Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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PRESCOTT - The Lady Tigers' offense gave rise to hope for the season, but its defense left much to be desired in Tuesday night's face-off against the Weston- McEwen Tigerscots, head coach Angie Potts said. "We hit the ball better," she said in an interview after the game, which WP lost 20-7. "That was definitely a bright spot. But a game like this doesn't build confi- dence." Although it was a non- league matchup against the team from Oregon, Potts said her players are on notice that they have t...
1 Meters - Varsity - 33. Alex Dill 12.65a 39. DJ Leroue 12.71a 100 Meters - Frosh/Soph 7. Luke Alexenko 12.62a 200 Meters - Varsity 33. Alex Dill 25.75a 400 Meters - Varsity 32. Dalton LaRue 1:02.47a 34. Kevin Aquino 1:04.59a 400 Meters - Frosh/Soph 13. Jada Alfred 1:05.95a 800 Meters - Varsity 30. Zac Brown 2:31.46a 800 Meters - Frosh/Soph 4. Tewedros McDowell2:15.10a 1600 Meters - Varsity 5. Seth Deal 4:36.56a 1600 Meters - Frosh/Soph 17. Tebo Martinelle 5:13.41a 30. Jacob Dingfield 5:29.32a 3200 Meters - Varsity 6. Seth Deal 10:17.02a...
TOUCHET - The Dayton softball team came out on top after a hard-fought game against the Touchet Indians, winning with a final score of 4-2. Dayton opened the first inning with a single from Sarah Phillips. Phillips and second batter Malia Frame were both thrown out on a double play before third batter Jessica Tate was thrown out to end the side's inning. The Indians were able to go through four batters but couldn't get a runner around. In the top of the second inning, cleanup hitter...
PRESCOTT - It took the WP Tigers a few innings to warm up in their Tuesday night game against the hard-hitting Weston McEwen Tigerscots. But when they finally did, there was no stopping their cannon balls and bullet runs, demolishing the visitors 11-5. After being down by as much as 4-0 in the 3rd, the Tigers' ignited in a magical 6th inning, firing on all bats and wielding a home run off a high arcing hit from sophomore Chance Leroue. It landed well beyond the field fence. "When it came off...
Varsity Boys Basketball Team Awards: Most Inspirational -Isaiah Lambert & Cruz Ramirez Most Improved - ZachWaggoner Coach Awards: Wyatt Frame - MostValuable Player Isaiah Lambert - Most Valuable Teammate All League: Wyatt Frame Isaiah Lambert All League Honorable Mention: Cruz Ramirez Varsity Girls Basketball Team Awards: Sarah Phillips - Best Defender Jessica Tate - Best Team- mate Samantha Harting - Most Improved Coach Best Player Awards: McKayla BickelhauptSarah Phillips Jessica Tate All...
PRESCOTT - A chilly March breeze at the Tigers' ball fields wouldn't let spectators shake off their winter blues completely. But in every other respect, Saturday's sun-drenched jamboree was the perfect start of the spring sports season for the Touchet Valley teams, their coaches said. "It was a productive day," said Dustin Snedigar, the WP Tigers' head baseball coach. "We got a good look at a lot of kids. It was a success for everyone." Six baseball and softball teams, including the Dayton B...
DAYTON - Dayton track and field head coach Dan Nechodom isn't training athletes to sprint toward districts in May, he's training students to be athletes for life. Nechodom is new to the high school scope of track and field, but the sport is old hat for the former middle school track and field coach of 16 years. For his relatively young team however, that may not be the case. With only two students returning from last year and one other with previous track and field experience, Nechodom has...
This week's column is going to be a bit of a hodge-podge- which is different from a "sinkhole" like the one that opened up in Florida last weekend. (I'm sure some of you won't see the difference between this column and a sinkhole. And to you I say "harrumph!") I'll start things off with a correction to my last column. You may not believe this, but I do proofread my work. I rewrote that column multiple times and not once-not one time until I saw it on newsprint-did I realize I'd written that t...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg Prescott track and field head coach Jeff Bartlow might want to apply for the position of UPS driver, because with this year's large turnout of about 40 male and female athletes, logistics will be one of his primary focuses for the 2013 edition of WP track. "It's a great honor to be out again with the kids this year," said the fourth-year head coach and 13-year track and field veteran. "Our boys return enough talent to compete for the district title again. We've won it s...
DAYTON - After a strong season complete with a first round win at playoffs, Dayton's baseball team is a mix of fresh young faces, seasoned talent and no seniors. And by fresh faces, head coach Sal Benevides means really fresh. The four current seniors who would filled out the team last year, decided not to play this year, Benavides said. So he had to pull younger players up to the varsity team to fill out the roster. The 13-student team now includes four eighth graders as well as two ex...
PRESCOTT - Waitsburg Prescott didn't cap the season the way it wished to last year, earning an early exit with losses to Adna and Warden on the opening day of the 2B state softball tournament in Yakima. Thankfully the Tigers will have nearly every starter back, along with fifth-year head coach Angie Potts, for another try at the title trophy. "We didn't have the best showing (at state)," said Potts. "We probably didn't go into it with the best-I don't want to say the attitudes were ba...
PRESCOTT - Waitsburg Prescott coach Dustin Snedigar sails into his fourth season at the helm of the Tiger baseball program with plentiful pitching but little varsity experience on his 2013 roster. Lost from last season's state quarterfinal team are pitcher and shortstop Zach Bartlow, and the entire outfield of Justin Zuger, Chris Manzano, David Herzog, and sub Eric Rosenfeld. Returning, however, are senior starters from last year, Dalton Estes at shortstop and pitching, Tucker Alleman at cat...
The Times DAYTON - The 2013 high school softball season might turn out to be a bit of déjà vu for the Lady Bulldogs and their fans. Many of the same players who proudly took the team's scrappy record- setting game to state in Yakima last year are back, head coach Terry Robbins said. "We have a very good nucleus to build around," he said. "My seniors are my leaders." The 2012 Lady Bulldogs broke almost every record in the school's sports history books: the most runs, at 235; the most dou...
One of my fondest memories of physical education in elementary school was Hoops for Heart day. It was a field day of activities unlike sports - which seemed to me like the choreographed taunting from coordinated classmates. I could actually feel good about participating in the jump-roping, hula-hooping, high-energy festivities. Encouraging children to be active can help inspire beneficial life-long habits. Plus, the annual local program is a lot of fun for students. With hula hoops and...
WAITSBURG - Hard work really does pay off for two Waitsburg athletes who signed letters of intent and claimed scholarships this week. Three-sport athlete Dalton Estes will focus his energy on football at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Ore. Estes will red- shirt his freshman year, preparing to play wide receiver for the Mountaineers. Estes signed his letter of intent on Monday, Feb. 25 with the support of some of his football teammates. Cross-country and track aficionado Seth Deal, w...
Friday, Saturday and Sunday mark the 70 or 80-somethingth edition of the Washington state B basketball tournament in Spokane. Well, actually it’s only the eighth Class 1B and eighth Class 2B tournaments. The old B classification was split into bigger small schools (93 to 207 students) and smaller small schools (less than 93) back in 2006. But both tournaments are still played in the same venue as previous B tourneys—Spokane’s Veteran’s Memorial Arena – and at the same time. Well, that’s...
Cheerleaders Team vote: Most Valuable - KendraRoberts Most Inspirational - Bailey Edwards Most Improved - Rhiannon Chapman Girls' Basketball Team Vote: Most Inspirational - KatyHofer Most Improved -- Samantha Fedderson Coach Awards: Defensive Player of theYear - Samantha Moss Most Valuable Player -Krystal Harris All League: Honorable Mention: Stacia Deal, Chelsey Brannock 1st Team All-Conference:Katy Hofer, Krystal Harris Boys' Basketball Team vote: Most Valuable - DaltonEstes Most Inspirational - SethDeal Most Improved - NateBartlow Coa...
Andy Winnett and Jim Davison received the 2012 Waitsburg Booster Club Boosters of the Year award at a recent basketball game. According to Booster Club President Ross Hamann, Winnett and Davison were instrumental in the construction of the new pressbox, providing hundreds of hours of the their personal time, knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm to see the project through from beginning to end. It would not have happened without their selfless contributions to our kids and com...
WALLA WALLA - The Dayton girls basketball team ended their season Friday after a tough game against St. George, falling 55-29 to the Dragons. The game opened slowly as both teams took the court at Whitman College prepared to defend their final shot at heading to Spokane for the state tournament. The lady Bulldogs had a visible height disadvantage and struggled to work around the Dragons. But the Dragons were not quick to put points on the board, putting up eight in the first four minutes. In...
TACOMA - Before WP Tiger Tristan Newman even set foot on one of the many mats at the Tacoma Dome Friday, he had every reason to celebrate victory, his coach, family and friends in the stands said. "It's always been our goal to get kids here," said head coach Lanny Adams, who has been a wrestling coach for 28 years, waiting to see a competitor to state. "Tristan has helped me make that dream come true." Newman, a freshman expected to make future appearances at state, did not advance after losing...
PASCO - The Dayton Boys Varsity basketball team ended their 2013 season on a high note with a 57-55 cliff-hanger win over Tri Cities Prep on Saturday. "It was a great way to end their year," Bulldogs head coach Roy Ramirez said. "They did a great job finish- ing that game." Plagued by second-half scoring slumps for most of the season, the Bulldogs displayed one of their strongest after-the-half rallies yet, outscoring the Jaguars 19-12 in the third quarter and holding on to their lead until the...
WHITE PASS - Dayton ski cross racer, Alex Naylor, finished a strong first place in the Men's 16-18 ski cross age group, last Saturday, February 3, at the Inland Northwest series of the United States Snowboard Association sanctioned race. Naylor competes with the WOO Crew, a local riders team based in Kennewick. Seventy riders registered for competition, including boarder cross for snowboarders in age groupings that included a four year old up to Senior Men and Women's divisions. The rac...
