Women’s
Rand Stevens
Sports Clerk
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Panther boys’ basketball team, playing without 6-foot-6 senior center Chase Loidhamer, was unable to beat the visiting Davis Pirates on Saturday. The Panthers trailed by as many as 20 points in the second half, and even though they rallied, they were unable to overc…
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
Women’s
Rand Stevens
Sports Clerk
Boys Basketball
Rand Stevens
Sports Clerk
CHELAN – Whether it’s the crowd, flow of the game or level of competition, sometimes the moment can get too big for certain basketball teams.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — Most nights when a team outshoots another 27-17 and gets seven power-play chances, they are going to win the game. However, hockey can be a cruel game in that respect as the Wenatchee Wild dropped a 4-3 game to the Trail Smoke Eaters on Friday night at the Town Toyota Center desp…
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
Children in the Cashmere Lil' Pups Cheer Camp perform during halftime of the high school boys game Thursday night in the school's gymnasium.
Don Seabrook
Photo Editor
So that happened.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Eastmont Wildcat boys’ wrestling team finished off their home schedule in fine style with a dominating 45-28 win over Eisenhower on Thursday. It was the final home match for seniors Adrian Vivanco, German Jimenez, and Jayston Smith.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
CASHMERE — Cashmere, now (11-1) in their last 12 games after beating the Royal Knights 58-31 Thursday night, has been sizzling the past month and a half.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
YAKIMA — The Wenatchee Panther girls’ bowling team had a chance to wrap up the regular season Big 9 championship with a victory at Eisenhower on Thursday. However, the home Cadets scored the upset, winning in total pins.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
Around 2:45 p.m., on Tuesday I was walking back from the snack bar at Eastmont Lanes — drink and meal ticket in hand — when I nearly dropped my medium Pepsi and spilled it all over the bowling alley’s multi-colored carpet. But it wasn’t because of anything the Wenatchee or West Valley girls …
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
It’s almost exactly three months to the start of the NFL draft — the first round is April 23 with the draft continuing on April 24-25, all originating in Las Vegas.
EAST WENATCHEE — With the Panthers struggling to close out frames and trailing by 70 pins early in their first game against West Valley Tuesday, it didn’t give the impression they would be able to recover in time to avenge an early-December loss to the Rams down in Yakima.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Gonzaga junior wing Corey Kispert was named WCC player of the week after averaging 17.5 points in two victories last week.
The Gonzaga women moved up three spots to 13th in this week’s Associated Press poll, just one notch below the program high of last year’s team.
For the second time in three years, a Washington State quarterback will be wearing No. 3 at the Reese’s Senior Bowl as a tribute to former teammate Tyler Hilinski, who donned the number for the Cougars before killing himself in January 2018.
Coming off a massive 40 point performance the previous night, Multnomah's Justin Martin, it appeared, was only warming up in a game against Northwest Christian last Saturday.
SEATTLE — Maybe Sophie Tsohonis should have been nervous last week.
CJ Elleby and Isaac Bonton were the ones that sparkled on the stat sheet last week and deservedly received much of the praise for leading Washington State to its first sweep of the Oregon schools since 2013.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley College Knights men’s basketball team took control of the game Monday against Yakima Valley College midway through the first half, then expanded the lead in the second half for the 85-64 win.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
WENATCHEE — Heading into the final quarter down six, the Lady Knights (13-6) needed some sort of spark offensively if they were going to pull off a late comeback over NWAC rival Yakima Valley.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
Former Cy Young Award winner Felix Hernandez has agreed to a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves, multiple outlets reported Monday.
An individual award came alongside the team accomplishments for Washington State after a weekend sweep of No. 8 Oregon and Oregon State.
YAKIMA — Friday night, for the first time this season, the Panthers took on the West Valley Rams.
EAST WENATCHEE — The Eastmont Wildcats hung around with the Big 9 leading Sunnyside Grizzlies (9-3) for three quarters but ultimately they just missed too many shots and gave up too many second chances come away with their second win of the season.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
♦ Coach: In his 10th year at Oregon, Dana Altman has a 249-100 record. He has a 659-342 record as a Division I coach, which includes a 16-year stint (1994-2010) at Creighton (327-176) and a four-year tenure (1990-94) at Kansas State (68-54). Altman is the 10th active Division I coach and 34t…
It’s rarely boring when BYU makes its annual visit to the McCarthey Athletic Center.
So, have you caught baseball fever yet?
Isaiah Stewart had 13 points to lead a balanced scoring effort for Washington in its 64-56 victory Thursday over Oregon State in a Pac-12 game at Seattle.
Joel Ayayi recorded 19 points, six rebounds and three steals and top-ranked Gonzaga won its 11th straight game with a 104-54 rout of Santa Clara on Thursday night in West Coast Conference play in Spokane.
PULLMAN — The Washington State Cougars officially introduced new head football coach Nick Rolovich Thursday afternoon at a press conference in Pullman.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — Going into the match, the Panthers and Chiefs were neck and neck in the Big 9 standings. Wenatchee was 3-0, while Moses Lake was 3-1. Sunnyside leads the way in the conference at 4-0.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
EAST WENATCHEE — The victory train kept chugging for both of the Wenatchee and Eastmont bowling teams Tuesday after both varsity squads took down Ellensburg and Selah in a pair of non-conference games at Eastmont Lanes.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
LEAVENWORTH — For a 2B team, the Lake Roosevelt Raiders are pretty tough. They finished second in state last year. On Tuesday, they faced off against 1A Cascade, the defending Caribou Trail League champions.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
PULLMAN — Klay Thompson fills seats.
Coeur d’Alene, ID — Two of the heavyweight teams in the Northwest Athletic Conference this season are meeting on the hardwood Wednesday. The Wenatchee Valley College men’s basketball team is 15-1 on the season. They are playing at the defending N-WAC Champion North Idaho. The Cardinals are a…
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
QUINCY — Beginning fall 2020, the Quincy Jackrabbits will end their five-year run in the CWAC and drop to the 1A classification to rejoin Cascade, Cashmere, Chelan and Omak in the CTL, the school district announced in a Facebook post Monday afternoon.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
The Mariners won't be going to arbitration court to settle any salary disputes this offseason. The organization agreed to one-year contracts with the three players eligible for salary arbitration — outfielders Mitch Haniger and Mallex Smith and right-handed pitcher Sam Tuivailala — before Fr…
RENTON — The end of an NFL season is followed the next day by players cleaning out their lockers, holding exit interviews with coaches, being examined by trainers one last time, then heading out the door into the offseason.
As the Sounders open training camp for the 2020 season Tuesday, the biggest player isn't on the field.
WENATCHEE — Even though Eisenhower had only one win on the season, they gave the Wenatchee Panthers all they could handle Saturday night. Wenatchee extended the lead several times on the night only to see the Cadets come back.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
CASHMERE — Kobe might not have stayed to watch the Cashmere boys take on Medical Lake, but he missed a real beauty.
Zach Johnson
Sports Reporter
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Panther girls’ basketball team won their fourth game in a row on Saturday with a 48-42 win over Eisenhower. With the win, Wenatchee improved to 2-2 in the Big 9 and 4-8 overall. They are currently tied for third place with West Valley and Davis.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
FEDERAL WAY — The gnarly pass conditions prevented most eastside high school swim/dive teams from traveling over the mountains last Friday for the annual Kentridge Invite at the King County Aquatic Center.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
LEAVENWORTH — Though three teams dropped out due to weather, 13 teams met Saturday for the Cascade Bavarian Invite in Leavenworth. Brewster/Pateros, Cascade, Eastmont, East Valley (Yakima), Ellensburg, Grandview, Highland (Cowiche), Naches Valley, Okanogan, Omak, Prosser, Quincy, and Wenatch…
Rand Stevens
Sports Clerk
Wenatchee took on Eastmont Friday night at Town Toyota Center in a unified game during the Basketball Showcase.
