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AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Citing the inability to come to an agreement to negotiate a different lease term, Spokane County Raceway operator Craig Smith will step away from the facility leaving both the 2021 season, and the track’s future up in the air. Neither Spokane County Commissioners, nor officials with Spokane County Parks who oversee the facility returned requests for comments by deadline time Tuesday evening, Feb. 23. They were asked on Monday to address the rampant social media chatter that the track would close — or if it...
DAVENPORT—The Gorillas (0-2) battled for a set and a half, but are still searching for their first set and match victories this season after getting swept at the hands of the Liberty Lancers (2-0) at home Tuesday, Feb. 23. Liberty was victorious 27-25, 25-22, 25-9. The first set was back and forth all the way through. Davenport went on a 5-0 spurt to take a 23-20 lead, but Liberty erased the deficit and held on for the 27-25 decision. Davenport built a larger lead and more m...
REARDAN-It may have been the inaugural game in program history, but that didn't stop the Reardan Indians from scoring early and often in a 7-1 drubbing of the Kettle Falls Bulldogs Tuesday, Feb. 23. Freshman Noelle Raczykowski scored the first goal for the Indians and didn't stop there, following up her first goal with a three-score rampage in the last 10 minutes of the first half. Raczykowski had four first-half goals total, and Reardan let 4-0 at intermission. Junior...
REARDAN - Reardan High School hosted the "Mudbowl Jamboree" tonight, Feb. 22, with football teams from Davenport and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague participating. It was the first time in about 15 months that these three Northeast 2B conference foes battled it out on a cold, muddy gridiron. We'll have coverage of the scrimmage in this week's edition of The Davenport Times....
REARDAN--Melloney Diefe had 21 assists and the Odessa Tigers got a road victory in Reardan over the Indians Tuesday in straight sets, 25-16, 25-21, 26-24. It was the first game for either school since Fall 2019, as the season has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Emily Scrupps added 12 kills for Odessa, while Maddie Scrupps had eight digs. Diefe added four aces, and Jocelynn Hottell had three blocks for the victorious Tigers. Kendall Little had 10 digs and two blocks for Reardan, while Emma Flaa had six assists and...
REARDAN--"Fall sports" practices, including football, volleyball, cross country and girl's soccer, began Wednesday in Davenport and Reardan. Athletes were mandated to wear masks, but were thrilled to get back on the field and court. Competitions begin next week, including a jamboree Feb. 20 in Davenport....
"Fall sports" practices, including football, volleyball, cross country and girl's soccer, began Wednesday in Davenport and Reardan. Athletes were mandated to wear masks, but were thrilled to get back on the field and court. Competitions will begin next week after the East region, including Lincoln County, was cleared to move to Phase 2 of Gov. Jay Inslee's re-opening plan Feb. 11....
DAVENPORT – Standout high school track, soccer and basketball athlete Darby Soliday is headed to Pocatello, Idaho to attend Idaho State University to run hurdles and similar short events. Soliday, a senior, signed her letter of intent at a ceremony at the high school Feb. 9. "I chose ISU because it is a smaller, competitive Division I school, which would fit me better coming from a small school like Davenport," Soliday said. ISU competes in the Big Sky Conference and has a c...
PULLMAN – Washington State University starting quarterback Jayden de Laura was arrested for DUI on Saturday in Pullman. The 19-year-old was allegedly spotted on College Hill running through a stop sign on Colorado Street and driving the wrong way on Thatuna Street, said Operations Commander Jake Opgenorth. De Laura was stopped at 2:13 a.m. He failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a Breathalyzer, but otherwise followed law enforcement instructions. "He was very c...
DAVENPORT—“Fall sports” may finally be arriving. Athletic directors in Davenport, Reardan and Harrington have created schedules for sports their schools are participating in. All games are subject to cancellation or movement, depending on whether the “East” region is in Phase 2 of the governor’s re-opening plan or not. Only cross country is approved to compete in Phase 1. Most practices begin Feb. 10. The WIAA recently ruled that Phase 1 practices, while restrictive, can count toward the practice count needed for competition...
ODESSA – Odessa High School Athletic Director Bruce Todd told The Record last week that high school volleyball and football teams were scheduled to begin a six-week season on February 1. Practice for both sports was underway, and schedules were being worked out by the athletic directors of the area schools. Junior-high football was set to begin February 8 and junior-high volleyball on February 16. Wilson Creek was to combine with Odessa for the football season, and Harrington will join Odessa for other selected sports. S...
ODESSA – At least one athletics organization is ranking the Odessa Tigers as the top 1B football team to beat in Washington state. In a preseason ranking released earlier this week by SBLive.com, Odessa is ranked as the top 8-man football team in the state, followed by league rival Almira/Coulee-Hartline. The Tigers went 13-0 in the fall 2019 season and have been waiting to get on the gridiron to defend their state title. Odessa running back Marcus King graduated, but q...
DAVENPORT – Fall sports may be on the horizon, if COVID-19 metrics cooperate. District 7 athletic directors, which include those in the NE2B and NE1B leagues, met Jan. 22 and approved a move of most fall sports to Feb. 15 in hopes that the East region, which all Lincoln County schools are in, will be in "Phase 2" of the metrics required to compete in most sports. Football, however, would start full practices Feb. 10 if the region is in Phase 2 by that point. In Phase 1, o...
DAVENPORT--Northeast 2B athletic directors elected today to push back the start of most fall sports to Feb. 15, a two-week delay from the previously planned Feb.1, after COVID-19 numbers in the East region failed to indicate that the region would be in "Phase 2" of Gov. Jay Inslee's state re-opening plan. Football will "hopefully" start five days earlier, on Feb. 10, Reardan co-athletic director Eric Nikkola said, as 10 football practices must occur before games can begin. Other league fall sports are cross country,...
REARDAN – Another option for female student-athletes hoping to compete in sports is coming to the school district. The school board approved the launch of a girl’s soccer team at its Jan. 14 board workshop meeting with little hesitation. Superintendent Eric Sobotta said the district hopes the team can launch by Feb. 1, or by the date fall sports are officially a go. Girl’s soccer will be added after a year-plus long process the district went through to add another girl’s sport in order to come to Title IX compliance. The pro...
DAVENPORT – Many high school sports leagues around the state are making their own decisions about how to proceed with fall sports, which the WIAA had tentatively planned for Feb. 1. The Northeast 2B League decided to aim to start all fall sports that day after an league-wide athletic director’s meeting Jan. 15, with the possibility of another delay coming. Reardan co-athletic director Eric Nikkola, who took part in the meeting, said that a final decision on whether to start Feb. 1 will come Jan. 25. If COVID-19 case num...
All-time greatness surrounds the quarterbacks in one game this weekend, while young superstars man the position in the second. I speak, of course, of the NFC Championship game between Aaron Rodgers' Green Bay Packers and Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the AFC Championship game between Patrick Mahomes' Kansas City Chiefs and Josh Allen's Buffalo Bills. Rodgers and Brady, two of the most recognizable football names in the last 20 years, square off at frigid Lambeau Field f...
RENTON – The WIAA Executive Board voted on Tuesday to approve the schedules for WIAA Seasons 2 and 3, setting dates for traditional winter and spring sports. Traditional spring sports will be held in WIAA Season 2 which will begin with pre-contest practices on March 15 and end on May 1. Traditional winter sports will be moved to WIAA Season 3 which will begin on April 26 and end on June 12. The decision comes after the Executive Board voted at its January 6 meeting to begin traditional fall sports on February 1. While the E...
COULEE DAM – Campers will have to pay more beginning Jan. 29 if they want to stay overnight along Lake Roosevelt. Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area camping fees will increase from $9 per night to $11.50 per night from now through April 30. On May 1, the fee will jump to $23 per night, up from $18 per night during the 2020 summer season. That fee will remain in place through September, then drop back to $11.50 for the 2020-21 winter season. At this time, camping at Lake Roosevelt is limited to Kettle Falls loop 1, F...
Calling four verticals against a two-deep safety look when the opposing defense has a strong pass rush tends to be a terrible play call. Unfortunately for those thousands in the state who root for the Seattle Seahawks, that sentiment didn't appear to affect Pete Carroll, Brian Schottenheimer, Russell Wilson and the rest of the offensive personnel on Saturday. It contributed to the Seahawks' season ending early with a Wild Card round loss at home to the rival Los Angeles Rams...
PORTLAND-Two wins may not seem like much, but the Eastern Washington women's basketball team's pair of victories at Portland Stat Dec. 31 and Jan. 2 to open Big Sky Conference road play will surely be a confidence booster for a young team with just one senior that only managed three conference wins all last season. EWU won 73-71 in the first game and 73-67 in the second game. Eastern improved to 2-2 in conference and 3-6 overall with the two victories, and in both games were...
Some won awards. Some tied school records. Many won their contests. It was a successful week for area sports teams and many individual athletes...especially for those playing hoops in Spokane and Pullman. Oh, and the Seahawks clinched the NFC West thanks to an outstanding defensive effort against the Sean McVay-coached Rams, which had historically been a thorn in Pete Carroll's side. The game included an interception thrown by Rams quarterback Jared Goff that was such a bad...
DAVENPORT--Many high school sports leagues around the state are making their own decisions about how to proceed with fall sports, which the WIAA had tentatively planned for Feb. 1. Today, the Northeast 2B League decided to aim to start all fall sports that day, with the possibility of another delay coming. Reardan co-athletic director Eric Nikkola, who took part in a league-wide athletic director's meeting, said that a final decision on whether to start Feb. 1 will come Jan. 2...
RENTON-- The WIAA Executive Board voted to amend its season schedule on Wednesday, moving traditional fall sports to WIAA Season 1 while choosing to review Seasons 2 and 3 at its Jan. 19 meeting. WIAA Season 1 will span seven weeks in length, beginning with pre-competition practices on Feb. 1 and ending on March 20. The sports scheduled for that season include cross country, football, golf (alternate), slowpitch softball, girls and 1B/2B boys soccer, tennis (alternate) and volleyball. The change comes after Gov. Jay Inslee...
PULLMAN – The Eastern Washington women's basketball team (1-6) hung tough with a Washington State squad that nearly upset No. 8 Oregon a day prior for a quarter, but sharp shooting from WSU and turnovers from EWU allowed the Cougars to pull away in the final three frames for a 73-52 Wazzu win Dec. 22. Former Liberty High School standout freshman Maisie Burnham, whose hometown of Spangle is located roughly halfway between Cheney and Pullman, scored a career-high 16 points a...