Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Unseating the Asotin Panthers from their top spot in the league this weekend gave the WP Cardinals the momentum to beat the Lady Bulldogs Monday night, 55-35. Dayton lost against the Panthers last Friday. "We went cold," Bulldog head coach Clayton Strong said. "They made a run and we never recovered." Hailey Goenen opened the Cardinals' scoring drive with a trey, followed by several WP lay ups that quickly put her team ahead, 9-2. With lay ups from Nicole Lambert and Shelby Smith,...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals shook off a slow offensive second quarter to hold off the Walla Walla Valley Academy Knights last Tuesday for a 57-49 victory. The Cardinals grabbed the tipoff and hit the court running, landing the first two baskets of the night with a Zach Bartlow dish off to Dustin Wooderchak and a Sterling Eastman steal that he took the length of the court for two points. Wooderchak then took his turn with a steal, but lost control under the basket as he tried to find Bartlow, and gave the ball right back to the Knights....
PRESCOTT -- WP Tigers soccer coach Mark Grimm has been named 2011 Coach of the Year by the Washington State Soccer Coaches Association, a statewide sports organization that also named five Tigers to its All-State team. The WSSCA's 2011 Fall Soccer Teams include Girls 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A, and Boys/ Girls 2B and 1B players. The Tigers' 2011 playoff opponent St. George of Spokane featured prominently on the All-State list with four nominations, but Waitsburg- Prescott tied with Providence Classical...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals remain in third place in the Blue Mountain League with a 52-27 victory over the Walla Walla Valley Academy Knights last Tuesday night. WP's Ronnie Hulce got things rolling with a quick bucket for the Cardinals, but the Knights quickly answered with a steal that they converted into a fast break layup. The Cardinal defense began with a full-court press that produced a stealing spree in the next few trips down the floor. WP's Kristin Potter got her hands on a Knight pass, but all the excitement of bringing the...
WAITSBURG -- Early turnovers and a scoreless second quarter was the beginning of the end for the WP Lady Cardinals as they fell to the DeSales Fighting Irish, 30-41, last Friday night on Kison Court. The Irish were first to score with two quick baskets from underneath, but WP's Kristin Potter threw up two back-to-back, three-point baskets in the first two minutes to keep the Cards right in it. The Irish answered with two more baskets and the Cardinals' turnovers were one after the other as the...
WAITSBURG -- It was Friday night and Zach Bartlow was having trouble sleeping. He wasn't reflecting on that night's WP basketball game, he was thinking about how he was going to pull off Saturday morning's youth basketball camp. "I was a little nervous about today," said Zach. "I wasn't expecting to get these turnout numbers, so I was a little worried about how it was going to turn out." Bartlow is heading a three-week youth basketball camp as part of his senior project. The camp began last Saturday and will run for the next two consecutive...
WALLA WALLA - Dayton's Lady Bulldogs' winning streak has come to end. It was a fast-and-physical matchup against the DeSales Fighting Irish that left the Lady Dogs fighting with all they had during their 60-31 loss to the Irish. The Bulldogs held their own during the second half, but they took a beating in the first half that they just couldn't recover from. The Irish jumped out to a quick lead on the Bulldogs nailing seven three pointers in the first quarter and holding the Bulldogs for a 27-5...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals had seven players land buckets for a total of 31 second-quarter points en route to a 80-40 stomping of the DeSales Fighting Irish last Friday night on Kison Court. The Cardinals opening 6-0 run began with a put back from Billy Brown, a Zach Bartlow drive to the hoop for two, and Dalton Estes was wide open underneath the basket for an easy bucket to kick things off for the Cards. The Irish sank their first basket with just more than 4 minutes left in the first, but...
ROYAL CITY -- The WP Tigers wrestling team brought home two fourth-place medals from a big regional meet in Royal City on Saturday after reeling in two pins at a smaller meet in Ritzville on Thursday. "I'm happy with the improvements and performance out there," Tigers head coach Lanny Adams said. The Royal City meet was among the largest meets in which the WP team has participated so far. Fifteen teams attended from WP, Royal City, Pomeroy, Reardan, Riverview, Wahluke, Davenport, Burbank, St....
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Bulldogs kept their perfect season alive with a 60-36 victory over the DeSales Fighting Irish last Saturday night. The Irish took the tipoff, but missed three-consecutive shots before Bulldog Kroft Sunderland started off the scoring from down low . The Irish put up three unanswered baskets while the Bulldog defense tried to find their groove. The Bulldogs scored again with just less than 4 minutes left when Hayden Fullerton tossed up his first three pointer of the...
KELLOGG, IDAHO -- Alex Naylor skied to victory in the second heat of his Skier Cross race at Silver Mountain, on Jan. 7. Second place, National Women's SkiCross Champion Sarah Koehler is right on his heels. The WOO CREW from the Touchet Valley, Walla Walla and Tri-Cities competed at the first of four United States of American Snowboard Association (USASA) sanctioned races this past weekend at Silver Mountain in Kellogg, Idaho. Snow conditions were challenging with less than 50 percent of the...
A youth basketball camp will be held three Saturdays in a row starting Jan. 14 at the Waitsburg High School gym. The camp is open to fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grade boys and girls. Each camp will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. and is free for participants.WHS student Zach Bartlow is the camp's director and the members of the WP basketball teams and their coaches will help run the camp. Jeff Bartlow will also supervise. Kids need to wear shorts, a t-shirt and clean tennis shoes. To sign up, call 509-337- 9474....
DAYTON -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs chalked up another "W" last Saturday night defeating the Liberty Christian Patriots, 53-31. The Bulldogs took a bite out of their competition forcing 17 steals and only turning the ball over 13 times while forcing 21 turnovers from the Patriots. The Bulldogs grabbed the tipoff and it was game on from there. Bul ldog Mal ia Frame snagged a half-court pass from the Patriots and took it all the way for two. Shelby Smith drew a Patriot offensive foul and Nicole...
DAYTON -- The Dayton Bulldogs put a hurtin' on Liberty Christian last Saturday night with a 90-43 beating of the Patriots. The Bulldogs scored 30 first-quarter points to put this game out of reach early on. Hayden Fullerton led the Bulldogs in the first quarter, nailing two three-point buckets and totaled 10 first-quarter points. Kroft Sunderland was beating them up inside posting strong offensively and rebounding like a Dog. The Bulldogs made it look like an easy playground game for them until...
DAYTON - For the second game in a row, officials applied the mercy rule to speed up a game in which the undefeated Dayton Bulldogs took a runaway lead over its opponent. The team in white almost shut out the TOR Nighthawks, 79-13, with head coach Roy Ramirez rotating his bench onto the court midway through the third quarter. The Nighthawks barely managed to score 6 points in the first quarter, 3 points in the second quarter, none in the third and 4 points in the fourth, while the Dogs kept sinking it through the hoop for one of their...
WALLA WALLA -- The recent downshift in weight classes for the four WP wrestlers saw an immediate payoff during the Tigers' meet last week at Walla Walla High School. Meeting opponents from Wa Hi, Mac Hi and Pomeroy, the boys brought back three wins. Dalton Larue won two of those, including one pin. " It's starting to come along," head coach Lanny Adams said in between his students' matches. "They're getting exposure to some bigger schools with more competition for them." Larue, who switched to...
ASOTIN -- The WP Lady Cardinals were defeated by the Asotin Panthers, 59-43, last Friday night in Asotin. Although the Cardinals held Asotin stand-out JaLisa Jose to just 11 points, it was the team's lack of boxing out and crashing the boards that was their demise. Jose brought down 26 rebounds for the night, many of those under the Cardinal hoop. WP's Ronnie Hulce and Hailey Goenen got the defense started with half-court steals from the Panthers, but the Cardinals had trouble executing their fa...
PULLMAN -- Former Bulldogs running back Dain Henderson once had a dream to join the football team of a small to medium-sized college . He didn't exactly fulfill his dream the way he had originally envisioned: as a player. But he did join one of the best-known teams on the West Coast. Since he graduated from Dayton High School last year, he has been on the PAC 12 Cougars football team as a manager. "I've played football since second grade -- 12 straight years and I still have the itch to play,"...
ASOTIN -- The WP Cardinals battled against the Asotin Panthers last Friday night, but came up short in the final minutes once again, ending the game, 45-49. WP's Billy Brown won the tip off once and lit up the board for the Cards with a baseline bank shot. WP's Justin Zuger found Brown under the hoop for two more and Dustin Wooderchak got his hands on the next Panther shot denying his opponent a basket. Wooderchak then went three-for-four from the line as the Panthers couldn't beat him to the...
DAYTON - It was almost as though time stood still when Nicole Lambert got ready to release the basketball for a trey attempt with less than a minute to go in the game at the TOR Nighthawks on Tuesday night. It was a gutsy move. The seconds were flying off the clock and the Lady Bulldogs were behind, 53-48. They needed a minor miracle to keep their three-game winning streak going. With all eyes on the ball as it arced towards the bucket, the Dayton High School gym exploded in cheers as the perfec...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals took a non-league victory over the St. John Endicott Eagles last Friday night, 86-62. The Cardinals started things off with Billy Brown out-jumping his opponent for the tip off and the Cardinals were on the board with a Zach Bartlow bucket. WP's Dustin Wooderchak took his turn next with a drive up the lane that drew a foul and giving "Woody" a three-point play. Another basket from underneath from Bartlow gave the Cardinals a 7-0 lead. Bartlow drove to the hoop once...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals were defeated, 47-49, in the final minutes of last Tuesday's matchup against the Weston McEwen Tigerscots. The Cardinals were first to put points on the board when Justin Zuger found Dustin Wooderchak cutting through the lane for two points. The Tigerscots quickly answered when Riley Sederburg beat WP's Billy Brown baseline for two, followed by a Ron Terjeson steal that Elliot Salter put in for two to give the Tigerscots the lead for just a moment. WP's Zach...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals added another "W" to their record with a 45- 29 victory over the St. John Endicott Eagles. The Eagles grabbed the opening tip off, but it took mere seconds before WP's Kristin Potter snagged the ball and took it the length of the court for the first Cardinal basket. Although WP Head Coach Jerry Baker believes the press tends to get his girls in foul trouble, the Cardinals came out with forceful press from the beginning causing multiple steals and turnovers from...
DAYTON -- Right after she scored the first two points in the game against Lacross Washtucna Friday afternoon, McKayla Bickelhaupt knew this match was going to be different than the others her team had played so far this season. The junior, who laid it up the bucket from a steal, knew right away the Bulldogs were going to beat the Tigercats and put a "1" in the victory column next to the 8 losses from the first part of the season. "We came out with a lot of confidence," Bickelhaupt said about the way her team took the court in the consolation...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals held off Weston McEwen's fullcourt pressure for a 38-32 victory over the Tigerscots last Tuesday at Kison Court. It was a defensive game from the start as both teams played "beat the press" with the Cardinals forcing Tigerscot error after error and lighting up the board first with a Kristin Potter deflection that she turned into a fast-break lay-up for 2. The Cardinals continued to put points on the board with a baseline bank shot from Ronnie Hulce and another...
