Cheney High School scholars honored

Cheney High School seniors Keith Emert and Sonora Hetrick have been named Commended Students in the 2015 National Merit Scholarship Program. The pair received letters of commendation from the school and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, who runs the program, for having the high school's top two scores on last year's Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Emert and Hetrick placed in the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2015 competition by taking the 2013 tests.