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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG -- The Cardinals find themselves exactly where they were last year -- undefeated (12- 0) and facing the equally undefeated Colfax Bulldogs (11-0) in the semi-final game of the state playoffs. Even emotionally, the WP players are as confident and as ready as they were last year to take on their Eastern Washington rivals, who have knocked them out of the playoffs two years in a row. "We want to win and we think we can," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "The kids are really hungry. The kids really want it." But some of the factors that go i...
PASCO -- One heartbeat, one machine, one WP Cardinal Football team corralled the Lind/Ritzville Broncos, 42-7, last Saturday afternoon in Pasco. The Broncos clock-eating offense began the game deep in its own territory. After several short gains with the run and a couple of incomplete passes, the Broncos faced a 4th and 1 situation on the Cardinals 34-yard line. Once again, the Broncos plugged it up the middle and made the first down by inches. Cardinal Chance Leroue sparked the defense by...
WAITSBURG -- The verdict is out and WP football topped the list for all-league players in District 9. Eight Cardinals made the cut for the 2011 season with head coach Jeff Bartlow receiving the nod for Coach of the Year. "It's an honor," said coach Bartlow. "The kids work hard and it reflects on them too." The Cardinals are still alive in state playoff action, and as of this last week, the players' statistics are impressive . Bartlow's team is averaging 159.2 yards passing per game with 220.4 ya...
PRESCOTT -- WP's Tiger wrestling program is new, but one look at Lanny Adam's old worn Asics wrestling shoes will tell you he's no rookie to the sport. Adams began wrestling in Omak when he was a mere five years old. He continued wrestling all through his high school years as well as playing football and competing in track and field. "I enjoyed football, and track was more of a social sport for me," said Adams. "Wrestling has always been my number one. It's the chess of sports." Adams began his...
DAYTON - Sure, the Bulldogs wanted to go further . The 2011 football would have loved to face WP in the playoffs this weekend instead of being knocked out early by the Ritzville Broncos. The 2011 volleyball team had high hopes to go to district and return to the state playoffs as they did last year. The 2011 soccer team would have been thrilled to win a few more games against a few more teams. Yet all expectations aside, Dayton's 2011 fall sports season gave the Bulldogs every excuse, as...
WAITSBURG -- When the Cardinals meet the Broncos in the quarterfinals this weekend, one observer may have a bit of a deja vu. Dean Bickelhaupt, head coach for the Dayton Bulldogs whose season just ended, will be there, burning with curiosity to see if WP can do what his team couldn't: beat the tough scrappy team from Lind-Ritzville-Sprague that suffered only a single onepoint loss (14-13) against the dreaded Bulldogs from Colfax who denied WP a state championship last year. "It will be a good...
MOSES LAKE -- A playoff win against Moses Lake Christian was predicted for the WP Tigers, but what was not foreseen was the time it took for the team to score its first goal. Just as they did earlier in the season, the Tigers beat the Lions by a wide margin, this time 6-1, but they weren't the first to get on the scoreboard. The win gives the Tigers a 14-2-2 record for the season and sends them to the semifinals against St. George in Sumner on Friday. Last year, they were knocked out of the...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals scored on every first-half possession to send the Brewster Bears into hibernation for the year with a 48-7 rainy-day victory last Saturday. The Bears took the opening kickoff and began its first drive on its own 30-yard line. Two short carries and an off-sides call on the Cardinal defense helped them to a first down, but a quarterback sack from Cardinal Brenddon Donovan put the Bears in a punting situation from its own 42-yard line . T he Cardinals opening drive...
WAITSBURG - An unexpected bout of the flu hit WP's star runner Seth Deal at the state competition on Saturday in Pasco and Deal placed 16th of 140 boys in the 5,000-meter race. Coach Joanna Lanning said Deal didn't know he was going to be ill and ended up vomiting and dry heaving during Saturday's race throughout the whole course. He finished in 17:08. "It's just amazing what he accomplished," Lanning said. "That's part of the way life is sometimes." Lucas Graham from Northwest Christian-Lacey placed first in the race with a time of 16:17....
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs lost two matches in a row last week and were eliminated from Blue Mountain District play. After finishing the regular season in first place with an11-1 record the Bulldogs fell to the WP Cardinals in three games last Wednesday night in Dayton. The Cardinals were first to score in game one, but Bulldogs Shelby Smith and McKayla Bickelhaupt fought back at the net throwing down kills to a 10-all tie. The two teams would take turns scoring on missed attacks...
RITZVILLE -- The Dayton Bulldogs were shut down by the Ritzville Broncos last Friday night 12-0. The loss prevented the Bulldogs from advancing to the state tournament finishing with a winning record of 5-4 for the 2011 season. The Bulldogs took the opening kick off and started their first drive on their own 35-yard line. Isaiah Lambert took the first handoff but was met at the line and tackled for a loss of two yards. Two incomplete passes had the Bulldogs deep in their own territory and they...
PRESCOTT - In the end, the Tigers' playoff game against Spokane's St. George Saturday wasn't all about winning or losing. After the teams tied each other twice this season, the seeding game was to determine who would continue the state playoffs as numbers one and two. WP has one more playoff game before the state championship tournament in Sumner in two weeks. But that game is against a team they beat handily earlier in the season. St. George won the match 2-1 after striker Erik Muelheims...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Lady Cardinals took the first place seed into district play with a three game upset over the Dayton Bulldogs last Wednesday night. Missing many of their hometown fans who were at the concurrent Cardinals' football playoff game Saturday, the WP girls later team lost a tightly contested district playoff match against the home-courted Irish, ending the Cardinal players' hopes to go to state. On Wednesday, each game was a point-for-point battle that had serving aces from...
WAITSBURG -- The WP Cardinals clinched a first round 2B state tournament berth Saturday with a 54-21 elimination of the Kettle Falls Bulldogs. Two plays and 14 yards later, the Bulldogs found themselves on their own 39-yard line. Jesse Dodson took the handoff, slipped and bounced his way through Cardinal defenders, and the board read 0-7 Bulldogs with 10:21 left in the first. The Cardinals' opening drive was a Billy Brown-Zach Bartlow show as the two took turns pushing the ball up the field to r...
WAITSBURG --The WP Cardinals had the power of pink on their side as they clipped the T-O-R Nighthawks wings last Friday night 35-0. The win gave the boys of fall their second-consecutive undefeated regular season. They begin loser-out post season play this Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. in Waitsburg against the Kettle Falls Bulldogs. The Bulldogs are the fourth place seed from class 2B District 7 with a 5-4 record. Kettle Falls is lead by 5'10", 155-pound sophomore quarterback Conner McKern. "McKern has a decent arm and he can move," said WP...
WAITSBURG --The WP Cardinals finished its second consecutive undefeated league season with a senior night shut-out of the T-O-R Nighthawks, 35-0. After showering their parents with balloons and flowers, the big red birds took to the field sporting pink socks in recognition of breast cancer awareness month. The Nighthawks took first possession of the game, but were forced to punt after the WP's defense held them to just 4 yards in three plays. Slow to start, the Cardinals took its turn punting...
DAYTON -- The Bulldogs' choice was easy. Lose to Asotin, place fourth in the league and face the other Bulldogs in the playoffs, the ones from Colfax. Or, beat Asotin, place third in the league and take a chance at the first playoff opponent. "We knew we had to win that," Dayton's head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said about last Friday's game against the Panthers on their home turf. "I told them that with all the hard work they've done all season, they deserved it." Dayton pounded out their 34-22 win against nevereasy to-beat Asotin, which missed...
WAITSBURG - For the second time, Waitsburg- Prescott's Seth Deal is the boys cross country District 9 champion. Deal took first place on Thursday at Clarkston High School with a time of 15:30 in the varsity boy's 3-mile race . WP's E.J. Meserve will join Deal at the state competition because he placed 11th with a time of 17:12. The top 15 runners in each race will go on to compete at state. Meserve shaved nearly one minute off his time Thursday from a competition on the course earlier this seaso...
DAYTON - Dayton Bulldogs scored the first touchdown of Friday's game in Walla Walla, but DeSales' defense and late offensive moves in the game gave the Irish a slim victory, 15-14. The first half of the game showed some good defense from both sides of the field. Right before the buzzer with about one minute left in the first quarter, Colton Bickelhaupt hit Wyatt Frame for 31 yards and earned a first down at the 3-yard line. Frame ran the ball in two plays later, leading 6-0 at the start of the...
WAITSBURG - The WP Cardinals had a strong showing at the Wildhorse Invitational in Pendleton on Oct. 21. Coa ch Joanna Lanning had four runners in the competition. Middle school standout Emily Adams crossed the finish line fourth out of 72 runners in the girl's 3,000-meter race with a time of 12:20. E.J. Meserve was Lanning's only varsity runner on Friday, but he made gains in his performance. He placed 22nd with a time 0f 18:26 in the varsity boy's 5,000-meter race. The Potts brothers, Andre...
DAYTON-The Dayton Lady Bulldogs clinched the Blue Mountain League Volleyball Championship as they left their teeth marks on the Desales Fighting Irish in three games, 25-22, 25-12, and 25-21. With its only loss of the season being to the Asotin Panthers the Bulldogs proved that hard work, passion, team work, and the sheer desire to win is what it takes to end the season on top. The Bulldogs defense was rock-solid as Nicole Lambert and McKayla Bickelhaupt got down and dirty for 23 digs each. Shelby Smith and Courtney Mings were a force to be...
WAITSBURG - The WP Tigers smashed Riverside Christian in Yakima on Saturday, 9-2. Riverside scored first at the 3-minute mark and again at the 80-minute mark. WP's Francisco Gonzalez put four into the goal. Lino Diaz made three goals and Jesse Albarran made two. Kevin Ortega lead in assists with four. Ernesto Valdovinos came in next with two assists, followed by Aldair Escalante with one, Francisco Gonzalez with one and Lino Diaz with one....
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals celebrated a 2011 Homecoming victory over the Tri-City Prep Jaguars last Thursday night on Kison Court. WP's Ronnie Hulce, Krystal Harris and Dionna Baker each had a serving ace and a kill to help take the Cardinals to an early 12-6 lead over the Jaguars in game one. The Jaguars rallied scoring on two missed Cardinals attacks, a Cardinal block that flew out of bounds and two kills of their own to pull within one point at 15-14. The Cardinals answered with...
