Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
DAYTON - Sixty- plus aspiring golfers aged 7- 17 took to the links last Wednesday through Tuesday at Touchet Valley Golf Course to learn golf basics from a professional- club pro Max Reinland of Veteran's Memorial Golf Course in Walla Walla. The 60 young people learned grip, swing mechanics, and etiquette in groups of about 20 in three morning sessions. Lessons took place on a make-shift driving range at TVGC-the fairway of the seventh hole inside the race track at the Columbia Country fairgroun...
WAITSBURG - Swim- ming lessons at the Waits- burg City Pool will run from July 9-26, Tuesday - Friday. Times are as follows: Level 1, 12:30 - 1:00; Level 2, 12:00 - 12:30; Level 3, 11:30 - 12:00; Level 4, 11:00 - 11:30. Lessons are free to all Waitsburg children. Instruc- tors will be Samura Miller and Zac Brown. Contact City Hall for more information....
DAYTON - On a rainy Tuesday morning, members of the Dayton Swim Team practiced their swim strokes in sweatshirts and sneakers as they sat on benches in the pool house. They call it "dry- land swimming." "We don't go in the water until it's 75 degrees," said coach Rosie Nechodom. She noted that warm weather is on the way and it won't be long. More than 60 kids, aged five to 18, have signed up for this year's team. Team mem- bers practice at the Dayton City Pool each weekday from 8 to 10 a.m., exc...
WAITSBURG - We went to the Tri City Football camp again and have done that this camp six out of the last seven years. It was very positive. As usual, we were missing some kids, but we gave out almost 40 sets of pads and most of those kids did the practices and 31 did the football camp. One day was spent at the University of Idaho and their team camp. We went to Idaho on Tuesday and got some work in with their coaches. It was positive. We played McCall and Pullman in scrimmages there. Chance...
WAITSBURG - Two massive miscues cost Waitsburg Elite a shot at the Washington Football League finals, and ended their season here Saturday versus Spokane, 37-31. Second-seeded Waitsburg dominated the game on paper, racking up more yards, fewer turnovers, fewer penalties, almost twice as many first downs and greater time of possession than the visiting third seed Wolfpack. But games aren't decided on paper. A fumbled lateral before halftime that Spokane ran back for a touchdown, and a b...
OKANAGAN - The Waitsburg Elite seeded second going into the playoffs after beating the Okanagan Commandos 27-6 in their last game of the regular season Saturday. They ended their first Washington Football League season with Waitsburg as their home with a 4-2 record. The orange home team will play the Spokane Wolfpack, which also ended the season 4-2, in the semifinals at Cardinal Field on Saturday at 7 p.m. "The season has flown by," team owner and quarterback George Martinez said. The Wolfpack, a team that has gotten its act toge...
DAYTON - The Dayton Spring Sports Awards Banquet took place in the Dayton Elementary multi-purpose room the evening of June 30. Head softball coach Terry Robins, accompanied by assistant coach Desirae Jones, congratulated the Lady Bulldogs on an outstanding season and their excellent performance at the state playoffs in Yakima, where they placed fourth. The duo shared career stats and bid an emotional farewell to the senior players they first began working with as sixth graders. Head b...
Team Results - 2B Boys 1. Asotin 64 2. La Conner 58 3. Waitsburg-Prescott 57 4. Raymond 46 5. Kittitas 38 6. Onalaska 34 7. Bear Creek 30 8. Willapa Valley 24 8. Riverside Christian 24 10. Morton White Pass 21 WP Boys 100 Meters - 2B - Finals 1. James Thompkins 11.43a 200 Meters - 2B - Finals 1. James Thompkins 22.52a 400 Meters - 2B - Finals 1. James Thompkins 50.09a 1600 Meters - 2B - Finals 6. Seth Deal 4:34.71a 3200 Meters - 2B - Finals 3. Seth Deal 9:48.68a 110m Hurdles - 39» - 2B - Pre-...
YAKIMA - There are two ways to look at the outcome of the state softball tournament for the WP Tigers: they went further than last year and ended up in the top 12, but they also traveled all the way to Yakima to get knocked out of contention by league rival DeSales. Despite high hopes that they could repeat their narrow upset of the Irish during the district playoffs, the Tigers went down against the Walla Walla team 5-1 on Sunday before the Irish themselves were rolled from the tourney by...
YAKIMA - It wasn't a championship game, but it felt like one. Up against the team that ended up winning the 2B title, the Dayton softball team's tenacity pushed the Saturday evening game against Toutle Lake into extra innings. It wasn't until the 9th that the Ducks finally pierced the Bulldogs' defense and broke the tie in what home spectators described as one of the best games of the state tournament. In the end, Dayton went down 5-1 against Toutle Lake but won against Asotin on Sunday b...
