Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Dayton kept its play-off hopes alive with a sound beating of Waitsburg-Prescott Friday on the Cardinals home court. The Bulldogs bolted to a 9-point lead in the first stanza and never looked back in defeating their Touchet Valley rivals, 53-33. The loss all but dashed WP's slim play- off hopes. In the game Friday on the Cardinals home court, the Bulldog boys bolted to a 9-point lead in the first stanza and never looked back in defeating their Touchet Valley rivals, 53-33. The lo...
PASCO - Waitsburg- Prescott nearly overcame a 16-point third quarter deficit to pull off a road win against league foe Tri-Cities Prep here Saturday. Sadly, the Cardinals run ran out of gas late, and the Jaguars escaped with a 60-50 victory. The two sides appeared evenly matched through the first four minutes. Owen Lanning's basket-and-free- throw at 4:02 gave the Cards the lead 8-6. It was the last lead the Cardinals would hold. Tri-Cities Prep reeled off 20 of the game's next 25 points to...
PASCO - Waitsburg- Prescott's girls dominated the Tri-Cities Prep Jaguars in nearly all aspects of their game Saturday in Pasco-steals, rebounds, field goal attempts, and free throw tries. The one place it didn't-made free throws- proved costly, and proved the margin of defeat in the Cardinals 51-47 loss. In all, WP shot an astounding 41 times from the charity stripe, connecting on just 12. "Twenty-nine percent from the free throw line- that's just ridiculous," said a wryly amused WP coach J...
Last week I wrote about how Dayton’s kids— especially boys— aren’t turning out in numbers for sports compared to years past. I also noted that the lack of turnout had nothing to do with school size, which has remained fairly consistent over the years. Today I stop reminiscing and kvetching and get down to the big question: ‘Why?’ As I put together my original article on Dayton’s school board voting to let eighth- graders play up on the high school team four weeks ago, I asked several int...
DAYTON - The Dayton girls' basketball team wavered on tired legs briefly on Saturday, but got the adrenaline coursing to seal Asotin's fate, taking the Panthers down 60-56 in overtime. The first period was slow, with foul calls increasing to the point of seeming constant and interrupting the flow of the game. The lady Bulldogs moved slower than normal, tired from playing two nights in a row. But they didn't let it keep them from shooting. The Bulldogs and Panthers kept the score close and en...
DAYTON - Dayton's girls claimed victory over Walla Walla Valley Acade- my, Saturday-the sandwich game between crushing defeats to DeSales, Friday, and Lewiston JV, Tuesday. The Lady Bulldogs beat WWVA by eight, 41-33, after first being trounced by first place DeSales, 57- 32. The Dogs took another beating Tuesday, 52-15, in a mostly meaningless nonleaguer, by Lewiston. Dayton coach Clayton Strong opted to play his second string a significant amount of time Tuesday, while experimenting with...
DAYTON - It took an extra four minutes to finish, but the Dayton boys claimed some consolation after a disastrous road weekend by beating the Lewiston JV in overtime Tuesday, 39-34, in their final non-league game of the season. The Bulldogs dropped a pair of contests to DeSales and Walla Walla Valley Academy Friday and Saturday after being up double figures (versus DeSales) and tied (versus WWVA) at half. Dayton fell to the Irish 47-35, and to the first place Knights, 46-34. Bulldog coach Roy...
WAITSBURG - Much of where WP will end up in the league standings going into the playoffs was decided at Kison Court last weekend and Monday. WP played 30 percent of its league schedule and over half of its home league calendar in the four days surrounding Sunday. Unfortunately, the Cards counted just one win in the three games-against Asotin, 64-56, on Friday. The Cardinals dropped Saturday's contest to the surging DeSales Irish, 75-56, then dropped a heartbreaking comeback try against first...
Many of you may not know this about me, but in the winter of 1990-1991 I averaged eight points per game as a senior playing post for the Dayton Bulldogs basketball team. At 6-feet 4-inches, I was the tallest kid on the squad, but hardly the best. That honor belonged to shooting guard Jeremy Himmerich who went on to play at Walla Walla Community College. My team finished in a 3-way tie for first in the league with DeSales and Pomeroy, but like so many other great Bulldog teams before it, we...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott women throttled Walla Walla Valley Academy Monday, got throttled by DeSales Saturday, and pulled out a come- from-behind thriller in overtime Friday versus Asotin to fill a busy three games in four days 'weekend' on the hardwood of Kison Court. The 2-for-3 showing puts WP third in league, a half- game behind Dayton prior to the Bulldogs' Tuesday's action. Fifth place Tri-Cities Prep is on tap for Saturday night. WP beat WWVA 43-20, and Asotin 57-53. De...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott football team fell one game short of a return trip to the state championship game this fall, but a trio of its members still earned best-in-state individual honors. Dalton Estes, Ben Shafer, and Danny Stansell garnered selections to the Associated Press all-state 2B squad. Estes earned the honor at two different positions. Estes, last year's championship game MVP, and this year's all-league all-purpose player of the year won first team honors at both running back and defensive back. "For Dalton to get all-...
MILTON-FREEWATER - The Waitsburg-Prescott girls shook off a sleepy start to their first game in over a week Tuesday night against Mac-Hi in Milton Freewater. The Cards awoke for 17 third-quarter points while holding the Pioneers to four in the same period, and WP cruised the rest of the way to a 49-24 victory. Krystal Harris led the Cardinals in scoring with 16 points, five rebounds, and four assists. Chelsey Brannock banked 14 points of her own to go with three important offensive re...
MILTON- FREEWATER - McLouglin High School's gym roof leaks. Of that the Waitsburg- Prescott boys basketball team is certain, after a night that the Pioneers rained 11 3-pointers down on the Cardinals. Mac-Hi scored three fewer points in the first half than the Cardinals scored in the entire game as the Pioneers shot down the Cardinals 76-45. WP jumped out to an early 7-3 lead on the strength of an Owen Lanning lay-up and two Seth Deal jumpers- one from behind the arc-while employing an a...
1: Bulldogs To State After growing up together playing basketball, a core group of senior Bulldogs and their younger teammates made it to the state basketball tournament in Spokane for the first time in years. Dayton suffered an initial defeat, but showed its teeth with a feisty comeback only to succumb in their third game to the precision-guided Wahkiakum Mules 57- 41 and end up in sixth for their division. Here, Bulldog Wyatt Frame lays one up during his team’s inspiring win over the LaCon...
WALLA WALLA - The Lady Cardinals easily got the upper hand against Valley Christian 56-20 at the D.A. Davidson Christmas Classic hosted by the DeSales over the holidays, but they couldn't subdue Weston-McEwen and were badly bruised by Touchet. Stacia Deal scored 13 points against Valley Chris- tian, followed by Chelsey Brannock with 10, and Krystal Harris and Samantha Fedderson each with 6. Waits- burg-Prescott took an early lead, putting away 15 points against 4 from their oppo- nents and the trend continued through the game with the Cards...
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...
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...
