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CHENEY — The clean sweep project officially began at the Veteran’s Memorial Park on Saturday, April 15 at 9 a.m. Volunteers from around the city, including Boy Scouts of America Troop 356, turned out to assist with “polishing and shining” the area. Free disposal of household garbage, building materials and metals was offered at the Utility Building, 112 Anderson Road, and free, unmounted passenger tire disposal was available at Les Schwab; truck & farm tires. The shred event w...
CHENEY – Several local and nearby lakes have an abundance of trout available to catch, just in time for opening day Saturday, April 22. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has planted thousands of trout in area lakes, including West Medical Lake, Clear Lake, Badger Lake and Williams Lake. Williams Lake received the most fish, with the first plant taking place March 20. The state added 10,701 rainbow trout weighing less than a half-pound each that day. Then on March 2...
MEDICAL LAKE – The annual Fisherman’s Breakfast will take place Saturday morning, April 22, in conjunction with opening day of lowland lake fishing season. The breakfast runs from 4 a.m. to noon at the fire station, 124 S. LeFevre St. There is a cost for breakfast. The event is hosted by the Medical Lake Volunteer Firefighter Association....
CHENEY - For the first time in three years, the Lilac City Roller Derby faced off against an opponent, the Bellingham Roller Betties, in a full-scale game at Eastern Washington University. "This was our first game since Covid shut us down in 2020," Player number 51, Stranger Danger, Marketing Director for the Lilac City Roller Derby said. "It's hard to pinpoint the best thing about returning to the track in our community. The best thing might just be that, the community. It...
CHENEY - The Eastern Washington Eagles opened their 2023 spring football season at drizzly Roos Field on Friday, opening a month-long schedule that will culminate with the annual intrasquad Red-White game on Friday, April 28. Including the Red-White Game, the Eagles will hold 14 practices over 21 days. Despite the wet weather, excitement was high and energy palpable for an Eagles group looking to rebound from an uncharacteristic 3-8 season in 2022. "Those guys have taken it...
Cheney Free Press CHENEY — Eastern men’s tennis returns following a 7-0 deficit at home last weekend to Northern Arizona. Although the Eagles were shutout, they found some success in doubles play with with Steven Paz and Erik Sarlvik defeating Daniel Dillon and Dominik Buzonics 6-4. Paz also swung well in singles, winning his second set, 6-2 but came up short in the final set. Boise State holds a 16-4 overall and 2-0 Mountain West Conference record with a nine-match win streak. They are led by Luke Shields who enters his sec...
CHENEY — EWU assistant earns exciting opportunity after two successful years in Cheney. Eastern Washington men’s basketball assistant coach Mark Darnall has been hired as the next head coach of Jessup University in Rocklin, California, as announced by Jessup on Thursday. Darnall was an assistant under head coach David Riley for two seasons starting in 2021. “My family and I are so thankful to have been a part of such a special program at Eastern Washington,” Darnall said. “I can’t thank Coach Riley enough for challenging...
Medical Lake baseball was the lone West Plains team to have not taken a rest from competition during spring break, playing a non-league doubleheader against Reardan April 5. In a pair of games originally scheduled to be played at Holliday Field in Medical Lake, but moved due to poor playing conditions, the Cardinals swept both contests against the 2B Screaming Eagles 15-1 and 9-2. Played in swirling 30 mile-per-hour winds, the games saw Medical Lake win the first with a fast...
IRBY – Two racers from southern Spokane County were among the field of competitors April 2 at the annual Desert 100. Fairfield racers Hodla Brown and Thomas Gwinn were among the racers that completed the grueling race --only 472 of the 921 who started were able to finish. Brown raced to a 53rd-place finish overall and 16th in the 250cc class with a time of 4:21:44.258. Gwinn raced to a 108th-place finish overall and 23rd in the 30-39-year-old division, completing the Desert 1...
When Gary Blake first accessed his Blackhawks’ fast pitch softball team there were a great deal of unknowns. As he started his 20th season at the helm of the program Blake had yet to see his team on the field, nor did he even know what final numbers might look like. Now approaching the halfway point in the season and primed for the stretch run following spring break, there’s much more clarity. Back in late February there were 55 players on his list. But not all of those act...
SPOKANE — It began 42 years ago with an idea and 17 boys in the gymnasium at Medical Lake High School. On Saturday, April 8, at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, a projected 2,000 “little guy” wrestlers will compete at the Jason Crawford Memorial Tournament. It’s the first time in three years the massive tournament has taken place due to coronavirus shutdown mandates. Doors open for the event at 7 a.m. with admission $10. Named in honor of a young wrestler who was killed...
DEER PARK - The record-setting streak for Kyla Ramsey of Medical Lake continued, this time under far from ideal conditions at the Glenn Wolf Invite on March 31. The senior distance runner, who set a decades-old school mark in the 1,600 meters at the Ray Cockrum Relays on March 25 in Wenatchee, struck again with a best in the 3,200. Competing in what Coach Gene Blankenship termed "questionable conditions" of wind and rain, Ramsey's 11 minutes, 23.31 seconds broke what was a...
DEER PARK - The Medical Lake girls just didn't have the power at the plate to overcome Northeast A league-leading Deer Park during a game Friday, March 31. The Cardinals girls fastpitch team lost, 13-3, to the undefeated Stags (3-0 NEA, 6-0 overall) on the road. For the Cardinals, freshman Isabel Barry and senior Emily Sorey each had two hits out of the eight total for Medical Lake. Barry's both came on doubles, while Sorey had one for extra bases. Other hits came from...
SPOKANE — Cheney’s undefeated start of the 2023 baseball season has come to an end, but the Blackhawks may have just started a new one. After starting with seven consecutive wins, and going 5-0 in Greater Spokane League play, Cheney lost its first game 7-6, on March 31 at Gonzaga Prep. The Blackhawks later split an April 3 doubleheader at Central Valley, losing 7-3 before winning the second game 2-1. At Gonzaga Prep, the Blackhawks’ win streak came to an end on a nasty weath...
MARICOPA, Ariz. -Battling the elements, the Eastern Washington University women's golf team finished the third round of Wyoming Cowgirl Classic on Tuesday, April 4, ahead of three Big Sky schools. Facing winds of 30-40 mph, the Eagles finished the day with a score of 958. That put Eastern in 16th place, ahead of Montana with 960 points, Montana State wit h 963 and Portland State with 964. Senior Jaelin Ishikawa tied for 46th in individual competition. She posted a score of 78...
Members of the Cheney boys’ golf team that competed with 110 others at the Yakima Invite, March 31 at Apple Tree golf course in Yakima. (L-R): Kyren Fleming, Jake Vallance, Jeff Pike (coach), Alex Hinrichs, Treyson Little and Evan Stinson are pictured at the signature hole, No. 17 “The Apple.” Cheney’s Vallance was his team’s top scorer, finishing fifth with a 78. That was four shots back of West Valley of Yakima’s Brady Komstadius at 74....
SOCCER: Medical Lake wins first match NEWPORT — The Medical Lake boys soccer team earned its first victory of the season March 30, topping Newport 5-4. The win comes after a 3-2 overtime loss March 28 at Deer Park. Maverick Rasmussen scored four times and Kaden Rudy the game winner at Newport (0-3 NEA, 0-3 overall) for the Cardinals (1-2, 1-7). Against Deer Park (4-0, 4-0) the Cardinals had the lead in the first half 2-1 on a pair of Rasmussen goals before the Stags mounted a comeback where Parker Russell’s second goal won...
SOCCER: Cheney win streak halted Lewis and Clark broke a scoreless halftime tie and went on to go home with a 3-0 Greater Spokane League soccer victory March 27 in Cheney. The Tigers’ win snapped a three-game winning streak for the Blackhawks’ who earlier in the week earned victories against East Valley (4-0, March 20), West Valley (1-0, March 21) and University (1-0, March 24). No details were available from the East Valley match. But in the other wins, the Blackhawks got goals from Nic Alderson vs. West Valley in the 75th m...
The Cheney Blackhawks got some timely hitting early in and solid pitching to finish last week still undefeated in Greater Spokane League baseball play. Cheney won a pair of GSL contests over Mead, 7-5 on the road March 21 and 8-5 March 23 at home. The Blackhawks then routed Lewis and Clark 12-1 at Hart Field March 24 in a game shortened to five innings due to the 10-run rule. With Tyler Ashcroft going 2 for 3 with a pair of runs-batted-in, Cheney scored six runs at their...
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The Cheney Blackhawks got some timely hitting early in and solid pitching to finish last week still undefeated in Greater Spokane League baseball play. Cheney won a pair of GSL contests over Mead, 7-5 on the road March 21 and 8-5 March 23 at home. The Blackhawks then routed Lewis and Clark 12-1 at Hart Field March 24 in a game shortened to five innings due to the 10-run rule. With Tyler Ashcroft going 2 for 3 with a pair of runs-batted-in, Cheney scored six runs at their...
It’s now all business for Medical Lake baseball following the conclusion of their 2023 pre-season with a 3-3 record. The Cardinals used a doubleheader sweep of 2A Rogers of the Greater Spokane League as a final tune-up prior to the start of league play this week. Medical Lake defeated Rogers 12-4 and 14-3 on March 21 at Holliday Field where head coach Austin Sharp got one final shot to tinker on a few things. In the definition of playing “small ball” — the art of placing...
The Medical Lake track team returned from the Ray Cockrum Relays in Wenatchee with a number of personal records but one set of very special numbers. Cardinals' senior distance runner Kayla Ramsey broke the school's 28-year record for the 1,600 meters, March 25 at Wenatchee High School. As the senior crossed the finish line ahead of a trio of other local competitors in a time of 5 minutes, 18.51 seconds she eclipsed the long-held mark of Cardinal Athletic Hall of Fame member...
Cheney track collected a pair of first place individual titles, plus a number of top-3 finishes in competition at the Ray Cockrum Relays, March 25 at Wenatchee High School. The distance medley team of Adam Estock and sophomores Cameron Johnson, Cameron Frenk and Calvin Hilton combined for a time of 10 minutes, 51.84 seconds to win the event. The effort was one second away from a school record, reported head coach Derek Slaughter. In the 4x100 throwers relay Clara Browne, Marie...
Rosalia High School senior Riley Gering launches the javelin during the 1B league-opening track meet Tuesday, March 21, at Valley Christian School in Spokane Valley. Gering finished fourth at the meet with a distance of 114 feet 8 inches. Rosalia track and field athletes next compete Tuesday, April 11, at Pomeroy....
