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  • Excavation begins for Joe Mann Memorial

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 29, 2025

    REARDAN – After seven years of dreaming, planning and fundraising, Gail Daniel's and Wayne Terry's vision of building a memorial to honor the life of Joe E. Mann and the veterans of the Reardan area is becoming a reality. The groundbreaking for the memorial was Monday, Jan. 27, at the site on Highway 2, at the east end of town. Over the years, Terry, a local wrestling coach and member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, spoke of Mann's sacrifice to his athletes. "I a...

  • Gorilla wrestlers fall to Liberty Lancers

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 23, 2025

    DAVENPORT – The visiting Liberty Lancers defeated the Gorillas 35-21 in a duel wrestling meet Tuesday, Jan. 21 in the high school gymnasium. In the opening match, Liberty's 157 pounder Jeff Marburger pinned Davenport's Chase Greenwood. In the 190 pound weight class, defending state champion Brock Gustaveson outscored Liberty's Joey Matherly and won via technical fall, earning the Gorillas five points. "I did pretty good tonight," Gustaveson said. "I was looking for the pin a...

  • Reardan grapplers win four matches

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 23, 2025

    REARDAN – On Wednesday, Jan. 15, the Screaming Eagles hosted Chewelah in a 2B wrestling meet. Without enough athletes to fill most weight classes, Reardan’s under manned team lost 36-18. The Screaming Eagles won four of the five matches contested on the mat, but could not overcome the 36 points lost via forfeit. Avdii Pozdeev, wrestling at 132 pounds, won Reardan’s first match by pinning Payton Maldonado. In the 144 pound weight class, Alex Matusik pinned Dillan Dituri. In non-scoring exhibition matches, Owen Pendell pinne...

  • Gorillas rally to beat Northwest Christian

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 22, 2025

    DAVENPORT – After scoring only two points in the first half, Glenna Soliday scorched the nets with 18 second half points to lead the Gorillas to a 55-46 comeback win over Northwest Christian Friday, Jan 17. In the first quarter Glenna Soliday, Clare Lathrop, Charlotte Soliday and Addie Schneider combined for 17 points to put the Gorillas ahead 17-15. Davenport hit a scoring drought in the second quarter. After scoring two points in the opening quarter, Glenna Soliday missed s...

  • Davenport falls to Northwest Christian

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 22, 2025

    DAVENPORT - Avi West scored 33 points and Caleb Grant scored 26 points to lead Northwest Christian to an 82-46 win over the Gorillas Friday, Jan. 17. It was the Crusaders' second victory over Davenport in the past 10 days. The hot shooting duo made their presence known from the opening tip-off. In the first quarter West and Grant both scored nine points on long-range 3-point shots and quick drives to give the Crusaders a 20-12 lead. Davenport's points came from Caige Colbert,...

  • Reardan teams improve to 14-1

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 22, 2025

    REARDAN – The Screaming Eagles’ girls and boys basketball team’s both won games against Newport Friday, Jan 17. The girls won their game 66-14, and the boys won 86-30. Both teams improved their record to 14-1. Chasyn Waters and Lillie Whitman led a Reardan defense that smothered the Grizzlies, allowing them to score only six first half points and eight second half points. Chasyn Waters also led the Screaming Eagles offensive with 18 points scored. Tenice Waters scored 11 points and Emersen Sprecher scored nine points. Whitm...

  • Soliday scores 1,000th point in run-away win

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 15, 2025

    REARDAN – Rysen Soliday reached the 1,000 point plateau in the Screaming Eagles' 91-49 non-conference basketball win over Medical Lake Saturday, Jan. 11. Soliday was one of four players to score in double figures for the Screaming Eagles. Medical Lake came into the contest having won nine of its previous 10 games. The surging Cardinals started four freshmen against the Screaming Eagles, the #3 ranked 2B team in the state. The Cardinals gave Reardan all it could handle in t...

  • Davenport handles Medical Lake with ease

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 15, 2025

    MEDICAL LAKE – The Davenport girls basketball team won their sixth out of their last seven games, this time defeating the Cardinal 57-15 Thursday, Jan. 9. It was the eighth time this season the Gorillas won a game by 20 points or more. So far this season Davenport has shown the ability to jump on its opponents early with demoralizing scoring runs. Against the Cardinals, they opened the game 12-0 and led 22-4 at the end of the first quarter. The Gorillas extended their lead to...

  • Freshmen lead Cardinals to win over Davenport

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 15, 2025

    MEDICAL LAKE – Freshmen Gabe Smith and Hudson Gilbert scored 53 points between them to lead the Cardinals' boys basketball team to a 75-59 win over Davenport, Thursday, Jan. 9. Gilbert had the hot hand early in the game for the Cardinals. He hit three 3-point shots in the game's opening minutes to spearhead a scoring run that saw Medical Lake jump to a 16-2 lead. Davenport's Caige Colbert found his rhythm and within minutes scored 10 points to prevent an early blowout. At t...

  • Reardan's defense shines in lop-sided win

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 15, 2025

    REARDAN – After being tested early by Medical Lake, the Screaming Eagles' girls basketball team raced to a 51-17 win Saturday, Jan. 11. It was the 10th straight win for the #4 ranked Screaming Eagles. In an atypical start, Reardan's potent offense was held to only nine first quarter points by Medical Lake. "We started the game slow," Reardan head coach Bob Swannack said. "Our offense was undisciplined, and we did a poor job taking care of the ball. We couldn't make shots or l...

  • Gustaveson medals at elite tournament

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 15, 2025

    DAVENPORT – Brock Gustaveson won five matches to place 4th at the Gut Check Wrestling Tournament Jan. 3-4 in Kent, Washington. Gustaveson and teammates Wayland Holmberg and Malachi Hoff scored 37 points for the Gorillas which earned Davenport 54th place out of 97 schools. The Gut Check Wrestling Tournament is billed as “The Northwest’s Elite High School Wrestling Tournament,” and one in which athletes compete against each other regardless of school size. Holmberg, wrestling at 126 pounds, won one of his three matches to earn...

  • Davenport beats Waterville, moves to 4-1

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 8, 2025

    DAVENPORT – Junior Caige Colbert scored 25 points to lead the Gorillas to a 55-33 win over Waterville on Saturday, Jan. 14. In the first quarter, Colbert out-scored the Shockers 10-5. Besides Colbert's big scoring period, Bennett Wagner scored three points and Thomas Furman scored two points to give the Gorillas an early 15-5 lead. Waterville outscored Davenport 13-8 in the second quarter to close to within 23-18 at halftime. Colbert's hot hand continued after the break w...

  • Reardan girls win seventh straight

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 8, 2025

    REARDAN – The Screaming Eagles' girls basketball team scored 35 points before Warden made its first point of the game in Reardan's 46-20 win, Friday, Jan. 3. The win improved the Screaming Eagles' record to 9-1. Just like a hornet's nest being poked by a stick, Reardan's defense swarmed all over Warden in the game's first half. The overwhelmed Cougars had trouble getting the ball to the basket, and when they did, they threw up off-balance and awkward shots. As in previous g...

  • Lathrop and Soliday lead Gorillas in win

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 8, 2025

    DAVENPORT – Juniors Glenna Soliday and Clare Lathrop both scored 20 points to lead the Gorillas' girls basketball team to a 54-39 girls win over Waterville, Saturday, Jan. 4. It was the Gorillas fifth straight win and improved their record to 9-1. Glenna Soliday proved to the Shockers that she couldn't be ignored. She hit two long-range shots in the game's opening minutes that opened the inside so that Lathrop could take care of business under the basket. By the end of the qua...

  • Screaming Eagles 9-1 after blowout win

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 8, 2025

    REARDAN – In the 1960s, the Reardan Indians played their games in Smith Gym and dominated the high school basketball scene. Because the wrestling team was competing in the "new" gym Friday, Jan. 3, the school's basketball team, now called the Screaming Eagles, hosted Warden on the same hallowed floor and played like the teams of old, defeating the Cougars 96-34. From the opening tip-off, the Screaming Eagles played like a team possessed. Besides making 13 3-point shots, t...

  • Grapplers win the battle but lose the war

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 8, 2025

    REARDAN – The Screaming Eagles's wrestling team hosted Kettle Falls Thursday, Jan. 2 and Okanogan Friday, Jan. 3. Without wrestlers competing in many weight classes, Reardan forfeited several matches that resulted in losses to both schools. In Reardan's meet with Kettle Falls, the Bulldogs won 49-27. Kettle Falls won eight matches via forfeit, earning them 48 points. They earned their other point after Reardan was penalized one point after one of its wrestlers removed his s...

  • Soliday selected to All-State football team

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 8, 2025

    REARDAN – On Jan. 5, the Washington State Football Coaches Association named Screaming Eagles' senior Rysen Soliday to its All-State 2B first team as a defensive back for the 2024 season. Soliday averaged 7.4 tackles per game and intercepted five passes. "Rysen is very deserving of this award," Reardan head football coach Matt Clouse said. "His accomplishments on the field were evident for all to see. He set a great example for our younger players of how to do things the r...

  • Flu bug doesn't stop Screaming Eagles

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Jan 2, 2025

    REARDAN – After defeating Chewelah 72-8 the previous night, head colds and the flu bug hit the Screaming Eagles' girls. Though not being at the top of their game, Reardan continued its winning ways, this time beating Kettle Falls 57-24 Friday, Dec. 20. Tenice Waters scored 15 points in the win. In the first half, Tenice Waters scored eight points, but it was her five steals that stifled the Bulldogs' attempts to establish their offense. Reardan held a halftime advantage of 2...

  • Reardan wins Christmas tournament

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Dec 31, 2024

    REARDAN – The Screaming Eagles' girls basketball team defeated Lake Roosevelt 69-14 and Bonners Ferry 59-53 to claim first place in the 78th annual Reardan Lions Club Christmas Tournament Friday, Dec. 27-28. Reardan's pesky defense frustrated and overwhelmed the Raiders from the opening tip-off. Freshman Chasyn Waters' defensive pressure was the spark that lit the fire for the Screaming Eagle's rout. In the first quarter she stole the ball six times, each leading to b...

  • Screaming Eagles fall to Idaho's best

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Dec 31, 2024

    REARDAN – The Screaming Eagles's boys basketball team defeated Lake Roosevelt 70-58 and then lost to Bonners Ferry, 66-57 to place second in the Reardan Lions Club Christmas Tournament Dec. 27-28. Reardan and Lake Roosevelt both entered the game unbeaten and highly ranked in 2B basketball. From the get-go, the teams knew they were in for a battle when their efforts to score were thwarted by their opponents' stingy and physical defense. The Raiders blocked shot-after-shot, a...

  • Screaming Eagles beat NWC by 20

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Dec 27, 2024

    REARDAN – Four players scored in double figures as the Screaming Eagles' boys basketball team routed Northwest Christian 64-44 Saturday, Dec. 14. The Screaming Eagles stretched a one point lead after the first quarter to a 35-25 advantage at halftime. Rysen Soliday led the way with 10 first half points, followed by Fred Frolov and Justin Vaughn, who both scored eight points. Reardan put the Crusaders away in the second half. After scoring four points in the game's opening m...

  • Lions Club to host Christmas tourney

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Dec 27, 2024

    REARDAN – The Lions Club is hosting its 78th annual Reardan Lions Club Christmas Tournament Friday, Dec. 27 and Saturday, Dec. 28 at the high school. Girls basketball teams from Reardan, Lakeside, Lake Roosevelt and Bonners Ferry, and boys teams from Reardan, Lake Roosevelt, Manson and Bonners Ferry will take part in Washington state’s longest running Christmas tournament. All proceeds from the tournament will be donated to the school’s athletic department. Reardan’s first girls’ game will be Friday at 5:00 p.m. against L...

  • Reardan wins by 57 points

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Dec 27, 2024

    REARDAN - Seven boys scored nine or more points in the Screaming Eagles 95-38 rout of Kettle Falls Friday, Dec. 20. The win improved Reardan's record to 7-0 heading into next week's Lions Club Christmas Tournament. The Screaming Eagles' long range shooting was on display as the team converted 10 3-point shots during the game. Justin Vaughn made four, Evan Krupke made three, Maveric Sobotta made two and Hunter Flaa made one. Vaughn scored 13 first half points and Jakari...

  • Gorillas win third straight

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Dec 27, 2024

    DAVENPORT – Just one week ago, the Gorillas’ boys basketball team had a won/loss record of 1-5. On Saturday, Dec. 21, they overcame a 17 point deficit to defeat Chewelah 45-39, giving them their third win in the last seven days. In the first half, the taller Cougars gave the Gorillas fits by driving the lane and attacking the basket. When the Gorillas’ defense collapsed on the ball, Chewelah kicked the ball out for uncontested jump shots. Their speed and crisp passing kept the Davenport defenders off-balance and a step behin...

  • Davenport subs gain experience in lopsided win

    Byrne Bennett, The Record-Times|Updated Dec 24, 2024

    DAVENPORT – The Gorillas' girls basketball team improved their record to 8-1 after crushing Chewelah 50-27 in their NE2B matchup Saturday, Dec. 21. For fifty seconds, Chewelah played even with the Gorillas. That was when the score was tied 2-2. Twenty seconds later, Samantha Stiles drove the lane for an easy basket and the rout was on. Davenport scored 32 straight points to put them up 34-2 at the end of the first quarter. During the scoring spree, Glenna Soliday stole the b...

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