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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - It was a learning experience that wielded success for the WP Cardinals at the Richland Invitational on Oct. 8. The Cardinals had been gearing up for this pivotal meet because it brought tons of competition from all over, WP cross country coach Joanna Lanning said. WP runners Seth Deal and E.J. Meserve were part of the 800 male runners who competed on Saturday. "It's bigger than state," Lanning said of the competition. Meserve competed in a freshman-sophomore race and placed 26th with a time of 18:24. Deal competed in the 5K varsity...
PRESCOTT - S t . George's Dragons had a quick, powerful start to Friday's soccer game against the WP Tigers, but the Tigers stepped up its game and ended the battle with a 3-3 tie. The Dragons were fast out of the gate Friday at Prescott High School scoring two goals quickly in the first half. The Tigers were up to the challenge of slaying the dragons and Luis Fernando Torres Escalante took advantage of an open shot to the net and scored a first goal for WP with 16 minutes left in the first half...
DAYTON -- In a victory that showed little doubt who dominates the league, the Bulldogs beat Walla Walla Valley Academy in three games Tuesday night despite a late rally from the Knights. That win and Asotin's defeat at the hands of Waitsburg Prescott the same night propelled Dayton to the no. 1 spot in the Blue Mountain League. "So far so good," Bulldogs' head coach Shannon Turner said after Tuesday's game. "I like the direction we're going." The Bulldogs are now 8-1, the best record in the...
WAITSBURG --The WP Lady Cardinals held on strong to take down the no. 1 ranked Asotin Panthers Tuesday night at Kison Court. The Cardinals wasted no time getting down to business jumping to a 7-3 lead from two Ronnie Hulce kills and a serving ace from Krystal Harris. The Panthers took its first timeout to try and break things up, but came back with a failed attack and faced another Hulce kill, putting the Cardinals up, 10-3. Cardinal freshman Samantha Fedderson made her varsity debut with a bloc...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals held off the Dayton Bulldogs in an oldfashioned duke 'em out high school rival football game and remains undefeated for the season, 5-0. The Bulldogs came out pumped up and ready to play and wasted no time lighting up the board. The Bulldogs received the opening kickoff and began its drive on its own 35-yard line. After earning a first down that took them to the 44-yard line, quarterback Colton Bickelhaupt broke tackles and weaved through Cardinal defenders all the...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg- Prescott's Seth Deal continued his hot streak at the end of September and early November placing first twice in boys varsity races at recent cross county meets. WP cross country Coach Joanna Lanning is happy with Deal's performance, and truly believes that she has more than one star on her team. "I hope all three of the high school runners are going to state," Lanning said. In addition to Deal, E.J. Meserve and Trent Hasen are gearing up for some tough competitions in the coming weeks. On Sept. 24 at a meet in Connell,...
WAITSBURG - The WP Tigers rolled to easy victories in their last two games, beating Walla Walla Valley Academy 11-0 last Wednesday and Riverside Christian 11-1 on Saturday. The Tigers were scheduled to play Riverside Christian in Yakima on Tuesday, but no results could be obtained before this newspaper's deadline. In Wednesday's match against the Knights, WP's Enrique scored the most goals with three, followed by Lino Diaz, Francisco Gonzalez and Aldair Escalante each with two. Luis Torres and Jesse Albarran had one goal. In the same game,...
DAYTON - Using excellent defense, the Dayton Bulldogs beat the Tri Cities Prep Jaguars 30-0 at Dayton's Homecoming game on Friday night. The crowd was decked out in Crimson and Gold in the Bulldog stands as alumni returned for the big game. The team ran out onto the field and a fireworks display to the "Star Spangled Banner" kicked off the game play. The game started shaky. Following the kickoff, a scramble on the field landed a yellow flag in the Bulldog's favor. The Bulldog's held TCP's...
WAITSBURG - The WP Lady Cardinals were defeated by the Dayton Bulldogs in four games of Blue Mountain League volleyball action last Tuesday. It was intense, inyour face volleyball action filled with long vollies as the two rival teams battled it out in Kison Court. The Cardinals started off red hot scoring first and then following it up with three kills from Ronnie "Hammer" Hulce to give the Cardinals a 7-3 lead. The Cardinals were the first to exercise its time out after the Bulldogs rallied an...
WALLA WALLA --The WP Cardinals stepped it up in the second half to defeat the DeSales Irish 33-14 last Friday night. After forcing the Irish to punt on their opening drive, the Cardinals started their first drive on their own 30-yard line. WP quarterback Zach Bartlow tried to spark the opening drive with three straight QB keepers to take them to the Irish 30-yard line. The drive was soon ended when Bartlow only gained two yards on fourth and six and the Irish took over on downs. The Irish took...
DAYTON - This week students are showing their spirit to celebrate Homecoming with tons of activities and a home football game. On Monday, there was a Powder Puff football game. On Tuesday, students showed up to school dressed as Barbie or Ken. Wednesday is Twin Day and the school had a lip sync assembly. A home volleyball game is set for Thursday night against TCP at 5. Friday is red and gold day, with a pep assembly at 2 p.m. in the gym, float judging at 6:30 p.m. on the football field and the homecoming football game against TCP in Dayton at...
DAYTON - Despite two back-to-back losses against Yakima's Riverside Christian, the Dayton Bulldogs believed they made progress as a team against a tough opponent. The WP Tigers meanwhile easily outmaneuvered and outscored Oregon-based Trout Lake to remain undefeated since tying with Spokane's St. George earlier in the season. Riverside Christian beat Dayton 5-0 Tuesday night, the same margin of victory they took away during the two team's first encounter of the season in Yakima Saturday that...
WAITSBURG -- The WP "Boys of Fall" were dressed to kill in their new black home jerseys last Friday night as they robbed the Riverside Pirates blind of their loot, taking no prisoners and winning the game, 49-14. The Pirates started things off with possession, but after three plays, including a Danny Stansell quarterback sack, the Pirates were forced to punt. Beginning their opening drive on their own 49-yard line, the Cardinals wasted no time lighting up the board. Dalton Estes took the first...
WAITSBURG -- It was a heartbreaking night last Thursday when the WP Lady Cardinals were defeated by the Desales Irish in five games. The Cardinals came out strong in game one battling point for point with the Irish to a score of 11-11 with WP taking the first time out. The Cardinals exploded when play resumed, led by four back-to-back kills from powerhouse Ronnie Hulce. A serving ace from WP's Krystal Harris and two kills from WP's Rhiannon Chapman would continue to fuel the Cardinal's fire. A b...
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs improved their league record to 4-1 with a win over the Desales Fighting Irish Tuesday night. The Bulldogs took the first point of the match with a kill from Shelby Smith. A long volley ending with a tip dropping on the Bulldogs put the Irish on the board. The Bulldogs went to work with a kill from Courtney Mings and two kills from McKayla Bickelhaupt to contribute to an 8-all tie and an Irish time out. The two teams would swap points with several missed a...
STARBUCK - Lyons Ferry Marina will host the first annual Snake River Walleye Classic, a new catch-and-release contest put by two walleye fishing clubs in Walla Walla and the Tri Cities the first weekend of October. The two-day event will bring a dedicated group of fishermen to Columbia County's portion of the Snake River who have a strong interest in fresh-water fish. "It's a wonderful place to fish walleye," said Tom Moore, president of the Walla Walla Walleye Club and Walleye Anglers Unlimited based in the Tri Cities. "The numbers are big,...
ASOTIN -- The WP Lady Cardinals lost a league match in three games to the towering Asotin Panthers last Thursday night. The Cardinals started off on the right foot scoring first but the Panthers 5'11" senior JaLisa Jose answered with a screaming kill and didn't stop all night. A missed attack attempt from the Cardinals and an Asotin serving ace gave the Panthers a 3-1 lead. But the Panthers would miss its next serve and WP's Dionna Baker and Rhiannon Chapman would contribute back-toback kills for a 5-4 WP lead. The first game continued to be a...
ELGIN -- It took a while for the WP Cardinals to shake off that mountain breeze and warm up last Friday night, but they pulled it together and took home another "W" against the Elgin Huskies to improve their record to 3-0 with a 50-28 victory. Cardinals kicked off deep into Husky territory to begin the first half. On the second down of the game, Elgin's Dylan Crouch broke away for a 40-yard run and was looking to score, but Zach Bartlow caught him on the 10-yard line. WP's defense held them to fourth and one, but Crouch pushed through the line...
DAYTON - Conventional wisdom holds that nonleague football games don't matter. But they do matter when an official penalizes a key starter so he has to sit out the next game, and that next game is a league game. That's what happened to starting Bulldogs running back/wide receiver Hayden Fullerton during Thursday's game against the Weston- McEwen Tigerscots. In a highly controversial ruling that first went in favor of the Bulldogs, only to be reversed to go against the Dayton team after the head...
DAYTON-The Dayton Lady Bulldogs improved its league record to 3-1 Tuesday night with a victory over the Liberty Christian Patriots. The Bulldogs cruised to a 25-9 victory over the Patriots in game one and was given a run for its money in game two. The Patriots were first to score, but the Bulldogs jumped to a 9-4 lead with a serving ace from Chelsea Wooldridge and failed attack attempts from the Patriots. The Bulldogs unfortunately got too comfortable in their shoes, letting balls drop and missi...
DAYTON -- It was a historic week for the two Touchet Valley high school soccer teams. WP had its first tie against a league team since becoming an official program last year. St. George tied the Tigers 2-2 in Spokane on Saturday. The same day, Dayton won a doubleheader against Northport, winning for the first time in its five-year history against another varsity team. The Bulldogs only beat St. George's junior varsity team last year. Dayton beat Northport 2-1 in the first game, then 5-2 in the s...
WAITSBURG - The first few weeks of WP's cross country running season have gone well for the Cardinals, particularly for Waitsburg High School junior Seth Deal. Deal won the Seaport Invite hosted by Clarkston High School at Beachview Park this weekend, finishing the 5,000-meter course in 15:43. That's an improvement over last year, when he placed second with a time of 16:29. "Seth took a commanding lead in the first part of the race and never looked back," head cross country running coach Joanna...
DAYTON - One look at the Asotin roster and it's easy to see why its volleyball team had at least one advantage in their threegame victory over the Bulldogs on Tuesday night. Senior Panthers JaLisa Jose and McKayla Swearingen are both 5' 11" and they were both hitting hard and shielding their own court at the net like ramparts on a fort. But that wasn't the only drive behind the Asotin's tough trouncing of Dayton's otherwise well-composed 2011 team. "Last year, they were league champs and we...
DAYTON- The sultry heat outside was no comparison to the heat inside the Dayton gym last Wednesday night as the WP Cardinals and the Dayton Bulldogs went head-to-head battling point-for-point in their season opener. Dayton came out on top, winning the match in five games. Waitsburg scored first in the opener and kept the lead until Dayton went on a scoring spree and tied the game up at 14. Dayton rode that momentum to a 17-14 lead. After a series of long vollies the Cardinals got the serve back...
DAYTON - The WP Tigers won the seasonopening soccer jamboree in Dayton last Wednesday, but not as convincingly as last year. The friendly late-summer competition between the teams from Dayton, Waitsburg-Prescott and Walla Walla Valley Academy saw improved performances from the other two teams, though neither one managed to score against the 2011 Tigers in the 95-degree heat. The Tigers beat WWVA 3-0 and went 6-0 against Dayton, a team they beat 19-0 last season. The WWVA Knights beat Dayton 2-1...
