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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...
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals took its first league victory at home Tuesday night as they defeated the Walla Walla Valley Acedemy Knights in three games. It was a faced- paced match with the teams battling point for point in the first game. With Waitsburg up 11-10, the Knights called the first time out in hopes of breaking WP's momentum and take control of the game. A combination of a solo block by Dionna Baker, a Jennifer Nichols serving ace and a Ronnie Hulce kill would contribute to a...
PILOT ROCK-The WP Cardinals were at it again last Friday night in Pilot Rock blasting the Rockets with a 60-14 non-league victory. It took a little more than the 65 seconds it took last week to get the Cardinals up and going, but once they started, they didn't stop. The Cardinals offense ended the night with 583 yards, with the defense holding the Rockets to just four first downs and 124 yards total offense. "We started out kind of flat footed for whatever reason," said WP head coach Jeff...
DAYTON - With 11 minutes to go in the third quarter, it began to dawn on the players on the Bulldogs sideline that a second victory of the season might be possible. Garrett Turner had just caught a Dean Bickelhaupt pass on the 2-yard line and running back Hayden Fullerton punched it in for the touchdown, 19-14. It wasn't just that the Bulldogs were ahead. It had as much to do with the fact that Dayton scored less than one minute after the visiting Enterprise Outlaws made a breakthrough running...
DAYTON - It will be a building year for the Dayton High School cheer squad and the team has a new coach who wants to focus on building the program. "I just really want to build the program and make it strong," said A.J. Walker, the team's coach. Walker, a newcomer to Dayton's program, is no newcomer to cheerleading. He said he cheered in high school and was on a competition all-star cheer squad called Northwest Elite. He spent the summer coaching part-time at an all-star cheer gym in the...
STANFIELD, Ore. - Cornerback Wyatt Frame clearly felt awkward being on the sideline watching his teammates take on the Stanfield Tigers without him and linebacker Joey Schlachter in the Dayton Bulldogs' first game of the season Friday. But the Bulldogs did well without the two injured starters, beating the Oregon team handily at home, 20-0, and chalking up its first seasonopening win in four years. "You always have your doubts when you don't have two of your starters," Bulldogs head coach Dean...
WAITSBURG-The WP "Boys of Fall" were back in action under their Friday night lights starting the season off with a 48-18 victory over the Davenport Gorillas last Friday. Buzz about the opening game began early in the afternoon Friday with local farmers outside the grocery store discussing who they thought would be filling in for last year's graduating seniors. WP Cardinal fans began arriving as early as an hour before kick-off to grab their favorite spot and ensure that they didn't miss a...
DAYTON - The Dayton girls' volleyball team has set the bar high this season after winning the title of district champions in the league and competing at the state level last year. Coach Shannon Turner said the team is excited to start competing this year with some new blood in the lineup. The team wants to best its 9-3 win-loss record from last year. Thi s year, the team has 10 players on varsity, and six players are ret urners, Turner said. The team is most excited to play Waitsburg-Prescott...
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals Volleyball Team are licking some bruises and soaking sore muscles after a very long and hot first week of practice . Angie Potts begins her first season as head coach for the Cardinals and Wendy Richards will assist. The Lady Cards lost four 2010 seniors, including league standout Genesis Pearson who now plays for Blue Mountain Community College. Seven seniors return to Kison court to put in their bid for the district title. Leading that group are outside hitter...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott cheer squad will soar to new heights this football season because of a larger squad and lots of returning veterans. "We have a lot of athletic girls and a lot of experience," Coach Vickie Hamann said. "The girls are very enthusiastic." The football cheer squad totals 13 girls this year, nine on varsity and four on junior varsity. Hamann is taking on her fifth year as coach and says she is thrilled by the larger turnout. For the football teams, this means more c...
DAYTON - This summer, it was uncertain whether Dayton High School would have a cross country team this fall. But, Coach Dan Nechodom and the district found ways to save money and found six students who were interested in running as fast as they can for 3 miles. Nechodom, back for his eighth year as coach for the Bulldogs as a volunteer, has three high school seniors and three middle school-aged athletes. He had 10 runners last year, but he said this year's smaller team boasts dedicated athletes who have the potential to place in the top ranks...
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...
