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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...
PULLMAN – Ritzville native and PGA professional Ryan Benzel and amateur Ben Minyard of Sahalee Country Club, Sammamish, placed seventh in the Pacific Golf and Turf PNW PRO-AM Championship, Oct. 6-7 at Palouse Ridge Golf Course. As a team, Benzel and Minyard shot 17 under par in the tournament. Benzel shot rounds of 64 and 67, 13 under par on the par-72 course. PGA Professional Corey Prugh of Community Colleges of Spokane and amateur Reid Hatley of Hayden Lake Country Club won the championship. As a team, they fired rounds 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,...
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...
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...
HARRINGTON – The Harrington Golf and Country Club closed for the season Oct. 3. Asked how the season went, General Manager Melissa Gilmore said, "Awesome!" A labor shortage caused the Cafe and Pro Shop to move the closing time from 7 p.m. to 4 p.m. for most of the season, she said, adding, "When we were open we were busy." The course will reopen April 1. In the meantime, the course is available for play under the "honor system". But the Cafe and Pro Shop are closed, and no c...
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...
Longevity in the NFL is something many players hope for but in the real world most players only last a couple of years. Tom Brady is certainly the exception. Russell Wilson is too for that matter. Although Wilson has had injuries in past seasons he has yet to miss a start for the Seattle Seahawks in a regular or post season game. That will all come to a screeching halt on Sunday as Wilson suffered an injury to the middle finger on his throwing hand. He ruptured a tendon in...
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...
For most college football teams the big rivalry game is the last scheduled game of the season. All of the team’s fans look forward to it because it is for bragging rights for the year. For EWU that game is against Portland State not because it is a real rivalry but because the Big Sky Conference thinks it should be. If you ask any true Eagle fan they would most likely tell you that their biggest rival is the University of Montana Grizzlies. Now if you ask a UM fan they w...
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...
I like to look through the scores of high school and college football games the following day. It’s kind of interesting to wonder how one team beat another team in what seems to be an upset. Was the losing team playing a road game or did the star quarterback get hurt? How did such a great defensive team give up 35 points? You can ask five people that were at the game and get five different answers. At least four of them will say, “We didn’t play very good.” Others will be...
So I know September 11th was last Saturday. Since my wife’s birthday is also on the 11th it is very important to not forget. I also have a great niece who was born on September 11, 2001 and I made sure to tell her mom to give her a hug from me on her 20th birthday. For those of us that are old enough to vividly remember what we were doing at the exact moment when we first heard about what was happening that morning it will be something indelibly etched in our memory bank. E...
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...
RITZVILLE – Here are the official Pro-West results for the two-day Ritzville Rodeo on Sept. 3-4: Bareback – 1. Tyler Smith of Idaho, $431.52. 2. Ross Dowling of Cheney, $264.48. Saddle bronc – 1. Jesse Kirby of Cheney, $565.44. 2. Ross Dowling of Cheney, $346.56. Tie-Down Roping – 1. Kyle Sloan of Ellensburg, 11.74 seconds, $744.00. 2. Kass Kayser of Ellensburg, 12.04 seconds, $446.40. 3. Brett Hale of Tenino, 12.89 seconds, $297.60. Breakaway Roping – 1. Rylee Hanson of Weiser, Idaho, 3.49 seconds, $813.60. 2. Jeana Goo...
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...
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...
It was a beautiful day for football last Saturday. The Jamboree was back with six teams doing their best to get the kinks out and to see if the timing of the new plays works as well against new competition than it did against the second teamers. That is very important since the first game will be on Friday night. A year ago we were all a bit frustrated with so many things being put on hold due to the C-19 pandemic. The 2021 senior class was left to wonder if the bad memories...
Left to Right: Brix Curtis, Caleb Heater, and Elijah Michels practice for the Ritzville High School Cross-Country team....
COLFAX – About 80 dead white-tail deer have been found so far around the city. Public works have picked up the dead deer found in city limits, Police Chief Bruce Blood said last week. Four of the deer were found while they were alive and ill. They were dispatched by officers. “To let them go would have left them suffering,” he said. “It’s tragic that something like this happens.” Blood said a similar situation happened in 2015. “It’s not very unusual, unfortunately....
Sen. Schoesler top hunting lawmaker RITZVILLE – Sen. Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, has been honored by the Hunters Heritage Council. The group named the 9th Legislative District senator as its Legislator of the Year for 2021. Schoesler represents Adams, Asotin, Franklin, Garfield, Whitman and southern Spokane Counties. “As some of you know, I’m an avid hunter,” Schoesler said in an email to constituents. “Each fall, I go on a few hunting trips with friends. I know that many of you also are hunters. “As a legislator,...