Cardinals qualify four to state 1A

There’s a longer than usual road trip coming for some members of the Medical Lake track and field team following their performances at District 7 championships last week at Riverside High School in Chattaroy.

For the past 25 years when the Cardinals who earned berths to the 1A state championships, that journey was all of about 20 minutes and 10 miles to Cheney and Eastern Washington University.

For this year’s group it’s a nearly three-hour and 200-mile trip to Yakima and Eisenhower High School. The ever-deteriorating state of the EWU track, which would be eliminated in possible future Roos Fi...