Sports Briefs

Jackrabbits run past Cardinals

QUINCY – The Jackrabbits rolled up 408 yards rushing on 54 plays and ran past Medical Lake 43-0 in a non-league football game here Oct. 27.

Quincy (5-3) broke a scoreless first-quarter tie with 22 second-quarter points against winless Medical Lake.

Of Medical Lake's 132 total yards, Cylas Puzycki rushed for 44 and Josh Henry had 31 on three receptions.

The Cardinals close out the season Oct. 27 with their Northeast A League finale at Freeman (3-2 NEA, 5-3 overall) at 7 p.m.

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Screaming Eagles fly past Lancers

SPANGLE – The Reardan boys football team quelled the Liberty Homecoming excitement Friday night, Oct. 20, upending the Lancers, 54-13.

The Screaming Eagles (4-3) victory run began on the third play of the game when junior defensive back Rysen Soliday picked off a pass at the Lancer 39-yard line and scored with 10:07 to go in the first quarter.

Playing at quarterback 7 minutes later, Soliday carried the ball into the endzone from 3-yards out to give Reardan an early 13-0 lead.

The Screaming Eagles never looked back.

Liberty got on the board in the second quarter on a Coleman Tee interception at the Reardan 30, returning it for the score.

Reardan took a 40-6 lead into halftime and the Lancers couldn't make up the ground.

The Lancers (2-5) close out the regular season Friday night, Oct. 27, in Finley at River View High School. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

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Cheney wraps up season with loss

CHENEY – The girls soccer team split its final two regular-season contests losing to University 5-4 on Oct. 16 before edging Mead 1-0, Oct. 18.

That was just enough for the Blackhawks to earn a play-in game with Ferris, Oct. 19 in which the scoreless tie resulted in a 4-2 loss on penalty kicks by Megan Collins and Ally Deutsch.

Against University, Alex Miller had two of her three goals in the first half and Grace Grumbly added another as Cheney managed a 3-3 halftime tie. But Isabella Longo's goals in the 52nd and 79th minute gave the Titans (7-2 GSL, 11-3) a two-goal lead before Miller completed her day scoring in the 80th minute.

The Blackhawks (3-6, 6-9 overall) made it interesting in a Senior Night game against Mead played at Tom Oswald Field as Paige Evans scored in the 77th minute.

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Medical Lake works to build numbers

MEDICAL LAKE – The Cardinal girls soccer ended its 2023 season winless in 17 games with a 9-0 loss on Senior Night, Oct. 19 to Lakeside.

The Cardinals started the season with razor-thin numbers of just a dozen players, but constantly throughout the schedule they played shorthanded. As if in hockey they were on a constant penalty kill.

Medical Lake Coach Dan Collins has identified the weak point in the chain, that being the gap in middle school where soccer is not offered as a sport.

"We are working on things with the (Medical Lake) Parks and Rec," Collins wrote in an email, adding, "That's a start."

MORE VOLLEYBALL

Liberty girls blank Kettle Falls

SPANGLE – The Lancer girls volleyball team swept the Kettle Falls Bulldogs, 3-0, during a Northeast 2B game Thursday night, Oct. 19.

Set scores were 25-15, 25-6, 25-11.

Kendall Denny had 13 kills and Brooke Redder 19 assists in the win for Liberty (8-5).

Denny and Redder also had 4 aces each and teammate Zoe Omlin posted 20 digs.

Lancer Devy Cook had 3 blocks in the win.

The Bulldogs (3-9) were led by Ella Johnson, who had 6 digs, 4 aces, 3 blocks and 3 kills.

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Other volleyball scores last week:

Oct. 17

Central Valley 3, Cheney 1

Oct. 19:

Mead 3, Cheney 0