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RITZVILLE – Broncos fans and student athletes paused to honor three seniors prior to the varsity football game Friday night. Laura Miller, Eli Michels and Colby Tracy were all invited to the field with their parents. After graduation Miller, a cheerleader, plans to attend Eastern Washington University and study psychology. Cross country runner Michels plans to go into some sort of trade, possibly electrical. And football offensive/defensive lineman Tracy says he wants to "...
SPOKANE VALLEY – Lind-Ritzville/Spargue/Washtucna cross country runners competed in Plantes Ferry Park at the District 7 1B/2B Championship meet on Friday, Oct. 2 Three of the four local runners set personal record times. In the boys race, Eli Michels placed 29th out of 96 runners, with a time of 18:14. Caleb Heater placed 58th with a personal best time of 20:16, and Brix Curtis placed 76th with a time of 21:25, also a personal best. In girls varsity, Maeve Korthius, an e...
KETTLE FALLS – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna girls varsity volleyball team defeated Kettle Falls in straight sets Oct. 23. Set scores were 25-20, 25-15 and 25-18. Dakota Killian had 10 kills and 7 blocks in the winning effort. Amalia Court had 8 assists and 6 digs. The Broncos (7-4) close out the regular season in a non-league contest at Columbia (Burbank) on Wednesday, Oct.27. The Broncos will host a first-round District 7 match at 6 p.m. Nov. 1 in Gilson Gym. The opponent for that match is to be d...
RITZVILLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna Broncos won the Northeast 2B league football title Friday, Oct. 22, after crusing the Asotin Panthers, 47-0. "This is a great win for the kids" Coach Greg Whitmore said. "This was the league championship win for us. We own all the tiebreakers. "We could be tied with Davenport, but we don't want to share." The scoring started early as Brody Boness scored on a 67-yard run, just 57 seconds into the game. At the 9:11 mark of the first quarter, Chase Galbreath added another t...
COLFAX – Lind-Ritzville/Sprague runners were paced by Eli Michels in the District 7 cross country meet Oct. 5. Michels finished third in the boys 5K event with a time of 18:00.00 and broncos teammate Caleb Heater placed 18th with a time of 21:09. "Our athletes did outstanding," Cross Country Coach Christina Heater said by email. "Eli came in third and both he and Caleb set personal bests." In the girls 5k varsity race, eight-grader, Maeve Korthius of Sprague placed 18th out o...
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna varsity girls volleyball team (5-4) defeated Reardan (7-4), in straight sets Saturday, Oct. 16 at home in Gilson Gym. Set scores were 25-22, 25-18 and 25-21. Sydney Kinch had 8 kills; Baylor Moore had 8 assists and Dakota Killian had 6 blocks in the match. Following the match Coach Cari Galbreath said, "It was a good win for us over a good team. We stayed focused." The Broncos have 3 regular season games left on the schedule,...
RITZVILLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna Broncos put their unbeaten record on the line Friday night, Oct. 15, handing Reardan their fifth loss, 49-7, at Jimmie Snider field. Coach Greg Whitmore was pleased with the outcome. "We figured we were the better team, but at this point in the season we just take it one game at a time," he said. Just 1:18 into the game, Brody Boness scored the first Broncos touchdown on a 25 yard run. Then, at the 7:13 mark of the first q...
SPRAGUE – A local girl who moved here four years ago from Cheney has been crowned Sprague High School Homecoming queen. Senior Chloe Melton, 17, moved here in eighth-grade. She is involved in several school clubs including the Environmental Club, Future Farmers of America and trapshooting. During her free time, she likes to ride horses, trap shoot and play softball. She also likes to hang out with friends, play hide and seek strategy games such as Fugitive, and go to lake bonfires. Melton admits she had some stiff c...
RITZVILLE – Students, teachers, staff, parents and community members came together in Ritzville on Thursday, October 14, to celebrate homecoming. A parade was held through downtown Ritzville. Along with a police and fire escort, the marching band under the direction of Jennifer York lead the procession, followed by pickups decorated by each class, along with a "coaches coach", a bus decorated in support of the volleyball team, and the homecoming royalty from Sprague. E...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos cruised to an easy win while putting on an offensive display at Medical Lake, Friday night, Oct. 8. The Class 2B, No. 1-ranked Broncos won, 62-34, in a non-league contest over the Class 1A Medical Lake Cardinals. "We had a really nice game, offensively," Coach and Athletic Director Greg Whitmore said of the win. He also credited Medical Lake's offensive attack in scoring 34 points. "Medical Lake's size on the offensive line g...
RITZVILLE – Activities are underway for the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna Spirit Week, Oct. 11–16. The week features a dress up days, parade, pep rally, royal coronation and football and volleyball games. The Homecoming royalty has already been selected at each of the participating schools. The Washtucna queen and king are Noveli “Noe” Longatti and Nate Hille , respectively. From Sprague, it’s Queen Chloe Melton and King Tucker Osbourne. And from Lind-Ritzville, Queen Syd...
SEATTLE - Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Head Football Coach, Greg Whitmore, was named a Seahawks' high school coach of the week, for week 1 of the 2021 high school football season. Written, October 1, on the Seahawks.com Friday round up "Coach Whitmore's Broncos have had their struggles over the past few years, but in Week 1, they were able to upset a top-ranked team in the Liberty Lancers, 18-7. This was Lind-Ritzville's first victory over Liberty in seven seasons." Asked about the...
CHEWELAH – The Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Broncos scored 13 points in the 1st quarter and added 2 more touchdowns in the 4th quarter, while holding the Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars scoreless Friday night, to post a 27-0 win. By email head coach Greg Whitmore wrote: "Our kids played really hard against the reigning league champion. I am proud of their fight to keep the Cougars out of the end zone." The Broncos have not allowed an opponent to score in 6 quarters of football. "We had s...
LEWISTON, Idaho – The Lind-Ritzville –Sprague Cross Country team competed in Lewiston, Idaho, on Sept. 28, and Cheney on Oct. 2. In Lewiston, sophomore Caleb Heater came in 23rd of 35 with a time of 21:49, Coach Christina Heater reported. Freshmen, Brix Curtis finished 29th of 35 with a time of 23:35. Competing in the girls race, Mauve Korthuis, an eighth-grader, came in 12th of 15 with a time of 28:12, the coach reported. In Cheney, the team competed at the Battle of the 509...
Last week, the WIAA unveiled its state tournament allocations for fall sports. These allocations determine how many teams each district gets to send to the state playoffs in these sports, which around here, include football, soccer and volleyball. No changes were seen in soccer and volleyball. District 7, which includes Davenport and Reardan, was given one berth in girls soccer and three in volleyball for the 2B state playoffs. A fair allocation, as the number of 2B girls...
RICHLAND – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna cross country team ran against strong competition Saturday, Oct. 9, at the Richland Invite. Hosted by Carmichael Middle School, the Broncos harriers didn’t place as a team. Running in the 3,000 meter junior/senior race, senior Eli Michels finished 57th overall with a time of 19:15.97. In the 3-mile freshmen/sophomore event, sophomore Caleb Heater led the Broncos, finishing 121st with a time of 20:52.53. Freshman Brix Curtis was 171st with a time of 23:06.22. In the girls 3-m...
RITZVILLE – A local football player has been named a Washington Interscholastic Activities Association statewide Athlete of the Week. Junior Lind-Rizville/Sprague quarterback Chase Galbreath was named the Class 2B boys Player of the Week for Week No. 4 of the fall sports season. Galbreath went 14-of-21 in the air and connected for three touchdowns in the Bronco’s 27-0 win over the Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars. Additionally, he added a rushing touchdown and kicked three extra points after touchdowns in the game. Galbreath wil...
KETTLE FALLS – Last Thursday night’s high school football game between Lind-Ritzville/Sprague and Kettle Falls canceled due to COVID-19 issues at Kettle Falls. “Our kids were disappointed obviously. We were ready to play and needed to play,” Lind-Ritzville Coach Greg Whitmore said, after being reached by email, “The lesson is that ‘life happens and we can only control what we can control.’ We focused on getting better during practice.” The Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association adopted rule 17.30.0 as part of its...
School events shouldn’t compete with community Labor Day weekend has been a time when the communities of Benge, Lind, Ritzville, Sprague and Washtucna come together to celebrate and display what have been some of the great mainstays of our communities since their beginnings in the Wheat Land Communities Fair and Ritzville Rodeo and the Ritzville Chamber of Commerce Parade. I was disappointed on Saturday of the Labor Day Weekend to learn that our school was participating in an out-of-town athletic event that took many s...
RITZVILLE – The Odessa Tigers and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos both left the Ritzville Invitational Volleyball tournament on Saturday, Sept. 11, unbeaten. That means they did not play each other, setting up an interesting non-league match in October. On the way to their unbeaten day, Class 1B Odessa and Class 2B Lind-Ritzville never lost a set while playing Rogers (Spokane), Royal City and Columbia (Burbank). The other team participating was St. Georges’s (Spokane). In their final set of the day, Odessa faced off aga...
DAVENPORT – The hometown Gorillas marched the ball up and down the field in Friday night's contest against the No. 9 ranked Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos, being stopped from scoring on just two drives. Despite that fact, an 80-yard kickoff return touchdown by Broncos freshman running back Brody Boness gave the visitors the lead with 2:11 left and, ultimately, the win. Davenport fell to 1-1 with a 25-24 loss at the hands of the Broncos, while Lind-Ritzville/Sprague improved to...
DAVENPORT--The hometown Gorillas marched the ball up and down the field in Friday night's contest against the No. 9 ranked Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos, being stopped from scoring on just two drives. Despite this fact, an 80-yard kickoff return touchdown by LRS freshman running back Brody Boness gave the visitors the lead with 2:11 left and, ultimately, the win. Davenport fell to 1-1 with a 25-24 loss at the hands of the Broncos, while LRS improved to 2-0 to start the 2021...
SPRAGUE – A local civil leader and businesswoman has been named grand marshal of the Sprague Days parade. Dorothy Giddings, 90, will lead the parade on Saturday morning, Sept. 11. The theme of the event is "Remembering 9/11." Local veterans are invited and expected to join the patriotic event. Giddings fell in love with the area in the early 1980s when she and her husband, Gary, visited on weekends to help his cousin operate Four Seasons Resort. The couple was hooked and b...
RITZVILLE – In a defensive battle, the Lind-Ritzville-Sprague Broncos beat the Liberty Lancers 18-7 on Friday night. "These were two evenly matched teams", said LRS head coach Greg Whitmore. Ashton Strobel #2 scored a Liberty touchdown in the first quarter and the Lancers took a 7-6 lead to the locker room at halftime. But the Lancers were shut out by the LRS defense in the second half. With 35 seconds to go in the third quarter LRS scored on a 10 yard pass from #15 Chase Galb...
RITZVILLE – The girls high school volleyball season was scheduled to get under way here Tuesday, Sept. 7. The local Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos will host Class 2B perennial powerhouse Colfax. Gametime was 6:30 p.m. in the gym at the high school, 209 E. Wellsandt Road. Results of the matchup weren’t available at press time. “It is a big league match,” Lind-Ritzville Athletic Director Greg Whitmore said in an email Monday. Colfax is coming off an undefeated spring season, a season that was delayed due to coronavirus shutdow...