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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Successful basketball and cheerleading winter sports seasons were highlighted last Monday at Dayton High School's awards banquet. Head boys basketball coach Roy Ramirez was choked up with emotion Monday night as he said goodbye and thank you to five of his senior players who have been with them since they were in fifth grade. "It was a heck of a year guys," Ramirez said. The Bulldog boys went 23-1 in the regular season and made it to the state tournament in Spokane for the first time...
WALLA WALLA - The Waitsburg Track and Field Team competed in its first meet of the season last Thursday against some big, competitive teams, but the Cardinals came out to shine even if the sun did not. It was a big day for the Cardinals in Walla Walla. They were up against Hermiston, Pendleton, Walla Walla Valley Academy, Columbia-Burbank and Walla Walla high schools. "We had some pretty stiff competition," said distance coach Joanna Lanning. "We had a fantastic meet. The kids really came...
WAITSBURG - A Waitsburg Prescottt middle school level basketball team competed against some of the best from Oregon, Idaho and Washington last weekend and came out on top. Head Coa ch Travi s Trenndon put together this successful team of eight boys from Waitsburg, Prescott, Touchet, Walla Walla and College Place and practiced six or seven times before the Pine Eagle Junior High Tournament in Halfway, Ore., last weekend. This was the first year the tournament has been held and Trenndon said as...
PRESCOTT-The WP Tigers kicked off their 2012 season with a 5-4 victory over the Pilot Rock Rockets last Saturday afternoon. The Rockets wasted no time putting runs on the board capitalizing on a Tiger error to score their first run in the top of the first with one out. A sacrifice bunt from the Rockets left them with two outs and one runner on, but the Rockets followed that up with a line drive down the first base line to score once more to put the Tigers down, 0-2 . With two outs and one...
DAYTON -- Bulldog softball head coach Terry Robbins has a soft approach to starting the season with his team. "I don't push them too early in the season," he said. His group of girls includes a number of basketball players coming off a successful come-from-behind season that propelled them to second place in district. Instead, he wants his players to relax, have some fun and remember that softball is still only a game. "If success doesn't come, we can still say we had a great year," he said....
PRESCOTT -- The WP Tigers baseball season is in full swing with 28 players making their bid for some diamond action. The Tigers' season may look to be an unpredictable one, but head coach Dustin Snedigar isn't worried that he has only five returning players and only three who have seen major varsity innings. "We lost a lot of seniors in core positions, "said Snedigar. " But we've some younger players up from junior high and some surprises coming in from Jubilee. I think we'll be sitting pretty...
WAITSBURG -- In at least two ways, the 2012 Waitsburg Prescott winter sports season set a major milestone, coaches said at last Thursday's awards gathering for WP cheer squad, wrestling and girls basketball teams. The girls basketball team won the district title again and all of the four WP wrestlers made it to the regional tournament. "It was a tremendous season," head basketball coach Jerry Baker told his players and their parents at the high school auditorium. " The standard has been set pretty high for girls basketball." The basketball...
DAYTON -- The Dayton High School track coach has a small team this year, but he's dreaming big and hoping for two of his athletes to make it to state later this spring. The team has a new head coach, who has plenty of experience with the athletes. Shawn Magee was the assistant coach last year and stepped up to the plate when he heard the previous head coach Shannon Turner was not returning. Magee ran track in high school and at Concordia University. "I just like track and field and I knew they...
WAITSBURG - WP's track and field team has a big reputation to live up to this year. The men's team last year placed fifth in state, and was the second-highest placement in recent memory. The women's team placed 29th. This year, with a roster full of valuable returners, head coach Jeff Bartlow said he is setting the bar higher and hopes to pull in even bigger wins than last year. "We want to continue to improve on where we s tood a t state last year," Bartlow said. " We're pretty proud of our...
DAYTON -- Sal Benavides could be in a panic about the upcoming Bulldogs baseball season. His no. 1 pitcher, senior Colton Bickelhaupt, dislocated his shoulder during the basketball season. Bickelhaupt was throwing at speeds in the mid 70s (miles per hour) last year and he developed an effective curve ball . But the head coach isn't too stressed. The good news is that Bickelhaupt might be back on the mound in a few weeks, before the team has to play any league games that matter. And, Benavides...
PRESCOTT - The WP Lady Tigers 2012 softball team may have lost seven seniors who were the core of last year's team, but the remaining Tigers are no strangers to the field. Seniors Hailey Goenen, Dionna Baker and Taylor Doepker will step up to lead this group of ladies on their quest for a trip to the state tournament. It wouldn't be too far off to say Goenen will be a tremendous force both on the field and behind the plate this year for the Tigers. She is an all-conference outfielder in right fi...
SPOKANE -- The Bulldogs knew the Toutle Lake Fighting Ducks would be tough, but they still had hopes to get around the Western Washington veterans of 19 consecutive arena playoffs . The first quarter, which ended 12-11 in favor of the Bulldogs, had the feeling of a close game. But the Ducks' notorious forward-defense press succeeded in destabilizing the Dayton offense, allowing Toutle Lake to build a growing lead over the Dogs and never look back. Dayton's first Final 8 game ended in a 62-51...
SPOKANE -- The last Touchet Valley basketball team standing fell on the last day of the Hardwood Classic Final 8 tournament at the Spokane Arena, but not without a valiant fight that showed the 2012 Bulldogs had every right to compete against the best in the state. After posting a narrow victory against the LaConner Braves on Friday night, the Dogs faced the Wahkiakum Mules who had put away the Lake Roosevelt Raiders on Friday afternoon to qualify for the fourth/sixth place matchup against...
SPOKANE -- If the Bulldogs' first Final 8 game against the Toutle Lake Fighting Ducks was a downer, their narrow victory over the LaConner Braves in the second matchup on Friday was very much the opposite. After a rough start in which Dayton fell behind, 8-0, during the first quarter, the Bulldogs rallied, pulled ahead and evened the score by halftime, then held on to their lead with tenacity until the bitter, sweet end ."It was quite a defensive battle, a low-scoring game," Bulldog Garett Turne...
WALLA WALLA - The Dayton Lady Bulldogs fought tooth-and-nail for a trip to the big show, but were overpowered by the fast and furious Brewster Bears, 71-37, last Saturday night to end their season with a 9-15 record. Dayton's McKayla Bickelhaupt was first to light the board with her infamous pull up jumper from the top of the key. The Bulldogs were able to hold off the Bears for the next 2 minutes until the Bears' hot hands stole the ball away from the Bulldogs to lay it up at the other end for the Bears' first bucket. The Bears' man- to- man...
WALLA WALLA - Perhaps the only way anyone could have leveled the playing field between the WP Cardinals and the Lake Roosevelt Raiders was to raise the hoop board by at least a foot every time 6-foot, 8-inch Raider Ty Egbert stepped inside the key. "We just didn't have the people to match him up," Cardinal Billy Brown said. "It was frustrating." Thanks to the towering Egbert, a senior who has been recruited as a college basketball player by the University of Idaho, the Raiders smashed WP's playoff aspirations, 70- 53. No number of Zach Bartlow...
DAYTON - For McKayla Bickelhaupt, the2012 basketball season started to turn around when she began to trust her new coach. To the junior Bulldog that didn't mean following Clayton Strong blindly. Rather, it meant dropping what she thought was right for her or for the team and doing what he thought was right. It was during the Christmas break, after the team had fallen to a rock bottom, 0-8, record and the naysayers in town were louder than ever. Just then, before the pivotal matchup against Lacro...
WALLA WALLA - The WP Lady Cardinals ended their dreams of a state title with a 44-50 loss to the Riverside Christian Crusaders last Saturday night, leaving the Cardinals with a 19-5 season record. The Cardinals got off to a hot start in the game Saturday when Taylor Doepker connected with Ronnie Hulce at the top of key who put the ball through the hoop for the first WP bucket. WP's Dionna Baker then ripped down a defensive rebound that she dished off to Kristin Potter who drove down the court...
WALLA WALLA - For the first time in 17 years, the Dayton Bulldogs are going to Spokane for the Hardwood Classic state basketball championship tournament starting Thursday. After resoundingly beating the Riverside Christian Crusaders from Yakima, 59-41, in front of a predominantly hometown crowd Friday night at Walla Walla High School, the Dogs are now in the Final 8 of their 2B division. "We've worked hard since fifth grade and this was our goal," senior Joey Schlachter said when he emerged from the locker room after the hard physical match...
DAYTON - The WP Cardinals fell to the Dayton Bulldogs, 38-49, last Wednesday night in a District 9 tournamentseeding matchup. The heat was on, both on the court and in the stands with the gym near capacity to cheer on another high school rival basketball game. WP's Billy Brown out jumped Dayton's Joey Schlachter and the game was on. The Cardinals were the first to score with a basket from Zach Bartlow, but Schlachter quickly answered from down low for the Bulldogs' first two points. As the two teams battled back and forth in a playgroundstyle...
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Bulldogs advanced to the District 9 championship game with a 67-53 victory over the Walla Walla Valley Academy Knights last Saturday night. Dayton's brick house Kroft Sunderland got right down to business putting up back-toback baskets to get the Bulldogs started. The Knights lit the board with back to back to back threepointers, but Dayton's Garett Turner drove the baseline to draw defenders before dumping it off to Joey Schlachter for two to prove the Dogs came to...
WALLA WALLA -- The WP Cardinals stayed alive in playoff action with a 37-28 victory over the Tri-City Prep Jaguars last Saturday night. The Jaguars were first to light the board, but the Cardinals answered with a three-point basket from Dalton Estes to start things off for the Cards. The Jaguars answered Estes with a three-pointer of their own, but Cardinal Dustin Wooderchak added two more with a put back from underneath. The Jaguars gave the ball up to the Cards with a traveling violation,...
WALLA WALLA -- The WP Lady Cardinals fought tooth and nail for a 47-44 victory over the DeSales Fighting Irish last Saturday afternoon. The Cardinals, who had recently lost a close battle with the Irish, came out onto the court with a vengeance to stay alive in playoff action. WP grabbed the tipoff and quickly lit the board when Kristin Potter cut through the key banking it in for two. It took the Irish a couple trips down the floor before they connected from behind the three-point line. They...
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs are living the dream after a 41-36 upset over the Asotin Panthers last Saturday night. With a rocky, 0-8, start to the season, a shot at the district title game would seem out of reach to the average Joe, but that isn't the case for the Dogs. "I kept telling the girls not to get in the mindset that we still couldn't end up in the tournament," said Dayton head coach Clayton Strong. "The girls didn't give up and kept working harder and improving and now...
