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Bronco high jumper Carson Kubik attempts to clear the bar for a team score at the Moscow Invitational on Friday, April 12. He was unable to clear the minimum height for a score. For more on track, see Pages 8-9....
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...
PASCO – The state lowland lake fishing season is set to open Saturday, April 27. And if fishing isn’t enough, the state has tagged more than 800 trout and released them into lakes around the state. Fishermen landing a tagged trout will be eligible for prizes in the state’s derby. While none of the lakes in Adams or Grant counties were stocked this year, a couple nearby Franklin County lakes have received fish from the Lyons Ferry Hatchery. Dalton Lake and Marmes Pond both have been stocked multiple times from Feb. 26 to Ma...
There have been a lot of changes in NCAA basketball. UConn won its second championship in a row — in case you forgot. Coaches moved to different challenges, replacing coaches who were fired or took a successful season and received a bigger paycheck somewhere else. I guess we could call it the coaching transfer portal. Eastern Washington University head Coach David Riley moved onto WSU. I like Riley, but I wish he hadn’t said this was his dream job because a lot of dream job...
Area youth among those racing at Irby IRBY - Five area youth were among the racers competing in events during the Stumpjumpers 52nd annual Desert 100 race weekend. Competing Saturday, April 6, in youth divisions, Greyson Thompson of Lind finished 34th and Emmett Green of Ritzville 72nd in a field of more than 80 young competitors pitting their skills and small motorcycles against the rough sage-steppe near the former town of Irby, off state Highway 28 west of Odessa. In the...
By the time you read this you will know who the men’s NCAA basketball champion is. All I can say is that the two best teams are playing for the crown. I’ll watch as I always do because it’s the right thing to do. It was a great season and an interesting one. Whereas the women’s champion was undefeated the men’s’ teams stubbed their toes a few times, Purdue 4 times and UConn 3. It has been a long time since the men had an undefeated champion mainly due to talented rosters and...
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...
SPOKANE — Five grapplers from the Lind-Ritzville Marmots club reached the championships at the Jason Crawford Memorial Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, March 30. Four brought home a title in what is considered the youth wrestling’s “state” tournament across Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Marmots winning their weight classes include 7-8-year-old girls Reece Glisson at 51-53 pounds and Quinn Glisson at 60-62 pounds. Local boys winning their weights are Javier Villa in the 126-132-pound class in the ages 9/10 divisio...
I’ve always maintained that timing is everything. I wrote last week’s column and sent it off a few hours before WSU basketball coach Kyle Smith announced that he would be the next Stanford Cardinal men’s basketball coach. When I found out I thought that it wasn’t a step up as Stanford has had trouble winning and now they are going to the ACC to play the likes of North Carolina, Duke and this year’s tournament upstart North Carolina State. A few hours later when I was watch...
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...
RITZVILLE — The Broncos tennis team split with Reardan on March 26, winning six matches but losing five. In girls singles, Broncos Danica Cox topped Braden Durbin, 5-7, 6-4 and 10-8; and Tahli Rundquist topped Kate Guhlke, 6-4, 7-5. Meanwhile, Broncos Destiny Phelps fell to Hailey Fry, 1-6, 3-6, and Meghan Rivers lost to Kersten Lundgren, 1-6, 2-6. The Broncos doubles girls team of Liberty McClanathan and Savannah Carruth dominated Elsa Wescer and Elyanna Crego, 6-2, 6-3. But Broncos Faye Niccols and Emmah Kerbs lost to E...
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...
RITZVILLE — The Bronco girls are off to a perfect start of the 2024 fastpitch sofball season. Last week, they topped Newport in a doubleheader and then defeated Kettle Falls. In the home-opening game of the season against Newport on Tuesday, March 19, senior Harlee Hennings had a triple to lead the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls to an 8-4 victory over the visiting Grizzlies. Hannah Towne and Aeowyn Armstrong also had hits in the game. The Broncos had no errors in the game. Meanwhile, Newport had 4 hits and no errors. A...
There are a ton of stories about the teams, players and coaches in the NCAA basketball tournament. There are family stories and stories of tragedy that can make a person cry. With the games there are upsets and blowouts and buzzer beaters. We all know that some of the players that had great tournaments will be on someone else’s roster next year. Coaches that had great seasons will be courted by bigger programs that weren’t happy with the person that is heading their pro...
Carey Lando races against the clock in the Lind Lion's Club Arena earlier this month during the Northwest Rally Assocation's 2024 season-opener. Rally racing is expected to return to Lind in the fall....
COLLEGE PLACE — Junior Emery Molina and freshman Brody Fleming paced the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse track team Saturday, March 23, at the Hawk Invite at College Place High School. Molina placed second, fourth and fifth in individual events, and was a member of the 4X200 relay team that finished sixth. Sophomore Chloe Waddell added second-, fourth- and eighth-place finishes for the Eagle girls in individual competitions. Fleming brought home a second and two thirds in individual competitions and was a member of the s...
Hay rolls form WSU cougar at a farm near Spangle. The display is a tribute to the mens basketball team which competed in the NCAA March Madness tournament last week. The Cougars won one game before being eliminated....
LEWISTON - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague track team struggled to gain traction against large schools, Friday, March 15, in its season-opening competition at the Sweeney Invitational. The boys tied with Deary, Idaho, for 14th as at team with 7 team points. The Bronco girls finished last with only 3 team points. Post Falls, Idaho, won the boys team title with 177.5 points, followed by Connell with 66. Coeur d'Alene won the girls title with 140 team points, followed by Post Falls...
I’m sure that many people who enjoy watching the NCAA basketball tournament really don’t watch many of the conference tournaments. For fans around here that watch Gonzaga and WSU your interests were in Las Vegas last week and the last game you watched ended in a loss for the men and also the GU women. The only local team to win their conference tournament was the EWU women. The Eagle ladies had and extraordinary season and will now take on Oregon State in Corvallis. Nice rew...
ODESSA—Motocross fans who can’t wait for the Desert 100 race the first weekend of April have local two races to look forward to this weekend. The Stumpjumpers Motorcycle Club, which puts on the Desert 100 each year, is hosting the Frostbite Grand Prix and White Knuckle Grand Prix here Saturday, March 23 and Sunday, March 24. The races are a mile south of town at approximately 3985 State Highway 21. Saturday is the Frostbite and Sunday is the White Knuckle. Each day’s racing starts at 9:30 a.m. with a 2.5 hour long course, fol...
LIND — The Northwest Rally Association opened its 2024 season with two days of racing in Lions Club Arena on March 9-10. The Top 3 finishers in each class are as follows: Saturday, March 9 Prepared FWD — 1. James Connelly, 6:42.948; 2. Joshua Albanese, 6:47.750; 3. Chase Cook, 7:04.621. Stock RWD — 1. T.J. Vollema, 6:22.983; 2. Bryan Davidson, 6:25.797; 3. Jason Angell, 6:36.874. Prepared RWD —1. Michael Erbland, 7:25.626. Prepared AWD —1. Omri Reeves, 6:07.682; 2. Daniel Slipes-Brandt, 6:07.747; 3. Dean Minner, 6:11.212....