Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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MILTON-FREEWATER - WP and Dayton tracksters made gains and showed some great potential in the 1B/2B track meet at Shockman Field in Milton-Freewater, Ore., last Wednesday. It was Dayton's first meet of the season and the boys team placed sixth and the girls team placed eighth for the day. Dayton competed against track athletes from WP, McLoughlin, Asotin, DeSales, Pomeroy, TOR, WWVA, St. John Endicott and Garfield. The Bulldogs' coach Shawn McGee was right when at the beginning of the season he said his athletes will compete across events....
DAYTON - The Dayton softball team slid to an easy win last Wednesday against the Pomeroy Pirates, 23-2, in this single varsity game. "They struggled a lot with their pitching," said Bulldogs' assistant coach Desirae Jones. " They walked a lot and had wild pitches." In addition to leading the scoreboard, this easy game allowed Dayton to put in some of its younger players to give them some varsity experience on the field for a couple of innings, Jones said. Her softball players got to play in many different positions that day. And even though...
DAYTON -- The Dayton Bulldogs swept the Pomeroy Pirates last Tuesday afternoon in a nonleague baseball matchup, 13-3, and 16-6, last Tuesday afternoon. Bulldog Sophomore Lowden Smith took the mound for the Dogs in the opener striking out 11 batters while walking only three and allowing only three hits. He kicked off the day with striking out his first batter in just three pitches. Second baseman Ian Smay threw out the next batter after scooping up his grounder and Smith finished off the Pirates...
CLARKSTON - WP did it again last Friday and took first place overall in the District 9 1B/2B track meet in Clarkston. The WP men's team came out on top, competing against DeSales, Asotin, Pomeroy, WWVA, TOR, Gar-Pal and St. John Endicott. The women's team dropped one place from its meet the previous Wednesday to fourth. The sprinters had a tough day because it was so windy early on. But, obviously the WP team showed its speed and skills. The meet on Friday was another solid day for WP gals Kristin Potter and Ronnie Hulce. Hulce placed second in...
DAYTON - The Dayton baseball team is off with a bang after winning a doubleheader against TCP last Saturday in Pasco. The Dogs won the first game, 5-2, and the second game, 15-5. The game was supposed to be played in Dayton, but ended up in Pasco because Dayton's fields were wet from rainy weather that has canceled all other Dayton games so far this season. Despite the travel and playing "at home" on a different field, the Dogs pulled together as a team and really let their skills shine, said head coach Sal Benavides. " Our pitching in both...
PRESCOTT -- During the third inning of the WP Tigers' first doubleheader game against Asotin, a visiting Panthers fan proudly shared that his team had gone 15 innings without any scores against it. The Tigers took care of that with an impressive three-point roll in the 7th inning. But the well-executed attack wasn't nearly enough to take the sting out two disappointing league defeats to kick off the season for WP. The Tigers lost the first game, 9-3, and the second, 20-3. "In the end, it wasn't...
WAITSBURG -- T.J. Scott has been a basketball player and fan since he was about 4. So it should come as no surprise that the WP head coach follows the sport well beyond the high school season that just ended two weeks ago. But because of a nationwide pastime known as "brackets" he's been much more excited about March Madness as a spectator here in recent years. It's believed some $2.4 billion changes hands across the country each year between basketball and football playoff observers placing...
DAYTON - After getting rained out of its first scheduled games, the Lady Bulldogs opened their season last Saturday with two wins against Tri Cities Prep. The Bulldogs claimed victory in game one last Sat- urday, 11-10, and in game two, 24-6. "It was nice to get outside and face some live pitching," said the Bulldogs' assistant coach Desirae Jones. "It took the girls a little bit to get their jitters out." And it was clear that the more the Lady Bulldogs played on Saturday, the more they warmed...
PRESCOTT -- After being rained out of several early games, the WP Tigers were eager to get into their first contest of the season last Saturday and did so swinging. The softball team won the first of its doubleheader games against Asotin, 8-2, and came close to beating the Panthers in the second game, leaving only three points on the table, 8-11. "I'm not disappointed at all with that," head coach Angie Potts said. "I saw really good things." WP opened the scoring right off the bat with a run in...
MEAD, WA - Mt. Spokane hosted two EEYSL events this season. The second, March 10 and 11, was the final event of the EEYSL points season. The standard format event included a Giant Slalom race on Saturday and a Slalom race on March 11. BART finishes were led by one of their youngest competitors. Mackenzie Davis of Milton Freewater entered the weekend 20 points out of the lead for the J6 class. By the end of the GS event, she was 20 points in the lead and she never looked back, finishing the season as the leading Girl's J6 competitor. Trevor Trim...
WAITSBURG - Last week, the families and players on the 2011-12 WP boys basketball team gathered to share awards and honor the Cardinals' hard work. The boys basketball team had a great season, handing Dayton its only loss in regular season and playing hard in the district tournament. "It was successful," said head coach TJ Scott. This was the third year in a row that the Cardinals made it to the Final 16, he added. The team competed well, taking into account the tough teams in the league this year, Scott said. The Cardinals were matched up with...
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...
