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If Dan Estock can transfer his passion for the game of tennis into what happens on the courts for the Cheney High School boys’ team the Greater Spokane League might watch out. In his third year guiding the program after taking over for long-time coach Jessie Erickson, Estock is working trying to build things back after the toll COVID-19 took on his program. And Erickson has been there every step it seems. “He’s a pretty fantastic guy to have on your side,” Estock said. ...
In their National Invitational Tournament second-round battle with the Oklahoma State, Eastern Washington ran out of bullets. Playing at home in Stillwater, March 19, the Cowboys shot the ball well while the Eagles did not and claimed a 71-60 win at Gallagher-Iba Arena. Eastern advanced to this second-round game following its 81-74 win over Washington State on March 14 in Pullman. The Eagles, who regularly shot at or near 50 percent from the field in most of their games, were...
BASEBALL: Medical Lake opens tossing no-hitter Medical Lake’s first time on the field in 2023 will forever be memorable as Luke Dickey and Griffin Marshall combined to throw a 12-1 no hit win on the road against the Connell Eagles, March 14. Medical Lake lost the second game of the doubleheader 6-5 in a contest called after five innings. The Cardinals finished the week with 9-8 loss at Greater Spokane League Ridgeline, March 17 and 12-2 the following day at Ferris. “(Marshall) kind of came out of nowhere throwing pretty har...
The learning curve was a bit rough in 2022 for then first-year Cheney girls’ tennis coach Linnea Love. With victories that could be counted on one hand, Love, who played in the Greater Spokane League at Lewis and Clark — later in college before returning home — knows the scales tilt towards Spokane. “It’s been challenging because the teams we play are a lot more competitive,” Love said. That’s mainly a matter of resources such as numbers and facilities. “There’s more...
CHENEY — A 6-point lead with less than a minute to play was not enough to protect top seed Eastern Washington from possibly the biggest upset in Big Sky Conference tournament history March 3 in Boise. Northern Arizona raced the length of the court following a missed free throw by Steele Venters with 8 seconds remaining and Oakland Fort launched a long-range fall-back shot as time expired to give the ninth seeded Lumberjacks an 81-80 victory stunning the regular season champs. Eastern, which was seemingly unbeatable heading i...
History will tell you that Medical Lake head track and field coach Gene Blankenship is never shy at making bold predictions like foreseeing success. But as he approaches the 2023 season the veteran leader who has overseen immense accomplishments for the Cardinals in both track and cross country is playing his cards close to the down vest he might wear navigating the winter weather that does not want to let go. Already more than a week into preparation for the season,...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University and its athletic director, Lynn Hickey, are being sued by basketball coach Wendy Schuller. The lawsuit accuses the university and Hickey of age and gender discrimination. In a court filing Feb. 7, Schuller’s legal representatives outlined factors for the lawsuit. Among them are a pattern and practice of age and sex discrimination in employment, and in education and athletic opportunities, unequal pay, and unequal access and inadequate women’s facilities, according to Spokane Count...
CHENEY - There appear to be no "supply chain" issues when it comes to Cheney High School baseball in the 2023 season. "We have 77 kids signed up," fifth-year Coach Rob Beamer reported, meaning there will be plenty of players to fill every nook and cranny of the program. That's a significant uptick from Beamer's first season. "My first year I think 45 kids signed up," he said. "Then each after that, we've had 70 to 80." That will help stock varsity, junior varsity and even a...
MEDICAL LAKE - Building things is second nature to Medical Lake baseball coach Austin Sharp. Because when he's not teaching the game, Sharp is in the construction business where from time to time he likely has to improvise. That is the perfect skill required for Cardinal baseball which is regularly short on players. "Right now, our numbers are about as low as I've ever had them," Sharp said. "We've got 26 signed up, but my upper classes are just very light. I have five total k...
CHENEY - Eastern Washington earned a notable consolation prize in the 2023 post season following their 81-80 upset loss to Northern Arizona in the Big Sky Conference tournament, March 5 in Boise. As regular-season Big Sky champions the Eagles were guaranteed a berth in the 32-team National Invitational Tournament and were to face a familiar opponent, the Washington State Cougars on March 14 in Pullman. It will be a rematch opportunity for the Eagles as they faced the Cougars...
MEDICAL LAKE — Leave it to Medical Lake’s track team to get the jump on other spring sports which have been shackled by a seemingly unrelenting winter. The Cardinals had to travel to Yakima to run and jump, competing at the Eisenhower High School Jamboree, March 11, but doing so with some notable successes. “Despite the fact that we have not been able to practice much outside, we had several excellent performances,” head coach Gene Blankenship wrote in a Facebook post. The non-scoring event produced a pair of victori...
SPOKANE VALLEY — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife will host two public meetings later this month to inform fishermen of planned changes to Lake Roosevelt’s white sturgeon season. The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, at Fish and Wildlife Region No. 1 headquarters, 2315 N. Discovery Place, Spokane Valley; and 6:30 p.m. Thursday, march 23, at the Agriculture Trade Center, 317 W. Astor Ave., Colville. Each meeting will consist of a presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. Sin...
SPOKANE — The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is encouraging young hunters to complete hunter education before youth turkey hunting season opens. The youth season-opener is April 1 and general spring turkey season opens April 15. “Now is a great time to complete hunter education because we are holding more in-person classes before the spring turkey hunting seasons,” hunter education Manager David Whipple said. “Completing hunter education early in the year ensures that hunters can participate in turkey season and oth...
On Sunday, the brackets for the 2023 NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament were announced. This year’s tournament will have the Gonzaga men and women and the Pac 12 women’s tournament champion WSU Cougars in the mix. I have had the opportunity to see a couple of men’s regionals and one women’s regional final and one NCAA men’s championship game. For all of the years that I have watched the tournament on TV, it is really special to get to watch the games live. The NCAA does try to make the event special and the regio...
Cheney High School's Alma Smith won the state 3A diving championship last week, the first title in the sport for the school. That was quite a feat in itself, but consider Smith's 338.05 to 316 win over Christopher Sellers from Bishop Blanchet High School came in Cheney's inaugural dip into diving. "The hardest dive was an inward two and a half somersault," Smith explained of the competition that is very much like whit is seen in the Olympics. Leading through both the...
Eastern Washington Track and Field secured four more medals in the final day of competition at the 2023 Big Sky Indoor Championships in Moscow, Idaho on March 4, winning gold in the men’s pole vault and men’s triple jump. A day after Eagle women Savannah Schultz and Hally Ruff finished first and third in the women’s pole vault, the pair of Zach Klobutcher and Brayden Freitag went first and second on the men’s side to continue EWU’s dominance of the event. Both tied — along with Montana State’s Colby Wilson — at 5.05 meters...
After a historic regular season that included a Big Sky record 16-0 start to conference play, record-tying 18-game overall winning streak and the fifth regular season Big Sky Championship in program history, Eastern Washington men’s basketball was recognized with several 2022-23 Big Sky Conference honors announced March 3. Guard Steele Venters was named Most Valuable Player and head coach David Riley earned Coach of the Year. Additionally, guard Angelo Allegri was named to the All-Conference First Team and forward Ethan P...
PASCO — Fishermen can expect more Coho, Chinook and sockeye salmon to return to the Columbia River and its tributaries this season. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s forecast is based on environmental indicators such as ocean conditions, numbers of juvenile salmon that migrated to marine waters and numbers of adult salmon that returned in past years. About 84,800 Upper Columbia River summer Chinook are forecasted to return in 2023, representing about 120 percent of the 10-year average return and higher than las...
Streaks are meant to be built and broken, but championships are forever. That might be some consolation for the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team which saw its Division-I leading 18-game winning streak come to an end last week. The Eagles, however, also clinched the outright Big Sky Conference championship and No. 1 seed in the upcoming league tournament. The Eagles went on the road where they secured the regular season title with an 89-82 win over Weber State in Ogden, Utah, Feb. 23. Two nights later the u...
Unknown Speaker 1:50 Oh, like how much are there? Winbond. Yeah, right. About I think a little over 20 points. So how is that considered a significant win, you know, by a major amount of major, you know, margin or is it kind of close or? Were you worried? Unknown Speaker 2:15 I was a little worried. To divers behind me did really well in the final round. Good enough to stay on top. There are five voluntary dives. Deep Dives. The degree of difficulty on those add up to nine....
Medical Lake's Hudson Raulston, right, earned runner-up honors in the 113-pound weight class at Mat Classic XXXIV, Feb. 18 at the Tacoma Dome. The Cardinal sophomore lost to champ Adan Estrada from Toppenish via a fall in 3 minutes, 50 seconds. Other Cardinal qualifiers were Gavin Chaffee, 285 pounds who finished 1-2 in his competition and Shadrach Mason at 138 pounds who went 0-2....
EWU mens' basketball head coach David Riley finished the job of the ceremonial cutting down of the net following his team's clinching the Big Sky Conference regular season championship Feb. 18 at Reese Court. The Eagles' 89-77 win extended their Division I leading win streak to 18 and improved their league record to 15-0....
Northern Colorado led just once, 5-2 in the opening moments of their Big Sky Conference basketball game against Eastern Washington. After that it was all Eagles as they kept the Bears trailing by double-digits and not only collected an 89-77 win but clinched at least a share of the conference regular season title, Feb. 18 at Reese Court. The championship is Eastern’s fourth since joining the conference in 1987. The Eagles won the regular season Big Sky title in 2003-04, 2014-15 and 2019-20. The 2014-15 team shared the d...
One comeback was averted, and another fell short as the Eastern Washington women split games during their Big Sky Conference road trip last week. The Eagles earned a 57-53 win at Northern Colorado on Feb. 18 in a game where they never trailed and used resilient defense, along with balanced scoring to end its three-game losing streak. Thursday in Flagstaff a comeback fell just short as they dropped a game to Northern Arizona, 61-55. Eastern had three players score in double figures, led by Jamie Loera’s game-high 14. A...
