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CUSICK – The Cusick Panthers football team opens their season at home Friday, Sept. 5 against Wilbur-Creston. Cusick has a new coach, Dustin Person. The game starts at 7 p.m.

Newport football at Riverside Friday

CHATTAROY – The Newport Grizzlies football team opens their season with a non league game against Riverside Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. Newport got a look at Riverside at the Deer Park jamboree last Saturday, Aug. 30. Newport, Riverside, Colville and Lakeside played about a quarter each in the jamboree.

SelPort opens football Friday

IONE – The SelPort Lumberjacks, made up of players from Selkirk and Northport, open their football season with a game at Selkirk High School Friday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. They take on Coeur Du Christ, a private high school in Coeur d’Alene.

No boys’ soccer at Priest River this season

PRIEST RIVER — It looks like Priest River Lamanna High boys’ soccer will have to try again next season after it was announced Tuesday, Sept. 2 that there would be no program for the 2025–2026 school year.

“I regret to inform you that the difficult decision has been made to cancel the 2025 boys’ soccer season for Priest River,” health and physical education instructor and boys’ soccer coach Brook Perry wrote in an email to media. “This is due to a lack of player eligibility to meet our total players needed based upon the coach’s guidebook of 14 players.”

Perry added that this only affects boys’ soccer, and girls’ soccer will continue.

“We will try to regroup and try again next season,” Perry said.

The Idaho High School Activities Association does not set an official roster size for soccer, allowing individual schools to determine their own roster limits.

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