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SPOKANE – A three-run lead through two innings gave the Reardan baseball team sights on a state playoff bid, but four runs scored in the following six innings by the Colfax Bulldogs dashed those hopes. Colfax topped Reardan 4-3 in eight innings in a District 7 NE2B third-place game at Whitworth University to claim the league's final state 2B tournament bid Saturday, May 14. Reardan quickly plated two runs in the bottom of the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Caden Day t...
ODESSA–The Tiger baseball team defeated the Sunnyside Christian team last Wednesday, May 11, by a score of 16-6 and the Riverside Christian team this Tuesday, May 17, by a score of 9-4 to move on to the state tournament. The next game for the Tigers will be on Saturday against #1 seed DeSales at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla beginning at 10 a.m. That game is a loser-out game. The winner will advance to play the winner of the Liberty Christian vs. Crosspoint game later the sa...
Coach of the Year: Colfax Tracy Imler Co-MVP Jorja Koemer (Colfax) and Jaidyn Stephens (Liberty) First Team: Caylie Browne (Asotin) Delaney Imler (Colfax) Lily Denham (Asotin) Harper Booth (Colfax) Aj Sosky (Reardan) Kaitlyn Waters (NWC) Justice Brown (Colfax) Jordyn Jeske (Liberty) Second Team: Lexi Kettner (Liberty) Callie Hughes (Kettle Falls) Makenzie Ritchie (NWC) Cady Browne (Asotin) Kylee Buchanan (Davenport) Mya McInelly (Kettle Falls) Becca Bennett (Chewelah) Bailey Fuller (Chewelah) Abi Iverson (NWC) Collette...
DAVENPORT – There will be a new Tim patrolling the gym starting this fall in Davenport. Current Lake Roosevelt athletic director and head football coach Tim Rasmussen is moving from District 6 to District 7 and replacing the retiring Tim Zeiler as Davenport's athletic director this coming school year. Rasmussen will make the hour jump southeast after this school year, which is his fourth at Lake Roosevelt and 15th in education overall. "I loved the history and tradition of h...
DEER PARK – After a successful pair of rounds at sub-districts and districts, three golfers from Davenport are headed to the state tournament next week. Maddox Schumacher and Grayson Danekas qualified on the boys side, while Abby Breithaupt qualified on the girls side, head coach Trenton Briney said. State qualification was determined through combined scores of sub-districts in Deer Park May 2 and districts at Meadow Wood May 9. The top 20 golfers for each gender advanced to state, which is also in Deer Park, beginning May 2...
RENTON – The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) Representative Assembly voted to pass four amendments, the Association announced Friday, May 6. The Representative Assembly is comprised of 53 (35 high school, 18 middle level) school administrators from each of the nine WIAA districts. For an amendment to pass, 60 percent approval is needed from voting members of the Assembly. A total of 32 votes are needed for a middle level/high school amendment to pass, while 21 votes are needed for a high school a...
SPANGLE – The Reardan softball team suffered a loss in its first District 7 NE2B game but staved off elimination with a victory in a loser-out game. Davenport, meanwhile, played into the tournament but was eliminated on the first day. Reardan entered the tournament as the seventh seed and fell to the Liberty Lancers in Spangle 11-4 in their first postseason game Tuesday, May 17. The Screaming Eagles stayed alive in a loser-out game, however, fighting off the Kettle Falls B...
CHENEY-A personal record jump of six feet three inches gave Reardan sophomore Richard Alsept Lincoln County's lone individual 2B state champion at the WIAA 2B State Championships held at Roos Field on the campus of Eastern Washington University Thursday-Saturday May 26-28. Alsept's high jump mark was two inches higher than his second place competitor, senior Tre Seydel of Raymond. Senior Jarrett Jacobsen of Davenport finished third in the event. The Davenport boys had the...
LIND–The combined Lind and Ritzville school boards unanimously approved adding the Harrington to the existing Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna athletic combine during a meeting Monday, May 23. Earlier in the month the Harrington School Board voted to accept an offer to join the combine, by a 3-2 vote, during a meeting in Harrington....
REARDAN-Two varsity high school coaches are leaving their posts. Longtime head wrestling coach Rick Perleberg and inaugural girls soccer coach Brian Scott both resigned from their positions in letters accepted by the school board Wednesday, May 25. Perleberg, who said he is just retiring from the position and not from his teaching career, has been the head coach since 2015 and worked with the wrestling program since his arrival with the district in 1999. In that time he's...
GRAND COULEE–Fishermen can begin to fish for white sturgeon on Lake Roosevelt seven days per week beginning Saturday, June 18. The allotted lake area for fishing includes water from Grand Coulee Dam to the China Bend Boat Ramp, including the Spokane River from the Highway 25 Bridge upstream to 400 below Little Falls Dam, Colville River upstream to Meyers Falls Dam and the Kettle River upstream to Barstow Bridge. A daily limit of one sturgeon and an annual limit of two sturgeon is in place. Annual Limit 2 sturgeon. It is le...
LIBERTY LAKE – The Gorilla track and field times brought a one-two finish home from the 2B District 7 meet Saturday, May 21, from Ridgeline High School. The Davenport girls won the team award with 170 points, followed by Jenkins (Chewelah) with 129.5. The Reardan girls finished fifth with 58 points. Meanwhile, the Davenport boys took second-place with 83.5 team points. The Gorillas were second only to St. George's, which dominated boys competition and earned 180 points. C...
YAKIMA – The Wilbur-Creston Wildcats open the state 1B girls fastpitch softball tournament at noon Friday, May 27. The No. 7-ranked girls will face the No. 2-ranked Colton Wildcats on Field 2 of the state-opener at Gateway Park. It'll be a rematch of the May 16 matchup in the 1B District 6/7/9 tournament. Colton won that game, 9-7. The winner will advance to a play the winner of the Quilcene vs. Inchelium game at 4 p.m. on Field 4. The loser will drop to a loser-out battle a...
Odessa's golf team members Melloney Deife and Laela Hardung at state in Deer Park....
SPOKANE – Heavy rainfall, thunder and an overwhelming opponent didn't prevent the Reardan girls fastpitch softball team from having a little fun Saturday, May 21, in Franklin Park. Rather, the girls took to a muddy softball diamond to sing, dance and even "do the worm" during an extended rain delay in the 2B District 7 softball tournament. Reardan girls even convinced players from the opposing team – Northwest Christian (Colbert) – and Jenkins (Chewelah) to join in the fun w...
LIBERTY LAKE – Seven Odessa track and field athletes are headed to the state 1B meet Thursday through Saturday at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. They qualified for state during the 1B District 6/7/9 Championships on May 20-21 at Ridgeline High School. Mason Wright is the only local boy to qualify for state. Hayden Schuh, Ashlyn Neilsen, Lexi Eden, Lily Starkel, Reegan Carstensen and Kathryn Burnett all qualified in the girls competition. Wright qualified in the 3...
WALLA WALLA – The Odessa Tigers boys baseball season came to an end Saturday, May 21, with a 10-1 loss to the DeSales Fighting Irish. The No. 8-ranked Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but were unable to score after that. DeSales, the No. 1-seed, tied the game in the second and kept adding runs over the next three innings. Hayden Miller hit two singles, one of which resulted in the Tigers’ only run. Collin Martin also hit a single. Starting pitcher Collin Martin went three-and-a-third innings before being rel...
ODESSA–The Tiger baseball team defeated the Sunnyside Christian team last Wednesday, May 11, by a score of 16-6 and the Riverside Christian team this Tuesday, May 17, by a score of 9-4 to move on to the state tournament. The next game for the Tigers will be on Saturday against #1 seed DeSales at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla beginning at 10 a.m. That game is a loser-out game. The winner will advance to play the winner of the Liberty Christian vs. Crosspoint game later the sa...
RITZVILLE-Reardan was well-represented at the NE2B South Division track and field championships. Both the boys and girls teams finished in first place in the meet that included competitors from Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, Asotin, Liberty and Colfax. The girls had 138 points, while second-place Colfax had 123 points. The boys had 160 points to second-place Colfax's 137. Individually, the top four competitors in all laned events and the top six competitors in field and mile-plus...
DAVENPORT—If either NE2B softball team from Lincoln County is going to make a state tournament run, it will take a string of upsets and players across the board to step up. Reardan enters the NE2B district tournament as the No. 7 seed, while Davenport will have to win a pigtail game for an opportunity at the league’s top seed. Davenport finished last in the league with a league record of 2-12 and an overall record of 3-13 after splitting a pair of games with Lind-Ritzville/Sprague on Senior Night Tuesday, May 10. The Gor...
COLBERT—The No. 3 seeded Reardan baseball team has a chance to make the state regional tournament after splitting a pair of games at the NE2B District Tournament at Northwest Christian (Colbert) Tuesday, May 10. The team defeated Asotin in a loser-out game 14-4 before falling to the state-bound Crusaders 11-1 in the district semifinals. Reardan’s bats came alive after surrendering two first-inning runs against the No. 6-seeded Panthers, led by three triples and five runs batted in by senior Abe Nelson and a home run from cat...
ODESSA–Golfer Daeton Deife was named one of the WIAA’s Athletes of the Week last week. He started playing golf in his junior year of high school. “Deife has improved tremendously and has won first place in a few golf tournaments. He takes gold and academics seriously,” the submission to the WIAA said. “Deife is very professional and is a part of the FBLA. He just went to state for the Future Business Leaders of America and captured first-place in his presentation. Deife is going to Nationals for FBLA in Chicago. He will be a...
CHEWELAH-Davenport couldn't hit Cougars ace Zack Bowman's 83 mph fastball, and as a result, the Gorillas were sent home in the first round of the NE2B District Tournament Tuesday, May 10. The Gorillas were shut out by the top-seeded team in the league, the Chewelah Cougars, 11-0 in five innings. Davenport managed one base runner in 16 plate appearances against Bowman, which came in the first inning on a single by senior Denton Deal. Bowman struck out the Davenport batters 11...
RITZVILLE- The sun was out during the District Championship Qualifier in Ritzville. Odessa and Harrington competed against 28 other schools. The athletes that qualified will move forward to the District Championships held in Liberty Lake on May 20- 21. Athletes listed below are moving forward to that meet. Boys results 110m Hurdles - 39" Varsity – Finals 7. Mason Wright 20.75a 300m Hurdles - 36" Varsity - Finals 6. Mason Wright 48.02a PR 4x100 Relay Varsity - Finals 8. Christi...
ODESSA – The Tigers defeated the Northport Mustangs 7-6 Monday, May 9, at home in Odessa to make it into the next round of playoffs on Wednesday. After a 1-1 first inning, the Tigers added run in the second, fourth and sixth, while the Mustangs had a five-run sixth inning to tie things up. The game-winning run came in the seventh, when freshman Corbyn Neilsen was hit by a pitch to get on first base. After stealing second, then advancing to third on an error by the catcher, N...
