Lady Blackhawks open Great Northern League softball

The Cheney High softball team manufactured a split in action last week with the Great Northern League’s Spokane Valley schools.

The Lady Blackhawks gave up nine runs in the first inning at West Valley and never recovered in an 18-4 loss to the Eagles March 29. Cheney shrugged off the blowout and put up a big inning of its own at home against East Valley, using timely hitting and capitalizing on some of the Knights eight errors for a 10-5 win April 2.

Meghan Krantz continued to hit well for the Lady Blackhawks, going 4 for 4 with an RBI single in the six-run second and a solo home run in the th...