Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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BOARDMAN, Ore. - Tiger wrestler Dalton Larue brought home the first gold medal for the new WP wrestling team, defeating two other wrestlers to win in his new 160-pound weight class during the Riverside Rumble Invitational Wrestling Tournament on Saturday. Meanwhile, at the Tigers' statewide meet in Pullman last Wednesday, Gabe Escalante won his first pin as a WP wrestler, beating Dally Ratliff from Prairie High School in Vancouver, Wash., barely a minute into the second of three rounds. Head WP...
DAYTON -- For the undefeated 2011 Bulldog boys basketball team, the third annual Dayton Holiday Tournament was about milestones. Not only did the boys become the first Dayton team to win the three-year-old winter tournament, but senior Garett Turner passed the 1,000-point mark for his high school career, a feat equaled by only two other Bulldogs in more than a generation. The moment in which he crossed the 1,000-point marker first passed unnoticed about a minute before the end of the third quarter during the Bulldogs' victory over Kiona Benton...
DAYTON - Dayton alumna Nicole Lockard and her teammates were a bit worried about playing the younger Bulldogs in the second annual alumni game last Tuesday. After all, the dozen former high school players who hit the court weren't exactly in the best shape. But they decided it was more about coming out and playing, which they did and then some. The alumni, whose graduation dates went clear back to 1986, beat the 2011 team, 31-19, showing they have what it takes to put games away and have a good...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals were defeated by the Riverside Pirates, 38-58, in a David-and-Goliath style battle at home last Friday night. WP's Billy Brown started things off by out jumping his opponent for the opening tip off but the Pirates height soon became an issue for the Cardinals. WP's Dustin Wooderchak drew a foul on a put back and got the Cards on the board with a free throw, but it would be nearly four minutes before the Cardinals lit the board again with a field goal from Justin...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals defeated the Riverside Pirates, 56-30, last Friday night. The Cards brought the heat early with a full court press that was too much for the Pirates to handle. The Cardinals capitalized on back to back steals from Ronnie Hulce and Hailey Goenen and Kristin Potter blocked the next Pirate shot to keep the Cardinals defensive momentum going. WP's Krystal Harris threw up yet another three point bucket followed by a bucket from Hulce for a 10-2 Cardinal lead early...
POMEROY - The Tigers' wrestling performance at the team's second meet in Pomeroy in as many weeks Tuesday was an athletic déjà vu. Dalton Larue pinned one of his opponents in the second round of his first match, then was pinned by his next opponent - none other than state champion Tory Knebel, whom Larue held off well into the second round of that match. The other Tiger team members were again defeated fairly quickly, but head coach Lanny Adams was encouraged by the team's improvement over l...
DAYTON - At one point during the men's alumni game, two Bickelhaupts were ganging up on a third. That kind of family ribbing is possible when two teams draws from two generations of Bickelhaupt basketball players. Tuesday's night second annual men's Bulldogs alumni game reached even farther back in time than the women's alumni game with Dean Bickelhaupt (1977) playing beside his older son Garett (2009) against the younger, current Bulldog Colton (2012). The two older Bickelhaupts found...
1 WP State Football Champs The WP Cardinals claimed the 2B 11-man state football title with a 33-7 victory over the Morton/White Pass Timberwolves earlier this month in the Tacoma Dome. The undefeated Cardinals became the second WP team to win a state title this fall after the Tigers won it for soccer. 2 WP State Soccer Champs In only its second season as a high school soccer combine, the Waitsburg Prescott Tigers beat the defending state champions in late November and brought home the coveted t...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs lost to Asotin, 61-52, Saturday but there was much to be optimistic about for Dayton players and coaches. Despite the points on the scoreboard, Dayton had by far its best game of the season against the Panthers. "That was the best effort we've had all year," head coach Clayton Strong said after the game. "Tonight we just relaxed and played. I think we overcame our fear of failure." Asotin opened the scoring drive with a two-point shot and although Lady Bulldog Nicole...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs went 6-0 after beating Asotin, 56-41, Saturday in a game that quickly turned into a route for the Panthers. "We definitely felt we had control of the game," Bulldog Joey Schlachter said after the home court encounter. "We were worried about getting outrun, which we didn't let them do." The Bulldogs had a close game against Waitsburg- Prescott on Friday, but the team seemed much more comfortable in the game against the Panthers. Dayton opened the scoring drive and...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals aren't just the toast of Waitsburg, which honored the team with a special dinner sponsored by the Commercial Club at the Town Hall last Thursday -- the 2011 2B state football champions are the toast of the entire state. Quarterback Zach Bartlow last week was named Player of the Year on the Washington Associated Press All-State football team as voted by writers and editors from around Washington. It's the highest honor any football player can receive in his division. His father, WP head coach Jeff Bartlow, was...
DAYTON -- The WP Lady Cardinals opened league play with a 38-23 victory over their rival team, the Dayton Bulldogs. The Bulldogs outscored the Cardinals, 12-11, in the second half, but it wasn't enough to overcome the Cardinals 16-point halftime lead. The Bulldogs' first-half beating began when WP's Dionna Baker grabbed the tipoff to set up the first Cardinal bucket. It was a heated first quarter with the Cardinals quickly setting the pace of the game. The experience and quick hands of the...
DAYTON -- The WP Cardinals and Dayton Bulldogs duked it out once again last Friday night, battling point-forpoint in an old-fashioned rival basketball game. The Cardinals hit nine threepoint buckets in Friday's game, but missed one when it really counted giving the Bulldogs a 53-50 victory over the Cardinals. The Bulldogs brought down the opening tip and it was game on from there. It was quickly established that this was going to be a fast-paced, run-the-floor kind of game. The Cardinals were...
POMEROY - Dalton LaRue pinned for the second time this season, beating Gabe Davis of Gar Pal in the second round of his first match at the WP wrestling team's first big meet in Pomeroy on Tuesday. "Davis had the length," head wrestling coach Lanny Adams said about the Gar Pal wrestler's fourinch height advantage over LaRue. "But Dalton outmatched him based on his knowledge of the moves." LaRue was the first and only WP athlete to pin during an informal unscheduled meet in which the Tigers...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals chalked up their first win last Friday night against the Powder Valley Badgers at home. Despite a three-pointer from Cardinal Dustin Wooderchak and a jump shot for two from Justin Zuger, the Cards trailed 7-10 at the end of the first quarter. "We came out slow and had early turnovers," said WP head coach TJ Scott. "We weren't running our offense and didn't really settle in until mid way through the second quarter." Wooderchak sparked some Cardinal offense hitting his second three-pointer early in the second...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals scored 20 firstquarter points on their way to defeating the Powder Valley Badgers, 54-40, last Saturday night at Kison Court. The Lady Cards wasted no time setting the pace of the game. With 4:24 left in the first quarter, Hailey Goenen stole a Badger dish out from under the basket and banked it in for two points. The Cardinals put on the full-court pressure and Ronnie Hulce swiped the ball and found Krystal Harris for the fast break lay-up. Hulce then added...
DAYTON -- The Lady Bulldogs put up a good fight in the second half of Tuesday's game, but the effort wasn't enough to overcome the Pomeroy Pirates' commanding lead. Dayton lost its fourth game of the season, 58-27, Tuesday night, its record slipping further to 4-0. Yet the at-home loss wasn't quite as bad as the 54-20 defeat against the Pirates earlier in the season and girls stuck together until the bitter end. The game started as a largely defensive one. The first points didn't materialized...
DAYTON -- In their second victory over Pomeroy Tuesday night, the Bulldogs quickly forced the Pirates to walk the plank, and then danced circles around them as they plunged the frigid waters surrounding the ship. Dayton keelhauled their younger neighbors to the East, 82-38, with the 40-point spread prompting the mercy rule that lets the game clock run continuously in the fourth quarter until it runs out and ends the game. The Bulldogs are now 4- 0, hosting Waitsburg- Prescott on Friday and...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals Boys Basketball team has finally completed its first week of practice. While most teams began with a hard week of conditioning and refreshing the basics, the Cardinals' first week began with three games in just as many practices. They came out a little sloppy in Tuesday night's game against Pilot Rock, racking up 24 team fouls before being beat at the buzzer. After a couple more days of practice, the Cardinals beat Powder Valley with a more settled defense. "There...
PRESCOTT -- The WP Tigers Wrestling program is in full swing lead by head coach Lanny Adams. There are five wrestlers competing who are starting from ground zero and have quickly learned that your body and mind must be in shape for this full-contact sport. Veteran wrestlers who will be the core of the opening year are sophomores Dalton LaRue and Trenton Kitselman. Kitselman is 5 feet, 8 inches and weighs 133 pounds. He's been wrestling on the Matbirds club team in Waitsburg for the last four...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinal basketball team lost their season opener against the Pilot Rock Rockets last Tuesday night, 46-43. It was a fast-paced game with a lot of intensity as the Cardinals switched their gears from football to basketball after just one full day of practice. The short transition left its mark as the Cardinals racked up 23 team fouls and shot only 28% from the field. With 2:38 left in the first quarter, the Cards were up 8-5, but missed five straight shots before knocking...
WAITSBURG -- WP's new athletics director JP Thew introduced the Cardinal and Tiger sports award evening as a moment to "celebrate the greatest fall sports season" the combine has ever had. And with that, coaches from cheerleading, cross country, volleyball, soccer and football recognized the exceptional student athletes who made it so. Cross country coach Joanna Lanning introduced the half dozen members of her team as "a family," who looked out for each other and "uplifted each other...
WAITSBURG - The WP Lady Cardinals began the 2011-12 season with a 53-39 victory over the Pilot Rock Rockets on Tuesday night. The Rockets were first to score, but the Cardinals' Krystal Harris was on fire, hitting her first of five threepointers to put the Cards up, 10-8. The Rockets answered with their own three-pointer, a free throw from a Kristin Potter foul, and a bucket from outside, to take a 15-13 lead after the first quarter. Harris nailed two free throws to tie the game at the...
DAYTON -- So far so good for the Bulldogs this season. "Roy's boys" won their first three games, going 3-0 after beating the Riverview Panthers, 49-33, at their home court on Tuesday night. " The effort has been great," head coach Roy Ramirez said after the game. "We're struggling a little from the field, but that will come. It's nice to coach these boys. They know how to play basketball. It will be a pretty special year." Dayton won its first game away against TOR, 58-44, on Nov. 29, then ran...
