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DAVENPORT—It’ll be a quick turnaround from Friday night’s rivalry football game to an all-day volleyball tournament for district athletic staff. The Gorillas will host their annual tournament beginning at 9 a.m. and running until 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. 10 schools were signed up to participate by press time: Davenport, Wilbur-Creston, Mary Walker, Republic, Medical Lake, Cusick, Chewelah, Odessa, Lake Roosevelt and Northport. Each varsity and junior varsity team will play four hour-long matches throughout the day. Varsi...
Varsity games, meets and matches the week of Sept. 2-8 for Davenport, Odessa, Reardan, Lind-Ritzville/Sprague and Christian Heritage. All games are subject to postponement or cancellation. Editor’s note: We will include LRS football games and volleyball matches in the docket due to Harrington’s sports participation this year. Friday, Sept. 2 Davenport vs. Reardan football at Davenport @ 7 p.m. LRS football vs. Colfax @ 7 p.m. Odessa football vs. Liberty Bell @ 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3 Davenport and Odessa volleyball at...
ODESSA- The Tigers return to the football field after injuries to four players started the halt in their championship year. The four players returning for their senior year are quarterback Collin Martin, running back Anthony Elder, tight end Gage Starkel and offensive lineman Jacob Scrupps. Coach Jeff Nelson says the team is looking good, but they had work to do. They were on their third practice of the season. "There is either a ton of experience or no experience," Nelson...
DAVENPORT-Freshly mowed, albeit slightly bumpy, grass. Getting run formations down pat. 20% of the roster absent because of wheat harvest. It's all a staple of the beginning of football season in Lincoln County as teams held their first practice in the morning heat Wednesday, Aug. 17. Davenport is looking to build off a state playoff appearance in 2021. First practices don't often indicate much, but senior Sam Schneider, traditionally a fullback, took the majority of reps as...
DAVENPORT—Sports schedules are still a work in progress, but the calendar for football, volleyball and girl’s soccer in Davenport, Odessa and Reardan is starting to shape up. Tentative schedules show that Davenport will host Reardan in Week 1 of the football season. The Gorillas will be trying to build off last season’s playoff berth, while the Screaming Eagles will look for a rivalry win in Matt Clouse’s head coaching debut. If the tentative schedule holds, Davenport football will have home games against Liberty Sept. 3...
Coffeepot is just one of many fishing spots in Lincoln County. The lake is popular for fly anglers in the early spring and summer. No live bait is allowed at this location. The lake is in a remote location, but there is a BLM campground and boat launch available....
YAKIMA-The Reardan softball team's ace pitcher of the last two years is most comfortable in the outfield. And that's what Alyssa Sosky will be playing for the Yakima Valley College Yaks this school year after signing Wednesday, July 27. Sosky chose the school due to its relative proximity to home, a local connection with a good friend and a budding relationship that began growing with Yaks head coach Renae Koppenhafer last summer. "She's one of those people that's very active...
DAVENPORT – Those hoping to get outdoors for a camp or swim are full of options near Lake Roosevelt. Hawk Creek Falls is located 12.9 miles from Davenport and is perfect for a quiet swim. The campground is secluded and is best suited for families looking for a quiet area, a couple or anyone who wishes to be away from the general public. Hawk Creek has a waterfall that is accessible through paddle boat or a short swim. Sharon Ballou, a local who was fishing with her husband a...
Bobby Winn of Reardan competed Sunday in team roping during the Sunday performance of the Cheney Rodeo. Winn, and teammate Brett Hale of Tenino, however, were unable to score in the event....
A warm, but not scorching, sunny day greeted the many prospective swimmers and sunbathers on the west end of Fort Spokane across from the festivities at Two Rivers Casino Saturday, July 2. Children enjoyed hopping off the dock into the Spokane arm of Lake Roosevelt, while parents and young adults took the opportunity for Vitamin D. The parking lots were packed, and most families stuck around for the spectacular fireworks show put on by the Spokane Tribe of Indians at the...
COULEE DAM-–Beginning on July 11, 2022 through August 25, 2022, three boat-in campgrounds will be closed to all public access to replace the pit toilets with vault toilet facilities. Ponderosa Campground, located on the Spokane River portion of the Lake, will be closed August 15- August 25. Goldsmith Campground, located between Keller Ferry and Hanson Harbor, will be closed July 11 –July 21. Penix Campground, located near Jones Bay Campground, will be closed July 18 – July 28. When the work is completed in each campg...
SPOKANE-The weather ceased its "Juneuary"-like theme just in time for the return of Hoopfest this last weekend. Thousands of teams took the hundreds of courts in front of tens of thousands of spectators in the annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament that dominates downtown Spokane over a June weekend. This year's tournament was the first since 2019 after two years of pandemic-related closures. Plenty of Lincoln County competitors took to the blacktops last weekend. Here's several...
DAVENPORT-After a 37-year career in outdoor law enforcement, 27 years of which were spent as Lincoln County's resident Fish and Wildlife officer monitoring pesky cougars, black bears and litterers, Curt Wood headed for retirement May 25. Wood, a Wisconsin native who now lives in Mill Canyon, hung up his badge and now looks forward to more time spent with his four grandchildren. He doesn't plan to stay indoors, as his retirement plans include plenty of hunting, fishing and trav...
ODESSA – The Odessa women's softball team had a bye week in their schedule a few weeks ago and decided to hold a Jack & Jill game with spouses, family and friends during that week. According to team member Paige Smith, the game was so much fun, the team thought it would be fun to do another Jack & Jill game. Smith and her teammates planned the second Jack & Jill game for last weekend, followed by a BBQ afterwards with everyone bringing a side dish. By all accounts, the e...
LIND – With names like "General Lee," "Let's Go Brandon" and "The Bandit," politics were on full-display Saturday along state Highway 21. Dozens of "Trump Country," Trump 2024" and patriotic flags flew along the highway as motorists honked and waved entering town. Anti-President Joe Biden flags waved from high atop farm combines, pickups and campers. But it wasn't the anti-Biden sentiment that brought thousands of people to town, it was the 33rd annual running of the Lind C...
ODESSA – The kids' fishing derby held Saturday morning, June 11, on private property at Schafer's pond south of Odessa was sponsored by the Crab Creek Alliance, the second event held this year by this newly organized Odessa non-profit. Many contributors to the event provided fishing poles for those who did not have them (although most brought their own), as well as everything from nightcrawlers for bait, hand-tied fishing flies by Rennie Tassell of Rosalia, and even c...
CHENEY-A personal record jump of six feet three inches gave Reardan sophomore Richard Alsept Lincoln County's lone individual 2B state champion at the WIAA 2B State Championships held at Roos Field on the campus of Eastern Washington University Thursday-Saturday May 26-28. Alsept's high jump mark was two inches higher than his second place competitor, senior Tre Seydel of Raymond. Senior Jarrett Jacobsen of Davenport finished third in the event. The Davenport boys had the...
LIND–The combined Lind and Ritzville school boards unanimously approved adding the Harrington to the existing Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna athletic combine during a meeting Monday, May 23. Earlier in the month the Harrington School Board voted to accept an offer to join the combine, by a 3-2 vote, during a meeting in Harrington....
REARDAN-Two varsity high school coaches are leaving their posts. Longtime head wrestling coach Rick Perleberg and inaugural girls soccer coach Brian Scott both resigned from their positions in letters accepted by the school board Wednesday, May 25. Perleberg, who said he is just retiring from the position and not from his teaching career, has been the head coach since 2015 and worked with the wrestling program since his arrival with the district in 1999. In that time he's...
GRAND COULEE–Fishermen can begin to fish for white sturgeon on Lake Roosevelt seven days per week beginning Saturday, June 18. The allotted lake area for fishing includes water from Grand Coulee Dam to the China Bend Boat Ramp, including the Spokane River from the Highway 25 Bridge upstream to 400 below Little Falls Dam, Colville River upstream to Meyers Falls Dam and the Kettle River upstream to Barstow Bridge. A daily limit of one sturgeon and an annual limit of two sturgeon is in place. Annual Limit 2 sturgeon. It is le...
DAVENPORT--The Davenport boys golf team won the WIAA academic state 2B title this year. The team, comprised of six boys, has a cumulative 3.46 grade point average this season....
DEER PARK – Four Odessa golfers did well at the 1B/2B state golf meet last week. Tiger senior Daeton Deife finished in 18th place tied with his first cousin Kallen Maioho of Wilbur-Creston-Keller, each of them scoring 173 over the two-day tournament. Fellow Odessa senior Landen Brooks was not far behind, finishing in 21st place tied with Colton Seymour of Cusick at 175. In team scoring, the Tiger boys took sixth place with a score of 42. Maddox Schumacher of Davenport High (and formerly of Odessa) finished in 15th place tied...
ODESSA – The Odessa High School girls' team brought home the fourth-place trophy from the state track and field meet held May 26-28 at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. Only a sophomore, Hayden Schuh, daughter of head coach Travis Schuh, had a stellar day in field events and races, placing first in the 100-meter hurdles, second in the 300-meter hurdles, second in the javelin, fifth as part of the 4x200 relay team and sixth as part of the 4x100 relay team. All of the g...
LIBERTY LAKE – Seven Odessa track and field athletes are headed to the state 1B meet Thursday through Saturday at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. They qualified for state during the 1B District 6/7/9 Championships on May 20-21 at Ridgeline High School. Mason Wright is the only local boy to qualify for state. Hayden Schuh, Ashlyn Neilsen, Lexi Eden, Lily Starkel, Reegan Carstensen and Kathryn Burnett all qualified in the girls competition. Wright qualified in the 3...
WALLA WALLA – The Odessa Tigers boys baseball season came to an end Saturday, May 21, with a 10-1 loss to the DeSales Fighting Irish. The No. 8-ranked Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, but were unable to score after that. DeSales, the No. 1-seed, tied the game in the second and kept adding runs over the next three innings. Hayden Miller hit two singles, one of which resulted in the Tigers’ only run. Collin Martin also hit a single. Starting pitcher Collin Martin went three-and-a-third innings before being rel...
