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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - The Dayton Bulldogs and the WP Cardinals battled it out on Waitsburg's court Thursday evening with the Dogs taking a win in three straight sets. Both teams were recovering from losses on the 24th, the Bulldogs losing two five set games to Asotin and the Cardinals losing to Tri Cities Prep. "It was good to win in three after two league losses in five games, by two points!" said Bulldog coach Shannon Turner. WP's freshman-dominated team struggled against the added challenge of pla...
PRESCOTT - Some coaches worry about having enough players to field a team for the season. But that's not Mark Grimm's challenge. He could field two if he had to. The WP Tigers' head soccer coach starts the season with 26 athletes on the roster, including six freshmen and some seven talented forwards/ strikers, giving him plenty of firepower up front. What he doesn't have yet is a solid shield in the back, or a team that has brought together its diverse playing styles into a cohesive syst...
OROFIO, Ida. - "First of all, this was a quality team we played," WP football coach Jeff Bartlow said of the Orofino Maniacs, after his Cardinals suffered a tough 50-20 loss Friday night on the road in Idaho. Bartlow said the coaching staff tried to prepare their team by showing film of the Orofino squad. "Our kids realized it, but did not maybe believe it until the game started and they saw how athletic they were," Bartlow said. "They flew around on defense and made plays." After the Maniacs...
ASOTIN - For a while, it all went as well as it could for the 15-man Dayton Bulldogs squad against a tough opponent playing on home turf near the west bank of the Snake River. "It was back and forth," head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said about his team's game against the Asotin Panthers Friday. "We were shutting them down (offensively)." But with a little more than 4 minutes on the clock before the end of the first half, the Panthers broke out of their cage and went on a rampage, clawing up 20 points and leaving the Bulldogs feeling shr...
WAITSBURG-The WP Boys cross country team fell just short of earning a ribbon, taking 11th place at Saturday's meet in Clarkston. The Seaport Invite, hosted by Clarkston High School, began with a mile run on the grass around Seaport Park, followed by a gradual decline down a packed dirt trail. Runners then followed an asphalt trail along the Snake River and wrapped up with a big hill at the finish. Freshman Emily Adams, overcame congestion from a cold and a fall during the race to place ninth o...
SPOKANE -- The Dayton soccer team traveled to Spokane over the weekend for two tough matches against northeast Washington schools. After a tough 6-1 loss Friday night to Valley Christian, the Bulldogs cruised to an easy 8-1 victory over Northport. "Scoring opportunities were created by strong defensive play by the back line," said Bulldogs coach D.J. Frame. "The entire back line was strong, with outstanding play by Carlos Oribio, and anchored by Alex Weppler." The dogs took a 3-1 lead into...
SPOKANE - When asked about Saturday's highlights in the Tigers' game against Northwest Christian, assistant coach Jay Potts had just five words. "Ernesto Valdovino and Christian Caro," he said before he went into the many contributions the other players made, and the sweetness of the team's first regular season win against last year's state champions. "We're pretty impressed with ourselves," Potts said about beating the Crusaders at their home field, which he dubbed "a hostile en...
WAITSBURG – In the words of the 1961 hit “Mama Said”, made famous by The Shirelles: “Mama said there’d be days like this, there’d be days like this, Mama said.” That had to be what Cardinal players, coaches and fans were left thinking after a disheartening Sept. 19 loss against the Walla Walla Valley Academy Knights. The first league game of the season started out promisingly enough as Cardinals and Knights battled it out neck-and-neck. With a score of 11 to 11 midway through the firs...
STANFIELD, Ore. - With less than a minute before halftime, the Dayton Bulldogs ended a steady march through Stanfield territory and arrived at the half-yard line, ready to pound it into the end zone. The score was 12-7 in the Tigers' favor, but the momentum was all on Dayton's side. A touchdown would mean going into the break with a lead and the much-needed confidence that comes with it, Dayton head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said. But then the eleventh Bulldog, a freshman, was led to believe there were too many players on the field and ran a...
YAKIMA - With almost its full complement of returning starters, the WP Tigers Tuesday posted its first regular-season win over Riverside Christian, beating the Crusaders 4-0 on their home turf. Barely 5 minutes into regulation time, midfielder Paul Zamora scored on an assist from Ernesto Valdovino, who got one for his team himself 12 minutes into the second half on an assist from Luis Garcia. Unassisted, Garcia gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead in the 79th minute, followed 2 minutes later by the f...
WAITSBURG - The W-P Cross Country team performed well in their first meet of the season, the Asotin XC Island Run Invite at Chief Timothy Island State Park in Clarkston on Saturday. W-P's sole female runner, freshman Emily Adams, who never lost a race during her eighth grade year, placed fourth overall, against 45 runners. Adams was first among 2B runners, ahead of District 9's top two female harriers; senior Heather Siegal of St. John-Endicott and Lucy Eggleston, a junior from Asotin. "T...
The Dayton Bulldogs won all their games at the WP Invitational Volleyball Tournament on Saturday. They defeated DeSales, St. John-Endicott, Wa-Hi JV, and Waitsburg-Prescott. The championship game was a second match with St. John-Endicott. Dayton Stat leaders for the day were: Sarah Phillips: 17 aces Courtney Mings: 33 digs Chelsea Wooldridge: 59 assists Madison Mings: 23 kills...
In a photograph which ran in both our September 5 and 12 issues, the WP quarterback throwing the football during practice was misidentified. He is Jason Carter, not starting quarterback Owen Lanning. We are sorry for the error....
WAITSBURG - The W-P Lady Cards may have been overdue for a rest after Saturday's invitational tournament in Waitsburg, but they accrued plenty of practice play by attending two tournaments in two days. "This kind of thing is good for them," said assistant coach Robbie Johnson. "This is what they'll face if they make it to a state tournament. You play all day, get up and do it again. They handled it really well." W-P left Waitsburg at 4:30 a.m. on Friday morning, heading for Yakima where the...
WAITSBURG - As messy as Waitsburg Prescott's victory over Pilot Rock was last week, Friday's 49-6 win over Weston McEwen came up smelling like roses. It was so clean that this weekend's sloppily victorious Seahawks might learn a thing or two from a practice on Cardinal Field. "That was the biggest thing we focused on," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "We made a lot of improvement and our goals were met that way." Last week, the Cardinals had five turnovers and 110 yards in penalties. This week,...
WAITSBURG - Doing what it takes to advance to post-season play will literally be a whole new ballgame for the 2013 WP Cardinals volleyball team. The graduation loss of Rhiannon Chapman, Jen Nichols, Adriana Benito and 2012 MVP Krystal Harris, as well as the loss of several junior players, has resulted in a very young team, largely dominated by freshmen and sophomores. Third-year WP volleyball coach Angie Potts, is up for the challenge. Potts, who has coached a total of 22 years between Pre...
DAYTON - The number of returning players to Shannon Turner's volleyball team may be the same as last year: six. But there's something different about the core of the Dayton team this year. "I'm pretty positive," Turner said about the 2013 volleyball season that started with Monday's jamboree in Clarkston and gave fans a first look at this year's lady Dogs in their home game against Pomeroy on Tuesday night. "The team chemistry is really good and their confidence is higher," the team's he...
DAYTON - Half an hour after the last lightning strike flashed across the skies over Dayton Thursday night, the Bulldogs and Mac Hi Pioneers took to the field, warmed up and began their game an hour late. After the kickoff, Dayton players - 11 on the field and only three on the bench - marched down to the 4-yard line on a number of tough running plays. Then, on third and goal, quarterback Christian Warner threw a pitch pass to running back Lowden Smith, who was promptly sacked by the Mac Hi defen...
PILOT ROCK - The WP volleyball team changed course midstream during Friday night's game against Pilot Rock, pushing ahead to win their first game of the season. The Rockets won the first two sets, 20-25 and 14-25, against the relatively inexperienced Cardinal team, which struggled with rotations. "We got off to a slow start because there was a lot of confusion about rotations and where the girls needed to be on defense," said Coach Angie Potts. "That led to a poor physical performance as...
PILOT ROCK, Ore. - The bad news about the Cardinals' first game of the season against Pilot Rock Friday night was the number of turnovers and penalties: five lost fumbles and two big flags that cost WP two 60- yard runs. But the good news is that the team still won convincingly 36-6, that the defense looked strong, that quarterback Owen Lanning had a solid game and that lots of new players got to work out their jitters in the non-league matchup. "We can correct all that," head coach Jeff B...
DAYTON - Bulldogs head coach Dean Bickelhaupt and his players are ready for their first test of the season: Thursday night's matchup against the Mac Hi Pioneers. And it doesn't faze the team to have only 19 eligible players. "We're ready," Bickelhaupt said about the home game that kicks off at 7 pm. "They're excited about it. We'll see how we do." After ending the 2012 season with a 1-8 record, the 'Dogs hope to improve their fortunes with an influx of six freshmen, some of whom Bickelhaupt d...
Throughout September The Times will provide in-depth previews of each of the fall sports teams at WP and Dayton. Next week we'll feature volleyball, followed later by soccer and cross country. Each week this fall we'll also bring you results for all of the week's games and competitions. Go Cardinals, Tigers and Bulldogs!...
WAITSBURG - Coach Jeff Bartlow says the biggest challenge for his WP football team this year will be to replace 13 departing seniors. "Of the 24 spots on the field, only nine return, as we lost our kicker and punter too," he said. The Cardinals enter this season as four-time defending 2B Southeast District champions. But they'll start the year with an untested quarterback in junior Owen Lanning. "We think our defense will be strong," Bartlow said. "We hope to keep our opponents in check to g...
DAYTON - While the Dayton Swim Team placed third out of seven teams competing in the Annual Jerry Cluckey Swim Meet on August 3, many personal best records were achieved. "It's not about the team get- ting first place," said Coach Rosy Nechodom. "Swimmers 'win' when they do their personal best, and that is exactly what the team did at the County Championship Meet." Forty- three Dayton swimmers competed in 149 individual races. With up to 21 swimmers competing in each event, the fight to fin- ish...
