 in Big Sky Conference play to earn their first victory of what has been a long, long season. “I was so impressed with their composure,” interim head coach Lisa Westlake said. “For the girls it was (getting) a gorilla off their back, it was e...
The last time Eastern Washington University had Sacramento State in town as guests it took a heroic last-minute rally to secure a win that helped pave the way to the 2010 NCAA Division 1 national championship. Last Saturday it took a defensive effort in the final minute for the No. 1-ranked Eagles to collect yet another nail-biting 31-28 Big Sky Conference football victory over the Hornets on a blustery Homecoming Day game at Roos Field. The victory, before 8,714 windblown...
For the second time this season the Cheney football team were giant killers on a Friday night. Two weeks ago the Blackhawks spoiled East Valley’s unbeaten season with a 34-28 win over the then eighth-ranked Knights. Last Friday on the home turf at Tom Oswald Field it was West Valley’s turn as Cheney overcame a 10-point first half deficit and outscored their opponent 14-0 in the final eight minutes to down the 10th-ranked Eagles 38-31 on Homecoming. “It’s kind of nice,...
One point. That’s the margin that separated the Cheney boys’ cross country team from an upset win over Deer Park at District 7 competition Friday afternoon at Plantes Ferry State Park in Spokane Valley. In the end, the Blackhawks’ second-place finish, edged 43-44 by the Stags, earned them a trip to Yakima’s Applewood Golf Course this Saturday to face Central Washington Athletic Conference teams for a shot at one of four berths to state Nov. 3. “We got within a point and I’m t...
An additional alternative to the trick-or-treat rounds is coming to Airway Heights this Halloween. Airway Heights’ Parks and Recreation Department is partnering with the Sunset Elementary parent-teacher organization for the first annual “trunk-or-treat” event. Parks, recreation and community services director J.C. Kennedy said cars participating in the event should begin showing up around 5:15 p.m. The goal of the event is to provide another alternative to trick-or-treating while simultaneously engaging local businesses. Thus...
Polio. People in their 50s and 60s can instantly recall their childhoods and the fear of the polio epidemic. Everyone stood in the long lines to receive the liquid vaccine, often dropped on a sugar cube. Virginia Fitzner was 11 years old in 1950, before Jonas Salk invented the first vaccine in 1952. In her small farming community in rural Montana, Fitzner knew about polio but it hadn’t affected her community. “It was feared that you could get it, but it wasn’t real commo...
The past summer has been an incredible time for charitable giving in the Spokane region. First, Saturday, Sept. 29, Dutch Bros gave $1 from every $2 medium drink toward Cat Davis, a 25-year-old Spokane resident suffering from scleroderma. A second fundraiser was held just last week for Davis where all of the area Papa Murphy’s locations donated $3 from every family size pizza purchase. Of the initial $175,000 goal, around $86,000 was raised to help pay for the cost of a stem cell transplant in hopes of saving Davis’ life. Aft...
There’s a lot of uncertainty surrounding I-1240, the initiative on next month’s ballot to create public charter schools in Washington. For those living in the world of public K-12—and there are a lot of them in our community—it could signal either an exciting new option to help students learn or a looming threat to their school budgets and ultimately their jobs. For those outside, though, I-1240 probably doesn’t mean much. Perhaps you saw a sign and found out about the initiative, but are wondering about the logistics...
It was a project to sew together, literally, the past and the present to benefit the future. Members of the Cheney High School Family Career and Community Leaders of America club recently completed a quilt made from old CHS activity T-shirts and uniforms. The quilt, a group effort cobbled together from items donated by students and teachers, will be raffled off and the proceeds will benefit the local club and their chosen national charity, the March of Dimes. FCCLA adviser...
The Medical Lake Food Bank is facing a dry goods shortage, which has lasted for the past several weeks. While the organization is doing well with other products, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, the amount of shelf-stable items has been decreasing on a weekly basis. Items like macaroni and cheese dinners, Hamburger Helper, Top Ramen and others typically seen on the shelves are gone. It’s also been three months since the food bank ordered cereal. Food bank director Peg J...
Two action items were passed at the Airway Heights City Council study session Monday, Oct. 23. Another extension of the city’s emergency moratorium on mixed-use building applications was passed, and will last until Dec. 3. The city has worked under the moratorium during its ongoing Joint Land Use Study discussions. Surrounding jurisdictions had concerns over the placement of some locations for mixed-use buildings and their proximity to flight patterns of Fairchild Air Force Base aircraft. Without action at the study session,...
OLYMPIA – The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office recognized Spokane County and the city of Cheney at two special presentations on Tuesday for their outstanding projects to conserve wildlife habitat and develop a park. Both Spokane County and Cheney were successful in their quest for funding in the very competitive Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program, which is a statewide grant program created by the Legislature in 1990 to conserve land before it was d...
Cheney was a lively place last weekend as both Cheney High School and Eastern Washington University held their Homecoming festivities. Top: A Cheney firefighter helps ignite the bonfire for Eastern’s pep rally downtown. Left: CHS senior Janessa Day is crowned Blackhawks’ Homecoming queen. Bottom: The CHS band leans one way while the wind whips their banners another during the football game’s halftime show. EWU photo by James Eik CHS photos by John McCallum...
Thanksgiving is right around the corner – and so is the fifth annual Turkey Trot. The two or three mile walk/run takes place at 9 a.m. Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, at the Cheney High School track for walkers/runners of all ages. Entry fee is $5 or $20 including a long sleeve, cotton Trot T-shirt. Entries paying for shirts must be returned by Nov. 9. Participants receive a ticket to win a turkey and other prizes. Entry forms are available at Cheney High School and the Cheney Free Press. Proceeds go to the Blackhawks cross c...
The Medical Lake police office is slowly but surely opening its doors thanks to help from volunteers at the Medical Lake-Espanola SCOPE office. Volunteers have begun to handle basic administrative duties in the front office in an effort to relieve other personnel of time-consuming tasks, resulting in a stronger, more effective policing effort in the West Plains and southern area of Spokane County. The volunteers have gone through training to work in the front office, and will help refer residents to appropriate contacts. Whil...
A continued sluggish economy combined with the local effects of state budget cuts equals trying times for the city of Cheney as budget season kicks off. City Administrator Arlene Fisher estimated revenues would be down around $700,000 by the end of 2012, but stressed that the city would have a balanced budget and would not cut services to citizens for 2013. “Our first priority is maintaining the level of service we provide. We will accomplish that,” she said. “That is the mayor’s position and I have 98 employees committ...
The Cheney City Council dug into the details of the city’s 2013 budget at its Tuesday night meeting. The council heard presentations from department leaders in finance, the municipal court, community development, police, fire and parks and recreation. Tasked with shrinking or maintaining their budgets from 2012, department heads didn’t propose a lot of new programs or purchases. Many departments had been boosted by grant funds in 2012, led by parks and recreation, which used grants to pay for sports fields and to con...
