Cheney Broncos win state Pop Warner title
The Cheney Broncos capped an 11-0 season by winning the state Pop Warner football championship in the 13-14-year-old Senior Open division.
Cheney went through the Spokane league season 8-0, then won two playoff games locally to qualify for the state finals against the West Side’s No. 1 seed, the Vancouver Jets, in Vancouver. Cheney won 26-0.
Team members are Michael Atchison, Benjamin Bissell, Dakota Condos, Bryce Crooks, Brett Hoblin, Cameron Lowe, Cody Majar-Kjos, Diondre Moore-Young, Niles Nicola, Michael Payne, Nathanial Pinson, Jefferey Pool, Amos Schalk, Robert Stevens, Benjamin Soto and Justin Ward.
Aaron Rockey and AJ Jones are the head coaches and Aaron Olsen and Alec Pringle the assistants.
College scene
Soccer and cross country athletes who earned significant postseason awards were chosen the Community Colleges of Spokane student-athletes of the month for November.
Lauren Nay, a sophomore from University High School who led CCS to its first women’s soccer conference championship, is the female winner.
Nay led the team in goals with 17 and added 10 assists as CCS compiled a 20-3-2 record. She contributed to all four CCS goals in the playoffs and was named the most valuable player in the Final Four tournament. She also played in the NWAACC all-star match for a second year.
The male winner is Charles Cummings, a redshirt freshman on the men’s cross country team from Eisenhower of Yakima via Virginia Intermont College.
Cummings led the Sasquatch with a time of 25 minutes, 17 seconds for 8,000 meters. His fourth-place finish helped CCS win a sixth straight league championship and earned him his first All-America award.
“Washington State freshman women’s soccer player Carly Dobratz has added to her postseason awards.
Dobratz, who had four goals and five assists, was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-West Region third team and Soccer Buzz magazine’s All-West Region third team and All-Freshman team. She earlier was named to the All-Pac-10 second team and All-Freshman team.
“Jessie Thalman, Gonzaga’s freshman goalkeeper, was also named to Soccer Buzz magazine’s All-West Region All-Freshman team.
Also a WCC All-Freshman selection, Thalman had six shutouts and a 1.09 goals-against average.
“ Tiera Como, Eastern Washington’s senior goalkeeper, was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America academic All-West Region third team.
The East Valley graduate has a 3.40 grade-point average majoring in mathematics education.
“Greg Biagi, a former Colfax High School and Big Bend Community College star, was named the most valuable player at Dakota State during its fall baseball season.
Biagi, a junior shortstop who played for the Spokane RiverHawks this past summer, hit more than .400 and played solid defense in helping his Gold team to a fifth straight win in the school’s Blue-Gold World Series.
He was the only non-senior selected one of four team captains.
Snowboarding
Four members of the Schweitzer Alpine Racing School’s Freeride team, all from Spokane, have been nominated to the USA Snowboarding Association’s All-America team.
Valerie Reynolds, 15; Cameron Maring, 15; Jenna Feldman, 16; and Carrie Uren, 18, qualified for consideration because of their podium finishes in the 2006 nationals at Northstar in Tahoe, Calif.
They compete in the USASA Inland Northwest Series, which holds national-qualifying events throughout the winter at local resorts.
Last year, Maring was the lone nominee from the Inland NW Series. He was selected to the All-America team and competed in Boardercross at the Junior Worlds in Italy, where he had a top-five finish.
Reynolds capped her season with six top-four finishes in the nationals. Uren had four top-eight finishes, including a first in triple overall.
Feldman moved from New Jersey, where she was an All-America selection last year, to train with the SARS team and Harris.