Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg-Prescott boys’ basketball team nailed down two big wins over the weekend and brought their league record to .500, with one game left to go in the regular season. On Friday the Cardinals traveled to Tri- Cities Prep and took a close game from the Jaguars, 44-41. The game was close throughout, as WP took a one-point lead into the half and then led by three after three. Corey Brownlee had a big game for the Cardinals, scoring 14 points and pulling down 16 rebounds. Chr...
MILTON-FREEWATER - The Waitsburg-Prescott girls traveled to Mac Hi's Gym January 14, but lost to the Pioneers 40-31. The Lady Cards kept the game close in the first half, trailing by three at intermission. But the Mac-Hi girls outscored them 13-7 in the third quarter before coasting to the win. Heidi Miller led WP with nine points and also pulled down six rebounds. Kassidy Kuykendall and Hannah Grant each had seven points. WP travels to Tri-Cities Prep on Friday and then hosts DeSales Saturday. They finish out the season January 31 against...
ASOTIN - The Waitsburg Prescott boys struggled in the first quarter against a tough Asotin team, but came roaring in the second before finally falling 59-41. After trailing 15-5 after a quarter, the Cardinals briefly regained the lead in the second, before finally trailing at the half 23-19. Asotin roughed up WP in the third quarter, outscoring the Cards 22-11, before coasting to the win. Devin Acevedo led the Cardinals with 12 points, including six-for-six shooting from the free throw line. Corey Brownlee and Chance Leroue each knocked do...
COLFAX - The WP wresting team faced some tough competition in Colfax on Thursday, January 16, competing against Colfax, Garfield-Palouse, Liberty, Reardan, Davenport and Wilbur-Creston-Keller. Only Kavin Kuykendall, TJ Morrison, Tyler Hoffman and Tristan Newman walked away with wins. "A lot of the wrestlers WP encountered are returning state competitors. We did very well for being a young team going up against some tough and experienced wrestlers," said Coach Lanny Adams. David Just (126) p...
DAYTON - The Dayton School Board recently approved a resolution allowing Dayton's football team to play 8-man football in the fall of 2014. The team will play members of the Southeast Washington 1B 8-man league. According to Superintendent Doug Johnson, the move was made because of low turnout in recent years. "We've ended the last couple of seasons with only 13 or 14 players," Johnson said. "It's pretty hard to field an 11-man team with those numbers." Johnson said the school got pe...
DAYTON - The Dayton Lady Bulldogs had a tough weekend on the basketball court after several weeks of success. The girls lost Friday to Tri-Cities Prep 46-45 in overtime and then struggled against DeSales on Saturday, losing 38-20. "We had chances to win the game (Friday against TCP) where we were up at several points, but did not go little things to keep us up," said Dayton girls coach Clayton Strong. "To give them credit, the other team did enough of those little things to keep th...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs jumped to an early 8-0 lead and led most of the first three quarters before succumbing to a tenacious DeSales team in the fourth quarter here Saturday. The score was tied 36- 36 after three and then again 41-41 with just over five minutes remaining, but the Irish pulled away in the final frame to win 54-48. Logan Hays led the scoring for Dayton with 15 points. He added nine rebounds. Zach Waggoner chipped in 11 points and Ben Kleck had nine. The Bulldogs had a hot...
MEAD - The Bluewood Alpine Race Team (BART) faced harsh conditions at the Youth Team's first competition at Mt. Spokane last weekend, but two skiers claimed one top-five and two top-ten finishes in the Giant Slalom event. Heavy, wet snow and fog made even finding the race site difficult and led to rough course conditions. A hard freeze Saturday night turned the wet snow to boilerplate, making Sunday's course extremely fast - testing the athletes' ability to hold an edge on their skis. Halle White (U14 Class) of Walla Walla led the team...
RITZVILLE - Waitsburg Prescott made a good showing at the January 9 Lind-Ritzville tournament. WP won five of their fourteen matches against Pomeroy, Lind-Ritzville and White Swan. Travis Newman and Kavin Kuykendall brought in two wins each and David Just grabbed the fifth. "Everyone wrestled hard," said Coach Lanny Adams. "It was a good match." David Just ( 126) - Pinned Oscar Pounce, White Swan, 1:25. "David came out with a high level of intensity, despite recovering from an illness," sai...
WAITSBURG - In what coach Tavis Crittenden described as a "brutal" schedule, the Waitsburg-Prescott boys basketball team played four games in five days between Saturday and Tuesday. On Friday, the Cardinals traveled to DeSales and lost to the Irish 62 - 51. They beat Dayton Saturday night at home, 55-40, and then lost to WWVA Monday night, also at home, 66-58. As The Times was going to press Tuesday, the Cardinals were preparing to travel to Milton-Freewater to play the Mac-Hi Pioneers. On...
DAYTON - Dayton girls played two home games last week, coming out on top in both. On Tuesday, January 7, they defeated River View High School, with a final score of 44-31. "I thought we played pretty good defense again in the first half, as we held them to nine points," said Dayton girls basketball coach Clayton Strong. "Our defense also spurred out offense as we were able to get out on the break and get easy points in transition." Strong was also pleased with how the Lady Bulldogs shared the...
WAITSBURG - Home court advantage didn't spell a win for the Lady Cards who dropped a 2B League match to the Lady 'Dogs, 42-25 on Saturday. Bulldog Coach Clayton Strong was pleased with the win. "With a rivalry match you never know what you're going to get. They're always really competitive." WP's Samantha Fedderson took the ball in the tipoff, but the Bulldogs grabbed it back and held the WP scoreless throughout the first quarter. Quarter one closed with a score of 9 - 0, Bulldogs. The C...
POMEROY - WP wrestlers made a good showing at the December 28 Pomeroy Invite with three wrestlers placing in the top five. Tristan Newman took 2nd place, TJ Morrison took 4th and David Just took 5th. David Just (126) took his first match in a 16-2 decision against R. Magruder (Kittitas). "Magruder was smaller and more compact than what David was used to wrestling and I think he surprised David that he was short and fast," said Coach Lanny Adams. "David calmed down, wrestled smart and domi...
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WAITSBURG - The Lady Cards gave up a promising first-quarter lead against Tri-Cities Prep in home-court league play Saturday afternoon, ultimately dropping the game to the Jags, 41-34. The Cards took it to the hole four times in the first quarter and made three of four foul shots to take an 11-7 first-quarter lead. Eight of those points were by high scorer Chelsey Brannock. Loegan Harshman made the only other field goal in quarter one. Turnovers to the Jags along with made free throws put them...
DAYTON - Asotin lit up the Dayton gym with 10 three-pointers Saturday night, as they rolled to a 64-34 league win against the outmatched Bulldogs. After breaking out to a 11-6 first-quarter lead, the Panthers blew the game open with 29 second-quarter points. Five of their treys came in that quarter. Asotin led 40-15 at the half. Zach Waggoner led Dayton scoring with 13 points on six of 13 shooting from the floor. Logan Hays had nine points. For the game, including their three-pointers, the P...
WAITSBURG - The WP Cardinal boys lost a high- scoring game Saturday to Tri-Cities Prep, falling 54- 51. Devin Acevedo led his team with 12 points. Owen Lanning had 10 and Chance Leroue followed with eight. The Cardinals struggled in the second quarter and were down at the half by eight. WP cut the lead to five after three, but were done in in the final frame by the Jaguars' outstanding free throw shooting. TCP's 15 points in the final frame came from the charity stripe. The Cardinals play at...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs played just one game last week, but it was a feather in their cap as things turned out. The Lady 'Dogs defeated the Asotin Panthers 46-35 on Saturday. "I was proud of the way we played team defense," said Dayton coach Clayton Strong. "It was one of the best games we have had playing defense all year, which included blocking out the best that we have so far this year, and holding their best player to a total of two points." Strong said he was equally pleased with how...
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DAYTON- The Dayton girls' basketball team won both games in their home holiday tournament over the weekend. The Lady 'Dogs dominated LaCrosse-Washtucna Friday night, 46-16 and then won Saturday's championship game against Elgin easily, by a score of 54-33. "It was kind of nice to knock off some rust from the holiday layover," said coach Clayton Strong. "Everybody had a chance to play and got lots of minutes." Madison Mings had a huge game against Elgin, scoring 20 points. She made eight of 16...
DAYTON - Dayton's girls came out on top in their first league home game of the season on Saturday, defeating Tri-Cities Prep 42-28. At one point in the fourth quarter, the Lady 'Dogs' lead jumped from five to 18 in just a few quick plays, which made head coach Clayton Strong proud. "It's a sign that we're really maturing as a team," he said. "That and also how well the girls shared the ball during the game, which they did better in this game than I've seen them do in the three years since I too...
WAITSBURG - The WP girls took their first win of the season in a pre-league nail-biter against the Mac-Hi Pioneers here by a score of 42-38 on December 17. Both teams played hard and remained neck-and-neck throughout the game. At the end of the third quarter the Pioneers were ahead with a score of 27-28. The teams were tied at 33 points early in the fourth quarter, when WP changed tactics in response to the Pioneers' outside shooting abilities. WP went man-to-man in response and took a slight l...
COLLEGE PLACE - In their first Southeast 2B league game of the season, the WP Cardinals escaped with a 62-56 victory over Walla Walla Valley Academy here Saturday night. Chance Leroue and Owen Lanning both had big offensive games, scoring 17 points each. Lanning was nine-for-10 from the free throw line. Leroue added 10 ten rebounds, to secure a "double-double." The Cardinals started off slow and trailed 14-6 at the end of the first quarter. However, they exploded for 28 points in the second q...
PRESCOTT - The Waitsburg Prescott wrestling team opened their season with the Liberty Invite in Richland on Dec. 14, and their first league meet at Tri-Cities Prep on Dec. 17. WP's David Just (126 lbs.) took third place at Liberty; his only loss was to returning state champion Kain Feltwell from Liberty. But a mistake cost him his second match at the Dec. 17 TCP meet. Just, described by Coach Lanny Adams as a "very technical wrestler," won his first match against White Swan's Oscar Ponce, pinn...
