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CHENEY — The Cheney High School Blackhawk Band Parent Booster donated a 20-foot trailer to the high school band program, April 26. The parent booster is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to ensure that the band program stays strong and well-supported within the Cheney School District. All students, families, and staff members involved in these various performing ensembles are valuable assets to the Cheney community and School District. Last year, the organization successfully purchased a semi-trailer to provide s...
Cheney's Jamel Chabot is in a race with the ball to home plate May 1 at North Central in the Blackhawks' final regular season Greater Spokane League baseball game at Ryne Sandberg Field. Chabot beat the throw and successfully completed a third inning inside-the-park home run giving the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead. Cheney would eventually win 16-1 as the Blackhawks scored 13 runs in the top of the sixth inning to blow things open. Cheney won its final six games to finish 14-6...
To some, baseball is the furthest thing from being a game of inches. There’s 90-feet between bases, it’s 60 feet, 6 inches from the pitcher’s mound to home plate and it generally takes a minimum of a 300-foot-plus shot to hit a home run. But for Medical Lake last week in a crucial Northeast A League game at Colville, the difference between a Cardinal victory and the eventual 6-5 walk-off win by the Crimson Hawks April 29 was mere inches. Earlier in the season Medical Lake...
Medical Lake track and field is getting very much used to life on the road riding buses. The Cardinals completed a busy week with competition in the Northeast A League at Newport April 26 where the boys lost to Lakeside 94-50 and the host Grizzlies 73-71. ML's girls lost to Lakeside 93-57 and Newport 103-28. Over the weekend the squads were split with 16 athletes - eight boys and girls each - traveled to Bellevue for the Shoreline Invitational, while another 24 ventured to...
Cheney track and field picked up a number of event wins, but team victories eluded the Blackhawks April 27 at Central Valley in a Greater Spokane League meet. In the boys’ competition, Central Valley topped Cheney 85.5-59.5 and NC prevailed 74-71. Central Valley won 95.5-49.5 in the girls while North Central edged Cheney 77-73. Braxton Hinton won in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes, setting a personal record with a time of 11:10 in the 100. Calvin Hilton’s 4 minute, 25....
Left, midfielder Samuel Woller heads the ball downfield during the first half of the April 26 game against Central Valley. Above, Defender Tyler Benson goes way up to knock the ball away. The Blackhawks lost 5-1....
Cheney Free Press CHENEY — Eastern Washington football wrapped up the penultimate week of their 2023 spring schedule with an energetic 70-plus play scrimmage on Saturday morning at Roos Field in Cheney. Both sides made an impact on the day, with the shorthanded defense catching eyes with several stops in or near the red zone. Despite only listing 33 rostered players with several of those unavailable entering the scrimmage, the defense stepped up with a strong performance, forcing three field goal attempts and securing two t...
SPOKANE – The Blackhawks track and field team collected solid individual finishes April 22 at the Mooberry Relays at Rogers High School, enough to deliver notable team finishes. The Blackhawk girls topped the podium in the 4X100 throwers’ relay and the javelin relay to secure a second-place team finish, 76.32-71 to Mount Spokane. Cheney’s boys had runner-up finishes in the 4X1600 and 4X100 which was good for fourth, also trailing Mount Spokane, 116.5-66. Clara Browne, Maria...
Cheney High School played at Ridgeline April 20, winning the game 7 to 1....
SPOKANE – The shorthanded Medical Lake track team still made more history at the Mooberry Relays held April 22 at Rogers High School in Spokane. Named for Jack Mooberry, a hall-of-fame coach at Washington State from 1945-1973, the event features both track and field events and draws entrants of all sized schools from across the region. “It was an interesting day, unfortunately it is our prom night so we got there with maybe half of our team,” head Coach Gene Blankenship said....
CHENEY – The girls fastpitch softball team crafted a two-game winning streak and has won four of its last five outings through April 21, doing so in some dramatic fashion. Rebounding from a 13-0 rout at the hands of Mount Spokane April 18, the Blackhawks crafted an improbable win over Ferris, 16-15, April 20 before finishing the week with a 14-9 victory at Lewis and Clark April 21 in Grater Spokane League play. Mia Ashcroft drove in the winning run with a walk-off single as p...
MEDICAL LAKE – There might be plenty to forget about since the Medical Lake baseball team returned from spring break and they’ve lost five of the last six Northeast A League games. But that lone win might just stand out not just this season, but may be reflected upon for years to come? The past week saw the Cardinals lose at Freeman 11-8, April 18 and split with Lakeside (Nine Mile Falls), winning 1-0 before losing 9-1 in the second game, April 22. In that opener at Hol...
CHENEY - The 2023 season came to a close on April 23 for Eastern Washington men's tennis. The team hosted Weber State at the Jim Thorpe Fieldhouse, falling 6-1, in the final match of the season. Eastern finishes its season with a 4-13 overall record and 0-7 in conference. The Wildcats end the season 12-9 on the year and 5-2 in conference. Prior to the match, Eastern honored senior Bruno Ortega as he played his final two matches for the Eagles. Eastern opened winning...
BASEBALL: Cheney snaps winless streak Cheney’s seven-game baseball losing streak came to an end last week as the Blackhawks earned a pair of Greater Spokane League wins over Ridgeline. With Jacob Ulrich stroking a pair of hits, and Quinn Hubbs pitching a complete game while limiting the Falcons to just four hits, the Blackhawks won at home 7-1, April 20. The following afternoon in Liberty Lake, it was Hubbs’ bat that did the damage with a pair of hits, including a double, as Cheney won 8-6. Cheney scored five runs in their ha...
Cheney's senior keeper Austin Benson made this first-half save on a breakaway try by Gonzaga Prep's Vettle Harbuz in a Greater Spokane League match played April 19. The effort preserved a scoreless tie, but not for long as the Bullpups scored three first-half goals on the way to a 5-0 win...
EWU track athletes honored Eastern Washington University’s Hally Ruff and Bobby Say have each been named Big Sky Conference Track and Field Athletes of the Week for the week ending April 16. It is the second such honor for both Eagle student-athletes this season after both received the same recognition during the indoor season. Ruff, a pole vaulter out of Walla Walla in her fifth season of competition as an Eagle, set a new personal best over the weekend, clearing 4.07 meters (13’ 4.25”) to earn 10th at the Beach Invit...
Cheney Track and field piled up some notable performances in a pair of events last week. Returning to competition following spring break, the Blackhawks ventured back into the Greater Spokane League on April 13 as well as at the very crowded field in the Van Kuren Invitational, April 15. Cheney's boys lost to host Mount Spokane 105-40, but topped Ferris by a similar wide margin 105.5-43.5. Th Blackhawk girls were defeated by Mount Spokane 91-59 but tied Ferris 75-all in the...
Medical Lake's Taylor Oliver beats a Colville runner to the base in the Cardinals Northeast A League 5-3 loss vs. Colville, April 11 at Holliday Field. A.J. Michaud is the other ML player in the photo. A two-run home run by Colville's Fox Bateman in the top of the fifth inning provided the visitors their deciding runs. Bateman also pitched in the game striking out eight Cardinals....
Medical Lake welcomed Lakeside in a Northeast A League tennis match on April 17 with the Eagles going home with a pair of wins, 3-2 on the boys' side and 4-1 in girls' competition....
Decades of experience has provided Medical Lake head track coach Gene Blankenship with very solid insight on his teams. So, it came a little bit by surprise when his teams snuck away from a Northeast A League meet in Deer Park on April 12 with an unexpected victory. His Cardinal boys and girls each defeated host Deer Park, but not Freeman, as Blankenship had thought might happen. Freeman won easily, 101-43 on the boys’ side but Medical Lake edged Deer Park 76-67. F...
BASEBALL: Cheney struggling After jumping out to a perfect 7-0 record, Cheney baseball has hit a wall following spring break, losing five of six. The Blackhawks had dropped five of their last six including contests April 11 by a 17-0 count to Mount Spokane, and then April 13, also to the Wildcats by an 8-1 score. University won 6-3 April 14. Carter McPherson and Brayden Martin had Cheney’s lone hits in the shutout loss while Jamel Chabot got Cheney’s hit in the net game. Tyler Ashcroft and Coleman Randles each had a pair of h...
CHENEY — The culmination of Eastern Washington women’s golf effort comes together next week as the team travels to compete at the Big Sky Championships in Scottsdale, Ariz. The championships began on Monday, April 17 and concluded Wednesday, April 19 at the Talking Stick Golf Resort. The group heading to Scottsdale includes Jaelin Ishikawa, Brooke Mahler, Carisa Padilla, Meghan Singh and Kami Twining. Singh will be the first Eagle on course on Monday, teeing off at 7:50 a.m. Pacific Time, with the rest of the team fol...
BOSTON, Mass. – A Tekoa native won the Boston Marathon’s Women’s Wheelchair Division on Monday, April 17. Having placed in the Top 5 in the division on previous Boston Marathons, Susannah Scaroni, 31, cruised to victory with more than 5 minutes to spare. Scaroni won the race in 1:41.45, finishing ahead of Madison DeRozario and Wakako Tsuchida, who were second and third respectively. Scaroni’s best finishes previously were second in 2018 and third in 2014, 2015 and 2017, a...
CHENEY — Eagles return from California with bounty of new top marks and momentum. EWU enters the home stretch of the 2023 outdoor season with less than a month left until conference championship The Eastern Washington University Track and Field team wrapped up a highly competitive weekend late on Saturday night, returning to Cheney from the greater Los Angeles area with several new season-bests, top-10 marks in the Big Sky Conference and movement on EWU’s all-time outdoor performance list. The teams competed at the Pac...
Pair of Eagles earn weekly honor after clearing conference-leading marks in California Cheney Free Press CHENEY — Eastern Washington University’s Hally Ruff and Bobby Say have each been named Big Sky Conference Track & Field Athletes of the Week for the week ending April 16, as announced by the conference on Monday afternoon. It is the second such honor for both Eagle student-athletes this season after both received the same recognition during the indoor season. Ruff, a pole vaulter out of Walla Walla, Wash. in her fifth sea...
