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In a season marked by a handful of rallies on the way to an 11-2 record, Eastern Washington took last Saturday's to another level. Trailing by a point with 1 minute, 13 seconds to play, the Eagles traveled 75 yards in just 47 seconds - the final 35 yards covered by Sam McPherson for the deciding touchdown with 26 seconds to play - scoring a 34-29 Football championship Subdivision quarterfinal playoff game win over the University of California-Davis at Roos Field. Eastern is... Full story
In a season marked by a handful of rallies on the way to an 11-2 record, Eastern Washington took last Saturday's to another level. Trailing by a point with 1 minute, 13 seconds to play, the Eagles traveled 75 yards in just 47 seconds - the final 35 yards covered by Sam McPherson for the deciding touchdown with 26 seconds to play - scoring a 34-29 Football championship Subdivision quarterfinal playoff game win over the University of California-Davis at Roos Field. Eastern is... Full story
In a season marked by a handful of rallies on the way to an 11-2 record, Eastern Washington took last Saturday's to another level. Trailing by a point with 1 minute, 13 seconds to play, the Eagles traveled 75 yards in just 47 seconds - the final 35 yards covered by Sam McPherson for the deciding touchdown with 26 seconds to play - scoring a 34-29 Football championship Subdivision quarterfinal playoff game win over the University of California-Davis at Roos Field. Eastern is... Full story
A national player of the year award was probably the furthest thing from the mind of Roldan Alcobendas when he was laying on a high school soccer field in the spring of 2013 and on the turf at Bobcat Stadium in Bozeman, Mont., a year-and-a-half later. But after two knee surgeries and more rehabilitation work than most people can endure, the sixth-year senior has been recognized for his perseverance and accuracy as the 2018 recipient of the Fred Mitchell Award. The...
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announced its WIAA/Wendy’s Athlete of the Week winners for Week 14 (Nov. 25-Dec. 1) on Wednesday, Dec. 5, and a West Plains athlete is one of those selected. Alex Stith, a senior at Medical Lake High School and a member of its basketball team scored 29 points on a 10 of 13 shooting performance in last week’s 76-68 loss to Okanogan. He knocked down 9 of 13 from the free-throw stripe, to go along with 21 rebounds, inc...
Medical Lake’s boys basketball team plans to hang its success this season on the ability to use speed to counter size. But as they split their final nonleague games last week, conditioning and depth might be another foe that third-year head coach Noel Nachtel needs to take into consideration. Medical Lake (2-2) went on the road where they faced a pair of 2B schools, handily defeating Davenport 82-46 on Dec. 4, but losing 73-50 to St. George’s, Dec. 6. “St. Georges, in my opini...
It took until March 2 last season for the Medical Lake girls to suffer their first defeat. But after just the second week of the 2018-19 season, that is no longer an issue after the Cardinals split a pair of non-conference basketball games against 2B teams. In a pair of road games prior to the start of play this week in the Northeast A League, Medical Lake defeated Davenport 72-58 Dec. 4 before losing to St. George’s 45-30 on Dec. 6. “They were a good team and outplayed us,...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Thursday, Dec. 13, EWU at Univ. of San Francisco, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, EWU at Stanford, 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18, EWU hosts South Dakota State, 6:05 p.m. Women Friday, Dec. 7, EWU at Boise State, times TBD. Friday, Dec. 14, EWU vs. Oregon State at Maui Classic, 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, EWU vs. UC-Riverside at Maui Classic, 2:30 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Dec. 15, EWU hosts FCS semifinal playoff...
The Cheney High School gymnastics team snagged the fifth-place spot in their meet at Shadle Park High School on Dec. 6, showing potential despite much of the team being ineligible to compete due to a lack of practices thus far this season. “Only a few newbies competed and we didn’t quite have enough for a varsity line-up, so we had to take two zeros in vault and bars,” head coach Jamie Frucci said. For young gymnasts to compete at the high school level, they must attend at least 15 practices, instead of the 10 required by mo...
A thin bench and some hot shooting led to a trio of losses last week for the Cheney High School girls basketball team. The Lady Blackhawks suffered their first loss of the season at Post Falls Dec. 4, 69-49, and followed that with two setbacks at home, 56-50 to Freeman on Wednesday, Dec. 5 and 77-54 to Clarkston on Friday, Dec. 7. Clarkston hit 12 3-pointers against Cheney — shooting almost 50 percent from beyond the arc — including their first two shots of the second half, turning a 38-25 lead into a 44-25 advantage. The...
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor Cheney High School boys basketball head coach Gregg Smith believes his team learned how to win close games last season thanks to its relatively deep playoff run. That experience may have manifested itself for the first time this year last Friday night as the Blackhawks withstood a late charge by the visiting Clarkston Bantams to preserve a 60-53 Great Northern League win. “That pays off with confidence,” Smith said of last year’s experience. Th...
No. 4/3 ranked Eastern Washington University vs. 12/14 University of Maine Black Bears, Saturday, Dec. 15, 11 a.m. Roos Field (8.600). TV: ESPN2. Radio: 700-AM ESPN and 105.3-FM in the Spokane/Cheney area. Larry Weir returns for his 28th season calling the play-by-play, with analysis handled by Paul Sorensen for the 16th year. Broadcasts begin one hour prior to kickoff and include an expanded post-game show....
The University of Maine and Eastern Washington will meet for the first time as far as is known in an athletic event when the Eagles and Black Bears tangle Saturday at Roos Field in a Football Championship Subdivision playoff semifinal. The two schools are geographic opposites, one in the far Northeast and Eastern well into the Pacific Northwest. Located in Orono, just over 3,000 road miles east of Cheney on Interstate 90, and then north on I-95, the primary freeway that travel...
In a season marked by a handful of rallies on the way to an 11-2 record, Eastern Washington took last Saturday’s to another level. Trailing by a point with 1 minute, 13 seconds to play, the Eagles traveled 75 yards in just 47 seconds — the final 35 yards covered by Sam McPherson for the deciding touchdown with 26 seconds to play — scoring a 34-29 Football championship Subdivision quarterfinal playoff game win over the University of California-Davis at Roos Field. Easte...
CHENEY Dec. 3 Domestic violence/verbal dispute was reported on the 100 block of Fifth Street. Third-degree theft was reported on the 900 block of Third Street. A computer was taken from a vehicle. A 13-year-old male was arrested for second-degree assault and a 14-year-old male was arrested for fourth-degree assault at Cheney Middle School. Residential burglary was reported on the 2800 block of Oxford Lane. A purse with credit cards and identification along with a Smith and Wesson 9 millimeter Shield firearm were taken....
The Cheney Festival of Trees, hosted by the Marketplace Bakery & Eatery, has grown in only its second year. See the story on page 10....
The Spokane County Medical Examiner has confirmed the identity of the woman who died as the result of a Nov. 23 vehicle accident on Assembly Road. Felia Sharkey, a 34-year-old mother of two, was travelling south and was killed when her car left the roadway and struck a tree near the intersection of Assembly and Tamarack roads. The crash was reported at about 7:30 a.m., and though sheriff’s deputies and firefighters performed emergency medical procedures, Sharkey was pronounced dead at the scene. No other vehicles were i...
The second annual Cheney Festival of Trees has proven to be such a success — and it’s not even over yet — that coordinator Lori Musgrave is already planning next year’s event. The owner of the Marketplace Bakery & Eatery said she already has several local businesses and organizations confirmed to provide trees and gifts next year, and have also selected a charity to receive the proceeds. This year’s organization receiving 100 percent of what is raised by the raffle is the Ch...
The city of Airway Heights has not yet reached a wage agreement with its Public Safety Guild, and it looks like that discussion could stretch into 2019. At the City Council’s Dec. 3 meeting, members heard the first reading of an ordinance to set the 2019 salaries for city employees. Local 270A workers and non-represented employees other than the city manager and department heads all received a 3 percent wage increase effective the first of the year. However, an agreement with the Public Safety Guild, which works with f...
