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Wilson proves quick learner with double win

Jade Wilson was a pretty good sprinter, but that was last year. Now he’s an even better hurdler, winning both events at the 2A regional track and field meet Friday night at Spokane Falls Community College and going to state in a discipline he learned only this spring.
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Area soccer teams walked tightrope

Never a doubt. By the narrowest of margins, three Spokane-area boys soccer teams are alive and kicking going into Saturday’s state quarterfinals.
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Cheney defeats Othello in double OT at state

It was a tough-luck night, but the Cheney soccer team was more than tough enough to overcome it. After giving up a tying goal late in regulation, the Blackhawks scored with 2 minutes left in overtime to defeat Othello 2-1 in a first-round State 2A match Wednesday night at Gonzaga Prep.
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CV claims State 4A boys soccer opener

Practice didn’t make them perfect, but the Central Valley boys soccer team was close enough when it mattered most Tuesday night. After playing visiting Emerald Ridge to a 3-3 tie through regulation and two overtimes, the Bears dominated the penalty-kick shootout in a first-round State 4A playoff match.
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Bears out to change color of coach’s hair

Most of the dye-jobs are gone now, but the attitude that brought them is still rooted in the psyche of the Central Valley boys soccer team. “It all starts with the seniors,” says head coach Andres Monrroy, whose team is more substance than style these days.
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Central Valley boys clinch State 4A soccer berth

Strange as it sounded at halftime, slowing down was the fastest route to state Saturday afternoon for the Central Valley boys soccer team. After falling behind early, the Bears scored twice in the second half to defeat visiting Chiawana of Pasco 2-1 in a 4A Regional match that sends CV to the state playoffs for the first time in five years.
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Mt. Spokane tries to extend soccer season Saturday

It didn’t take long for Logan Georgeadis to feel a part of the Mt. Spokane soccer family. “The guys, they treated me like I’ve been here all four years,” said Georgeadis, a senior transfer from South Carolina who quickly got up to speed on what mattered on the pitch.
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Mt. Spokane misses first shot at state

Mt. Spokane will get another shot at the state soccer playoffs this weekend, which is a good thing, because the Kennewick Lions gave them very few Wednesday night. Shots, that is, limiting the Wildcats to seven shots on goal in a dominating 4-1 victory in a 3A Regional match at Albi Stadium.
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Sense of urgency

Sometimes the best way to meet expectations is simply to meet. That’s worked out twice this season for the Mead boys soccer team, which is finding that a little urgency is a good thing as they hope for a deep run in regionals and state.
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Late Mead goal ousts Ferris

A season this good couldn’t go to waste, and it didn’t. In the final moments of overtime, Mead midfielder Dominic DeShazo scored on a deflection to give the Panthers a 1-0 win over Ferris in a 4A District loser-out soccer match Tuesday night at Albi Stadium.
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Daska distances herself from pack in Bloomsday win

There would be no thrilling finish at this year’s Bloomsday Elite Women’s race. Mamitu Daska made sure of that from the start, pulling away from an ever-thinning pack Sunday to win by almost a minute in 38 minutes, 26 seconds.
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Eastern emphasized balancing act in spring

If the Eastern Washington football coaches had one goal going into spring drills, it was to get more physical. Which sounds a bit trite – this is football, after all. But in trying to achieve a better balance between the run and pass, the Eagles did their best to emphasize the game in the box with more live-tackling drills, including the inside running game, head coach Beau Baldwin said.
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EWU’s Monterola chases Olympic dream

For Keisa Monterola, the distance from Cheney to London is 3 centimeters, or barely an inch. For that inch, she’s already gone the extra mile – tens of thousands of them – in pursuit of an Olympic dream that began in Venezuela and continues at Eastern Washington University, where last week she set a another school record in the pole vault.
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Defending Bloomsday champ Mekonnin returns

It may be hard to beat the excitement of the elite races at last year’s Bloomsday. Of course, they said that last year, before the men’s and women’s 12-kilometer races were decided by 1 second in one of the most dramatic days the event has seen.
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Talley sets season record with flurry

Nice try, they told Adam Talley after his pursuit of the Great Northern League scoring record apparently came up short. “They were telling me there was no way I could get five goals (in the final game Saturday) against West Valley,” the East Valley forward said.
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Mitchell goin’ north

The gunslinger will soon be in the middle of the stampede. Former Eastern Washington quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell signed a contract Monday with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, and will report to rookie camp on May 30.
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Mitchell signs with Calgary of the CFL

The gunslinger will soon be in the middle of the stampede. Former Eastern Washington quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell confirmed Monday that he has agreed to play this fall for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, and will report to rookie camp on May 30.
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Cowboys select EWU’s Johnson in fourth round

As a child, Matt Johnson’s Thanksgivings were all about family – and the Dallas Cowboys. Johnson’s football dreams came full circle Saturday morning when the Cowboys chose the strong safety out of Eastern Washington in the fourth round of the National Football League draft.