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SPANGLE – Five Waitsburg wrestlers got wins last Thursday at a District 7/9 league meet in Spangle. Devin Newman and Joe Adams won both their matches, and David Just, Ky Adams, and Tyler Hoffman got a...

DAYTON – The year in Touchet Valley sports was highlighted by a brand-new Dayton-Waitsburg combine football team that went undefeated in the new Eastern Washington Athletic Conference, and advanced t...

DAYTON – The Dayton Chamber of Commerce presented results of their recently completed "Tourism in Dayton" survey on Tuesday evening. The event was held at the Liberty Theater. The Chamber's tourism s...

FINLEY – The Dayton Boys' basketball team led at halftime on the road against River View on Dec. 6, but got blown out in the third quarter and took the loss, 62-48. Tanner Bren had an outstanding g...

FINLEY – The Dayton girls’ basketball team traveled to Finley on Dec. 6, and came away with a 47-36 win. It was the Lady Bulldogs’ third straight win without a loss this season. Senior forward Sydney...

DAYTON – Ski Bluewood announced on Monday that the ski area south of Dayton will open for the season on Friday. This date will mark the earliest opening for the area in the past five years. "We're e...

DAYTON – The Dayton girls' basketball team traveled to Oakesdale on Friday and pulled out a win, 46-38. On Saturday, the Lady Bulldogs hosted Pomeroy and barely held off the Pirates, winning 43-41. A...

DAYTON – The Dayton Boys’ basketball team began their season with a satisfying win on the road against Oakesdale on Friday night, 62-54. Senior forward Tanner Bren led his team with 30 points. Bre...

WAITSBURG – New Waitsburg girls' basketball coach Roy Ramirez says he looks forward to working with his new team and in its new 1B division league. He says that even though one of his team's league o...

GRANGER – The Waitsburg boys’ basketball team notched a big win in the first outing of the season, beating Cle Elum/Roslyn, 57-33. The Cardinals jumped out to an early lead they never rel...

GRANGER – The Waitsburg girls’ basketball team couldn’t keep up with Cle Elum/Roslyn, as they dropped their first game of the season Saturday, 60-21. The Lady Cardinals had a solid first quart...

DAYTON – Dayton girls' basketball coach Clayton Strong says his team knows exactly what it needs to do this year to make it to at least the quarterfinal round of the state playoffs. Led by four s...

DAYTON – The Dayton boys' basketball team will field four returning senior starters this year: Tanner Bren, Zech Bryan, Ben Kleck, and Cal Martin. Second-year coach Will Hutchens says that those playe...

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Eastern Oregon University football team, led by quarterback and Waitsburg native Zach Bartlow, won the biggest game in school history Saturday, beating defending NAIA n...

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PASCO – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team finally met their match here Saturday night, as they suffered a rout at the hands of a hot Liberty Spangle team. With the loss, the DW season ended in the q...

LA GRANDE, Ore. – The Eastern Oregon University Mountaineers traveled to Crete, Neb., over the weekend, and on Saturday the team got the first-ever NAIA football playoff victory in school history. E...

DAYTON – The Dayton Chamber of Commerce held its annual awards banquet Thursday in the newly renovated Columbia County Fairgrounds Pavilion. More than 170 people turned out for the first event held i...

PASCO – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team won its tenth straight game Saturday, defeating Tri-Cities Prep for the second time this season, 34-14, at Edgar Brown Stadium here. The win puts DW into t...

YAKIMA – The Dayton volleyball team came to the state 2B tournament at the Sundome here with hopes of coming home with a trophy. That didn’t happen, but coach Shannon Turner said she was very ple...

BREWSTER, Wash. – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team took another long road trip Friday, and again came away with a lopsided win. In a crossover seeding game here, DW routed the 2B District 6 c...

RICHLAND – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team rolled over Liberty Christian Friday, 56-12, to finish undefeated in Eastern Washington Athletic Conference league play. DW is now 8-0 in the league a...

KITTITAS – The first-ever football championship trophy in the new Eastern Washington Athletic Conference was captured emphatically by Dayton-Waitsburg on Friday night. DW traveled more than three h...

WAITSBURG – On senior night, Dayton-Waitsburg senior running back Travis Crockett put on a show here against White Swan, as DW took another victory, 56-24. DW is now 5-0 in league play and 6-1 o...

DAYTON – The Dayton volleyball team started off a busy week on Oct. 11 with a match win on the road at White Swan in straight sets. Scores were: 25-17, 25-20, 25-20. Stats against White Swan: Jenna P...