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SPOKANE VALLEY - Davenport's victory over Lind-Ritzville/Sprague in the District 7 2B Tournament loser-out round last Wednesday ensured the Gorillas had a place in the District 6/7 Crossover, but a top-five finish at Districts was important to make sure that crossover wouldn't be against juggernaut Okanogan. After the Gorillas suffered their second overtime loss of Districts to Upper Columbia Academy Thursday, Feb. 9, Davenport finally figured out its overtime obstacles with...
SPOKANE VALLEY - The Davenport and Reardan boys were represented on the NE2B North Division All-League Teams in large numbers, as announced at halftime of the District 7 2B girls title game at West Valley High School Saturday, Feb. 11. Davenport star Tennessee Rainwater was named Most Valuable Player, while head coach Matt Henry was named Coach of the Year. Senior Brenick Soliday was named to the North All-League First Team, while fellow senior Cash Colbert was named to the...
SPOKANE VALLEY - The Davenport boys' run through the NE2B and District 7 2B Tournament continued this week, with the Gorillas notching two convincing wins against the Kettle Falls Bulldogs in the quarterfinals and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos in the semifinals. Tennessee Rainwater's 36 points ignited a Davenport offense that exploded against Kettle Falls in a 78-56 win Monday, Feb. 6. He scored 13 points in the opening frame. In the second quarter Brenick Soliday took the...
SPOKANE VALLEY - After pushing the favored Liberty Lancers to overtime Monday, the Davenport girls team decided to keep its season alive in a big way against the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos in the District 7 2B Tournament at West Valley High School Wednesday, Feb. 8. Eighth-grader Emalie Jacoby came out of the chutes firing darts against the Lancers Feb. 6. Her seven first-quarter points helped the Gorillas take a 14-11 lead. Jacoby wasn't finished yet, hitting a...
POMEROY - The Davenport boys wrestling team added another accomplishment to an already successful season, taking the District title at the sub-regional meet Saturday, Feb. 4. Aside from the team accomplishment, 13 of the boys placed high enough to advance to this Saturday's regional meet. "They're working hard and getting better every week," Davenport head coach Matt Schneider said. "Our seniors really stepped up, and we had a couple surprises." Davenport swept the finals in...
DAVENPORT — One of the potential pitfalls of seeking housing refuge in rural Lincoln County is a lack of broadband internet access, which creates difficulties for children with online work or businesspeople trying to work remotely. The county and Economic Development Council are trying to tear down this barrier, with three projects funded and one more potentially upcoming. The first is a Community Economic Revitalization Board grant that was awarded in July 2021 and provides fiber to Creston, Harrington and Almira with m...
DAVENPORT - 88-year-old Don Larson arrived at Serene Meadows Assisted Living Center Tuesday, Feb. 7 and greeted his 87-year-old wife Shirley Larson with a couple smooches. "You always look nice," Don told Shirley. Shirley broke down into tears upon realizing she was being visited by her husband of 67 years and two of her best friends, Harold and Claudia Thompson. And it just so happens that Harold, 87, and Claudia, 86, have also been married for 67 years. "I found a little...
DEER MEADOWS—An elderly local man was found dead in his running white 2019 Nissan Rogue just after 6:15 a.m. Friday, Feb. 3. Gary Edgar Pruden was discovered by a local woman and ruled deceased by authorities about an hour later. According to reports, Lisa Staley of Deer Meadows said she saw a woman passed out in a running vehicle blocking the intersection of Deer Meadows and Quail Run Roads. Lincoln County Undersheriff Jesse Allen, Spokane Tribal Deputy Police Chief Clint Kieffer and local fireman Don Staley arrived on s...
DAVENPORT — A Creston man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover crash Saturday, Feb. 4. Casey Glenn Munter was found deceased on Seven Springs Dairy Road near Grant Road by local law enforcement after losing control of a blue Dodge truck he was driving, according to reports. According to reports, law enforcement determined that Munter was traveling above the posted speed limit on muddy, gravel and possibly icy roads near his Seven Springs Dairy Road home. Sergeant Jerad McLagan arrived on scene and found Munter’s body und...
HARRINGTON-Gary Cox and Carol Richey were enjoying new beginnings here last Christmas break. The couple engaged to be wed in April 2024 had moved themselves and their five children from Spokane seeking a smaller city experience and better schooling for the kids. Times were tough financially, but Cox had a job driving a semitruck to make ends meet. Then, on Dec. 23, 2022, disaster struck. He was driving a semi across Snoqualmie Pass in disastrous winter conditions that...
DAVENPORT-A packed crowd of wheat farmers jammed into the Lincoln County Fairgrounds meeting hall for the WSU Lincoln-Adams Extension-hosted Wheat Producers Meeting Thursday, Jan. 19 to hear four speakers discuss data, projects and observations regarding recent wheat production the university has influenced in recent years. The four speakers gave five presentations on weeds and disease control, winter wheat variety selection, the state's Soil Health Initiative,...
RITZVILLE-Local wrestlers appear to be in a good spot as regionals and state approaches. Davenport won the league championship duals Saturday, Jan. 28 in the final team meet of the year. The Gorillas topped Tekoa-Rosalia in the first round, Reardan in the second round and Northwest Christian in the third round to take the South league title. Then, Davenport defeated Chewelah 39-26 in the league finals to take the championship. Individual results weren't available at press...
DAVENPORT-Senior Night against the Kettle Falls Bulldogs was a time to celebrate the Gorilla boys' whopping 10 fellows heading for graduation in June playing their last home game. And celebrate the seniors, they did. All 10 found themselves in the scoring column in a convincing 77-25 win Saturday, Jan. 28. It was a given that Tennessee Rainwater (25 points) and Brenick Soliday (11 points) would find themselves in the book. Similarly, season-long starters Evan Gunning (10...
DAVENPORT-After a heartbreaking loss to Northwest Christian the night before, the Gorilla girls made sure their two seniors didn't suffer the same fate on Senior Night by defeating Kettle Falls 48-31. Emalie Jacoby led all scorers with 15 points and three steals, while senior Kiersten Kemmerer added seven points. Fellow senior Lena Waters had three points and seven rebounds, while Clare Lathrop and Jensyn Jacobsen had six points and six rebounds apiece. "In the start, it was...
REARDAN - On Jan. 3, the Liberty Lancers traveled to Davenport and destroyed the Gorillas 60-38. Since that relatively surprising beatdown, Davenport has won six of its last eight games, with the only two losses being to two of the best teams in the state, Colfax and Okanogan. And no win in that stretch was more dominant than what Davenport did to rival Reardan Tuesday, Jan. 24. The Gorillas traveled for the Winterfest rivalry and won 67-14. The outcome was never in doubt, as...
HARRINGTON - One of Kris Moritz's main questions posed to the previously all-male city council during her interview for a vacant council seat Wednesday, Jan. 25 was: "would you all be comfortable working with a woman?" Council ultimately responded in the affirmative, voting 3-1 to appoint Moritz to the seat vacated by Peter Davenport in December. Davenport resigned from Position No. 4 for health reasons, he told council last month. Moritz, a retired local who moved here in...
DAVENPORT - Inventory and financial issues persist, but locally-owned Hardy Hardware still plans to make a transition to join the Ace Hardware franchise, executive assistant Kayla Meise said Wednesday, Jan. 25. However, the move may come a few months later than planned. Ownership previously said in October that there was a goal of an April grand opening, but August is now a more realistic timeline, Meise said. "We'll have to close for a couple months to clean out the store,"...
DAVENPORT - The local high school FFA team has come within one or two places of a first-place finish at state in Nursery Landscape the last two years, but hasn't been able to notch that first-place spot to qualify the school for the national competition. This year's team, which has handily won its first two contests, is hoping to change that. The team took first place at the Yelm Nursery Landscape Contest last weekend. The school was in first place in three of the five...
RITZVILLE - The wrestling regular season concluded with meets last weekend and a low-key meet in Reardan Wednesday, Jan. 25. Davenport and Reardan will now look ahead to league championships Saturday, Jan. 28. Below are the individual results for Davenport, which competed in Ritzville last weekend, and for Reardan, which was at the Mat Animal Invitational in Quincy. Results are listed in order of weight class. Davenport results at Ritzville • Noah Everett was pinned by W...
SPOKANE VALLEY - Historically, postseason basketball at the B level has taken place over four exciting weekends throughout the greater Spokane County area. Four weekends apparently wasn't enough for Districts 6 and 7, as the two added a new wrinkle to the postseason picture this year: Crossover games to qualify for the state tournament the weekend of Feb. 17-18. The WIAA has allotted three boys state berths to District 7, three girls state berths to District 7, two boys state...
DAVENPORT - After the three finalists forced the current Lincoln County Commissioners to make what they called the toughest decision of their tenure, Jo Gilchrist was appointed to fill the recently-retired Mark Stedman's vacated District No. 1 county commissioner seat Monday, Jan. 23. Gilchrist is believed to be the first female county commissioner in Lincoln County history. "I'm honored to be the first woman to serve on Lincoln County's board of county commissioners,"...
DAVENPORT-Despite a strong fourth quarter, last Friday's girls basketball game against top-ranked Colfax showed the Gorillas still have a ways to go to reach the Bulldogs' level. Then again, that much is true of most 2B girls teams, as evidenced in Colfax's 60-45 victory Jan. 13 that kept the Bulldogs perfect at 8-0 in league and 15-0 overall. The Bulldogs took a quick 19-11 lead in the first quarter behind eight points from Brynn McGaughy and six points from Hailey Demler,...
DAVENPORT-Reardan's FFA team was back in the commissioner's chambers for its annual presentation to the Lincoln County Commissioners Tuesday, Jan. 17. This year, the group of five students presented on the issue of carnivore and predator management in Washington State. Advisor Rick Perleberg informed commissioners Scott Hutsell and Rob Coffman of the importance of this presentation for his students as part of their public portfolio. Lydia Wicks and Emma Flaa presented as...
DAVENPORT-Feb. 25, 2010 in the District 7 Championship. That was the last time the Gorilla boys basketball team knocked off the Colfax Bulldogs. That is, until Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, when Davenport pulled away from its closest league challenger thus far to top Colfax 69-51 and snap an 18-game, nearly 13-year losing streak to the Whitman County foe. Most of Davenport's senior-laden team was in preschool or diapers in Feb. 2010, and are now entering adulthood while helping their...
TONASKET-Lincoln County wrestlers had another strong showing at the Apple Pie Invite Saturday, Jan. 14. Davenport took second with 135 points, while Reardan was eighth with 90 points amongst 19 schools present ranging from class 1B to class 1A. Host Tonasket won the tournament with 238 points, while Liberty was third at 134 points. Meanwhile, on the girls side, Reardan's Vaea Lamoreux pinned all three of her opponents at a league meet in Mead Tuesday, Jan. 17 and went 3-1 in...
