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TRACK: Eastern to host Big Sky Indoor event at Podium FARMINGTON, Utah – The Big Sky Conference, in conjunction with Spokane Sports and Eastern Washington University, has announced that its 2024 Indoor Track and Field Championships will be held at The Podium Powered by STCU in Spokane. The meet, featuring the best and brightest men’s and women’s competitors in the Big Sky, will take place from February 22-24, 2024. “We’re thrilled to partner with Spokane Sports and Eastern Washington to make this possible and can’t wai...
MEDICAL LAKE — The city has hired a new Parks and Recreations director who has previous administrative experience. Glen Horton, 33, of Spokane, was hired May 15 and already working on several projects. Horton previously worked as the recreation program supervisor for the city of Airway Heights. “I lived in Medical Lake when I was younger, but now I live in Spokane,” Horton said, noting he became interested in the field in college. “I went through the recreation division at Eastern Washington University and got a part-ti...
Ridgeline won the slamball tournament held in Reardan over the weekend, beating the Tonasket Tigers 56-35 on Sunday....
ST. JOHN - Thirty-five sprint boats hit the water of Webb's Slough on Saturday, June 17; only three went home with checkered flags. The high-speed sprint boats competed in three classes – modified, 400 and unlimited – for the best time and bragging rights from the first weekend of racing in Whitman County this season. The Cheney-based Pour Decisions team wasn't among those with the checkered flag. But Jason Perkins, 42, of Cheney and Eli Gurske, 17, of Spangle did finish thi...
It was a memorable regular season for the West Plains Little League organization and hope is it will continue in the upcoming post-season? The group, which celebrated its milestone 20th anniversary, did so with great interest from both players and volunteers. “We tried to elevate things a little bit and make it a special 20th season,” WPLL President Stacy Ashcroft said in a June 19 interview. Some 650 kids played on various teams, helped along the way by 120 official vol...
Seventeen members of the Medical Lake High School's spring sports teams, as well as two coaches, received Northeast A All-League honors. Thoese being named to the All-League team are, from left, front row, Girls golf Coach Jerry Orenelas; second row, Isabel Barry (softball), Kali Rowe (golf), Madi Spring (golf), Kayla Ramsey (track) and Chiche Okemgbo (track); third row, Mason Satko (tennis), Isabelle Rhoads (tennis), Andrew Roberts (baseball) and Austin "A.J." Michaud...
SPOKANE – The Spokane Cannons lost a pair of non-league games they know they should have likely won June 12 at home to Missoula, Mont., but have since followed with six consecutive victories, including four in their West Plains Father’s Day Tournament at Holliday Field. On each end of that streak were Area 3 AAA Division wins that improved the Cannons’ record to 9-0 in league play. The Cannons, with a roster heavily populated by Medical Lake and Cheney players, are 15-4 overa...
CHENEY – With the close of the 2022-23 school year the revolving doors are spinning and moves underway in both Cheney and Medical Lake with administrators and coaches. Cheney will see different faces in both the athletic director’s chair and for girls’ basketball as Tim Kennedy vacates the AD chair and moves into a vice principal’s role. His replacement is former girls’ basketball coach Ken Ryan. At Medical Lake the churn comes inside the basketball program where Jordan St...
REARDAN--The Medical Lake high school girls basketball team was eliminated early in bracket play after battling at the Reardan Slam Ball Tournament June 16-18. The Cardinals were one of 12 varsity teams competing in the tournament hosted by Reardan High School and organized by Reardan head coach Bob Swannack. Ridgeline High School won the tournament, defeating Tonasket in the championship game. Host Reardan fell to Tonasket in the semifinals....
LIND –– The West Plains made its presence felt Saturday, June 10, during the annual Lind Lion's Club Combine Demolition Derby. The annual Lind Lions Club's Combine Demolition Derby was literally a smashing success, raising funds for local projects. Farmers from across the state brought their battle-ready combines to Lind to see which which would still be running at the end of a weekend of festivities. William Mann of Sprague drove the Ritzville-based "Suds" and Cody Kulm of...
The 100-day plan for Tim Collins to place his initial brand on the job of Eastern Washington University begins July 15. Collins was selected as EWU's 17th athletics director by EWU Trustees and will be officially introduced at a press conference June 22, beginning work several weeks later. During his public forum June 1 at the Catalyst Building in Spokane, Collins touted his "100-day plan" where he plans to meet one-on-one, one-on 10 or with as many people as it takes to help...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – With a lifelong passion for martial arts, and a drive to teach others, Adam Smith has opened his third facility for SMASH Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to serve the West Plains region. According to Smith, he saw a need here and after having seen success with his other locations in Spokane Valley and Deer Park he wanted to bring this opportunity to Airway Heights. Originally the 34-year-old martial artist got involved in karate at 5 years old, and that was because S...
CHENEY – During its Greater Spokane League season in 2023 the Cheney Blackhawks' baseball team finished third in league play and had a significant post-season run. The plan during summer in American Legion play for the Summer Hawks AA team to continue to fine tune things for 2024. "I am doing advanced double A which is more like your varsity team going into play," Summer Hawks head coach Rob Beamer said. While first-team All-GSL players Quinn Hubbs (Spokane Expos)and Jamel Cha...
MEDICAL LAKE – Lance Michaud saw a need when he arrived in Medical Lake for duty at Fairchild Air Force Base as its Food Superintendent in 2019 and he filled it. Now the West Plains has an additional bridge to fill what was a baseball gap with the formation of the Medical Lake Dirt Dawgs Single-A American Legion team. "I came up here from Vegas and, you know, they have good club ball down there," Michaud said. His son, A.J., played year-round, minus the three months he took of...
AAA The Spokane Cannons conținued to remain undefeated in AAA American Legion play with a 6-0 record following a pair of wins over the Northstars. The team with a large contingent of Cheney and Medical Lake players won on the road 12-2 at Rogers High, June 1 and 7-2 at Holliday Field in Medical Lake the following day. The Cannons lost a non-league game to the Spokane Expos 7-5, May 30. A six-run fifth inning broke a 2-2 tie and the Cannons went on to ad a pair of runs in the...
MALDEN – After more than two weeks on the trail, the John Wayne Pioneer Wagons and Riders Association completed its 45th 200-mile, cross-state trek Saturday, June 3. The riders hopped on their wagons and horses in Easton on Thursday, May 18. Since, they've traversed Kittitas, Grant, Kittitas and Whitman counties on what the state calls the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. Locals along the way have a different name for it – through Adams, Southern Spokane and Whitman cou...
Tim Collins came into the search effort to become the next athletics director at Eastern Washington University as one of three finalists. Not long after his on-campus interviews June 1 and a public forum that followed in Spokane, Collins was suddenly one of just two seeking to follow the retiring Lynn Hickey in the AD seat. Elizabeth Jarnigan, who was to have gone through the same process June 5, withdrew from the pool that also included Jim Sarrá, Jr. Jarnigan accepted the po...
CHENEY – Want to go fishing at one of the area lakes but don’t have a license? Well, this weekend you’re in luck as “Free Fishing Weekend” opens state waters for anglers who don’t have a license. But if you don’t have a license, be careful what you catch this Saturday and Sunday, June 10-11. Game wardens will be on the lookout for fishermen catching salmon, sturgeon and steelhead in Eastern Washington waters without a license. That’s because state bureaucrats in Olympia have changed the rules relating to Free Fishing Weekend...
MEDICAL LAKE – State-planted trout are competing with goldfish for food in the four West Medical Lake ponds. As a result, state officials want use Rotenone in the ponds to eradicate the goldfish population. Although goldfish are the “target species” of the “naturally occurring” poison, Rotenone is highly toxic to all “gill-breathing organisms, state documents on its use show. Before poisoning the ponds – formed with the water level in West Medical Lake declines in warmer months – the state Department of Fish and Wildlife wa...
The basics of the game of baseball are the focus of Cheney Summer Hawks A American Legion team head coach Aaron Rockey insists. Wins and losses will take precedent later in the game he says but for now it's learning on all levels. Rockey, a 2003 Cheney High School grad, and who has coached the better part of the prior two decades, is back as head coach after spending the past couple of seasons in what he called intermediate Little League. "I had a few of these kids on that tea...
CHENEY – In a career that spans nearly three decades, Jim Sarra Jr. has been in positions of many levels with institutions both small and large. He’s battled through the ever-present challenge of fundraising and marketing with what he termed a “10-million-pound gorilla” as his chief competition for money and fan support. Sarra is experienced in dealing with the NCAA over compliance and when all the T’s are not crossed and I’s dotted what happens then. And, perhaps, so...
AAA CHENEY – The possible journey back to the Senior American Legion baseball state tournament for the Spokane Cannons has at least gotten off in the right direction. The AAA Legion team that draws heavily from Cheney and Medical Lake to fill its roster has begun the season with a 4-0 league record - 5-1 overall - following the start of ALB Spokane competition. "It's a pretty good start for not playing to the best of our abilities," head Coach Austin Sharp wrote in a text mess...
CHENEY – Caitlin Shaffer established a pair of personal records to go with four titles as the Cheney track and field athlete returned from the state 3A championships in Tacoma at Lake Stevens High School with the biggest haul of hardware. Shaffer, who competed as the lone entry in the wheelchair division, set a PR at 27.21 seconds in the 100-meters as well as in the javelin where her 12-foot throw was also a winner. Just a freshman, Shaffer also won the 800-meters in a time of...
HIGH SCHOOL GOLF: Vallance plays state 3A golf CHENEY – Blackhawks senior Jake Vallance ended up tied for 29th out of 142 players at the state 3A golf championships played at Indian Summer Country Club in Olympia. Vallance shot an 81 the first day followed by a 77. COLLEGE TRACK: Say off to NCAA Championships CHENEY – Eastern Washington University triple jumper Bobby Say is peaking at the right moment. The Eagle star set a new outdoor career best with a jump of 15.84 meters (51’ 11.75”) to finish sixth at the 2023 NCAA Di...
Medical Lake track and field was tripped up taking the final steps to the top spot on the podium at the 1A state track meet May 25-27 at Yakima's Eisenhower High School. Last fall's state champion in cross country, Reid Headrick, and an odds-on favorite for yet another gold medal, had his opponent, Bodie Thomas of Vashon Island out kick him in the final stretch to win the 3,200 meters by just over two seconds. Thomas, a freshman, turned in a personal record time of 9 minutes,...
