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The city of Airway Heights celebrated its 10th annual Winter Festival, Dec. 3. The event featured several activities, including a Pancake Breakfast with Santa Claus at the community center, Winter Storytime at the library and craft decorating at Sunset Elementary School. The celebration culminated with the Christmas tree lighting at Sunset Park...
For the second time in as many weeks in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, Eastern Washington faces a team that had to scratch and claw their way from behind to advance. This week's opponent in a 1:05 p.m. Saturday kickoff at Roos Field in Cheney are the Richmond Spiders from faraway Virginia and the Colonial Athletic Association's fourth-place finishers. Richmond, 10-3, outscored the University of North Dakota - the co-Big Sky Conference champions with Eastern -...
Eastern Washington used its usual motus operandi - a rally - after trailing 14-0 to score a 31-14 second-round Football Championship Subdivision playoff win over the Central Arkansas Bears, Saturday, Dec. 3. The Eagles earned a quarterfinal-round game Dec. 10 at Roos Field versus the University of Richmond in Virginia at 1 p.m. Ticket information is available at goeags.com. Read the full story here....
For the second week in a row, Eastern Washington University junior Bogdan Bliznyuk has been selected as the Big Sky Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week, sharing the honor with Montana’s State’s Tyler Hall. Bliznyuk had a double-double with 31 points and 12 rebounds as Eastern rallied from a 14-point deficit with 10 minutes left to force overtime, then prevailed 93-88 in another double-overtime non-conference victory over Seattle Dec. 4. at KeyArena in Seattle. A 2014 graduate of Todd Beamer High School near Seatt...
The Big Sky Conference named Eastern Washington University women’s basketball player Delaney Hodgins Co-Player of the Week after the forward picked up a pair of 20-point performances on the road against Boise State and Cal State Northridge. It is the second-straight week that Hodgins has earned a Big Sky Conference Player of the Week honor, as she also named the College Sports Madness Big Sky Player of the Week Nov. 28. This week’s recognition comes after a 21-point effort in a 67-64 loss at undefeated Boise State last Thu...
The Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team rallied from a 14-point deficit with 10 minutes left to force overtime, then prevailed 93-88 in another double-overtime nonconference victory over Seattle University on Sunday, Dec. 4, at KeyArena in Seattle. Six 3-pointers in the final eight minutes of regulation helped send the game into overtime, including a triple with 24 seconds remaining by Felix Von Hofe, who finished with 19 points. After the Redhawks hit a 3-pointer to send the game into a second extra p...
Medical Lake’s shot at an opening-night girls’ basketball victory vanished at the foul line. With Sydney Abbott canning four free throws in the final minutes and her sister, Madison, adding a game-high 19 points and 14 rebounds, the Davenport Gorillas earned a 55-51 nonleague victory over the visiting Cardinals, Nov. 29. Davenport (3-0) of the Northeast 2B league trailed 39-37 entering the final quarter where Sydney Abbott was the difference in an 18-12 deciding edge over the...
The Cheney boys’ basketball team built a big enough first-half lead that it was able to overcome an old nemesis and earn a 60-54 win at North Central in the season-opener last Friday night. The Blackhawks played aggressively on both ends of the court, attacking the basket with success despite an Indians front line that averaged 6 feet, 7 inches while also preventing passes inside to that front line on defense, head coach Gregg Smith said. Cheney built a 36-19 lead at the break, but as has happened before, was sluggish out o...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Thursday, Dec. 8, EWU hosts Great Falls, 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, EWU hosts Morehead State, 6:05 p.m. Women Thursday, Dec. 8, EWU hosts Cal State Fullerton 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, EWU hosts Gonzaga, 2 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Dec. 10, EWU hosts NCAA playoff versus Richmond, 1:05 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Boys Friday, Dec. 9, Cheney at West Valley, 7 p.m. Medical Lake hosts Riverside, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10,...
Arlene Helsing from Cheney won Week 10 of the 2016 Cheney Free Press football contest, earning a $50 merchant’s gift certificate. Helsing was one of four players who had perfect records and won in a tiebreaker with Jerry Stewart from Cheney who won a $20 Owl Drug gift certificate. Winners must come to the Free Press office at 1616 W. First St. in Cheney to pick up their prizes. This concludes the contest for 2016. The Cheney Free Press thanks everyone who participated. Watch for the announcement of the grand prize winner i...
After they set two all-time records for the Eastern Washington University track and field team in the season-opening Candy Cane IX, Rebecca Tarbert and Dawson Lack were both honored with Big Sky Conference Athlete of the Week awards, announced on Dec. 5. In the women’s 55-meter dash, East Wenatchee’s Tarbert, sped past her competition on the way to a new Big Sky Conference all-time record of 6.78 seconds. Competing in the 55-meter dash, Lack, a freshman from Medical Lake, won the event with a time of 6.24 seconds, a hun...
The Cheney High wrestling team kicked off their season on a busy note, competing in a Dec. 2 jamboree at Shadle Park against the Highlanders and Northeast A League’s Medical Lake, as well as the Dec. 3 Deer Park Invitational. At Deer Park, Cheney finished 11th out of 18 teams with 64.5 points. Greater Spokane League 4A Mead took home the team title with 251 points. “We’ve got some work to do, but it was what we expected,” head coach Brad Rasmussen said regarding his team’s performance in the first week of the season. ...
The Cheney High School boys swimming season got off to an impressive start last Saturday at Lions Pool in Yakima. The boys swept a four-team meet, winning head-to-head match-ups against Selah, Grandview, Prosser and East Valley-Yakima. Blackhawks head coach Jennifer Hochwalt said all teams but Selah were much smaller than Cheney so the scores were not very competitive. What was impressive to her was the boys 93-75 victory over an evenly-match Vikings squad. “I think we’re starting where we left off (last season),” she added...
It was a good start for new Medical Lake boys' basketball coach Noel Hachtel and now he hopes his team keeps it up. With four players scoring in double-figures, including 22 points from Trenten Garza, the Cardinals dominated from the opening tip to score a 66-47 nonleague win over the 2B Davenport Gorillas on the road, Nov. 29. "That's outstanding for a guard," Hachtel said of Garza's point production, adding, he was very impressed with his ability to get to the rim. Garza...
New Cheney High School girls basketball head coach Lorin Carlon had a simple reply to a question about the beginning of the Lady Blackhawks 2016-2017. “It’s a start,” Carlon said of his team’s 2-0 performance in the first week of play. Cheney staked itself to early leads it never relinquished in road wins over Deer Park and North Central. The Lady Hawks outscored Deer Park in all four quarters for a 60-43 win in the season opener Nov. 29, and shutout a cold-shooting North Central in the first quarter en route to a 56-44 win o...
When Cooper Kupp announced just over a year ago that he would return to pursue his senior season at Eastern Washington, it may or may not have been a catalyst for teammates to also take their games to another level. But it's certainly not been a one-man effort that has vaulted the Eagles to 10 consecutive wins since their 50-44 overtime setback on Sept. 10 in Fargo to five-time defending Football Championship Subdivision champion, North Dakota State in the middle of a...
1 Years Ago Dec. 7, 2006 Nicole Harris of Cheney was awarded a $1,500 American Indian Studies Program Multicultural Achievement Scholarship at Eastern Washington University. Cheney High School teachers Julie Esquibel and Jeff Butler had been working with the Transition Mathematics Project in hopes of preparing students for college-level math courses. EWU’s journalism professor Bill Stimson had been the director of the project to rename Spokane’s Met Theater after the world famous Hollywood singer, Bing Crosby. 20 Years Ago...
Seventy-five years ago today, in 1941, the United States declared war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Feed Medical Lake joins Winter Festival festivities St. John’s Lutheran Church and Feed Medical Lake, 223 S. Hallett St., are hosting lefse and soup tasting, caroling and visiting with friends and neighbors Saturday, Dec. 10, from 2–8 p.m. as part of Medical Lake’s Winter Festival. Please return Monday, Dec. 12, for Feed Medical Lake’s regular monthly supper of meatloaf, Parmesan noodles, salad and decorating your own Christmas cookie. There will be stuffed, small Christmas stockings for the first 40 children through the doo...
Ronald Nelson McKinley, 81, of Cheney, passed away Dec. 1, 2016. Ronald was born to Frederick and Ida (Showalter) McKinley on Feb. 19, 1935, in Cheney. They lived and farmed on the Moss-Miller Ranch in northern Whitman County. He is a grandson of the late George W. and Mabel (Box) Showalter, who homesteaded in the Tyler area in 1894. Fred and Ida purchased Milton Showalter's farm in 1950 and moved to Amber. Ron attended Amber School until it consolidated with Cheney in 1949....
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Emmanuel Lutheran Church invites you to worship with us this Sunday, Dec. 11 at 10:30 a.m. You may also watch our pastor’s sermons at our website or on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Cheney. Christian education for grade school through adults begins at 9 a.m. Advent mid-week services continue on Wednesday, Dec. 14 with a soup supper at 6 p.m. followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 6:30 p.m. Please plan to worship with us on Christmas Eve at 5 p.m. for a traditional candlelight worship service. C...
StageWest Community Theatre has a winner in its Old Time Radio Theatre production of "The Littlest Angel" adapted by Judy Gross from the book by Charles Tazewell, and "The Gift of the Magi" also adapted by Gross from the short story by O'Henry. Gross, in her first effort at directing, has brought together an amazing cast of performers for this production, StageWest's publicity director, Nancy Kuonen, said in a news release. Johnny Spracklen, in his first ever role, brings to...
