Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
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...
