Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - With the regular season slump continuing for the Cardinals, WP head volleyball coach Jesse Buehler is looking ahead to the playoffs as the time her girls will peak as a team. After losing to Dayton last Tuesday, the Cardinals lost in four games against top-ranked Asotin 19-25, 25-20, 20-25 and 19-25 Tuesday. "We were well-prepared for this match," Buehler said. "Each game was fairly close. I'm at a loss as to what the problem was." Although WP lost the first game, they struggled back from an earlier deficit and took their...
Cross Country runners in both Waitsburg-Prescott and Dayton continue to keep pace with personal goals and edge their way up the rankings. Waitsburg sophomore Seth Deal beat his personal best and finished a three-mile race in 16:22.88, taking first place at the Richland Invitational cross country meet Saturday. He was up against 94 other runners in that race. WP runners recently experienced a hot day on a slow course, as coach Joanna Lanning put it, at the Pasco Invitational last weekend. H...
WALLA WALLA - The Bulldogs Varsity volleyball team improved its record to 6-3 Tuesday night after beating Walla Walla Valley Academy in four games 25-22, 25-22, 20-25 and 25-20. Although head coach Shannon Turner said the win over the Knights wasn't her team's best of the season, the Bulldogs are keeping up their discipline and momentum this fall. On Thursday night, they beat the Asotin Panthers during their Homecoming match in three games 25-17, 25-21 and 25-22. In their away game against...
DAYTON - It wasn't the Bulldogs' expectation to win against the undefeated Cardinals in Dayton's Homecoming game Friday. But they hoped "to make it game," as senior Bulldogs running back Dain Henderson put it. And they did. The Bulldogs lost 20-0 to their cross-valley rivals, and if Dayton's offense had been more effective, the margin would have been considerably smaller. The Cardinals scored only once during the first half. Cardinal T.J. Hofer intercepted a first-possession throw by Bulldogs quarterback Colton Bickelhaupt and ran it 27 y...
The Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers have a handful of league games left to play, but assistant coach Bart Baxter is already looking ahead to state. The first-year soccer team hit the ground running and hasn't stopped. The Tigers are going into the fifth week of the season undefeated. "No 2B team has ever gone to state undefeated in Washington," Baxter said. "We could set the bar in a lot of places this year. Some of these things have never been done before." In a practice game at Milton Freewater's...
DAYTON - The eight-mile trip home must have seemed like an eternity for the Cardinals volleyball team Tuesday night after they lost in three games against the Bulldogs. It was WP's second loss of the season against their cross-valley rivals. Despite a sizeable Waitsburg crowd that showed up to rally its players about as hard and loud as their Dayton counterparts, the Cardinals lost 22-25, 19-25 and 19-25. "I had a good feeling going into it, and I was happy with the first game," Ca...
DAYTON - The last time the Bulldogs won a football game, Hayden Fullerton was a freshman. Now a junior and strong safety for the Bulldogs, Fullerton is relishing his team's first victory since Dayton defeated Tekeo-Oakesdale during Homecoming 2008. Friday's 13-3 win over Tri Cities Prep is particularly sweet as it comes a week before this year's Bulldogs Homecoming and ends one of the longest winless spells in the high school's football history. Dayton squares off against the undefeated WP Card...
WAITSBURG - The Irish may have put up a fight against WP teams the last few weeks, but it wasn't enough to escape the broom. From middle school to high school and football to volleyball, it was a clean sweep for WP competitors against DeSales, their arch rivals from Walla Walla. Starting out with the Cardinals' high school varsity volleyball team taking the Irish in three games 25-13, 26-24 and 25-12 on Sept. 24, the streak continued a week later with the WP Mustangs' 34-25 win over their...
WAITSBURG - The win wasn't quite as sweet as last year. The crowd didn't take the field after the whistle, and the final score of 27-14 didn't seem as unbelievable as WP's last-minute 2009 victory over DeSales. But that's precisely why WP head coach Jeff Bartlow said the team has even more reason to celebrate last Thursday's defeat of the Irish than the one the year before. "Last year, we felt we could beat them but knew it would be close," he said. "This year, we came out with a swagger. It...
WAITSBURG - In an impressive hometown season opener, the Waitsburg-Prescott Mustangs last Wednesday took Liberty Christian to the wood shed for a punishing 20-0 victory that bodes well for the rest of the middle school football season. "I was proud of the kids," head coach Jim Leid said. "They did well." In the opening minutes, with the Patriots in possession, Luke Alexenko brought down a Patriot running back for a loss of two yards. His tackle was followed by two more tackles from Alex B...
DAYTON - Dayton cross country runners did well at their league meet at home last week. On Tuesday, Sept. 21, the entire team ran, and took second place. "The Tri-Cities Prep team was intimidatingly large, but several people improved their race pace," said coach Dan Nechodom. "Many of our athletes are learning the truth of the fact that a common training error is to push too hard on the easy days and not hard enough on the hard days." Nechodom has always focused on a developmental approach to the training of his athletes, "but sometimes it...
SPOKANE - The Waitsburg Prescott Tigers are 2nd in the state after defeating the next-to-best team in Washington - St. George - 3-2 Saturday. "It was a very interesting game," assistant coach Bart Baxter said. "They're definitely the toughest team we've faced. It was a very physical game. We're the toughest team they've faced. We've never been that close." WP, the brand-new team in the 2B league from the Touchet Valley, has now beaten the top two teams, Riverside Christian and St. George, t...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs fought the Irish until the end, but they could not hang on to the momentum with which they started their four-game match against DeSales. They won the first game 25-18, but despite the fired-up hometown crowd, they lost each of the last three games by a small point spread 22-25, 24-26 and 23-25. "I wasn't disappointed in the way we played," head coach Shannon Turner said. "But the Irish picked up everything. We made more unforced errors and played too tired at th...
RICHLAND - The Waitsburg Prescott Cardinals won their second match in a row Tuesday night against Tri-Cities Prep to improve their league record to 2-3 going into Wednesday's game against the tough Liberty Christian Patriots at home. On Thursday, the Cardinals beat DeSales in three games 25-13, 26-24 and 25-12. Tuesday night, WP beat TCP 25-21, 25-17 and 25-15, a game that saw many subs in warm-up to Wednesday's key game against LC. "We came out really strong, ready to play," head coach Je...
PASCO - Just how important is Kris Cady to the Cardinals' offense and defense? Well, try sitting him out for half a game as head coach Jeff Bartlow did because Cady breached team rules last week. The difference was night and day. During the first half of the WP game Thursday against the Chiawana Riverhawks' JV team, the Cardinals trailed 6-7. As soon as Cady, who is a running back on offense and a strong safety on defense, and running back Justin Armstrong were back in the lineup, the Ca...
CLARKSTON - Waitsburg Prescott cross country runners attended the Seaport Invite on Saturday. This was a large meet with lots of schools participating including three schools from the local Blue Mountain District: Dayton, Asotin and St. John-Endicott. The course was at Beachview Park, adjacent to Clarkston High School "It was another terrific day," reported coach Joanna Lanning. starting with our two middle school boys participating in the 2,000-meter race. Out of 90 middle school boys, Tre...
ASOTIN - WP became the second area team in a row to lose against the Asotin Panthers by two points Thursday. In a cliffhanger of a series of five games, the Cardinals lost the first two 19-25 and 31-33, won the second two 25-20 and 26-24, then lost the last 13-15. "I was frustrated that we didn't win it, but happy about the way the girls played," head coach Jesse Buehler said. "It was our hardest-fought match. There was an urgency that hasn't been there in other games." Game two in particular s...
RICHLAND - The Dayton Bulldogs fell to the Liberty Christian Patriots Tuesday night, losing their match in three games 25-21, 27-25 and 25-21. "We just lacked motivation, made too many errors and weren't consistent," head coach Shannon Turner said. "We did not play our game." The team, she said, "will learn from it and move on." After this second loss in a week, the Bulldogs are 1-2 in league competition, but it hasn't been a bad season so far at all. The Bulldogs played a close match against the Asotin Panthers last Tuesday night only...
WAITSBURG - In week three of the regular season, the undefeated Cardinals came alive again and erupted for 40 points against an outmanned but disciplined Elgin team. WP beat the Huskies 40-10 despite a spate of Cardinals penalties and eight fumbles recovered by the home team. "We will not be so lucky in the future," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "We need to take care of this." Apart from the nerve-wracking would-be turnovers, the Cardinals' victory Friday had a lot more to do with im...
ATHENA - It seemed so close, yet it remained so far away. The End Zone became an obsession for the Bulldogs in their game against the Weston McEwen TigerScots Thursday night. Several times, they came within yards of it but never made it across the goal line for an official score. When the Bulldogs did break the plane, the play was called back because of an offensive holding penalty. Dayton's struggle in the Red Zone was one of the reasons the Bulldogs lost 25-2. But those numbers didn...
PRESCOTT - Just few weeks into the season, the brand new Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers are already ranked third among the state's 25 B2 teams, and perhaps they should be even higher. "We beat the number one-ranked team twice," head coach Rickie Hamilton reWP under his breath during Tuesday afternoon's rout of the Dayton Bulldogs 19-0. "But I'd rather be at the bottom so we don't have a target on our backs." The team Hamilton referred to is Yakima's Riverside Christian Cougars, which the Tige...
KAMIAH, Idaho - Senior T.J. Hofer made and saved the day for the Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals in their 6-0 victory over the Kamiah Kubs Friday night. In an intensely defensive game for both sides, Hofer scored the game's only touchdown during the third quarter and then made a game-winning interception during the Kubs' last drive of the fourth quarter that could have resulted in an equalizer and extra-point victory for the home team. "Anytime you can win a game 6-0 you have done a few thi...
MILTON FREEWATER - The Waitsburg-Prescott varsity volleyball squad warmed up for the season this Saturday in their match against McLoughlin High School (Mac-Hi), easily winning the first three games to take top score 25 - 12, 25 - 17 and 25 - 22. Coach Jesse Buehler, while excited to have her team win its first game of the season, reported that player stats were uncommonly low. Only Waitsburg senior Genesis Pearson had enough kills to note, making five during the evening's games, she sai...
DAYTON - The untested Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers swept the field defeating both Dayton and Walla Walla Valley Academy at the league's soccer jamboree in Dayton Tuesday evening. "We take our hats off to the WP team," said Dayton assistant coach Jerry Dedloff after the game. "They live it and love it. They're at the level we hope to be at." Though the scores at Tuesday night's jamboree don't count toward the three teams' overall rankings, Tigers head coach Rick Hamilton was pleased at the r...
DAYTON - Josh Frame's 10-yard running touchdown seemed to set the pace for the Bulldogs' season opener against the Stanfield Tigers, giving Dayton a 6 - 0 lead. But it wasn't until well into the fourth quarter and seven Stanfield touchdowns later before the dawgs regained their footing and began to put together a more solid offense. Even then, however, they were unable to erase any part of their 7-48 deficit and could only take comfort in the fact that the Stanfield Tigers have been picked to...
