Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG -- When the Cardinals meet the Broncos in the quarterfinals this weekend, one observer may have a bit of a deja vu. Dean Bickelhaupt, head coach for the Dayton Bulldogs whose season just ended, will be there, burning with curiosity to see if WP can do what his team couldn't: beat the tough scrappy team from Lind-Ritzville-Sprague that suffered only a single onepoint loss (14-13) against the dreaded Bulldogs from Colfax who denied WP a state championship last year. "It will be a good...
MOSES LAKE -- A playoff win against Moses Lake Christian was predicted for the WP Tigers, but what was not foreseen was the time it took for the team to score its first goal. Just as they did earlier in the season, the Tigers beat the Lions by a wide margin, this time 6-1, but they weren't the first to get on the scoreboard. The win gives the Tigers a 14-2-2 record for the season and sends them to the semifinals against St. George in Sumner on Friday. Last year, they were knocked out of the...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals scored on every first-half possession to send the Brewster Bears into hibernation for the year with a 48-7 rainy-day victory last Saturday. The Bears took the opening kickoff and began its first drive on its own 30-yard line. Two short carries and an off-sides call on the Cardinal defense helped them to a first down, but a quarterback sack from Cardinal Brenddon Donovan put the Bears in a punting situation from its own 42-yard line . T he Cardinals opening drive...
WAITSBURG - An unexpected bout of the flu hit WP's star runner Seth Deal at the state competition on Saturday in Pasco and Deal placed 16th of 140 boys in the 5,000-meter race. Coach Joanna Lanning said Deal didn't know he was going to be ill and ended up vomiting and dry heaving during Saturday's race throughout the whole course. He finished in 17:08. "It's just amazing what he accomplished," Lanning said. "That's part of the way life is sometimes." Lucas Graham from Northwest Christian-Lacey placed first in the race with a time of 16:17....
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs lost two matches in a row last week and were eliminated from Blue Mountain District play. After finishing the regular season in first place with an11-1 record the Bulldogs fell to the WP Cardinals in three games last Wednesday night in Dayton. The Cardinals were first to score in game one, but Bulldogs Shelby Smith and McKayla Bickelhaupt fought back at the net throwing down kills to a 10-all tie. The two teams would take turns scoring on missed attacks...
RITZVILLE -- The Dayton Bulldogs were shut down by the Ritzville Broncos last Friday night 12-0. The loss prevented the Bulldogs from advancing to the state tournament finishing with a winning record of 5-4 for the 2011 season. The Bulldogs took the opening kick off and started their first drive on their own 35-yard line. Isaiah Lambert took the first handoff but was met at the line and tackled for a loss of two yards. Two incomplete passes had the Bulldogs deep in their own territory and they...
PRESCOTT - In the end, the Tigers' playoff game against Spokane's St. George Saturday wasn't all about winning or losing. After the teams tied each other twice this season, the seeding game was to determine who would continue the state playoffs as numbers one and two. WP has one more playoff game before the state championship tournament in Sumner in two weeks. But that game is against a team they beat handily earlier in the season. St. George won the match 2-1 after striker Erik Muelheims...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals took the first place seed into district play with a three game upset over the Dayton Bulldogs last Wednesday night. Missing many of their hometown fans who were at the concurrent Cardinals' football playoff game Saturday, the WP girls later team lost a tightly contested district playoff match against the home-courted Irish, ending the Cardinal players' hopes to go to state. On Wednesday, each game was a point-for-point battle that had serving aces from...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals clinched a first round 2B state tournament berth Saturday with a 54-21 elimination of the Kettle Falls Bulldogs. Two plays and 14 yards later, the Bulldogs found themselves on their own 39-yard line. Jesse Dodson took the handoff, slipped and bounced his way through Cardinal defenders, and the board read 0-7 Bulldogs with 10:21 left in the first. The Cardinals' opening drive was a Billy Brown-Zach Bartlow show as the two took turns pushing the ball up the field to r...
WAITSBURG --The WP Cardinals had the power of pink on their side as they clipped the T-O-R Nighthawks wings last Friday night 35-0. The win gave the boys of fall their second-consecutive undefeated regular season. They begin loser-out post season play this Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Waitsburg against the Kettle Falls Bulldogs. The Bulldogs are the fourth place seed from class 2B District 7 with a 5-4 record. Kettle Falls is lead by 5'10", 155-pound sophomore quarterback Conner McKern. "McKern has a decent arm and he can move," said WP...
WAITSBURG --The WP Cardinals finished its second consecutive undefeated league season with a senior night shut-out of the T-O-R Nighthawks, 35-0. After showering their parents with balloons and flowers, the big red birds took to the field sporting pink socks in recognition of breast cancer awareness month. The Nighthawks took first possession of the game, but were forced to punt after the WP's defense held them to just 4 yards in three plays. Slow to start, the Cardinals took its turn punting...
DAYTON -- The Bulldogs' choice was easy. Lose to Asotin, place fourth in the league and face the other Bulldogs in the playoffs, the ones from Colfax. Or, beat Asotin, place third in the league and take a chance at the first playoff opponent. "We knew we had to win that," Dayton's head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said about last Friday's game against the Panthers on their home turf. "I told them that with all the hard work they've done all season, they deserved it." Dayton pounded out their 34-22 win against nevereasy to-beat Asotin, which missed...
WAITSBURG - For the second time, Waitsburg- Prescott's Seth Deal is the boys cross country District 9 champion. Deal took first place on Thursday at Clarkston High School with a time of 15:30 in the varsity boy's 3-mile race . WP's E.J. Meserve will join Deal at the state competition because he placed 11th with a time of 17:12. The top 15 runners in each race will go on to compete at state. Meserve shaved nearly one minute off his time Thursday from a competition on the course earlier this seaso...
DAYTON - Dayton Bulldogs scored the first touchdown of Friday's game in Walla Walla, but DeSales' defense and late offensive moves in the game gave the Irish a slim victory, 15-14. The first half of the game showed some good defense from both sides of the field. Right before the buzzer with about one minute left in the first quarter, Colton Bickelhaupt hit Wyatt Frame for 31 yards and earned a first down at the 3-yard line. Frame ran the ball in two plays later, leading 6-0 at the start of the...
WAITSBURG - The WP Cardinals had a strong showing at the Wildhorse Invitational in Pendleton on Oct. 21. Coa ch Joanna Lanning had four runners in the competition. Middle school standout Emily Adams crossed the finish line fourth out of 72 runners in the girl's 3,000-meter race with a time of 12:20. E.J. Meserve was Lanning's only varsity runner on Friday, but he made gains in his performance. He placed 22nd with a time 0f 18:26 in the varsity boy's 5,000-meter race. The Potts brothers, Andre...
DAYTON-The Dayton Lady Bulldogs clinched the Blue Mountain League Volleyball Championship as they left their teeth marks on the Desales Fighting Irish in three games, 25-22, 25-12, and 25-21. With its only loss of the season being to the Asotin Panthers the Bulldogs proved that hard work, passion, team work, and the sheer desire to win is what it takes to end the season on top. The Bulldogs defense was rock-solid as Nicole Lambert and McKayla Bickelhaupt got down and dirty for 23 digs each. Shelby Smith and Courtney Mings were a force to be...
WAITSBURG - The WP Tigers smashed Riverside Christian in Yakima on Saturday, 9-2. Riverside scored first at the 3-minute mark and again at the 80-minute mark. WP's Francisco Gonzalez put four into the goal. Lino Diaz made three goals and Jesse Albarran made two. Kevin Ortega lead in assists with four. Ernesto Valdovinos came in next with two assists, followed by Aldair Escalante with one, Francisco Gonzalez with one and Lino Diaz with one....
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals celebrated a 2011 Homecoming victory over the Tri-City Prep Jaguars last Thursday night on Kison Court. WP's Ronnie Hulce, Krystal Harris and Dionna Baker each had a serving ace and a kill to help take the Cardinals to an early 12-6 lead over the Jaguars in game one. The Jaguars rallied scoring on two missed Cardinals attacks, a Cardinal block that flew out of bounds and two kills of their own to pull within one point at 15-14. The Cardinals answered with...
WAITSBURG -- The Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals dominated the Asotin Panthers last Friday night for a 48-20 Homecoming victory securing the League Championship for the third consecutive year. The Panthers took first possession of the game, only to punt the ball away after just one first down and a WP Greg Stearns sack. The Cardinals opening drive began on its own 26- yard line with a carry from running back Billy Brown. Brown was stopped after just a two yard gain but WP quarterback Zach Bartlow...
DAYTON -- Each at the top of their league, the Bulldogs and Tigerscots clashed Tuesday in a match that was more playoff preparation than victory for the Dayton team. The Bulldogs, who fell victim to its own inconsistent focus, lost in four against the Weston-McEwen team. "We had a lot of highs and lows," Bulldogs head coach Shannon Turner said. "They need to learn to focus. But this was good competition. I think the last time we beat them was in 2006 and that was the year they were state...
WAITSBURG - WP's middle school runners saw successes and personal record races on Oct. 12 at a meet at Pioneer Middle School in Walla Walla. WP middle school runner Emily Adams placed first in the girls seventh grade 2-mile race with a time of 12:32. On Wednesday, she shaved nearly two minutes off of her 2-mile time from the previous meet. Coach Joanna Lanning said Adams is now ranked second in state for seventh grade. WP's middle school boys also made strides on Wednesday. Andre Potts placed...
WAITSBURG -- WHS Homecoming is coming up. Friday is Spirit Day for students with an assembly in the gym for Barbie Bob and a pep rally. Cross Country competes in Pendleton at 4 p.m. and the football game is at 7 p.m. The Homecoming court will be announced at the football game. The ASB Student Council will be hosting a Community Tailgate Party from 5 to 7 p.m. The council will be providing chili, hot dogs and lemonade and we would like to invite everyone in the community to join with their favorite tailgate treats. Saturday is the Homecoming...
DAYTON - Coming off of a narrow defeat against the Cardinals, the Bulldogs didn't necessarily need a confidence booster going into Friday night's game against Tekoa/Oasksdale/Rosalia. With good reason, they took pride in their performance that nearly knocked WP off its top undefeated position in the league. The Bulldogs were ready for anything. But they got another shot in the arm anyway, handily beating the Nighthawks, 26-6, with a defense that squeezed almost every TOR ground and air campaign...
WALLA WALLA-The WP Lady Cardinals were defeated at the hands of the Desales fighting Irish Tuesday night in Walla Walla. The loss puts them in fourth place in District Nine. The first game got off to a heated start with the Irish blocking two back-to-back attacks from the Cardinals before a third flew out of bounds, giving the Cardinal the lead-off score. A serving ace and a kill from WP's Krystal Harris would jump the Cardinals to a 4-0 lead. Four kills from the Irish, and missed serves and...
