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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Crowning one of the best fall sports seasons in its history, the WP athletics combine handed out annual awards Monday to the individual athletes who made happen in cheerleading, volleyball, football and cross country. The WP Tigers' soccer awards will be presented at Vista Hermosa at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. "Before our cross-country season began, I was unsure of how it would play out, if this small boys team, half of whom were freshmen, would be able to make our third consecutive...
KENNEWICK - The Dayton boys lost in their pre-season match against 1A-school Riverview on Tuesday evening, but not by much. The final score was 45-40. "It was good competition," Bulldogs head coach Roy Ramirez said Tuesday night. "They (the Panthers) are a step up to a whole different league, and that's what we wanted for pre-season." The Bulldogs started slow and played poorly in the first half, Ramirez said. They were down 11 points at the break. "We just couldn't get anything to fall, and...
WALLA WALLA - Barrel racing may be for the ladies, but it's not a powder-puff sport. The event combines a horse's athletic ability with the horsemanship skills of a rider to quickly, safely and successfully maneuver through a clover-leaf pattern around three barrels placed in a triangle in the center of an arena. It's also not entirely for women. Boys sometimes race in the youth divisions, and men have been known to compete in amateur races, said Waitsburg resident Rosie Gallaher. Gallaher, n...
PULLMAN - WP Head Coach Jeff Bartlow had a sleepless night on Monday. After the semifinal loss against the Colfax Bulldogs, he kept running different plays, different strategies and different outcomes through his head, wondering what he could have, should have, would have done to win the game he feels the Cardinals had within their grasp. "It was easier last time, when we lost 39-0 (in the 2009 playoff game against the Bulldogs)," Bartlow said about coming to terms with that year's results....
DAYTON - Ask Dayton junior Garett Turner what he's looking forward to most this basketball season and you'll get a typically short and to-the-point Turner reply: "Success." Turner is one of 11 boys on Dayton's varsity squad this year, a group of young men who have, with little exception, been playing ball together since grade school, according to senior Dain Henderson. "I think we're going to have a good season," Henderson said. "We're expected to have a good season, so hopefully we'll be ab...
DAYTON - If there were one big award for an entire high school fall sports program, it might go to Dayton High School and it would say "Most Improved." From football to soccer and cross country to volleyball, each DHS team saw hopeful signs of progress thanks to good coaching, the unquestioning efforts among individual athletes and a die-hard home crowd. Some would even say progress came in much bigger leaps and bounds than expected. "I thought this would be a building year and it would ta...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs, many riding high on enthusiasm from their success on the volleyball court this fall, are uneasy going into this basketball season. "We're not a real solid varsity this year," said Shelby Smith, a junior and the tallest girl, at 5-foot-eight, on the squad. "We're going to have to work hard and play bigger than we are." But head coach Scott Hudson has faith in the girls. "We're young, and we're not real tall," he said. "But we certainly have quickness, we have people wh...
WP SPORTS BANQUETS NEXT WEEK WAITSBURG - Waitsburg-Prescott sports teams will have their banquets early next week. The Cardinals volleyball, football, cheerleading and cross country programs will hand out their awards on Monday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The WP Tigers will hold their soccer awards ceremony in the multipurpose room at Prescott High School on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. The Tigers just received a number of honors, including four players on First Team All-State, one on Third Team, Coach of the Year, and...
PASCO - Three weeks in a row now, the Cardinals have come out against their playoff opponents like a house on fire and put at least 35 unanswered points on the board, leaving the other team wondering what just hit them. Saturday's quarter-final game against DeSales was no exception. The only difference was that WP's confidence was even higher and its execution even more deadly against the stunned Irish. "Everyone believes now," WP head coach Jeff Bartlow said, referring to the team, their f...
WAITSBURG - When WP head coach Jeff Bartlow and his Colfax counterpart Morgan met halfway Sunday to exchange videos of their teams' games, Morgan asked Bartlow a rhetorical question. "Aren't we the luckiest sons of a gun in the state?" Morgan said as the two men shook hands like they've done many times over the years, this time in Central Ferry before the snow started piling up. Bartlow knew exactly what he meant: two well-coached and talented teams, both undefeated, facing each other in t...
YAKIMA - The Lady Bulldogs came home empty handed from their state playoffs here Saturday. They were knocked out of the tournament after winning their first match Friday but losing the two that followed later that day and on Saturday. Still, just getting to the giant SunDome with its fivenonstop-volleyball courts, and teams and hometown crowds from all over the state was the well-deserved cap on a winning season for the team that took the district title at home a week before. "We improved a l...
WAITSBURG - Seven Cardinals and two Bulldogs were elected all league in the District 9 Southeast 2B football league this season. For the Cardinals, this is more than in any other year in recent memory. Head coach Jeff Bartlow was elected Coach of the Year. Quarterback Zach Bartlow, running back Kris Cady, receiver TJ Hofer and offensive lineman Tre Brannock were elected by the league's coaches for their positions on offense. Defensive back Justin Armstrong, linebacker Grant Germain (...
COLFAX - Dean Bickelhaupt and his Bulldogs knew their odds of beating Colfax were slim. But that wasn't really the point of being in the playoffs at this stage in the team's reconstruction. Colfax beat Dayton 47-0 a week ago last Friday, ending the Bulldogs' first season under Bickelhaupt as head coach. But in many ways, it was one of the best seasons in a decade. The team won three games, including the two tiebreakers to qualify for the playoffs. Two of its players, Colton Bickelhaupt and...
The Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals play the DeSales Irish at 5 p.m. on Saturday at Edgar Brown Stadium in Pasco. Fans can take the Rooter Bus for $2 but need to sign up for it at the high school by noon on Friday. Elementary school students have to be accompanied by an adult. The bus leaves Waitsburg High School at 3 p.m. Saturday, Prescott at 3:15 p.m. and the Vista Hermosa store at 3:40 p.m. You must have a student ASB card to receive the $6 game entrance rate or be charged $8....
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals were the only Touchet Valley team still standing in the playoffs this weekend after trouncing Oroville 49-13 at home Saturday. The win ends the Hornets' season while pitting WP against DeSales for a rematch at 5 p.m. on Friday at Edgar Brown Stadium in Pasco. After a fruitless Hornets drive on first possession, the Cardinals got on the board quickly with a 12-yard Bartlow pass to TJ Hofer for a touchdown and the same combination for the two- point conversion rev...
Saturday's quarter final game against DeSales will be different for the Cardinals in two important respects: it will be an away game on the neutral territory of the Edgar Edgar Brown stadium in Pasco, and the stakes will be much higher in this loser-out hurdle on the way to the semi final. But in almost every other way, WP is preparing once again for the Irish' versatile repertoire of ground and air assaults against a defense that has had the grip of artificialturf under its cleats only once before this season. DeSales quarterback Jere( m...
PRESCOTT - Saturday's loss to Shoreline Christian left the WP Tigers deflatedfollowing a tough, loser-out quarterfinal game in Prescott. The final score was 2-1. "We're disappointed," said Prescott senior Jose Esquivel. "But they were a very strong team. I think they were the strongest defense we've faced all season." The Tigers, an undefeated first-year team, progressed toward the championship rounds with confidence but met a rock-hard defense in the determined Shoreline Christian, a seasoned...
OROVILLE - Oroville's 37-8 victory over White Swan wasn't perfect. But Hornets coach Tam Hutchinson can live with aggressive mistakes and was pleased with his teams' intensity. "We were aggressive when we came out," Hutchinson said after his team sealed a state Class 2B playoff bid Friday. "When we lost to Brewster we weren't very confident. "Tonight we got a lot of penalties. But that's the way these kids play and I'd rather have them aggressive than timid." Oroville was flagged 11 times...
PASCO - WP cross country runners went to state this week, setting high scores among over a dozen other schools from all over Washington competing at the Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco on Saturday. "It was a fantastic day and a terrific way to end our season," said coach Joanna Lanning. "Every single WP athlete put forth their best effort to give our boys' team its best finish yet." The boys' team placed 7th in the state this year, two places better than last year, Lanning said. "And two pl...
SPOKANE - The WP Tigers won their second playoff game Friday, beating Northwest Christian 2-0. The first-year soccer team is now ranked first in the state for 1B/2B schools. They will play Shoreline Christian in a quarterfinals game at home on Saturday. Final rounds usually have to take place on a neutral field, but the Tigers were able to get approval to use their own field in Prescott for Saturday's match. Shoreline Christian is ranked 7th in the state and 5th on the west side. In the g...
WAITSBURG - If you're superstitious, it's always risky to mention the "C" word for fear of jinxing the prospect. But if there's any year to speculate on the possibil ity of a WP team going to a state championship game it's 2010, according to Cardinals head coach Jeff Bartlow. Between the soccer and football teams, it's a distinct possibility. They both remain undefeated. "It's that kind of year when you start thinking about it," he said. WP vs Oroville Saturday, 2 p.m. Cardinal Field...
WALLA WALLA - It's never too early to starting thinking about the baseball season. Now Walla Walla Sweets fans can don their local club's gear until the summer ritual resumes in 2011 thanks to the reopening of the Sweets Shoppe on Main Street. The store at 109 E. Main, which is open M-F 9:30 - 5:30, Sat. 10-4, has new merchandise for all ages and sizes, ranging from sweatshirts and fleece blankets to hats and boot bags. The Sweets Shoppe was closed two months ago after smoke from a small...
Touchet Valley schools and communities will be sending off their winning sports teams in style this week. School officials encourage residents of Prescott, Waitsburg and Dayton to come out along the routes and cheer on their athletes on the way to their respective competitions. The Waitsburg-Prescott sports combine will hold a community pep rally Friday to mark the accomplishments of its cross-country team and to boost the spirits of the soccer and football teams for their upcoming playoff games. Led by the pep band, the WP rally will start...
DAYTON - A stunning come-from-behind victory over Liberty Christian in the district volleyball tournament Saturday crowned the Lady Bulldogs as district champions and sent them to state for the first time since 2005. They will play their first game at the Sundome in Yakima at 9 a.m. on Friday against Wahkiakum. If they win, they will play again at 5 p.m. against the winner of the Darrington vs Kittitas match. If they lose, the Bulldogs will play that game's loser at 7:30 p.m. "We earned our...
DAYTON - Ownership of Ski Bluewood may have been in question in the past six months, but this didn't affect preparations by athletes who represent the mountain in northwest ski racing. The Bluewood Alpine Race Team has named a new head coach for the 2010-2011 season. H a l White, a Walla Walla native who returned home to raise his family in 2002, has taken over duties from George Struthers, who rebuilt the ailing program over the last six years. White raced for the University of Puget Sound...
