WENATCHEE — The weather was hot but the AppleSox were not Tuesday in their first game back at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Nevin Harrison was certainly disappointed last year when the Olympics in Tokyo were postponed until 2021, delaying the fulfillment of her dream, but the 19-year-old canoe sprint racer from Seattle has a different perspective now.
COMMERCE CITY, Colorado — The Wenatchee FC B05 boys’ soccer team is free to relax and enjoy Independence Day. But come Monday, it’s back to work — training for soccer glory.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The weather was hot but the AppleSox were not Tuesday in their first game back at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Molly Coonfield, 16, Wenatchee, right, trains with fellow teammates of Velocity Swimming on Friday at the Wenatchee City Pool. Velocity hosts the annual Starlight Invitational swim meet this weekend at the pool where 600 competitors from around the Pacific Northwest will race. Spectators will have to watch from behind fencing surrounding the pool because of COVID-19 restrictions. Last year's meet was canceled because of the pandemic.
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Photo Editor
Eastmont High School football players run drills during practice under the afternoon sun Wednesday.
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Photo Editor
BREWSTER — The undefeated CTL boys basketball champs, the Cashmere Bulldogs, took on the Brewster Bears in their final game of the season Saturday night, and polished off their twelfth win.
WENATCHEE — It might not have been the best shooting night for Wenatchee, who shot a collective 29% as a team, but the Panthers still dominated Davis 60-41 Friday night, securing a spot in Saturday’s district title game.
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Sports Reporter
CASHMERE — Now that the prep season is essentially over, I wanted to personally thank the Cashmere seniors for a tremendous four years on the court.
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Sports Reporter
CASHMERE — The Cashmere boys had all the ingredients required to compete for a state championship this season.
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Sports Reporter
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Sports Reporter
CHELAN — It was a game of ups and downs for the Cascade boys in their 80-62 loss against Chelan on Tuesday.
WENATCHEE — Garrett Long has always been one of the league’s most unstoppable scorers.
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Sports Reporter
YAKIMA — Not every game is easy.
ROYAL — Sweet relief.
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Sports Reporter
CASHMERE — The Pioneers put up a fight in the first half, but ultimately there was nothing they could do once the Bulldogs started to get out in transition during the second half.
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Sports Reporter
CASHMERE — Before last week’s game against Warden, Cashmere girls basketball coach Brent Darnell told his team that no matter what happened in the game, it would make them better as a whole.
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Sports Reporter
SUNNYSIDE — Imagine facing your shadow in one-on-one.
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastmont had no chance against the Sunnyside Tuesday night.
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Sports Reporter
CASHMERE — In the retro NBA Jam video game for the old Super Nintendo, the play-by-play announcer shouts, “He’s on Fire!” after a user drains three consecutive 3-pointers.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
The Wenatchee Wild organization has made a solid commitment to the long-term stability of the franchise by signing General Manager Bliss Littler to a ten-year extension of his contract this week.
CASHMERE — It just wasn’t Cashmere's night Thursday as the Bulldogs dropped their first game of the season in a 63-36 blowout loss to Warden at home.
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Sports Reporter
YAKIMA — Wenatchee boys basketball took out Eisenhower by a decisive margin Tuesday night, winning 64-34.
EAST WENATCHEE — The first quarter: woof. The final three quarters: wowza.
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Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — There are lots of ways to win a basketball game.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Wildcats came into Friday night’s matchup with their cross-bridge rival brimming with confidence.
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Sports Reporter
LEAVENWORTH — The Cascade Kodiaks boys’ basketball team came into Thursday’s matchup against Omak having lost their last 27 league games.
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Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — The bowling alley wasn’t standing-room-only Wednesday afternoon, as it customarily is during a Wenatchee-Eastmont bowling match, because of capacity limits. But the fans that were present were treated to a show.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Dillon Esparza had a whale of a game Tuesday night in Eastmont’s season-opener against Moses Lake.
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Sports Reporter
CASHMERE — Sam Phillips had a pretty strong start to the basketball season on Saturday.
WENATCHEE — Competing for the first time in 15 months, and with only four practices to get ready, Saturday was all about dusting off the cobwebs for the Wenatchee Panthers in their season opener against Davis.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Bowling isn’t exactly a sport that requires a long ramp-up period to get ready for the season, which was evident given that teams had just two days to dial in before Wednesday’s season-opener.
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Sports Reporter
MOSES LAKE — Most teams don’t end their season in dramatic fashion.
EAST WENATCHEE — Every track athlete wants to go out on top — end their high school career as a state champion, or at least hit their peak in the final meet of the season.
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Sports Reporter
SOAP LAKE — The conditions at Lakeview Golf & Country Club were near perfect Thursday for the North Central Region boys golf championship.
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Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — Measuring 40 feet from end to end and stocked with drills, routers, sanders, jigsaws, fiberglass cloth, a vacuum press and an array of other woodworking tools, Wenatchee High School’s mobile ski-building lab has finally arrived.
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Sports Reporter
LEAVENWORTH — Wahluke has been a challenge for most teams, big or small, throughout the valley this season.
WENATCHEE — Head coach Dennis Tronson was a little leery heading into Tuesday’s home matchup against Eastmont.
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Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — It was a day of redemption for Victor Andrade and the Eastmont Wildcats, who won their fifth in-a-row Saturday after dispensing the Moses Lake Chiefs 2-nil at Eastmont Stadium.
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Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — It’s been an up-and-down season for the Eastmont Wildcats, who had dropped three of their last four games coming into Friday, but they sent their seniors off on a high note on Senior Night.
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Sports Reporter
CHELAN — The Goats had one of their best days on the golf course all season Thursday as senior Miles Grossberg shot a crisp 1-under 71 and the Chelan boys combined for a 336 at the Lake Chelan Municipal Golf Course.
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Sports Reporter
CASHMERE — Wenatchee faced another formidable opponent Tuesday night in the Cashmere Bulldogs.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Eastmont Wildcats could not have had a more inauspicious start to their Senior Night game against Ephrata Tuesday at Dan White Field.
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Sports Reporter
The Eastmont Wildcats continued their hot start to the season with their fourth straight win Saturday, sweeping the visiting Chelan Mountain Goats 4-3 and 10-0 in a doubleheader at Dan White Field.
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Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Panthers were able to scratch a few runs across but ultimately they weren’t able to match the Chiefs' firepower, falling to Moses Lake 20-6 and 17-6 in a doubleheader Friday at Walla Walla Point Park.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Eastmont boys might have swept the sprint events, but Wenatchee dominated the distance runs at their home track meet Thursday against the Wildcats and Cascade Christian Academy.
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Sports Reporter