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EAST WENATCHEE – The Cheney girls capped off play in the GESA Winter Shootout at Eastmont High School with a win and now have one more tune-up before the start of Greater Spokane League play when Ferris visits Jan. 4. “Last week in Eastmont was great for us,” Coach Meredith Richards wrote in an email. “Our record for the tournament didn’t portray the amount of learning and adjusting and ‘team play’ that I saw on the court for all three games.” The Blackhawks got 12 points e...
The Liberty (Spangle) boys and girls basketball teams played Freeman and Colfax. The boys lost both games, 70-45 to Freeman on Dec. 18 and 56-49 to Colfax on Dec. 19. The girls bested Freeman, 49-41, but lost to Colfax, 48-42. The Liberty girls travel to Medical Lake to take on the undefeated Cardinals at 3:30 p.m. today, Dec. 28. Pictured Lancer Cooper Thomas drives against Lind-Ritzville in a Dec. 12 victory....
SPOKANE VALLEY – Cheney wrestlers emerged from the day-long Tri-Country Classic on Dec. 21 with a variety of solid finishes. Tops for the Blackhawks was Shadrach Mason at 150 pounds who finished third. Mason, who won his first three bouts, his first two by fall. He won his third by an 8-7 decision over Carsen Buenzli of Medical Lake. He lost his fourth to Jameson Davis of Selkirk, by fall 4-0 in 4:19. He capped the day with a pair of wins, including a pin of Mead’s Tyler Van...
EAST WENATCHEE – The Cheney girls capped off play in the GESA Winter Shootout at Eastmont High School with a win and now have one more tune-up before the start of Greater Spokane League play when Ferris visits Jan. 4. “Last week in Eastmont was great for us,” Coach Meredith Richards wrote in an email. “Our record for the tournament didn’t portray the amount of learning and adjusting and ‘team play’ that I saw on the court for all three games.” The Blackhawks got 12 points e...
BASKETBALL Husky rally tops Eagles SEATTLE — The three-game winning streak for Eastern Washington’s men’s basketball team ended Dec. 21 at Alaska Airlines Arena at the University of Washington, but not without a battle to the end. A late cold shooting spell proved costly as the Eagles fell short, losing 66-73 to the Pac-12 Huskies. Down 23-14 midway through the first half, Eastern (4-7) responded with a furious 17-3 run and took a 1-point lead into the break, 40-39. Dane Erikstrup scored 12 of his team-leading 17 point...
SPOKANE – Six West Plains wrestlers brought home medals Saturday, Dec. 23, from the M2 Mallett girls tournament at Rogers High School. Kariyah Storbel won the girls 140-pound division for Liberty (Spangle) and Ireland Chodorowski won the 145-pound class for Cheney. Three area girls brought home silver, including Cheney's Grizzell Ramos at 110 pounds and Jalisca Holmgren at 125, and Liberty's Alexis Taylor at 155. Cheney's Jennifer Tian finished fourth at 110 pounds. The C...
SPOKANE – Three Liberty boys brought Top 3 medals home from the M2 Mallett wrestling tournament on Saturday, Dec. 23, at Rogers High School. Wrestling at 175, Liberty teammates Clae Holling and Joey Matherly faced off in the title bout, with Holling claiming gold and Matherly silver. At 150, Maddex Strobel brought home a bronze medal. Holling and Matherly came faced different competitors on their way to the championship bout. Holling received a buy and then pinned three oppone...
EAST WENATCHEE – Call it an early Christmas present if you will for Cheney boys basketball coach Travis Peevey. The four-game winning streak the Blackhawks find themselves riding has Peevey sounding like a kid who got just what he wanted from under the tree. Cheney returned home from the Eastmont’s 2023 GESA Winter Shootout with wins over Monroe, 58-46, on Dec. 20, Wenatchee — again — 59-24, on Dec. 21, and Spanaway Lake, 62-55, on Dec. 22 to push its record to 5-4 followi...
Medical Lake had a pair of wrestlers win championships at the Tri-County Classic on Dec. 21 at Central Valley High School in Spokane Valley. True Cole improved his season record to 18-3 with a win at 215 pounds, pinning Skyler Harty of Central Valley in 4:30. Hudson Raulston (17-3) took the 126-pound title for the Cardinals, also winning the title bout by fall in 1:13 over Sam Drake of Kettle Falls....
RITZVILLE – The Liberty (Spangle) boys and girls basketball teams brought home wins Dec. 12 over Northeast 2B rival Lind-Ritzville/Sprague. The boys won, 68-57; the girls, 51-41. In the boys game, a fourth quarter Liberty rally lifted the Lancers to victory. In that quarter Liberty put up 22 points, but the Broncos could only muster 9. Lance Williamson led all scorers with 22 points for the Broncos. Liberty’s Thomas Domrese led his team with 21. In the girls game, the Lancers came out on fire, racking up a 13-point lead in...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Cardinal girls basketball team sits at a perfect 7-0 as the 2023-24 season gets into its serious stage. Considering the Cardinals have been through the changes authored from having been guided by three different coaches in as many seasons, this early success is quite satisfying for ML’s latest bench boss, Yeta Holloway. “Every game, the bond between coach and player grows,” Holloway wrote in an email. The schedule was light leading into the holiday break las...
SPOKANE VALLEY – The Medical Lake boys basketball winds down the preseason with a pair of games this week last the West Valley tournament in Spokane knowing at least a couple of things to be true. In their 2-6 start under new Coach Brett Ward, the Cardinals have already doubled the win output of the entire 2022-23 season. And one of those victories put them at 1-0 in Northeast A League play. “I’m happy with our league win,” Ward said. “That’s the most important record and we a...
CHENEY – Saddled with limited numbers, Cheney gymnastics had a bright spot emerge Dec. 13 in the season’s first Greater Spokane League meet. Co-op team member Makaila McKenney of Medical Lake finished third in vault with a score of 8.225, behind the 8.975 from Jacquie Bonnett of Mount Spokane. “(Makaila) did really well at her first meet,” Coach Melissa Linton said. “Vault is one of her strongest events. She works hard at it and is currently working on upgrading to an even m...
— Editor’s note: Yet another controversial year in determining the four teams who will play for the national championship of the Football Bowl Subdivision is at hand. We revisit a column written in December 2011 that suggested a possible way to construct a true playoff based on rankings and utilizing the existing bowl games. It’s not unlike the Football Championship Subdivision in which Eastern Washington plays.) Roos Field sat in the evening chill, dark but silhouetted by th...
More than 100 girls participated Dec. 13 in the second league wrestling meet at Liberty High School (above). And on Tuesday, Dec. 19, the number increased to nearly 150 wrestlers, including the growing Cheney Blackhawks team, which now has 13 girls. At right, Cheney's Crysta Rice uses an arm to pull Kettle Falls wrestler Kendra McGovern to her back in a 155-pound match. Rice won by pin; her first-ever victory on the mat....
COEUR d’ALENE, IDAHO -- Two Spangle wrestlers won matches at the Tri-State tournament Friday, Dec. 15. Ren Wakai went 1-2 at the tournament at 132 pounds. Clae Holling went 2-2 at 170 pounds. Wakai pinned Quinton O’Bannon of University in 1:10, but lost to Drayden Gaither of Moses Lake and Talin Kerr of Anacortes. Holling pinned Robert Ochoa of Richland in 2:25 and Aram Garnick of Royal in 1:37. He lost to Hunter Taylor of Chiawana (Pasco) and Noah Holman of Gonzaga Prep....
CHENEY -- The Blackhawks boys basketball team split a pair of non-league games last week, losing Dec. 12 at Lewis and Clark, 59-43, before topping Shadle Park, 61-52, at home Dec. 16. Once again, a slow start sunk the Blackhawks (2-4) into a deep hole. LC’s 16-5 edge in the first quarter set the stage for the Tigers to lead 33-20 at half. “It’s never easy to play from behind early like we did at LC,” head coach Travis Peevey wrote in an email. “We have to come ready to play a...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Medical Lake girls' basketball team ran its preseason record to a perfect 6-0 following wins last week against Greater Spokane League Rogers, Northeast A League Newport and 2B St. Georges. Using a dominating third quarter and outscoring the Prates 25-4 to break a 21-all tie at halftime, the Cardinals won going away 63-32 at Rogers, Dec. 12. Medical Lake capped the week with a 40-24 win against NEA foe, Newport, Dec. 15 and 46-30 at St. Georges', Dec. 18. A...
CHENEY – In what might be termed their toughest week of wrestling outside what could occur in February at district, regional and state competition but Cheney exited the gauntlet with a number of plusses. Wrestling on back-to-back nights on Dec. 13-14, the Blackhawks came away with a split in Greater Spokane League competition, losing to Mount Spokane 42-34 before handling Central Valley by the same score. To cap the week the Blackhawks were at the Tri-State tournament in Co...
Kyman named the Big Sky Player of the Week FARMINGTON, Utah — Eastern Washington University guard Jake Kyman has been named Big Sky Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week, as announced by the conference on Dec. 12. Kyman paced the Eagles in their important 73-68 road win over the Air Force Falcons on Saturday, scoring a career-high 25 points for the second consecutive game. The grad transfer sharpshooter shot 6-for-10 from the field and 4-for-6 from beyond the arc while converting 9-of-10 chances from the free thr...
At this time of the year, I usually take time to reflect on the several years I was associated with the game of football. Contrary to what some people think, football coaches teach their players much more than how to block and tackle. Coaches are teachers who use football as a vehicle to instill in their players the essential attributes of character, citizenship, and ethics. My first coach had instructions for almost every occasion. He would recite them and post different ones in the locker room. My favorite was, “Focus d...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Cardinal boys basketball team had a pair of one-sided losses wrap themselves around a win last week. While the Cardinals were thumped by Greater Spokane League, Rogers 70-26, Dec. 12 and 2B St. George's, 73-35, Dec. 18, they did win handily in their Northeast A League opener vs. Newport, 57-37, Dec. 15. "They punched us in the mouth," head coach Brett Ward wrote in a text message regarding Rogers, which led 21-5 after the first quarter. Trailing at halftime...
SPOKANE — The Cheney girls let Shadle Park have the lead for one quarter last Saturday afternoon before shutting the door on the visitors to claim a 58-44 non-league basketball victory, Dec. 16 at home. The win, Cheney’s second of the season in six games, gave them a 1-1 record for the week following a 43-30 loss at Lewis and Clark, Dec. 12. The Blackhawks trailed 15-14 to the Highlanders (0-5) after the opening eight minutes but then gave up just 11 points in the next two...
NEWPORT - Ian Steege brought home a silver medal Saturday, Dec. 16, from the Newport JV tournament. Wrestling at 190 pounds, he opened by pinning Lincoln Koyama of Ferris in 1:11 and then Payton Hauser-Plumb of Hanford in 48 seconds. In his third bout, he won by medical forfeit over teammate Ivan Rolle of Medical Lake. In his fourth match, he lost by technical fall, 24-9 in 4:00) to Dillon Mareth of Deer Park. He then pinned teammate Ethan Bales of Medical Lake in 2:21 in his...
CHENEY - Cheney wrestling's first match was a short road trip to compete in the Medical Lake Scramble, Dec. 2. The Blackhawks finished in seventh place with 97 points behind champion Lewis and Clark taking home the team title with 160. Sixteen wrestlers competed for the Blackhawks and four finished in the medal rounds. They included Aiden Carr second at 120 pounds and Chazz Gray at 285, both earning runner-up finishes. Wyatt Wells at 175 was third while Mason Bridges was...
