Ike opens at Qwest Field - YAKIMA -- Coming off back-to-back 7-3 seasons, Eisenhower's football program will enjoy one of its all-time highlights today when the Cadets play at Qwest Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks. With nine returning starters on both sides of the ball, Coach D...MORE...

Prep football -- Vikings feel at home on new field - SELAH -- Never underestimate the positive effects of sod. Or, for that matter, a nice new spread of dirt under it. Energized by a huge crowd and the debut of a renovated field, Selah's football team pitched a shutout with five interceptions to take a 42-0...MORE...

College football -- Ranked Mesa looms for CWU - ELLENSBURG -- The opponent figures to be better this time, but so does Central Washington. After rallying for an overtime victory last week at Dixie State, the Wildcats will seek to rid themselves of a few opening-game wrinkles in today's 1 p.m. home open...MORE...

Local Report -- Vea helps CWU to victory - ELLENSBURG -- Brandie Vea broke the school record for digs with 50 as Central Washington beat Sonoma State 3-1 in the CWU Invitational volleyball tournament Friday in Nicholson Pavilion. The Wildcats followed that victory by beating Chaminade 3-0, improvi...MORE...

Prep Football -- La Salle upends defending champs - YAKIMA -- If openers are a predictor of how a team's season will go, expect the La Salle Lightning to be in the state playoff mix this year. With junior quarterback Mike McGree completing of 9 of 13 passes for 221 yards and two touchdowns -- both to Jake ...MORE...

9/6/08 Prep Football Roundup - Prosser 34 Redmond 29 REDMOND -- Jordan Durbin threw for four touchdowns -- and the Mustangs needed every one of them to rally for a victory. Durbin's final two scoring tosses, 21 yards to Corey Christen and 10 yards to Kirby Moore, came in the fourth qua...MORE...

West Valley gets physical - YAKIMA -- Friday night's halftime discussion in the visitors' locker room at East Valley could be boiled down to two words: more physical. "At halftime, we challenged our guys up front and said, 'Don't be surprised if we don't run outside the tackles the...MORE...

Prep football -- Toppenish stays grounded, proves too much for Zillah - ZILLAH -- Staying exclusively with the running game, Toppenish ground out a 12-7 victory over Zillah in the season opener for both teams. The Wildcats got two long first-half scoring runs to jump ahead, and the Leopards, which attempted just seven passes ...MORE...

Future begins tonight - YAKIMA -- The Yakima Herald-Republic sports department is making a comeback of sorts. After giving readers the most complete coverage in print of the prep sports in the Yakima Valley, we're expanding our game on the Internet, where we've been lacking for...MORE...

College football -- CWU looking for less drama - YAKIMA -- For their next act, Central Washington's Wildcats will seek to avoid late-game drama. They will try to make the fourth quarter less chaotic, will attempt to place less pressure on the arm of Mike Reilly and the foot of Garrett Rolsma and thereby...MORE...

Fall Prep Previews -- Change at the top for soccer? - YAKIMA -- The girls who have made up the lineup of each West Valley soccer team since 1996 have known only triumph, with a cumulative league record of 138-9-3 and not a single season in which the Rams did not win outright or tie for their league title. L...MORE...

Fall Prep Previews -- Girls soccer capsules - COLUMBIA BASIN BIG NINE CONFERENCE FAVORITES With graduation hitting perennial powerhouse Richland hard, this figures to be the year that PASCO -- which shared the conference title with the Bombers last year -- finally stands alone atop the final standin...MORE...

Fall Prep Previews -- Girls soccer, 2007 revisited - 2007 REVISITED CBL 4A W L Richland 11 1 Pasco 11 1 Eisenhower 8 4 Walla Walla 5 7 Wenatchee 4 8 Davis 2 10 Moses Lake 1 11 CBL 3A W L West Valley 12 0 Southridge 10 2 Kamiakin 8 4 Eastmont 6 6 Hanford 3 9 Kennewick 2 10 Sunnyside 1 11 CWAC North Divis...MORE...

Local Report - ELLENSBURG -- Rachael Schurman and Erin Norris combined for 21 kills Thursday night as Central Washington overwhelmed St. Mary's (Texas) 3-0 in the CWU Invitational in Nicholson Pavilion. Schurman had 11 kills and Norris 10 as the Wildcats won their home...MORE...

9/5/08 This Week on Track - YAKIMA SPEEDWAY What: Late Models, Super Stocks, Hobby Sportsman, Hobby, Bump to Pass, Hornets, Youth Hornets. When: Saturday. Gates open at 4 p.m., time trials at 5. Point leaders -- Late Models: Mike Longton 463, Mike Zamora 459, Owen Riddle 415, Ron Be...MORE...

Golf -- Smith finishes with ace - TOPPENISH -- Dick Smith finished off his round of golf at Mount Adams Country Club in grand style Tuesday, recording a hole-in-one on the 18th hole. Smith used a 7-wood on the 147-yard hole, which he aced 20 years ago. It was witnessed by Boyd Gray, Jim L...MORE...

9/4/08 Bears update - Notes IT'S NOT SOMETHING HE'S PROUD OF: Brendan Duffy has been hit by pitches 15 times in 52 games and 161 at bats. It has contributed to a .417 on-base percentage, which starting play Tuesday ranked fifth in the Northwest League, but is nothing the Bea...MORE...

Local Report -- YVCC falls to Clark - YAKIMA -- Clark College of Vancouver swept Yakima Valley's young volleyball squad in the Yaks' home opener Wednesday at Sherar Gym. After beating Big Bend earlier in the afternoon, Clark topped Yakima Valley 25-17, 25-20, 25-17. Kinsey Doering, a freshman...MORE...

Northwest League -- Bears finish with victory - PASCO -- They may have had a season to forget, but the Yakima Bears sure enjoyed a memorable finish. Starter Ryan Cook opened with four hitless innings and Brendan Duffy turned in his best effort of the summer as the Bears rolled to a 6-2 victory over the...MORE...

Familiar farewell - YAKIMA -- It had a last-game feel to it, well before the first pitch. A hazy sun was setting much earlier than it had back in June, when the Bears began a 76-game Northwest League odyssey that completed its home portion Tuesday night. Some players chatted...MORE...

Yakima Bears update - Next game Opponent: Tri-City Dust Devils. When, where: 7:15 p.m. today, Gesa Stadium, Pasco. Radio: KUTI (1460). Probable pitchers: Yakima RHP Ryan Cook (1-2, 5.33) vs. Tri-City RHP Juan Nicasio (2-3, 4.22). Notes NO ALL-STARS THIS TIME: For the first...MORE...

Franks leads Central soccer - ELLENSBURG -- West Valley graduate Brittany Franks scored her first two collegiate goals Tuesday to power Central Washington past Corban College 5-0 in a non-conference soccer match at the CWU complex. Franks, a freshman, scored her first goal in the firs...MORE...

Enjoyin' the ride -- Hasauer, Lowe win titles at Ellensburg Rodeo - ELLENSBURG -- Among professional sports, rodeo is profoundly different than its higher-paying brethren, in ways that are at once breathtaking and endearing. Because its athletes are typically more approachable than those in other athletic arenas, and unfa...MORE...

09/02/08 Ellensburg Rodeo results - Monday's results Bareback Riding Monday's finals: 1 (tie), Royce Ford, Briggsdale, Colo., and Josi Young, Kimberly, Idaho, both 86 points; 3 (tie), Will Lowe, Canyon, Texas, and Ryan Gray, Cheney, both 83; 5 (tie), Justin McDaniel, Porum Okla., and Jared...MORE...

Morgan masters Tri-City - YAKIMA -- Sean Morgan's stuff, they insist, had never been lost. He had retained the knee-buckling breaking pitches and grounder-inducing sinkers that had enticed the Arizona Diamondbacks into drafting him in the fourth round last year out of Tulane Unive...MORE...

Tidrick slows down Lewis at Yakima Speedway - YAKIMA -- It's been nearly impossible to derail Snohomish's Gary Lewis this season, but Yakima's BJ Tidrick pulled it off Sunday night in the ARCA West Late Model Challenge Series at Yakima Speedway. And another local driver, Mike Longton, handled Lewis'...MORE...

09/02/08 Bears update - Next game Opponent: Tri-City Dust Devils. When, where: 7:05 p.m. today, Yakima County Stadium. Radio: KUTI (1460). Probable pitchers: Yakima RHP T.J. Hose (4-4, 4.30) vs. Tri-City RHP Jonnathan Aristil (2-1, 2.74). Notes PLAYER OF THE MONTH: David Coop...MORE...

Northwest League -- Yakima pitchers freeze Tri-City - YAKIMA -- It was nothing close to a quality summer night at Yakima County Stadium, but it did become a quality Summers night. As in Houston Summers, who weathered unseasonable conditions Saturday and benefited from clutch relief pitching from Daniel Vasqu...MORE...

College Football -- Central wins a wild one - ST. GEORGE, Utah -- With so many heroes to pick from, Central Washington University's football team was probably most grateful for the last one Saturday night. J.R. Hasty bolted 25 yards on the opening play of Central's first overtime possession, bringing...MORE...

Local Report -- Tieton's Robbins advances to 35 final - YAKIMA -- Eric Robbins of Tieton beat Yakima's Kevin Kershaw 6-4, 7-5 in an all-local semifinal in the men's 35 singles of the Pacific Northwest Adult Sectional Championships at the Yakima Tennis Club on Sunday. Robbins advances to play David Ebel of Sea...MORE...

Northwest League -- Devils strike Bears early - PASCO -- Talk about getting things done in a hurry. Seven runs in the second inning were all the Tri-City Dust Devils needed to beat the Yakima Bears 7-0 on Sunday night at Gesa Stadium. Tri-City's starting pitcher Sheng-An Kuo (1-2), who came into the ga...MORE...

Local Report -- Franks' assist helps CWU soccer to victory - MONMOUTH, Ore. -- West Valley graduate Brittany Franks assisted on the lone goal of the match as Central Washington University clipped Humboldt State 1-0 on Saturday. Freshman Serena Tomaso scored in the middle off Franks' crossing assist in the 46th minu...MORE...

8/31/08 Bears update - Next game Opponent: Tri-City Dust Devils. When, where: 7:15 p.m. today, Gesa Stadium, Pasco. Radio: KUTI (1460). Probable pitchers: Yakima LHP Ian Harrington (6-5, 3.40) vs. Tri-City RHP Sheng-An Quo (0-2, 12.00). Notes CUTTING EDGE: A cutter, or cut f...MORE...

Ellensburg Rodeo -- Second day results unavailable - ...MORE...