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League play for the Medical Lake boys’ basketball team begins next Tuesday so ready or not here comes Northeast A play. “We kind of set up our schedule to mirror who we would play,” head coach Arnold Brown said. “It’s kind of working out OK,” as his Cardinals are 2-2 through games from last week. They played at Colville this past Tuesday in their final tune-up contest before their league debut at Kettle Falls Dec. 18. The Cardinals split their games last week, beating Reardan...
Senior guard/forward Eric Igbinoba had a career night with 30 points while sophomore Keenan Williams dominated the rebounding glass as the Cheney Blackhawks got a little salve for their wounds from two straight losses with a 72-46 drubbing of visiting Freeman last Friday. The Blackhawks held the Northeast A Scotties to just one point in the first quarter, building a 33-17 halftime lead behind Igbinoba’s 15 points and were never seriously threatened after that. The senior a...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The Medical Lake girls’ basketball team will have the momentum of a good start in non-league play behind them as the Cardinals begin Northeast A League play next Tuesday at Kettle Falls. As of games through last week the Cards are 3-1 following a 50-17 win over Royal City last Tuesday and 35-31 at Deer Park last Friday. Medical Lake played a game this past Tuesday night at former Great Northern League foe Colville. “They are traditionally a strong basketball program and that will be a good tes...
Patricia Conrath is the week-10 winner of the 2012 Cheney Free Press football contest, taking the top spot and a $50 merchant’s gift certificate in a tiebreaker. Runner-up is Russell Shepherd who wins a $20 Owl Drug gift certificate. This week’s top finishers, along with David Ophus, Jay Lemaster, Bernie Duenwald, Connie McCombs, Robert Pierce, Joseph Edwards, Tucker Edwards, Tony Bowe, Leroy Lemaster, Jim Reiha, Jaunita Whaley and Rob Tyson all beat the Free Press experts and were entered in the grand prize drawing. Tha...
Nailing their first five shots of the game, the Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team went on to beat Boise State, 74-63, last Thursday at Taco Bell Arena. Eastern was led by sophomore Lexie Nelson’s 20 points. With the win, Eastern snapped a two-game losing streak against the Broncos. The Eagles are now 3-5 heading into their Big Sky Conference debut Dec. 20 at Weber State....
By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter Now that its first two matches in the books, the Cheney High School wrestling team has made some great strides in establishing its senior leadership. The team traveled to Aberdeen for a Dec. 1-2 tourney against a large number of regional teams, and walked away with a several first-place wins and close finishes. Out of the 18 on the trip, 16 took part in the tournament. Taking first place in their weight class were Vern Sanderson at 145 pounds, and Zac Corean at 220 pounds. Second-place wrestlers...
Nick Reed at 106-pounds and 220-pounder Christian Koele each finished third as Medical Lake took a bare-bones team to last Saturday’s Ephrata Invitational. “We did not have our full varsity, some were taking their ACT tests and others were hurt,” head coach Sam Petersen said. Both Reed and Koele finished with 2-1 records. Reed’s wins came by pins while Koele got a pin and an 11-2 major decision. Ricky Petersen at 138 and Taylor Dormaier at 152 pounds each finished fourth,...
The ends were the same. The means to those ends in a pair of Reese Court games, however, were different. Eastern Washington University’s men’s basketball team lost a pair of non-conference games this past week, 81-79 to the University of Idaho in overtime last Thursday and 75-69 to visiting Seattle University this past Monday. In the loss to the Redhawks it was sour shooting that dropped Eastern’s season record to 2-7. Seattle U (3-3) shot 50 percent from the field, but the E...
