Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
The WP Tigers host St. George out of Spokane on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 2:30 p.m. in Prescott. This soccer match is a loser-out contest for state. The Tigers, a first-year team, have broken several league records this season and remain undefeated at 16-0. The team is second among 1B/2B schools in the state. Prescott's Elizabeth Xaudaro is the highest-ranking female player in the league, having scored three goals during the season. WP dominates in number of goals, assists, and shutouts. And the Tigers have scored more points this season than an...
WP's cross country runner Isabel Benito and the entire Cardinals varsity men's team, including District 9 champ Seth Deal, will compete at the state meet in Pasco on Saturday. Girls will race at 10 a.m. and boys at 11:30. Deal, a Waitsburg sophomore, took first place in the men's varsity race last Thursday during the District 9 Cross Country Meet at Pomeroy. His time in the 5,000 meter race was 16:58, a 22-second lead over Tri-Cities Prep second-place runner Nick Lumetta. In the women's var...
POMEROY - It may have been hard to imagine earlier in the season, but coach Dean Bickelhaupt and his staff took their Bulldogs to the playoffs Tuesday night after winning both games in the tie breaker for fourth place in the league. "They put it all together tonight," Bickelhaupt said after the series of short games. "We couldn't ask for a better way to end the regular season." Dayton started the evening with a game against TOR and scored a 32-yard field goal early in the first half. Bi...
OAKESDALE - After eking out a tough 14-13 victory over TOR on that team's soggy bottom field in Oakesdale Friday night, the Cardinals face a dangerously fast-running Reardan Indians team at home this weekend. The loser-out regional playoff matchup starts at 7 p.m. on Friday. Though not pretty, the Cardinals' final win late last week gave them a perfect 9-0 season, the first one of its kind since 1967, according to local sports historian and booster Ross Hamann. But if WP thought its mistbound...
DAYTON - It's been raining all morning, it's cold enough to frost the tops of the Blue Mountains in the distance, the playground fields are soggy, but that won't stop these determined fifth and sixth graders. They're part of Dayton's elementary flag-football league, and it's just two weeks to playoffs. They're heading outside. "I can't keep them from playing, even in the rain. They beg me," said sixth grade science teacher and flag football advisor John Lindsey. The five teams face off Mondays,...
Friday the WP boys' cross country team learned that they are the 2010 WIAA State Academic Champions for 2B Cross Country. "This is a huge honor," said coach Joanna Lanning. "The team will be recognized at the state meet on Nov. 6." More information on this can be found at the WIAA website. WP will attend the district meet on Thursday, Oct. 28, in Pomeroy. Meanwhile, WP runners have worked up to a finefinish this season, and their performance on Friday, Oct. 22, at the Kyle Burnside Memorial Wildhorse Invite, in Pendleton, Ore., was no e...
Soccer playoffs are just around the corner, and both Touchet Valley teams will get a shot at state championships. The undefeated WP Tigers are a record 16-0 and top 1B/2B soccer team in the state. They also met assistant coach Bart Baxter's personal goal to make over 100 goals in their first season. After defeating Moses Lake 5-0 Saturday and Walla Walla Valley Academy 7-2 Monday, the Tigers have scored 109 goals in the season and only allowed 14. "It's been an exceptional year," said head coach Rick Hamilton. "The kids have just responded v...
DAYTON - Friday night's next-to-last regular season football game in Dayton excited the home crowd. Though the Bulldogs lost 24-7, Dayton started strong and managed to hold its own against the higher-ranking DeSales Irish. "The played hard," head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said. "They had a lot of heart." Even with their 1-3 league record, it is conceivable the Bulldogs could go to the playoffs since they share their record with TOR and TCP. TOR plays first-ranked Waitsburg-Prescott on Friday,...
KENNEWICK - After forfeiting last week's game against DeSales, the Bulldogs came out playing somewhat rusty against Liberty Christian Tuesday night but still won their match in four: 20-25, 25-16, 25-19 and 25-18. The victory means Dayton places second in the league and will host Liberty Christian at Dayton at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 3. "It took us a while to get our team thing going," head coach Shannon Turner said. "But overall, I thought they pulled it together very well." Dayton forfeited last week's match against the Irish after th...
ASOTIN - Despite the turnovers, despite the penalties and despite the hometown referees' micro officiating, to put it kindly, the WP Cardinals did what they couldn't do last year: beat the formidable Asotin Panthers on their own turf. WP's 28-8 victory made the Cardinals league champions, which means they will host the first playoff game in Waitsburg on Nov. 3. "It was disappointing to win the championship this way," head coach Jeff BartCardinals said after the game. "This (the penalties) is our Achilles heel. We have to put our foot down...
WAITSBURG - WP cross country runners took first place in all three races during the league meet here in Waitsburg Tuesday afternoon. The local track took runners around the horse race track, onto the football field track, in a loop through the cemetery and back down to the race track. The runners made this circuit twice for 3.1 miles. Seth Deal led the pack in the 5 K Varsity race with a time of 17:11; Nick Carpenter was 5th with 18:29, and Matthew Montgomery was 10th with 19:31. Isabela Beni...
Freshly regrouped from the loss of two senior starters and headed by new coaches, the WP Cardinals seemed in good spirits Tuesday night in their regular season game against DeSales. But despite their best efforts, the team lost to the Irish in three games 25-17, 25-18 and 25-19. "They played as a team," said Karen Huwe, a veteran volleyball coach who took over from head coach Jessie Buehler. "We hit well, but DeSales was digging well," Huwe said. "We did not have a good passing night. We need to work on our passing." The team was without...
The Bulldogs earned their first win of the season Friday night in a match against St. George's JV squad. The Spokane team split in two for games against WP in Prescott and the Bulldogs in Dayton on Friday. With the top-ranking Dragons distracted in their struggle against the Tigers, the Bulldogs picked up a 2-0 defeat. "I'm just very happy with the team," said head coach DJ Frame. "The cool thing was they just took care of business, from warm ups to locker room talk. The coaches didn't have to do much." One senior in particuBy Davy Phil...
The WP Tigers are 14-0 after beating the Bulldogs in Dayton on Tuesday. Assistant coach Bart Baxter said the team is trying to break another record by scoring 100 points in the season. "We're just three points away, and we have two more games to go," he said Tuesday evening. The Tigers defeated Dayton 11-0. Francisco Gonzales and Omar Virgen scored three goals, Lino Diaz scored four and JV player Alberto Sandoval scored his first goal of the season. Three assists were made by Kevin Or...
OAKESDALE - After the intensity of the Bulldogs' Homecoming battle against WP the week before, Dayton came out sluggish against TOR last Friday and lost their away game 37-6. Dayton fumbled on the kickoff return, and TOR capitalized on the error with its first touchdown. The Bulldogs denied them a two-point conversion and shut down their offense for the remainder of the first quarter. TOR's second touchdown came after Dayton was penalized on a pass interference call, putting the ball on the Bulldogs' 10-yard line and giving the Nighthawks p...
MILTON-FREEWATER - The Cardinals and Tigers aren't the only undefeated WP teams so far this year. The WP Mustangs added to their perfect record last Thursday with a 28-0 win over the Central Middle School Jaguars. Led once more by Chance Leroue and Daniel Stansell, the Mustangs had an impressive night in Milton-Freewater with important contributions from Talen Larsen, Owen Lanning, Devin Ocevedo and Luke Alexenko. Right out of the gate, the Mustangs picked up their first points with a 46-yard...
WAITSBURG - Forced or fortuitous, the opportunities kept coming the Cardinals' way during their Homecoming game against the Tri Cities Prep Jaguars Friday. Whether it was a fumble recovered by Eshom Estes or an interception by Kris Cady, WP took full advantage of the Jaguars' turnovers in the home team's 28-7 win. The Cardinals are 7-0 going into a tough away game Friday against the Asotin Panthers, the only team to beat WP in the regular season last year. "It was a great Homecoming nig...
PRESCOTT - Friday afternoon the WP Tigers play at home for Prescott's Homecoming game. Assistant coach Bart Baxter is excited about the game. "It should be pretty fun," he said. "St. George will not want to lose again." The Tigers are ranked second in the state for 2B/1B teams and first in Eastern Washington with their 10-0 record. Friday's game will be against Spokane area's St. George's School, a tough team the Tigers routed earlier in the season 3-2. Saturday the Tigers defeated N...
DAYTON - The hard-working Bulldogs soccer team hasn't had a win yet, but they're edging closer with each game and just two weeks ago they tied against Northport in a tough game played in Spokane. "Each week the team is just playing better and better," said head coach DJ Frame. "We just keep picking one aspect of the game, and they're getting it. The coolest thing about this team is they are playing absolutely to the end of the game. You can't ask for more than that. They just don't give up." Frame said the team not only plays hard together, bu...
