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Its name comes from the most unlikely source. The solitude that surrounds it is immense. And the ever-changing river corridor scenery is, perhaps, unparalleled? A just right El Niño winter weather pattern where the storm track punishes California sometimes rewards whitewater rafters with both perfect water and weather on Oregon’s Owyhee River. Flowing 280 miles, the headwaters of this river originate in northern Nevada with the Owyhee’s name derived from an original spel...
YAKIMA — The Liberty (Spangle) girls fastpitch team finished the season with a single loss. This week, the Lancers (22-1) will have an opportunity to show they deserve a shot at the state Class 2B title. The No. 5-ranked Lancers charge into the Gateway Sports Complex for the state fastpitch softball tournament Friday, May 24. They open tournament play at 10 a.m. on Field No. 3 against the No. 12-ranked Lake Roosevelt Raiders (18-5) from Coulee Dam. The Lancers are the top team out of the Northeast 2B League; the Raiders f...
YAKIMA - Medical Lake is sending six athletes to the state 1A track meet at Zaepfel Stadium this weekend. But it could have been a bigger number, lamented head Coach Gene Blankenship following the District 7 meet May 17 and 18 at Riverside High School. The Top 2 finishers from each event qualified to compete at Eisenhower High School's Zaepfel, but had a state qualifying number been attained they, too, would have been able to attend. As it stands the Cardinal girls are...
MEDICAL LAKE - His vacation lasted just about a week, if that, before Medical Lake baseball Coach Austin Sharp turned his focus to a summer job of running the AAA American Legion Cannons. Newly named as the West Plains Cannons - opting to drop Spokane from the title - the team opened its bid to return to the state playoffs for a fourth consecutive season May 19 with a non-league game 7-6 win at home against River City of Post Falls. Cheney's Brayden Martin drove in the...
CHENEY - The Cheney Blackhawks were playing some pretty good baseball recently, just not good enough to extend their season. Cheney (10-14) was ousted from postseason May 11 following a 9-6 loss in district play to Mount Spokane where they were unable to quell the Greater Spokane League co-champ Wildcats. A five-run fifth did in the Blackhawks who were led by Clayton Wood's two hits and three RBIs. That game followed Cheney's 7-0 win over University earlier in the day where...
CHENEY — There will be plenty of cheering to be done for Cheney athletes during this week’s state 2A, 3A and 4A track and field championships at Tacoma’s Mount Tahoma High School. The Blackhawks are represented in a dozen events following District 8 championships staged last week at Central Valley High School. “We had a better year at districts this year,” head coach Derek Slaughter wrote in an email. “It wasn’t 100 degrees and we had one more allocation for state.” The Greater Spokane League — a.k.a. District 8 — was...
DEER PARK — The Cardinal girls golf team competed May 6 in sub-districts at the Deer Park Golf Club. For Medical Lake, Madi Griffis finished second with a score of 85 on the par 72 course, and Kali Rowe finished third with a score of 88, Coach Jerry Orenelas reported. Brooklynn DeVore finished 11th with 104; Madi Spring finished tied at 14th with 108. Trinity Shull finished tied at 23rd with 116 and Kristen Dickey finished at 24th with a score of 120 Several of the girls team members also competed last week in the Kalispel C...
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Paced by several medalists, the Eastern Washington University women finished eighth and the men ninth in the Big Sky Championships on May 10-11. The Eagles were paced by Caitlin Simmons, Cody Teevans and Savannah Schultz. Simmons won the long jump and triple jump. Teevens captured silver in decathlon and Schulz bronze in pole vault. “She did it again,” university track and field director Erin Tucker said. “The ‘jump queen’ shows up when the lights come on.” Simmons continues to separate as the top jumper in...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Twenty years ago, Medical Lake’s Garrett Johnson had completed one of the most storied wrestling careers in the history of the Cardinal program having won three consecutive state titles. Fast forward to the last weekend of April and Johnson proved he’s still a force on the mat having captured two national championships in competition at Las Vegas, Nevada. It was there that Johnson won his weight class at the U.S. Open Championships Greco competition April...
The Spokane Stealth lacrosse team, which includes players from Cheney, Medical Lake and Rosalia, is headed to the Washington State Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association playoffs. Pictured, Halley Little of Cheney (No. 7) plays in a recent game against Sandpoint, Idaho. Other West Plains girls on the team, not pictured, include Keely Fournier of Rosalia, Brooklyn Gerry of Medical Lake and Megan Stapleton of Cheney....
CHENEY — Cheney registered its fourth complete game in as many outings at Ridgeline in a District 8 playoff game on May 4 and beat the top-seeded Falcons 9-1. Quinn Hubbs struck out six and scattered just three hits for No. 8 Cheney broke a 1-1 tie with a three-run fifth. The Blackhawks added three more in the sixth and two in the seventh and will play Southridge at Kennewick, May 7. Carter McPherson had a pair of hits for Cheney (9-12) while Clayton Wood and Hubby each had a...
CHENEY — It’s time for Noah Prophet to get back to the other half of his life — the portion that is not soccer. With the Cheney boys’ season finished following a 1-0 District 8 playoff loss at Southridge of the Mid-Columbia Conference on May 5, Prophet will get back to helping his father in the business they own. “My father and I run a small construction company that does home accessibility work,” Prophet explained. They install wheelchair ramps, zero entry showers, do door wi...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Cardinals baseball season came to an end following a 4-1 loss to Colville in a loser out playoff game May 4 at Holliday Field. The Cardinals closed out Northeast A League play April 30 scoring the winning run in the top of the seventh in a 4-3 win at Newport. Medical Lake (7-5 NEA, 11-11 overall) finished fifth in the regular season which earned them the meeting with No. 4 seed Colville. Colville (11-11) jumped to an early lead scoring twice in the first...
MEDICAL LAKE - Just what are most 80-somethings doing regularly these days other than probably making sure their meds are in order? Likely not what Gene Blankenship and Gary Blake do? Both currently spend large parts of the days fueling their passion as coaches molding better young people. Blankenship, the senior of the pair at 82 guides the track and cross-country programs at Medical Lake High School. Blake, who just turned 80 in April, has coached Cheney softball since...
MEDICAL LAKE — The boys soccer team pushed its winning streak to seven as the Cardinals scored a 5-0 victory over Newport, May 2 in a first-round playoff game. Mavrick Rasmussen had three goals and Kaden Rudy two for Medical Lake (9-3 NEA, 11-6 overall) which had a 3-0 lead at the half. Alex Grubaugh earned the shutout for the Cardinals who faced Riverside, May 7 with berth into the district championship game May 9 at Whitworth University on the line. Meanwhile, the Cheney boys were eliminated, losing to Ridgeline, 5-0, a...
SPOKANE — Justin Krasselt shot a two-under 70 leading Cheney to a six-stroke victory May 6 in the Inland Empire Invite at Indian Canyon Golf Course. Other notable finishes from include Ryan Howe 76 (tie 3rd) Kyren Fleming 80 (t12) and Trey Little whose 83 tied him for 21st. Cheney had one final Greater Spokane League match May 7 and the Kalispel Invite, May 9 before District 8 play at MeadowWood on May 15 and 16....
CHENEY — The girls softball team will take a strong finish into this week’s District 8 playoffs. The Blackhawks raced past North Central 19-1 on May 3 to conclude league play and have won seven of the last 10 games to land in third place, earning a No. 8 seed. Maya De La Cruz and Reese Scholle combined for a one-hitter. Adrian George was 3-for-4 with 3 RBIs and Mia Ashcroft 3-for-5 with a pair of RBIs. Cheney (12-8, 12-6 in league) traveled to Kennewick to face Southridge (14-6) May 7. The teams play in a modified double eli...
SPOKANE — The game plan last week for Cheney fastpitch softball played out just as Coach Gary Blake hoped. The Blackhawks got the wins they knew were possible, 14-2 over Ridgeline and 8-7 on the road at Mead. The 20-0 loss to undefeated Greater Spokane League leader University was not unexpected. As a result, Cheney’s 10-5 record is tied with Mead for third-place and the Blackhawks remain well-positioned for the postseason with three games to play. “We did what we needed to do,” Blake said. “We won the two games that we n...
The Spokane Stealth select girls lacrosse team wrapped up its season Monday night against Sandpoint in a battle at the Southeast Sports Complex in Spokane. The team includes several players from Cheney and Rosalia. Additional information was unavailable at press time....
SPOKANE — Cheney baseball put an end to a three game Greater Spokane League losing streak last week in a memorable manner. The Blackhawks earned back-to-back wins over Ferris, 10-3 and 6-3, and then North Central, 14-4 with pitchers all notching complete games. Quinn Hubbs tossed a three-hit, 10 strikeout game April 23 in Cheney against the Saxons (2-15). He added his bat to the mix, too, stroking a pair of hits — including a home run – while scoring twice and driving in a pair of runs. Tate Heuschkel had three hits while...
PULLMAN — Cheney boys golf competed in a pair of tournaments last week, one a non-league and the other in Greater Spokane League play. At the non-league event, played April 25 at Palouse Ridge in Pullman, the Blackhawks finished eighth with a 29-over par. Kamiakin from Kennewick won at seven-over. Individually for Cheney Ryan Howe shot a 77 and got a 79 from Brayden Anderson, 80 from Blake Kernen and 81 from Kyren Fleming. In the Greater Spokane League’s fourth match and concluding of the season was played at Qualchan in wha...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinals boys soccer team completed regular season Northeast A League play the way one wants with postseason in grasp by keeping a winning streak alive. The Cardinals concluded the NEA schedule with sixth straight wins following a 3-1 victory at Deer Park, April 23 and a 2-1 overtime decision at home vs. Lakeside, April 27. “The run is a result of senior leadership and the desire to make it out of our league and on to the state tourney,” assistant coach Dan Collins wrote in an email. That senior leade...
MEDICAL LAKE - The boys baseball team did what it needed to do to earn a spot in the Northeast A League playoffs. Following a split in which they lost to Deer Park 13-3 on April 23, topped Riverside 7-0 on April 27 and played at Newport on April 30, the question remains just who and where the Cardinals play next? With Lakeside's 9-2 record a lock for first-place, four other teams battled this week for positioning with a potential four-way tie entirely possible between Medical...
Cheney track and field competed in its next-to-last Greater Spokane League meet April 26 with the boys scoring a pair of easy wins and the girl’s narrow losses. The Blackhawks’ boys topped Ferris 107-38 and Ridgeline 90-55 while the girls lost to Ferris 74-66 and Ridgeline 71-69. Later in the week, both teams competed at the Shoreline Invitational where the Blackhawk boys were sixth out of 44 teams and girls seventh in a 50-team field. “It was a great senior night, but we were gearing up for Shoreline, so most kids only...
