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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...
VISTA HERMOSA - - WP Tigers' head coach Mark Grimm had a few select words to describe each of the players on his championship team during the annual fall soccer banquet Monday night. Aldair Escalante, the diminutive junior super dribbler, showed his leadership going up against opponents several heads higher for balls coming from the sky, Grimm said. "That's how you give it up for the team." Luis Torres can afford to reign in his emotions on the field a little more, but shouldn't lose that "chip...
DAYTON -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs are back in the swing of things on the court under the new direction of Clayton Strong. Strong moved up from his assistant boys basketball coaching position and is still breaking the ice with his new group of athletes. "I got the chance to watch these girls last season, but am still getting a grasp on what each one's individual skills are," said coach Strong. The Lady Bulldogs return all of their players except for Senior Darci Hall, who opted for a...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals have been rubbing their shin splints and massaging sore muscles after the team's first week of practice. Coming off a District title from the 2011 season, these girls are all excited for what the future may hold for them. Head coach Jerry Baker will once again lead this group of athletes. "Bake" who has been coaching for so long he can't recall how many years, is looking forward to what this year's season may hold for his athletes. The Cardinals graduated post...
DAYTON - The pads and helmets have been packed away and the Dayton Bulldogs have hit the court running. Coming off a second-place district finish in 2010 season the "Dawgs" are looking to bring some heat to the Blue Mountain league. Head coach Roy Ramirez returns all of his varsity squad except for Daine Henderson and Jason Norris who graduated. Seventeen Bulldogs have turned out for this season, which means that the younger crew will get plenty of playing time and experience. Six seniors will...
PASCO -- The WP Cardinals continued their dream season with a 42-13 pounding of the Colfax Bulldogs last Saturday night. The win leaves the boys of fall with a perfect 13-0 record and proved that the depth of their bench is as deep as their fans love for them. The intensity in the stands was as fierce as on the field as the Bulldogs pushed the ball down to the WP 18-yard line on the opening drive. The heat was on as the Bulldogs kept with their running game, but Dalton Estes broke through the Bu...
WAITSBURG -- The Cardinals find themselves exactly where they were last year -- undefeated (12- 0) and facing the equally undefeated Colfax Bulldogs (11-0) in the semi-final game of the state playoffs. Even emotionally, the WP players are as confident and as ready as they were last year to take on their Eastern Washington rivals, who have knocked them out of the playoffs two years in a row. "We want to win and we think we can," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "The kids are really hungry. The kids really want it." But some of the factors that go i...
PASCO -- One heartbeat, one machine, one WP Cardinal Football team corralled the Lind/Ritzville Broncos, 42-7, last Saturday afternoon in Pasco. The Broncos clock-eating offense began the game deep in its own territory. After several short gains with the run and a couple of incomplete passes, the Broncos faced a 4th and 1 situation on the Cardinals 34-yard line. Once again, the Broncos plugged it up the middle and made the first down by inches. Cardinal Chance Leroue sparked the defense by...
WAITSBURG -- The verdict is out and WP football topped the list for all-league players in District 9. Eight Cardinals made the cut for the 2011 season with head coach Jeff Bartlow receiving the nod for Coach of the Year. "It's an honor," said coach Bartlow. "The kids work hard and it reflects on them too." The Cardinals are still alive in state playoff action, and as of this last week, the players' statistics are impressive . Bartlow's team is averaging 159.2 yards passing per game with 220.4 ya...
PRESCOTT -- WP's Tiger wrestling program is new, but one look at Lanny Adam's old worn Asics wrestling shoes will tell you he's no rookie to the sport. Adams began wrestling in Omak when he was a mere five years old. He continued wrestling all through his high school years as well as playing football and competing in track and field. "I enjoyed football, and track was more of a social sport for me," said Adams. "Wrestling has always been my number one. It's the chess of sports." Adams began his...
DAYTON - Sure, the Bulldogs wanted to go further . The 2011 football would have loved to face WP in the playoffs this weekend instead of being knocked out early by the Ritzville Broncos. The 2011 volleyball team had high hopes to go to district and return to the state playoffs as they did last year. The 2011 soccer team would have been thrilled to win a few more games against a few more teams. Yet all expectations aside, Dayton's 2011 fall sports season gave the Bulldogs every excuse, as...
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...
