Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - The Cardinals' cross-country running team may be down in the numbers this year, but when it comes to distance competition it's more about "quality than quantity," head coach Joanna Lanning believes. The WP running team is down to six runners - three high schoolers and three middle schoolers. The group has lost five seniors during the past two years, "which is a big hit," Lanning said. Last year, the team consisted of nine runners - seven high schoolers and two middle schoolers. But...
PRESCOTT - Times reporter/ photographer Tracy Daniel ventured to the practice field in Prescott to catch up on the 2011 Tigers soccer team and quickly discovered that the players have gotten a late start in preparing for their season. After becoming district champions and ending their season 18-1 last year, the Tigers have raised expectations going into this fall. But a lot has changed since then. Veteran coach Rick Hamilton left the district and former assistant coach Bart Baxter was passed up for his job. New head coach Mark Grimm, who has...
DAYTON - This season, Dayton soccer coach D.J. Frame wants the league to know the members of his team are ready to step up their game and compete against the best. "We're not just the new guys," Frame said. "We've got to be competitive now." Last year, the Bulldogs didn't fare too well in league play. Out of 14 games, Frame said his team won one, tied two and lost 11. Last year, Frame's fourth year coaching the team, was focused on building the program. But, this year is going to be different....
DAYTON - Just two years ago, the Bulldogs wouldn't have made it among any of the teams in the league to beat in the esteem of other coaches. But one year after Dean Bickelhaupt took over as head coach, Dayton immediately comes to the mind of his counterparts as a team they'll have to watch out for during the 2011 season. "Dayton's going to be a lot better," Cardinals' head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "They won games last year and they'll be in the top three." The Bulldogs won three games last...
WAI T SBURG - On the one hand, head Cardinals football coach Jeff Bartlow argues that it's good to come from a historic season that sent the team to the state playoffs. "The culture of winning is there," he said. "There's no doubt the kids believe in it." The Cardinals went an unprecedented 12-1 and made it to Pullman only to be edged out by Colfax and place third in state. But it also means having to defend a district championship title and being in a position to fend off challenges from...
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla Transmission Babe Ruth team ended its summer league season with a win and a loss in the playoff tournament. The loss left them one game shy of the championship game. Last Saturday night the Waitsburg-based team faced the Eastgate Lyons in the first round of the tournament. The team wasted no time warming up to plate. Dalton Estes slammed his first pitch, sending it over the fence for a three-run home run in the top of the first inning. The Lions answered right back...
YAKIMA- Waitsburg- Prescott graduate Kris Cady got the opportunity of a lifetime when he played in the Washington State Football Coaches Association East-West all star game in Yakima this weekend. The West won the game 23-14. The Earl Barden Classic was played at Zaepfel Stadium and consisted of some of the best football players in the 1A, 1B and 2A divisions in the State of Washington. The players were selected by the coaches association. The West jumped out to a 13-0 lead on a couple of...
DAYTON - Sometimes, the most important observations about the past come in the form of a footnote as did this one from Bulldogs' head baseball coach Sal Benavides about the spring sports season: "In all my 20 years here as a coach," he told the Times after Wednesday's sports banquet had wrapped up, "this is the first time that none of the players were ever ineligible to play because of their grades." In many ways, this post script to his earlier speech at the dessert banquet summed up what all...
WAITSBURG - Ten minutes before the women's relay race at the Carnival of Speed in Milton Freewater began that fateful weekend, head track coach Jeff Bartlow knew the team was in a pickle. One of the four runners, Kayla Huxoll, had just been struck in the foot by another competitor's javelin in a freak accident and Yesenia Escalante, a hurdler, was the only alternate. While the relay runners from the other 19 teams were already warming up, Bartlow, who was at the scene of Huxoll's accident, told...
WALLA WALLA - As the sun angled in from the west, casting its golden evening warmth over Borleske Stadium, Sweets fans began to fill the bleachers, food courts and beer gardens for the first game of the 2011 season Friday. Waitsburg eighth grader Shayla Tsosie was there with her aunt Christina Record from Walla Walla and Record's boyfriend David Wahlstrom on leave from Iraq. " There's nothing like opening night in baseball," Wahlstrom said. "I don't care if it's the major league, the minor...
SPOKANE - Now attending Spokane Community College, 2010 Waitsburg High graduate James Lehr won the shot put at the NWAACC Track Championship in Spokane in May. He threw 48 feet, 11 inches to win the title and also scored fourth in discus and sixth in the hammer. He threw 136-03 in the discus and 134-05 in the hammer. Lehr was state 2B champion in discus and shot in 2009....
WAITSBURG - As he accepted the well-deserved recognition as an athlete scholar during the track and field awards ceremony at the high school auditorium Tuesday night, lone Cardinal golfer Dakota Baker didn't have much to say. Principal and athletics director Stephanie Wooderchak said the said the sophomore is a bit shy around large crowds. But, she warned, get him one-on-one and he'll talk your ear off about golf, the sport he loves. Just how much Baker loves golf became apparent this season as...
YAKIMA - Bulldogs may go down, but they don't go down easy. Led by the likes of pitcher Kayla Turner, catcher Miwa Umeda and first baseman Rowene Huwe, the Dayton softball team didn't place but made it one round further than any of their state-bound predecessors in recent years. The feisty team won its first game against Reardan Friday morning but took it in the chin from Adna that same evening at the Gateway Complex in Yakima. Adna ended up taking the tourney crown of the state 2B softball...
CHENEY - The WP men's track and field team placed fifth in state this weekend, honoring their schools, Waitsburg and Prescott, with the second-highest placement in recent memory. Students from the Jubilee Youth Ranch, more specifically the Thompkins brothers, made significant contributions to the achievement. The women's team, much smaller in size than many of its competitors, placed 29th with Kristin Potter and Ronnie Hulce placing in the top 10 for sprints and hurdles. "It was fantastic,"...
PASCO, Wash.--"Thwapthwap... thwap!" The sound of Irish' Ashley Lyons' glove striking her thigh--once on the wind-up, and once on the follow-through-- followed shortly by the sound of the softball striking the catcher's mitt, provided an almost constant beat to the Tigers' loss to the Irish of DeSales Friday night. The loss marks a disappointing end to a season in which the Tigers had state playoff aspirations after finishing the regular season tied for the District 9 championship with rival...
PASCO, Wash.-- The Dayton Bulldogs advanced to the Washington State 2B playoffs Friday night after beating neighboring rival Waitsburg-Prescott 12-5 in a District 9 tournament game to determine who would go on to Yakima this year. The victory was huge for the Bulldogs, who have struggled in recent years to make it to the playoffs despite strong finishes. The last time they went was in 2008. WP made it last year. "Oh I'm ecstatic. We're very excited." Dayton coach Terry Robins said. "We faltered...
WALLA WALLA - After his younger brother James was disqualified in the 100-meter dash on a technicality during sub districts in Clarkston two weeks ago, Cardinal Antonio Thompkins decided it was time for him to step up. Though he had never won the short sprint at any meet, he thought he would try it anyway - win one for James. His first-place finish at Martin Field last week became one of the biggest upsets during the district championships and helped the WP men's team win the overall...
DAYTON --The Dayton softball team held its second annual alumni game Saturday, with the varsity softball team facing off against their "bitter" rivals, the alumni from years past. The day included not only an actual league game, but a barbecue and a second slow- pitch game for some of the older players and spectators in attendance. It was also senior day for the Bulldogs, with Kayla Turner, Rowene Huwe, Claire Lyman and Taylor DeRuwe being recognized prior to the game. Although the game counted...
CLARKSTON - It hasn't happened before that anyone can remember, but there is a good chance WP will end up with two track and field Triple Crowns at this week's big district championship meet in Walla Walla. Eshom Estes and Kristin Potter each are stars in three events and may end up winning them, track and field head coach Jeff Bartlow said. And that isn't because the competitive field in the district is weak. Both Cardinals rank in the top 10 for their events statewide. Estes, a thrower,...
WALLA WALLA - Now that the baseball season is over for the Tigers and Bulldogs, Touchet Valley fans of the sport can turn their attention to a professional season full of games and events. Locally, it starts this week with the appearance in Walla Walla of Marvin Benard, the retired major league outfielder who now lives in Kennewick, where he teaches batting and supports youth baseball activities. The former San Francisco Giant will speak at the 29th annual Walla Walla Valley Youth Baseball...
PRESCOTT- The WP Tigers lost a double header to the Desales Irish last Tuesday in Prescott. The Irish held a two run lead until the bottom of the fourth when Tre Brannock hit an RBI double scoring the Tigers first run. By the bottom of the sixth the Irish lead 4-1. Zach Bartlow took a freebee from the Irish mound followed by a single from Dalton Estes. Another Brannock RBI and a hit from Matt Hamilton put two more runs on the board for the Tigers but they came up short losing the opener 4-3 ....
DAYTON - After struggling all season, the Dayton Bulldogs baseball team was knocked out of contention for further playoffs Tuesday by the Asotin Panthers, who beat them 10-0. The loss followed two defeats at the hands of the Liberty Christian Patriots this weekend and caps a season in which the young players learned from their adversity. The Bulldogs logged only three hits against the Panthers from Colton Bickelhaupt, Hayden Fullerton and Guy Spalinger, but allowed 10 Asotin runs, including two...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs handily beat the Liberty Christian Patriots in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon 10-0 and 14-3. Already in second place in the league just behind the WP Tigers, the Bulldogs face Asotin in a doubleheader on Wednesday at 3 p.m....
WAITSBURG - You may have the best team in the state when it comes to speed, endurance and agility, but if your athletes don't manage to perform within the tight rules for track and field, you're going to get knocked out of the competition. That was this week's focus for Cardinals track and field head coach Jeff Bartlow as he and his team prepared for the sub district qualifiers, which determines which athletes go on to the district meet. The Cardinals were scheduled to head for the qualifiers Wednesday, after practising the relay protocol in pa...
