WENATCHEE — The spectacular season of the Chelan Goat volleyball team continued on Saturday with a victory over Okanogan in the Caribou Trail League District Championship game at Wenatchee High School.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
PASCO — Eastmont senior Jarred Barnes broke the school record for 5k at the State 4A Cross Country meet last Saturday at the Sun Willows Golf Course. Barnes finished 11th with a blazing time of 15:27, 38 seconds better than the previous school record.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
WENATCHEE — The spectacular season of the Chelan Goat volleyball team continued on Saturday with a victory over Okanogan in the Caribou Trail League District Championship game at Wenatchee High School.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
PASCO — The Cascade Kodiaks boys cross country team finished tied for first at the State 1A Cross Country meet last year, so with nearly everyone back, they came into this season with dreams of winning state.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
YAKIMA — For the first time since 2012, the Wenatchee Panther volleyball team is headed to state. The Panthers defeated Moses Lake in the consolation game last Saturday at West Valley High School to secure the Big 9’s second seed to state.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Early impressions from the Seahawks’ 27-24 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football:
The committees have spoken.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Panthers girls’ soccer team earned a trip to state with their 2-1 Big 9 playoff victory over Moses Lake on Saturday. Wenatchee and Moses Lake had split their regular-season series.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
WENATCHEE—You don’t often meet your lookalike in life, but Saturday afternoon, Cascade met their’s at the Apple Bowl when they faced Deer Park in a must-win for a spot at state or their season was over. Cascade finished the regular season near the top of the CTL losing only two games to thei…
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Wild rallied to erase deficits twice on Saturday night but in the end, the visiting Penticton Vees were able to cement a 5-3 victory and complete the weekend sweep.
For Sounders midfielder Victor Rodriguez, the finish has become far more important than the start.
When Nick Bebee went to Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, soccer was not a thing. Nobody played, there wasn't a team. Fast forward a half-century. All five of Bebee's kids played in high school. Bebee, 67, plays every weekend with his fellow old-timers. And Sunday he was among the more th…
PESHASTIN — The Cascade Kodiaks took on the Newport Grizzlies Friday night in a CTL-NEA crossover game to finish out the regular season. Coming off a recent win over rival Cashmere in the Pear Bowl, Cascade came into their final game with a bit of momentum, but previous injuries and a hard-t…
ENTIAT — The Entiat Tigers are perhaps the third or fourth-best 8-man 1B football team in the state. But against the defending state champs from Odessa on Friday, the Tigers were humbled 78-14.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
WENATCHEE — The Wild looked good in the first period but were completely outplayed over the final two as they fell 4-1 at the hands of the Interior leading Penticton Vees Friday night in front of 2,466 fans at Town Toyota Center.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Not only was the Big 9 championship on the line Thursday night when Eastmont played Wenatchee in the annual Bridge of Sportsmanship game, but also the rushing title in the Big 9.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
EAST WENATCHEE — What a ballgame.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wild are in for a big weekend with the Interior leading Penticton Vees (16-3-1) coming in for a two-game set Friday and Saturday night at Town Toyota Center, closing out Wenatchee’s four-game homestand.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — The Eastmont Wildcat girls’ soccer team defended their Big 9 District title Wednesday night with a dramatic 2-1 shootout victory over rival Wenatchee. Last year, Eastmont beat West Valley in the district title game.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
While the offensive, and particularly, rushing numbers have been eye-popping, the Wildcats stout defense has been the main driver behind Eastmont’s ascendancy these last two seasons.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
For the second year in a row, Wenatchee and Eastmont play their annual Bridge of Sportsmanship game with Big 9 championships on the line. The game is at 7 p.m. on Thursday at Eastmont.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
CASHMERE — Both Cashmere and Cascade, on Tuesday, battled hard throughout the night in hopes of earning a fourth-place seed at districts, and rivalry bragging rights. Cashmere had to win the first three sets to take that seed from Cascade, while Cascade need only win one.
CASHMERE – Okanogan made things interesting after scoring an equalizing goal late to force overtime against Cashmere Tuesday night, but Cashmere’s skilled midfield proved too tough to contain in extra-time as Cashmere generated chance-after-chance before Clare Norman scored the game-winner i…
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — It was the first round of the Big 9 District Volleyball playoffs on Tuesday at Eastmont High School as Eastmont, the three seed, faced off against the six seed, Davis.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
The Wenatchee Panthers and Eastmont Wildcats square off for a third time this season in the Big 9 championship Wednesday night at Eastmont High School – in what will not only determine bragging rights for the next year but also secure a home playoff game in the first round of state.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee senior running back Nathan Blauman is having a spectacular season for the Panthers. He’s leading the league in rushing and is a big reason why the Panthers are in a position to win the Big 9 championship.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
East Wenatchee—The Eastmont Girls' Soccer team won their first league title in school history this past Saturday on a clear, and bright afternoon against a formidable Moses Lake team. The game went into OT after a late resurgence by Moses Lake, but the league title was sealed with a golden g…
In the giddy aftermath Sunday of the overtime victory over Tampa Bay, Pete Carroll stepped to the podium for his news conference and spent the first two minutes talking about the Seahawks' "incredibly beautiful" performance.
With the Seahawks' win safely in hand — a circumstance that took three minutes and 33 seconds into overtime, and an avalanche of angst, to secure — rookie wide receiver DK Metcalf found himself exchanging postgame greetings with a Tampa Bay defensive back.
TUKWILA — MLS's new single-elimination playoff bracket took Cristian Roldan back to his childhood.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Wildcats absolutely dominated Moses Lake Friday night racking up over 600 total yards, 500 of which on the ground, and thrashing the Chiefs 66-21 at home.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
PESHASTIN — The odds were against Cascade winning this game. They were without any of their top four running backs, all injured. They were still looking for their first win in league and they hadn’t beaten Cashmere since 2014.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
On Aug. 6, after one of Washington’s first practices of fall camp, Keith Bhonapha was asked an as-of-yet unanswerable question.
RENTON — The mindset existed for Marquise Blair long before he ever put on football pads and a helmet for any affiliated team in his hometown of Wooster, Ohio.
YAKIMA — The Big 9 District Cross Country Meet was held Thursday at Franklin Park in Yakima. Both Wenatchee and Eastmont qualified runners for the State Meet.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
WENATCHEE — For the first time in five years, the WVC men’s soccer team is heading to the NWAC playoffs.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Raised in a southern Illinois town near St. Louis, Missouri, then going on to play college football at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Quincy football assistant coach Bob Cryder brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the team in his second season coaching the linemen.
The Seahawks have reached halftime of the 2019 season, and at 6-2 they have their best midseason record since their Super Bowl championship season in 2013.
CASHMERE — It was the final game of the regular season on Tuesday. Cashmere was 7-0 in Caribou Trail League play while Cascade was 6-1, their only loss to the Bulldogs. The CTL title was on the line.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
WENATCHEE — On a bright sunny fall day at Walla Walla Point Park, the Caribou Trail League District Cross Country Championships were held on Tuesday. This year, there were two state allocations to the CTL, which meant two teams and the top 14 runners from the boys and girls would make State.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
In an athletic and cultural environment in which football and basketball seem to command all the attention and dominate headlines, soccer has quietly become the most competitive and intense sport in the Valley.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
RENTON — The Seahawks are in the market for a new center — for the second half of this season and, perhaps, into 2020 and beyond.
ATLANTA — It was linebacker Bobby Wagner who bailed out the Seahawks on Sunday, as he had done so many times.
Chris Petersen got right to the point.
A number of readers wrote in last week inquiring about my statement that NHL players make salaries comparable to other major professional sports leagues.
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — Cole Paton, 22, of Cashmere has repeated as national champion at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championship in Big Bear Lakes, California on Oct. 13.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Wild scored first, and then scored last, but in between there were four goals by the visiting Salmon Arm Silverbacks on Saturday night that led to a 4-2 Wenatchee loss at Town Toyota Center.
With deadline for players on the 60-day injured list to either be reinstated to the 40-man roster or removed looming in the coming days, the Mariners outrighted three players recovering from season-ending injuries to Class AAA Tacoma.
SEATTLE — Alexandra Mandrycky gets that some hockey fans, especially complete newbies, might view using advanced analytics as akin to flying a spacecraft.
CHELAN — The Omak Pioneers and star running back Tanner Hall continued their march through the CTL Friday night as the Pioneers pushed their winning streak to eight following a 41-17 win over Chelan at Sargent Field.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
YAKIMA — If there was any concern about a hangover following the one-point loss at Sunnyside last week, it was dispelled early on Friday night as the Eastmont Wildcats easily handled the Eisenhower Cadets at Zaepfel Stadium. Eastmont won going away by a score of 56-27 amassing a total of 495…