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Bronco Cameron Boness stretches out to tag first base and make the out against Kettle Falls during district play May 2 at Colfax. The Kettle Falls Bulldogs edged the Broncos, 12-11, to end the season for the Lind-Ritzville Sprague boys. For more on the game, see Page 8....
Jail Log RITZVILLE — The Adams County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office reported the following individuals in-custody from April 29 to May 6: May 6 Humberto Gregorio-Gregorio, 36, fourth-degree assault-domestic violence, harassment-domestic violence and resisting arrest. Booked into the Benton County Jail. May 3 Nelson Velasquez-Pineda, 33, second-degree assault-domestic violence. Booked into the Benton County Jail. Anthony Vargas, 23, Adams County warrant. Booked into the Benton County Jail. April 29 Ariel Martinez — Failu...
SPOKANE - Dozens of Adams County and nearby youth participated in the Junior Livestock Show of Spokane Youth Market Sale on Saturday, May 4, making thousand of dollars. Alyssa Williams of Lind-Ritzville FFA sold her award-winning beef for $5,961.25; weighing in at 1,255 pounds she earned $4.75 per pound. The market value of her beef entry was an estimated $2,070.75. Wade Palmer of the Ritzville Livestock 4-H Club sold his purple-placing swin for $670. It weighed in at 268...
DAVENPORT - The Bronco girls softball team wrapped up regular season play Saturday, May 3, by blanking the Gorillas in a doubleheader. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls won the opener 11-0 and the nightcap 14-0 over Davenport. Individual statistics were not reported. The local girls take the week off in preparation for districts on Tuesday, May 14, and Friday, May 17. The district tournament games will take place at the Dwight Merkel Sports Complex, 5701 N. Assembly St.,...
SPOKANE — After three matches over the last two weeks, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague tennis team is ready for district play. District began Tuesday, May 7, at Whitworth University in Spokane. In girls singles, Bronco Danika Cox was scheduled to open against Kerstin Lundgren of Reardan; and Carlie Loop was scheduled to face Audra Gliniak of St. George’s. Bronco Meghan Rivers was on tap to play Emily Howder of Jenkins (Chewelah). The first round were all loser-out games; the newspaper went to press before tournament play. In girls...
COLFAX-The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos saw their season slip away with a 12-11 loss against the Kettle Falls Bulldogs on Thursday, May 2. The Broncos held an early lead in the game before the Bulldogs came crawling back to tie the game late. In the final inning, the Broncos were ahead by a run, then, disaster struck. Lind-Ritzville would allow Kettle Falls to score key runs in their final at-bats, including a walk off base hit from the Bulldogs to advance them in the...
COLFAX - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys finished fifth in the league track meet April 30, but the Bronco girls could only muster a ninth-place finish. The local boys tied for fifth with Jenkins (Chewelah) with 58 points each. St. George's won with 109 points, followed by Reardan with 95. Colfax was third with 73 and Davenport fourth with 71. In the girls division, the Broncos score 36 points to edge only Colfax with 32. The girls team title was won by Davenport with 159 point...
TYLER – A wind turbine corporation has been acquiring land leases from the Tyler area to Fairfield. Over the last five months, Cordelio Development Holdings LLC of Toronto, Canada, has acquired 20 leases across southern Spokane, including two parcels between Tyler and Sprague. The purchases include parcels near Cheney, Fairfield, Latah, Waverly and Tyler, according to county records. Details of some of the purchased tracts have yet to be made public, and company officials have not returned calls seeking comment. In the T...
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague track team had a strong showing Saturday, April 27, at their home Undeberg Invitational on Jimmy Snider Field. The Bronco girls finished fourth out of 21 teams with 62 points. Kittitas won the girls title with 75 pints, followed by Davenport with 64 and Reardan with 63. In the boys division, the Broncos tied for seventh with Liberty (Spangle), with 30 team points teach. Davenport won the boys title with 119 points. Rounding out the Top 6...
RITZVILLE — The Broncos girls fastpitch softball team wrapped up the regular season Saturday, April 27, with two losses. The Northwest Christian (Colbert) batters proved too much for Lind-Ritzville/Sprague in the Northeast 2B softball finale. The Crusaders, currently in second place in the Northeast 2B, swept the Broncos 10-0 in the opener and 12-1 in the nightcap. Individual results were not reported. Several of the Broncos players are dual-spring sport athletes, also scheduled to compete simultaneously in the Undeberg I...
RITZVILLE — Northwest Christian Northwest Christian (Colbert) swept Lind-Ritzville/Sprague in a Northeast 2B baseball doubleheader on Saturday, April 27. The Crusaders dominated the opener, winning 26-2, and won the closing game 6-1. Individual statistics for the doubleheader were not reported. Several of the Broncos players are dual-spring sport athletes, also scheduled to compete simultaneously in the Undeberg Invitational track meet at Snider Field. The Broncos (0-16, 0-12 in league) travel to Kettle Falls this week to t...
DAVENPORT—The trial of a Sprague defendant in a criminal sex case has been continued again. This time, the trial of Jonathan Ray Stocker, 42, of Sprague, was continued because he was served with a federal warrant. Stocker is being held in the Lincoln County Jail. Stocker is already charged with five counts of first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and one count of second-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit. The new federal warrant was issued f...
RITZVILLE - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys dropped a doubleheader to Asotin on Saturday, April 20. The Panthers topped the Broncos, 18-0 in the opener and 16-1 in the second game. Asotin set the tone early, scoring 6 runs in each of the first two innings in the opening game. The game ended in the bottom of the fifth. Asotin had 17 hits and 1 error in the win. The Broncos had 1 hit and 5 errors. Gavin Ells and Cody Ells each had hits for the Panthers. Jerod Harder had the...
COLFAX - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys relay teams turned on the speed Saturday, April 20, at the McDougall Invitational at Colfax High School, bringing second- and third-place finishes. The boys 4x400 relay team of seniors Shawn Steinberger and Ridger Moor, junior Zach Klein and sophomore Damon Schilling placed second with a time of 3:35.56. And the boys 4X100 relay team comprising senior Brock Kinch, Steinberger, Klein and Schilling finished third with a time of 45.27....
SPANGLE — The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls fastpitch softball team fell one run short in each game of a doubleheader Friday, April 9, against the undefeated Northeast 2B league rival, Liberty. The Lancers (11-0, 10-0 in league) edged the Broncos, 5-4 and 4-3, in a doubleheader. In the opener, both teams remained scoreless until the bottom of the third inning, when Liberty got a runner home. The Lancers would add for more runs to lead 5-0 at the bottom of the 6th. A 7th inning rally brought four Broncos in for a score, but n...
MOSCOW, Idaho - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys finished mid-pack as a team at the Moscow Invitational on Friday, April 12. With 26.5 points, the Bronco boys finished the highest of any Washington state team. The Broncos were 10th out of 19 teams; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, won with 156 points. Meanwhile the Lind-Ritzville girls finished 17th with 11 points; Moscow won the girls division with 152 points. The Bronco boys were strongest in the 400-meter, where sophomore Damon...
SPANGLE — Following spring break week, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys baseball team returned to the diamond Tuesday, April 9, at Liberty High School. But the Lancers were ready for the visiting Broncos, sweeping the doubleheader, 19-9 in the opener and 19-2 in the closer. Liberty set the tone of both games from the beginning. In Game 1, the Lancers jumped out to a 4-0 first quarter lead and expaned to to 8-1 after two innings. The Broncos had a strong fourth inning, with bats bringing 6 runs home. But the Lancers kept s...
CHEWELAH — The Jenkins Cougars were tough to beat on their home court last week. In Northeast 2B tennis action, the Bronco girls struggled to get a win, meanwhile, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys faired a little better. In boys singles, Jeffrey Christianson topped John David, 6-4, 6-2; and Drank Gloyn edged Alex Backman, 6-6, 7-4, 6-3, for Bronco wins. Noah Dockery fell to Dylan Deitwai, 1-6, 2-16. In girls singles, it was all Jenkins. Carlie Loop fell to Avi Sahota, 2-6, 0-6; Liberty McClanatha dropped two sets to Simi S...
SPANGLE — The Broncos track and field struggled Wednesday, April 10, to gain traction as a team at a league meet at Liberty High School, but several local athletes put in solid individual performances. Valley Christian won both the boys and girls team titles, with the boys scoring 99.5 points and the girls scoring 122. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague was fifth in both, with 43 points in boys and 38 in girls team scoring. In individual results, junior John Stromberger won the boys javelin with a flight of 134-07.5, and the boys 4...
RITZVILLE – Visit the Ritzville Festivals building on Sunday afternoons, and you'll see Temple Gefre, Brooklyn Norton, Madisyn Cameron and their families busily preparing this year's float for the upcoming parade season. Last year, the float debuted Friday afternoon, June 9, when "Ritzville Rocks" emerged from the festivals building and its driver, Jackson Bartlett, cranked up the rock music. Riding the float were Miss Lind-Ritzville Madison Bartlett, and her princesses, Hanna...
Sheriff’s Log RITZVILLE – TThe Adams County Sheriff’s Office reported the following calls for service from March 17-23: March 17 2:25 a.m. —Assist resident in the area of Milepost 74 U.S. Highway 395, Hatton. 8:22 a.m. — Suspicious vehicle in the 2000 block of East Schoessler Road, Ritzville. 1:53 p.m. — Suspicious 911 call in the 700 block of South Lucy Road, Othello. 2:56 p.m. — Animal problem in the 2100 block of West Cunningham Road, Othello. 4:10 p.m. — Assist resident in the 2200 block of West Cunningham Road...
RITZVILLE — Following a week off of school for spring break, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague teams return to a more regular schedule this week. On Tuesday after the newspaper went to press, the Broncos girls fastpitch softball and boys baseball teams traveled to Spangle to play Liberty. The golf team was also hosting a home meet. Today, Wednesday, April 10, the track team is scheduled to compete in a league meet at Liberty High School in Spangle. On Thursday, the tennis team travels to Chewelah to play the Jenkins Cougars and t...
Jail Log RITZVILLE — The Adams County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office reported the following indviduals in custody from March 25-April 1: March 26 Kathy Nashion, 47, driving while under the influence and third-degree driving while license suspended. Booked into the Franklin County Jail. March 27 Dexter Eugene Wallace, 38, arrested for second-degree arson, five counts of theft of a motor vehicle, six counts of possession of a stolen vehicle, three counts of first-degree burglary and four counts of first-degree trafficking sto...
PULLMAN – With the early spring weather unkind, many teams have canceled sporting events in Whitman County. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos and the Colfax Bulldogs were more fortunate Tuesday, March 22 - their double-header was moved to Bailey-Brayton Field at Washington State University. The field is entirely turf, so baseball can be played when grass fields are too muddy. Unfortunately for the Broncos, the Bulldogs dominated both games. The Broncos scored only a single r...
REARDAN - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls fastpitch softball team bats were alive in Reardan, as the Broncos overwhelmed the Screaming Eagles in a doubleheader Saturday, March 30. The Broncos girls dominated Reardan in the opener, winning 23-3, and pounded them again in the closer, 25-8. The wins come two days after the Broncos fell to the Colfax Bulldogs in a double header. The Bulldogs won that matchup, 16-5 and 12-7. Individual statistics were not reported of either of...