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CHENEY – The Cheney Depot is undergoing a serious overhaul now that it has been moved. According to Susan Beeman with the Cheney Depot Society, the group has been working on remodeling the inside of the facility, and the plans may surprise some residents. "People may wonder what's going on with the depot," Beeman said. "It has been sitting and it may not look like much is being done, but there is a lot of work going on inside the building." She said project architect Terry M...
FOUR LAKES – The railway system serving Eastern Washington’s wheat industry in Adams, Lincoln, Whitman, Grant and southern Spokane Counties will be getting a facelift, thanks to $112 million in grants. The state Department of Transportation has been awarded s $72.8 million grant for the Palouse River and Coulee City Railroad Project. The grant, a product of the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration’s Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvement program, is dedic...
SPOKANE – In a showdown of top contenders in Greater Spokane League cross country between Mount Spokane and Cheney, the home-standing Wildcats had the exact recipe for success in a Sept. 20 meet. A 1-2 finish by the Wildcats was all that was needed to counter most any Blackhawks scenario in a 27-29 win. Kade Brownell’s 16:06.21 time for Mount Spokane led a 1-2 Wildcats’ finish with Parker Westermann next at 16:07.85. Calvin Hilton (16:14.76) was third with Cameron Frenk (16:48...
SPOKANE VALLEY – Central Valley girls got on the scoreboard first and stayed ahead of Cheney for a 16-4 win on Monday, Sept. 25. Th e Bears (7-6, 4-3 in league) scored one run in the bottom of the first inning and 4 in the bottom of the second before Cheney could get a runner home in the GSL slow pitch softball matchup. Cheney (2-8, 1-5 in league), scored one run in the top of the 3rd. But Central Valley put the game away in the bottom of the fourth with an 11-run rally to t...
KETTLE FALLS – One of the smallest schools in the annual Can-Am Invitational cross country meet was the biggest winner Sept. 23. The Valley Christian boys won the meet with a team low score of 36 points. Brewster was second with 52, Colville third with 69, Wellpinit fourth with 82 and Deer Park fifth with 105. Valley Christian junior Daniel Hisel paced the field, running the 5,000-meter varsity course in 19:29 to finish first. Teammate sophomore Chase Sturgis finished third in 19:59. And junior Kade Mariner was 9th in 2...
The Cheney School District with its nearly 400 square miles is one of the largest in the state of Washington. But for several months the past few years in the fall it's gotten quite a bit larger - nearly double - thanks to the welcoming a pair of soccer players to the Cheney High school soccer program. Without a place to play soccer at their home school - Liberty High in Spangle - Ellie Fisk and Grace Grumbly have been able to connect with the sport they've embraced since kind...
KETTLE FALLS – Little by little the pieces are beginning to fit together for Medical Lake cross country in 2023. With a rebuild in progress following graduation, the Cardinals are showing improvement each week, Coach Gene Blankenship said. That was most evident Sept. 23 where Medical Lake collected the girls team title at the Can-Am Invite. The Cardinals had a winning team low of 41 points to top Selah with 67 in second. Rounding out the Top 5 are Colville, 91; Deer Park, 1...
DAVIS, Calif. — Special teams blocked a field goal to preserve the lead late in the fourth quarter and Marlon Jones, Jr. delivered his second interception return for a touchdown in as many games. Those two plays proved critical as Eastern Washington recorded a 27-24 victory over University of California-Davis on the opening week of Big Sky Conference play. With less than 3 minutes to play, the Aggies moved the ball into Eastern territory but stalled at the 14-yard-line, s...
Davenport, 3-2, during a Class 2B volleyball match Tuesday, Sept. 19. Set scores were 17-25, 22-25, 25-23, 25-23,16-14. Kendall Denny led Liberty with 20 digs, 15 kills, 8 assists, 5 aces and 2 blocks. Devyn Cook added 11 kills and 3 blocks; Brooke redder had 20 assists and Zoe Omlin 20 digs and 2 aces. Chloe Hammond led the Gorillas with 10 kills and 5 aces; teammates Naomi Rainwater had 9 kills and Faith Bell and Koda Coffman had 17 and 15 assists, respectively. — Eagles drop conference home-opener CHENEY — Eastern Washingt...
Blackhawks junior Mia Ashcroft is tagged out at homeplate in the Sept. 25 game against the Central Valley Bears. The score of the game was not reported. ....
CHENEY – The girls soccer team saw its two-game winning streak snapped Sept. 25 in a 5-1 loss in a Greater Spokane League match at Gonzaga Prep. The league leading Bullpups (3-0 GSL/5-1 overall) built a 4-0 lead before Kylee Hahn connected in the 50th minute for the Blackhawks (1-2/3-4). The Blackhawks won earlier in the week in Greater Spokane League play, 4-0, over Central Valley on Sept. 20. And keeper Clara Browne strung together a second consecutive shutout in a Sept. 2...
By my count, since originally being hired at the Cheney Free Press in July 2007, Eastern Washington has played 97 home football games. While the overwhelming number of those have been played at either Roos — or before that Woodward Field — a couple have been neutral site “Showdown by the Sound” contests at Century Link, now Lumen Field. Seen ‘em all… well, almost. As of last Saturday’s 40-29 Eastern win over Southeast Louisiana — the Eagles’ home opener — I did some counting...
CHENEY – If there's one thing that is at the forefront of Cheney High School football's now 0-3 start in 2023 it's a single word that transcends virtually every part of what has happened on the field so far. Failing to finish is what head coach Bobby Byrd said best describes things. "It really came down to not being able to sustain drives and limit big plays on defense," Byrd wrote in an email. "The word that best describes what we need to do is finish." With Central V...
MEDICAL LAKE – Newport quarterback Hank Kirkwood had a hand in five scores, three on his own runs as the Grizzlies rolled past Medical Lake 45-13 in the opening of Northeast A League football play Sept. 14 at Holliday Field. Kirkwood passed for two scores and ran for another pair for Newport (1-0 NEA, 2-1 overall), which led 26-0 at halftime. Medical Lake's Cylas Puzycki scored the first ML touchdown on a one-yard run in the third quarter and Taylor Oliver threw to Andrew R...
COLFAX - Two of the Northeast 2B league's winless teams squared off Friday night, Sept. 15, here, with the visiting Liberty (Spangle) Lancers taking home the win. The Colfax Bulldogs would put up 14 points in the first half. But the Lancers put up 15. Neither team scored in the second half, and the Bulldogs fell to 0-3 on the season after the one point heartbreaking loss Friday, Sept. 15. The loss came at the Bulldogs' Homecoming. The Bulldogs were not without chances to win....
LEWISTON, Idaho – The Medical Lake girls cross country team finished third and the boys fifth in their divisions at the Les MacDowell Invite hosted by Asotin High School. The Cardinal girls have attracted statewide attention with a No. 5 ranking among 1A schools in the state coaches’ poll. “We just saw real good improvement (over the first meet at Hermiston, Ore.), Coach Gene Blankenship said. “We’ve still got some work to do to get back to state.” In girls varsity, Lo...
CHENEY - Conventional wisdom suggested that in order to earn its first win of the season the Eastern Washington football team needed to start fast. The Eagles did exactly the opposite, struggling with scoring in the first half, but finishing with a flurry to rally past 19th-ranked Southeast Louisiana 40-29 at sunny and warm Roos Field, Sept. 16. Eastern (1-2) scored twice in the final 1 minute, 34 seconds to erase a 29-26 Lions (0-3) lead with a Tuna Altahir 1-yard touchdown...
CHENEY – The difference between Cheney football's 3-7 finish in 2022 and earning a couple of additional victories was not a lot. A half-dozen additional touchdowns, perhaps? That's what Blackhawks head coach Bobby Byrd said is driving his team into 2023. "We've, for the most part, had the ability to start pretty well but now it's just finish, finish, finish," Byrd said. And that, he said, comes down to mental focus, better conditioning, and your discipline. This was on d...
GOLF Eastern finishes Golfweek Fall Challenge PAWLEY’S ISLAND, S.C. — The third round of the Golfweek Fall Challenge finished Sept. 12 where Eastern Washington women’s golf finished in 16th with a total score of 921. Kami Twining tied for 57th on the individual leaderboard, shooting 75 in round one and two. During the tournament, Twining had six birdies. Meghan Singh tied for 62nd, notching a 74 in the second round. Singh had seven birdies. Brooke Mahler opened the tournament with a 73 and had three birdies during the week....
YAKIMA – The Blackhawks boys and girls cross country teams dominated the Apple Ridge Run Invite on Saturday, Sept. 16, winning both divisions. Cheney won the boys division with a low team score of 20. Rounding out the Top 5 teams are Cedarcrest, second with 47 points, Walla Walla third with 55, and Moses Lake and Selah tied for fourth with 67 points. In the varsity girls team scores, Cheney had a winning team low of 26 points. Moses Lake was second with 51, Chiawana third w...
PULLMAN – The Cheney girls volleyball team struggled to keep up with the Pullman Greyhounds in a non-league match Sept. 7. The Greyhounds swept the Blackhawks, 3-0. Set scores were 25-18, 25-20, 25-15. The loss followed a season-opening win Sept. 5 at Clarkson. There, the Blackhawks downed the Bantams, 3-2. Clarkston won the first set 25-20, and the third set, 25-21. But Cheney won Sets 2,4 and 5, with scores of 25-18, 25-9 and 18-16, respectively. Since those opening g...
CHENEY – If there’s one good thing about fall and slow pitch softball at Cheney High School, head coach Gary Blake knows he’ll not have to contend with soggy fields. His challenge comes in getting the right numbers to field two teams. Original turnout stood at 23 but 26 to 30 is the number he strives to reach. Rather than having kids on the bench not seeing playing time, those numbers afford stocking a JV team. With numerous activities tugging at students, Blake dispels the id...
Cheney drops GSL opener Mount Spokane got two first half goals from Lily Romey in the 35th and 38th minutes to lead the Wildcats over Cheney in the Greater Spokane League soccer opener Sept. 18. Ellerie O’Regan got Cheney on the board with a goal assisted by Paige Evans in the 73rd minute. Clara Browne had 12 saves for the Blackhawks who were outshot 15-9. Earlier in the week Cheney scored a 6-0 non-league win over 2A Shadle Park as six different Blackhawks scored. Alex Miller (4th minute), Paige Evans (14th minute) and G...
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BASKETBALL: EWU women release 2023-24 schedule CHENEY — Eastern Washington women’s basketball is gearing up for the new season and released its full 31-game 2023-24 schedule. The Eagles will play their first regular season home game at Reese Court on Nov. 16 and host Gonzaga on Nov. 29. After an exhibition against Montana Tech on Oct. 29, the regular season begins on the road for the Eagles as they visit former Big Sky member Southern Utah Nov. 8. They’ll host Corban University on November 16 to open a 14-game home schedul...
