CASHMERE — Like other leagues around the state, the athletic directors in the Caribou Trail League are preparing in case sports can resume this spring. It might be a wishful endeavor, but a necessary one, according to Cashmere AD Jeff Carlson.
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RENTON — Should spring sports be allowed to begin at the end of the month, the WIAA (Washington Interscholastic Athletics Association) is prepared to move on with a shortened season and varying playoff formats.
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CASHMERE — MaxPreps and the Associated Press confirmed this week what pretty much everyone in the NCW region already knew — Cashmere’s Hailey Van Lith is the best girls basketball player in the state.
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CASHMERE — Like other leagues around the state, the athletic directors in the Caribou Trail League are preparing in case sports can resume this spring. It might be a wishful endeavor, but a necessary one, according to Cashmere AD Jeff Carlson.
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WENATCHEE — The resumption of high school sports in Washington may or may not happen but that has not stopped the Big 9 athletic directors from planning should spring sports be allowed to continue.
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Kate Jendrezak had prepared for something big.
WENATCHEE — Often lost in the shuffle, but still, vital cogs in the prep sports machine are the officials.
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WENATCHEE — When Wenatchee head soccer coach Dennis Tronson met with his players Monday to collect gear and chat before the statewide shutdown went into effect, there was a lot of uncertainty swirling around the locker room.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Paul Collard is capping off a 28 year career as a football official with a nomination to the Pacific Northwest Football Officials Association or PNFOA Hall of Fame.
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The Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association issued a press release Tuesday regarding a positive test for coronavirus at the State 2A, 1A basketball tournament at Yakima Valley SunDome, held March 4-7.
LEAVENWORTH — Spring sports began just like it normally does, but came to a crashing halt as the impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) were more widely addressed. As the Governor closed the school districts, that closed down the spring sports as well.
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Hailey Van Lith left her mark on the landscape of girls basketball in the state of Washington.
Eastmont High School softball coach Cliff Johnson runs practice for his team in blustery conditions, infield dirt blowing around the players on Wednesday afternoon.
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In an aggressive effort to quell the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday morning announced a restriction on gatherings of more than 250 people in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties — a move that directly impacts Seattle-area sports teams and leagues.
Naturally, the immediate gut-reaction after watching Hailey Van Lith and the Cashmere Bulldogs suffer another deflating loss in the 1A state title game is to focus on the discrepancy between public and private schools.
YAKIMA — It wasn’t supposed to end this way.
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YAKIMA — The Cashmere Bulldog boys’ basketball team needed to dig deep to pull out a win against a talented River View squad on Saturday morning at the State 1A Tournament at the Sun Dome. The game was for fourth and sixth places.
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WENATCHEE – For the first time since joining the BCHL in 2015, the Wenatchee Wild will not advance out of the first round of the playoffs after getting bounced in five by the Vernon Vipers following Friday’s 8-3 drubbing at home.
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YAKIMA — It was standing room only on Friday night, if you can believe that, in the Sun Dome for the girls’ 1A state semifinal matchup between the number one ranked Cashmere Bulldogs and Hailey Van Lith against defending champion La Salle, the team that knocked them out last year.
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YAKIMA — Cashmere Head Coach Levi Heyen said the goal for the team was to get to Saturday at the State 1A Tournament at Yakima Sun Dome. That would mean you are playing for a trophy.
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YAKIMA — It’s not often you see a running clock in a state tournament game. After all, these are the best teams in the state in the 1A division. Well, the number one ranked Cashmere girls basketball team did just that against Annie Wright in the quarterfinals at the Yakima Sun Dome on Thursd…
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WENATCHEE — It’s all or nothing for the Wild as they look to preserve their season for a couple more days and stave off elimination against the Vernon Vipers in Game 5 Friday at Town Toyota Center.
YAKIMA — And so it begins.
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The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announced Monday it would continue to host the state basketball tournaments around the state this week despite fears from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
WENATCHEE – It wasn’t the exact start coach Levi Heyen was hoping for, but shots started falling in the second half and the Cashmere boys were able to limit King’s Way Christian enough to hold on for a 56-50 win, advancing to Thursday’s state quarterfinals in the SunDome.
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WENATCHEE – There wasn’t a whole lot of debate as to who was going to come away victorious between the Cashmere girls and Nooksack Valley this past Saturday.
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WENATCHEE — Two evenly matched teams faced off in a loser-out Regional matchup Saturday afternoon at Wenatchee High School, the Waterville-Mansfield girls’ basketball and the Northwest Christian Crusaders. And after a hard-fought battle involving several lead changes and many impressive Shoc…
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TUMWATER — The Eastmont boys basketball team, fresh off a nail-biting win over their rival Wenatchee just a week ago, knew they’d be facing a difficult opponent in the Olympia Bears in a loser-out Regional matchup Saturday night. That expectation proved true and after a fairly close first qu…
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For the Wenatchee Wild, the 2020 Interior Conference Quarterfinal Round opens Saturday, Feb. 29 on home ice at Town Toyota Center as the No.4 seed Wild meet the No.5 seed Vernon Vipers in Game 1 of their best-of-seven series.
WATERVILLE — The Waterville-Mansfield girls’ basketball team looks to continue their fine season on Saturday at Wenatchee High School in a Regional matchup with Northwest Christian from Spokane.
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EAST WENATCHEE — State Tournament play starts for the Eastmont Wildcat boys’ basketball team on Saturday at Tumwater when they take on the Olympia Bears. Eastmont comes into the State Tournament as the second seed from the Big 9, while Olympia is the seventh seed from their B-District tournament.
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The Seattle Times released its All-State girls soccer teams Wednesday afternoon as selected by the Washington State Coaches Association.
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WENATCHEE — Capping off a stellar junior campaign, Wenatchee junior guard Garrett Long was named Co-Player of the Year in the Big 9 along with West Valley forward Logan Kinloch.
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TACOMA — All the pain and heartache Cascade’s Hunter Reinhart experienced a year ago after falling to Luke Dahlgren in the state title (285) was wiped away after this weekend’s dominant performance.
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FEDERAL WAY — The Wenatchee Panther boys’ swim and dive team had perhaps their best ever State 4A Swim Meet. The Panthers finished third as a team with the 200 Medley Relay leading the way.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Not often do big games live up to the hype, but the boys’ basketball game between Wenatchee and Eastmont surely did on Saturday night. Before a packed house, the two teams played for the Big 9’s final berth to State.
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CASHMERE — With their season on the line and facing an opponent who had just topped one of the rare teams to have dealt them, the Cashmere boys basketball team, a loss this season, the Bulldogs knew they had their work cut out for them. But as any sports fan knows, a team is almost never the…
TACOMA — The 32nd annual Mat Classic State Wrestling Tournament got underway Friday in the Tacoma Dome, and for nine of the 19 wrestlers that qualified from the NCW region, it was a good day.
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EAST WENATCHEE — In the long history of the rivalry between Eastmont and Wenatchee, the two boys’ basketball teams have never played with a State berth on the line. Mainly this is because Eastmont was a 3A school for so long.
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YAKIMA — The most direct route to State stared the Eastmont boys basketball team directly in the eye when they faced their league juggernaut, the West Valley Rams, for the District championship on Thursday night.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Panther boys’ basketball team had lost both times during the regular season to Davis, but they won when it really counted in Districts on Thursday night. The Panthers used a suffocating defense and patient offense to finally beat the Pirates 60-41.
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YAKIMA — On Thursday, the Eastmont Wildcat boys basketball team will play at West Valley for the Big 9 District Championship. The Rams are the Big 9 regular season champs at 12-0. The Wildcats were second at 9-3 in conference play.
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YAKIMA — It came down to this. With the threat of their season-ending and a real shot at the post-season, the Wenatchee girls basketball team faced the West Valley Rams in a loser-out District play-in matchup on Tuesday.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Panther boys’ basketball team beat Moses Lake for the second time in a row on Tuesday, 72-52. The Panthers and Chiefs also played last Friday, a much closer 77-68 win for Wenatchee.
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CASHMERE — With the CTL playoffs officially wrapped up and the Cashmere boys’ and girls’ both repeating as district champs, the All-League basketball teams were released this week.
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Sammamish — The Wenatchee Panthers and Eastmont Wildcats boys competed in the 4A Region 2 wrestling tournament at Skyline High School last Friday and Saturday. The Panthers finished fourth with 85 points.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Cashmere girls basketball has a recent, but long, tradition of adding years to the district title banner that hangs on the high walls of Ron Doane gymnasium. After six in a row, no team wants to be the first one to break the streak and tradition in one fell swoop.
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Records are made to be broken, but you don't expect the state scoring record to last less than one calendar year.
EAST WENATCHEE — For the third time in less than two weeks the Cashmere and Okanogan boys basketball teams squared off, only this time it was for higher stakes, the District title. Every game between these Bulldogs is a fight, every point is earned but by the end of Saturday night, Cashmere …
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