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RITZVILLE - The Broncos boys basketball team had a good opening quarter, but just couldn't keep pace with the Royal Knights during a nonleague matchup Friday, Dec. 29. The Knights won, 81-54. The Knights took an 18-15 first quarter lead and grew the margin from there. By halftime, visiting Royal had a 38-31 lead. The Knights sealed the win with an explosive third quarter, outscoring the local Lind-Ritzville/Sprague (7-5, 4-2 in league) boys 26-10 to take a 64-41 lead. The...
SPOKANE - A local girl is making a habit of winning medals. On Dec. 23, Emilia Klewin, a Lind-Ritzville junior, took second in girls wrestling at 170 pounds in the M2 Mallet girls tournament at Rogers High School in Spokane. Then on Thursday, Dec. 28, at the Winter Cup at Hanford High School, she found herself on the podium in fourth place at the Varsity Girls Winter Cup at Hanford High School in Richland. At M2 Mallet, Klewin won her first match by pinning Madelynn Fox of...
RITZVILLE — The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls return to the court today, Jan. 3, after a nearly two-week-long break over the holidays. The Bronco girls(5-4, 2-2 in league) will host Warden at 7 p.m. tonight in Gilson Gymnasium. The last time the local girls took the court was Dec. 22, when they were edged by Columbia (Burbank), 64-59. But the game against Warden isn’t the only one this week for the Broncos. Kettle Falls will come to town on Friday, Jan. 5, and the Broncos will travel to Reardan on Saturday, Jan. 6. The gam...
PASCO – Zoe Galbreath scored 44 points Thursday night to lead the Bronco girls to victory over Tri-Cities Prep. The Broncos (5-3, 2-2 in league) lead the game from start to finish. The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls took a 21-18 lead in the first quarter and a 45-27 lead to the locker room at halftime. The Jaguars rallied in the third quarter, outscoring the Broncos, 18-12, narrowing the margin to 57-45. The Jaguars rally continued into the final stanza, with Tri-Cities Prep outscoring Lind-Ritzville, 21-13, closing the m...
I remember growing up that a person could stop at a gas station and pick up a map of most nearby states or the city they were in if it was a large one. Whenever we travelled my dad would always plan the trip with the use of a map, and he could fold them back into place. He had a bunch of maps from all over and I can’t tell you what happened to them but they are long gone. He did interest me into the use of maps and I can honestly say that as long as I used a map I didn’t get l...
SPRAGUE – Floating dock and walkway owners will have a new rule to contend with beginning Jan. 1. According to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, the agency will begin requiring the plastic foam used in floating docks and walkways to be fully encased. The agency will require all such foam to be covered in concrete, steel, aluminum or plastic to prevent pieces from breaking off and floating away, officials said. The state won’t initially mandate replacement of existing foam structures, but will require them to be upg...
PASCO – The undefeated Tri-Cities Prep boys basketball team knocked off visiting Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, 54-35, during a Class 2B game Thursday night, Dec. 21. Joey Duff led all scorers with 20 points for the Broncos in their losing effort. Blake McClure led the Jaguars (8-0) with 19 points. The Jaguars captured the momentum early, running up a 20-10 lead at the end of the first quarter. It was a lead the Broncos were unable to overcome as the Jaguars added 6 points to the margin in the second quarter and 2 more in the t...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos girls basketball team dropped two games last week, falling to Liberty, 51-41, on Dec. 12, and then to Colfax, 57-40, on Dec. 16. Against Colfax, Brynn McGaughy dominated the court for the Broncos. The 6-foot-2 junior post scored 14 points to lead the Bulldogs. Colfax (3-3, 2-0 in league) teammate, junior 5-foot-7 Brenna Gilchrist, added 11 points. Bronco sophomore Zoe Galbreath led all scorers with 23 points. Colfax set the tone early taking a 12-10 lea...
RITZVILLE – The visiting Colfax Bulldogs were too much for the Bronco boys to handle Saturday, Dec. 16, during a Northeast 2B league basketball matchup. The Bulldogs tamed the Broncos, 71-36. Adrik Jenkin led all scorers with 21 points for the undefeated Bulldogs (6-0, 2-0 in league). With 14 points, freshman Joey Duff led the Broncos (6-2, 3-2 in league). The Colfax team featured two familiar Lind-Ritzville faces – Ledger Kelly, a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard, and Jayce Kel...
Are you the type of person that sees an advertisement that uses a Hollywood star or famous athlete and think, “I need to get some of that stuff because I just love the actor (or athlete) and they wouldn’t lie about the product they are talking about?” I always think that for the right amount of money I might even like some of the stuff they are selling and of course be their new spokesman. The Name, Image and Likeness or NIL has allowed us to hear the voices of college athle...
DAVENPORT – Bronco wrestler Octavio Paredes Martinez brought home a gold medal Saturday from the Gorilla Invitational. Wrestling at 113 pounds, he was the only individual champion for the Broncos, which finished third as a team. Northwest Christian (Colbert) won the team award with 137 points, followed by Kittitas with 127 and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague with 110. Rounding out the Top five were Davenport with 97 points and Selkirk with 94. In individual results, Martinez opened t...
SPANGLE – Emmy Klewin went 1-1 on Wednesday, Dec. 13, at the second girls league wrestling meet of the season. Wrestling for a combined small-school team, Klewin – the lone girl for the Broncos – partnered with Liberty, Colfax, Davenport and others to face off against large schools. In her first bout in the 170-pound weight class, Klewin took an 8-2 lead before pinning (first name not reported) Hilton of Lewis and Clark. In her second match, Klewin faced Abigail Itveldt of Go...
At this time of the year, I usually take time to reflect on the several years I was associated with the game of football. Contrary to what some people think, football coaches teach their players much more than how to block and tackle. Coaches are teachers who use football as a vehicle to instill in their players the essential attributes of character, citizenship, and ethics. My first coach had instructions for almost every occasion. He would recite them and post different ones in the locker room. My favorite was, “Focus d...
RITZVILLE – In her 12th season as head volleyball coach for the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos, Cari Galbreath led her team to the Class 2B state tournament for the fourth time. This year, the team finished second in state. For the second consecutive year, she was also named Coach of the Year for the Northeast 2B league. Last December, as the 2022 season drew to a close, Coach Galbreath was optimistic. In an interview with The Journal, she expressed excitement about the t...
SPANGLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos wrestling team finished 12th overall in the Brice Williams Invite on Saturday, Dec. 9, at Liberty High School. The Broncos scored 70.5 team points; Mount Spokane won the team title with 113 points, followed by Liberty (Spangle) with 111. The Broncos placed three wrestlers in the finals – Gabriel Smith at 215 pounds and Octavio Paredes Martinez at 113. Emilia Klewin made the finals at girls 155. Smith brought home the only gold med...
ASOTIN – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys basketball team remained undefeated last week after topping Medical Lake, Upper Columbia Academy and Asotin. The Broncos doubled up on the Medical Lake Cardinals, 70-37, on Dec. 5, then followed up with a 52-37 win over Upper Columbia on Dec. 7. On Dec. 9, the Broncos (5-0) then topped Asotin, 76-68. This week, the Broncos were scheduled to host Liberty (Spangle) on Tuesday, Dec. 12 and Colfax on Friday, Dec. 16. Against Medical Lake, the Broncos scored often, taking an 18-6 lead at t...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos girls basketball team lost a hard-fought game to Medical Lake on Dec. 5, but rebounded to dominate the Lions on Dec. 7. The Medical Lake Cardinals won handed the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls their first loss, 60-49, on Tuesday, Dec. 5. But the local girls crushed the Upper Columbia Academy Lions, 58-13, on Dec. 7. Against Medical Lake, the Cardinals’ Charde Luat scored 33 points to lead all scorers. Despite Luat’s performance, the Broncos were never really out of the game. The Cardinals led 14-10 after...
SPOKANE VALLEY – A Lind-Ritzville wrestler won her weight class Thursday night, Dec. 7, at the East Valley Girls Wrestle-In league event. Emilia Klewin pinned both of her opponents in the 154-163 pound weight class to win her division. Klewin opened the girls-only league meet by pinning Isabell Leyve of Mary Walker (Springdale) in 2:17. In the match for first place in her class, she pinned Bella Doucette of Rogers (Spokane) in 53 seconds. The event was the first league m...
Broncos wrestled in Medical Lake Scramble on Dec. 2....
It certainly was a wild weekend for college football. Of course, if everything would have played out according to who was favored then we wouldn’t have such a controversial final four that was chosen by the committee on Sunday. But, as they say, that is why you play the game. Friday night the final Pac 12 championship game was played and it was a great game. Washington beat Oregon by three for the second time this season and since they had already been a part of the chosen fou...
RITZVILLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys and girls basketball teams wrapped up their first week of play Saturday with wins over Almira/Coulee-Hartline and Kittitas. On Thursday, Nov. 30, the Bronco boys knocked off the Warriors, 52-39. The local girls dominated the Warriors, 49-32. Then on Saturday, Dec. 1, the boys(2-0) routed Kittitas, 72-45, and the girls (2-0) spanked the Coyotes, 67-43. Against the Warriors, the Broncos got off to a slow start as Almira/Coulee-Hartline took an 11-10 first quarter lead. But with game d...
The regular season for college football is over except for the Army-Navy game in about ten days. The conference championship games will be played on Friday and Saturday and the playoff teams will be determined as well as who will play in the bowl games. Coaches will be fired and those positions will need to be filled. And many assistant coaching positions will be up for grabs as those coaches will become head coaches somewhere, or try their luck at a more recognizable place...
RITZVILLE — After three weeks of practices, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague grapplers are ready to square off against other schools. The winter season schedule opens with the boys heading to Medical Lake for the Scramble on Saturday, Dec. 2. The event will pit the Broncos against several large and small schools, including Medical Lake and Cheney. Wrestling begins at 10 a.m. The girls wrestling team will open its season with the league meet at East Valley (Spokane Valley) next Thursday, Dec. 7. Wrestling starts at 5 p.m. The b...
OLYMPIA — In accordance with the law establishing the paid Discover Pass, state officials have announced free-access days for 2024. On free-access days, a Discover Pass isn’t needed to access a state-managed parks or land managed by the state Departments of Natural Resources or Fish and Wildife. Free-access days for 2024 are: • Monday, Jan. 1 – New Year’s Day • Monday, Jan. 15 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day • Saturday, March 9 - Billy Frank Junior’s Birthday • Tuesday, March 19 – Washington State Parks’ 111th Birthday • Mond...