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If Indiana is the holy grail of hoops, North Carolina can't be far behind. A year after playing and winning at college basketball legend Indiana, the Eastern Washington University men's basketball team will make its first-ever trip to play twice in another mecca of basketball - the state of North Carolina - in the Gotham Classic presented by the Gazelle Group. Eastern will play three games in six nights on its East Coast swing that started Wednesday (Dec. 9) when Eastern met...
The Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team goes on the road for two games, taking on Cal State Fullerton on Sunday, Dec. 13 and Wichita State on Tuesday, Dec. 15. The Eagles (4-4) are coming off a close home victory against Utah Valley, 68-64 on Thursday, Dec. 3. Junior Ashli Payne recorded her first double-double of the season, scoring 16 points on 3-of-6 shooting from three-point range, while collecting 14 rebounds. Senior Hayley Hodgins led the team in scoring with 18 points on 7-of-13 shooting, while a...
CHS grad Pease leads Clark volleyball Kinsey Pease a 2014 Cheney High School graduate and a sophomore setter for the Clark College in Vancouver Wash. volleyball team, helped the squad to a second place finish out of the 16 team field in the NWAC Championships in Tacoma, Nov. 19 -22. Over the four day tournament the Penguins battled through seven matches (coming through the losers bracket) to get to the championship match against the 3 time defending champs, Blue Mountain College from Pendleton Ore. Billed as a David and...
Most of the time, Medical Lake boy’s head basketball coach Arnold Brown is able to make fixes and adjustments to tighten up his team’s defense. But there was nothing he could do in the Cardinals’ Dec. 5 opening night 60-52 nonleague loss at home to the 2B Liberty Lancers. While his team limited the Lancers to just 13 field goals — a notable effort Brown said — the visitors from Spangle attempted 49 free throws. Medical Lake shot 31, still a significant number from the strip...
The Medical Lake girl’s basketball team got balanced scoring from senior Bradyn Wegner and sophomore Makayla Geiger and won their opening game of the season in a 54-43 nonleague victory over Liberty, Dec. 5. “Anytime you get a win it’s a good thing, especially first game of the year, it builds confidence,” head coach Kyle Lundberg said. The Cardinals started slow, getting outscored 11-5 in the opening quarter but got the offense in gear the final three quarters. “We had some...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Friday, Dec. 11 EWU at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14, EWU at Western Carolina, 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, EWU hosts Morehead State, 6:05 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20, EWU at University of Denver, noon. Women Sunday, Dec. 13 EWU at Cal State Fullerton, 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15 EWU at Wichita State, 5:05 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, EWU hosts Abilene Christian, 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21, EWU hosts Boise State, 6 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL BAS...
Cheney Care Center resident Elinor Best was selected as the grand prize winner in the 2015 Cheney Free Press football contest and wins a $50 merchant’s gift certificate. Best’s name was drawn from the pool of entries throughout the season who beat our Cheney Free Press “experts” over the 10 weeks of the contest. Thanks to everyone who took part in this year’s contest and we hope to have you all back next September....
Turnovers and fouls were what kept the Cheney High girls basketball team from posting its first win of the season last weekend. The Lady Blackhawks committed 21 fouls in a 45-36 loss at Reardan on Thursday, and another 18 fouls to go with 31 turnovers in a 60-54 loss Friday at Freeman. Foul trouble against the 2B classification Indians hampered several players, including sophomore post Kristie McGourin, who Lady Blackhawks head coach JT Johnson said is the team’s “energizer” but was limited in playing time with four fouls...
College football’s bowl season is almost upon us and I couldn’t resist the urge to comment. This year we have new wrinkles to the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision’s annual feeding frenzy at the money trough. With the addition of three new bowls this year, it was necessary to come up with 84 teams to fill those slots. There are only 128 teams at the FBS level. The numbers game means there were good odds several bowls would have to invite teams possessing a sub-.500 record, and indeed there are three such teams headed to post...
The Cheney High wrestling team kicked off its season with a few high notes, most notably Michael Ferguson winning the 285-pound division at the Deer Park Invite, Dec. 5. After a first-round bye, Ferguson tore through his bracket, pinning Royal's David Lopez in the quarterfinals, fellow Blackhawk Garrett Pederson in the semi-finals and Freeman's Joey Sims in the championship round. All three of Ferguson's pins were under a minute. Ferguson spent most of last season at 220...
It's been quite a 10 year run for former Eastern Washington University linebacker J.C. Sherritt. Sherritt capped things Sunday, Nov. 29 in Winnipeg, Man., where, as a member of the Edmonton Eskimos, he will now have his name inscribed on Canada's famed Grey Cup, much as hockey players do with the Stanley Cup. Edmonton's 26-20 victory over the Ottawa RedBlacks completed a stellar season for the Eskimos, a great comeback for Sherritt, and a decade in which he's won a state high...
In their first two forays onto the hardwood this season, the Cheney High boys’ basketball squad didn’t fail to produce in the hard work department. What the Blackhawks now need to do is bring the intensity head coach Gregg Smith said they possessed in their season opener to each and every game. Cheney’s intensity was something that hosts Reardan High School simply couldn’t match last Thursday, Dec. 3. The Blackhawks dominated every aspect of the game from start to finish in blitzing the 2B Indians 73-32 in the opener....
Visitor's to the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge's annual Winterfest auto tour last Saturday were treated to a variety of wildlife including elk and swans near Cheever Pond....
Workers’ comp rates to increase 2 percent in 2016 TUMWATER – The state Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) announced Dec. 1 that the average base rate Washington businesses pay for workers’ compensation insurance would increase by 2 percent in 2016. Washington businesses and employees pay workers’ compensation premiums to help cover the cost of providing wage replacement and disability benefits, as well as medical treatment of work-related injuries and illnesses. The money also goes toward building reserves to protect...
