Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Dayton's boys basketball team emerged from its home Christmas tournament with two losses, but the way those losses came about couldn't have been more dif- ferent. The Bulldogs dropped their Thursday opener to La- Crosee-Washtucna, 51-19, and their Saturday finale with Wahkiakum, 54-53. Wahkiakum was no push- over. The fourth place team from last year's state 2B tour- nament, who defeated sixth place Dayton on trophy day, returned seven members of its tournament team to face the...
DAYTON - Dayton took down two regional opponents at its own Christmas tourna- ment Thursday and Friday to notch its seventh and eighth wins of the season and keep its 1-loss record intact. The Bull- dogs lashed LaCrosse-Wash- tucna 46-19 in the opener, then outlasted Asotin, 50-46, in the championship game. Dayton's shooting hands blazed in the first half versus Asotin. The Bulldogs hit on 12-of-19 shots (63 percent) from the filed including 4-of- 6 shooting from behind the 3-point arc. McKayla...
WALLA WALLA - The Waitsburg- Prescott boys dropped their first two con- tests at the DeSales Christmas Tournament before knocking off the host Irish in the tourney finale. WP fell to Touchet 58- 48 on Thursday and to Weston- McEwen 66-45 on Friday, then rose up to knock off the Irish in dramatic fashion 55-52 on Saturday. Seth Deal caught fire from behind the 3-point line Satur- day, hitting six treys including the game winner with three seconds remaining. WP held a 42-35 lead entering the fourth quarter and built it to 10, but a spat of...
WAITSBURG - With no players shorter than 5-foot-7, three ball-handling players at 5-feet 10-inches or taller and a horde of deadly shooters, Sunnyside Christian's girls basketball team is a nightmare for every team in its 1B clas- sification - not to mention in the 1A or 2B classifica- tion. Waitsburg-Prescott's Lady Cardinals found out just how much of a night- mare on their home court Thursday dropping a 62-14 decision that included the running clock rule being invoked halfway through the thir...
WAITSBURG - The WP boys hung with the Sunnyside Christian Giants - er, Knights for a half before succumbing 50-25 Thursday in Waitsburg. The Knights who boast a front line of 6-foot 7-inch Brandon Boersma, and 6-foot 5-inch Drew Scheenstra, backed up off the bench by 6-foot 5-inch Darren Boersma, were a tall order for the Cardinals to fill. For one half they nearly did. Sunnyside Christian clawed its way to a 7-0 lead at the 2:49 mark of the first half, but every basket it claimed was a...
PRESCOTT - Waitsburg- Prescott fared well in its first home meet in the history of the WP combine Tuesday. WP wrestlers raised their hand in victory after nine of their 14 matches against foes from seven visiting schools. Adolfo Armenta, Dalton LaRue, Tristan Newman, Brandon Aceves, James Thompkins, Trenton Kitselman, and Steven Grimes all recorded wins by fall. Newman tallied two pins on the night. Gabe Escalante, wrestling at 120 pounds, was the only WP wrestler to go the distance, whic...
DAYTON - To call the opening quarter of the Dayton versus Waitsburg- Prescott boys game 'slug- gish' would be a slap to the slimy faces of gastropods everywhere. The Bulldogs snapped out of their scor- ing slump first then held off the visiting Cardinals late to earn a 34-31 victory in the first meeting of the season between the Touchet Valley rivals. The point total of the first 8 minutes of Saturday's con- test hearkened back to the point totals of the early days of basketball - before Dr. Nai...
DAYTON - The Dayton girls basketball team dropped Waitsburg-Prescott 37-34 Saturday night to keep its 2012-13 record spotless, thanks to superior free throw shooting in the second half. WP held the advantage in that category at halftime, hitting on 3-of-4 attempts. Meanwhile the Bulldogs managed just five makes on fifteen tries. In the second half, the Lady Dogs turned those numbers around nailing 8-of-9 third quarter tries and 11-of-17 for the half. The Cards missed six of their first eight fre...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldog boys found themselves lost in a forest of 6-foot 6-inch black-andorange trees Saturday night. Despite a furious third quarter rally, the Bulldogs could not overcome the altitudinal challenge, and succumbed to their longtime rivals from Pomeroy, 45-35. The young Pirates featured only three upperclassmen, but each Pomeroy junior stood taller than any Bulldog. The two 6-and-a- half-footers, Riley Bott and Cody LaMunyan, posted 12 points and three blocked shots apiece....
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott girls bas- ketball team finished the four games in six days of the first week of the season one-up and three-down. But Mon- day's game at home against the Weston-McEwen Tiger- Scots left the Lady Cards hoping for more than the 46- 41 losing result. The game started slowly with only seven points posted to the scoreboard in the first six minutes of play. The Carinals finally kicked things in gear with two Samantha Fedderson free throws and back-to-back lay-ups...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldog girls overcame an early five point deficit in the second quarter to topple a tall but young Pomeroy Pirate basketball team 53-37 Saturday. After garnering an initial 6-2 lead over the first 4:30 of the first quarter, Dayton lost momentum allowing the Pirates to put together a 9-0 run and take a 5-point advantage at 11-6. The Pirates, who boast a front line of 6-foot 1-inch Savannah Ruark, and three other 5-10 post players, stymied the Dayton offense while guard...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott boys basketball team capped off a busy opening week of contests with a hard-fought 59- 55 win against the Weston- McEwen TigerScots after three straight losses to start the year. Monday's home contest with the TigerScots was a rematch of Friday's night game at Athena, although the difference in style and outcomes of the two games were as stark as night and day. The Cardinals played zone the majority of the night, forcing Weston-McEwen to shoot the outside j...
PRESCOTT - Waitsburg- Prescott wrestling coach Lanny Adams' days of grappling with few participants in his program are over. The number of athletes out for wrestling in year two of the Waitsburg-Prescott program is up nearly four-fold from last year. The 2012-13 squad is composed of 15 wrestlers- two from Waitsburg, five from Prescott, and eight from Jubilee Leadership Academy - up from the four who par- ticipated last year. The returnees are Dalton LaRue, Trenton Kitselman and Gabe Escalante....
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg Prescott boys basketball begins a new era in 2012-13. Gone is T.J. Scott and two trips to the Spokane Arena in three years. In his stead, enters new coach Tavis Crittenden who takes over with high hopes for more hardcourt success. And though Crittenden-a native of Long Creek, Ore. and one-time Blue Mountain Community College player-may be new to the program, his cast of returning varsity letter winners is not. It is that player experience which should make the transition...
DAYTON - The Dayton boys basketball team struggled against the River View Panthers last Tuesday night, falling 26-46 at the end of a slow game. The first period opened with both teams fumbling to get the ball down the court and taking wide shots. The Panthers put the first points on the board with a three-point shot with 4:52 remaining in the period. Neither team hit the net enough to take a substantial lead, ending the first period with a score of 6-9, Panthers. In the second period, the P...
DAYTON - Dayton's Lady Bulldogs hit the court with aggressive speed last Tuesday night to take down the River View Panthers, 48-24. The Bulldogs wanted the ball right out of the gate and worked to keep the Panthers from scoring. The Dogs opened the second period leading the Panthers, 11-7. The Panthers lost steam, unable to hit the net or even maintain possession of the ball. The Bulldogs put the ball up to score in circles around the Panthers. The Panthers were only able to put up three...
DAYTON - Buckminster Fuller once said, "I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience." If the 2012-13 Dayton Bulldog girls basketball team wins the league title this year, second-year head coach Clayton Strong and his squad will be able to claim the same. The seasoned Bulldogs return five seniors and five players with at least 10 games of varsity starting experience. Headlining the crew is three-sport standout senior McKayla Bickelhaupt. "She was an all-league wing last year," sa...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott girls basketball team faces the 2012- 13 campaign with a flock of new faces on its varsity squad. Six seniors who either started or saw extensive playing time last year are gone. So is this a rebuilding year? Maybe according to 12th year head coach Jerry Baker. Or maybe not. "We've got a lot of shoes to fill. We lost some of the most speed we've had in a long time with (Kristin) Potter and (Ronnie) Hulce running the floor," Baker said. "And Dionna Baker was...
DAYTON - Coming off its first state appearance and trophy presentation in 17 years, the Dayton boys basketball team dreams of making a repeat appearance this year. If it does, it won't be because of returning talent. Of the six-man rotation Dayton used most of last year, the Bulldogs return no starters and only one major role player-senior Wyatt Frame. Fifth-year head coach Roy Ramirez is not deterred, though he readily admits he lost a lot of skill and experience from last year. "We lost our...
PRESCOTT - It was good to be a Tiger last week as the team celebrated its accomplishments at its annual soccer awards banquet. Prescott's Athletic Director Sue DeRuwe said she had the privilege this year of riding the bus with the team to games and shared dinners with the players on long trips. "They practiced hard, played hard and they never gave up," DeRuwe said. Despite falling short and not returning to finals to fight for the state title this year, head coach Mark Grimm followed through wit...
KENNEWICK - The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague defense stuffed WP's high octane offense into a box in the first half of their state semifinal tilt, padlocked it, stuffed it inside another box, sealed it shut with five layers of packing tape, then shipped it off to Mars. Or at least that's how it felt here Saturday, as the Broncos did what no other team has been able to do all year: hold WP scoreless for three quarters of football. Add to that a fast start by the LRS offense that provided just enough...
DAYTON - Dayton athletic coaches took an evening to recognize hard-working athletes and dedicated supporters at the fall sports banquet on Tuesday night. The coaches echoed many of the same sentiments in their speeches, thanking the supportive families and fans, the super- moms who brought snacks and made dinner, the athletes who made the season happen and the organizations that helped keep the teams operating. "None of this could have been done without the boosters," Football head coach D...
WAITSBURG - Seventy- three student athletes from Waitsburg, Prescott and Jubilee schools were honored at this year's fall sports awards ceremony Monday night at the Waitsburg High School auditorium. Participants in cheerleading, cross country, volleyball and football were honored. A separate event honoring soccer participants was held Tuesday at Prescott. Cheer coach Vickie Hamann led off the festivities introducing her fall varsity and junior varsity cheer squad. Margaret Potolicchio, of...
SPOKANE - Waitsburg- Prescott's quick-hit offense scored the first three touchdowns of its quarterfinal match- up with Reardan here Saturday, while its defense held the grind-it-out Indian running attack scoreless over the game's first 21 minutes. The Indians mustered a fight before the final siren sounded, but the early deficit proved too much to overcome. The Cardinals fly on to a state semi-final tilt with No. 2 ranked Lind-Ritzville/ Sprague on the wings of the, 39-12, quarterfinal victory...
