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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
WAITSBURG - With the regular season slump continuing for the Cardinals, WP head volleyball coach Jesse Buehler is looking ahead to the playoffs as the time her girls will peak as a team. After losing to Dayton last Tuesday, the Cardinals lost in four games against top-ranked Asotin 19-25, 25-20, 20-25 and 19-25 Tuesday. "We were well-prepared for this match," Buehler said. "Each game was fairly close. I'm at a loss as to what the problem was." Although WP lost the first game, they struggled back from an earlier deficit and took their...
Cross Country runners in both Waitsburg-Prescott and Dayton continue to keep pace with personal goals and edge their way up the rankings. Waitsburg sophomore Seth Deal beat his personal best and finished a three-mile race in 16:22.88, taking first place at the Richland Invitational cross country meet Saturday. He was up against 94 other runners in that race. WP runners recently experienced a hot day on a slow course, as coach Joanna Lanning put it, at the Pasco Invitational last weekend. H...
WALLA WALLA - The Bulldogs Varsity volleyball team improved its record to 6-3 Tuesday night after beating Walla Walla Valley Academy in four games 25-22, 25-22, 20-25 and 25-20. Although head coach Shannon Turner said the win over the Knights wasn't her team's best of the season, the Bulldogs are keeping up their discipline and momentum this fall. On Thursday night, they beat the Asotin Panthers during their Homecoming match in three games 25-17, 25-21 and 25-22. In their away game against...
DAYTON - It wasn't the Bulldogs' expectation to win against the undefeated Cardinals in Dayton's Homecoming game Friday. But they hoped "to make it game," as senior Bulldogs running back Dain Henderson put it. And they did. The Bulldogs lost 20-0 to their cross-valley rivals, and if Dayton's offense had been more effective, the margin would have been considerably smaller. The Cardinals scored only once during the first half. Cardinal T.J. Hofer intercepted a first-possession throw by Bulldogs quarterback Colton Bickelhaupt and ran it 27 y...
The Waitsburg-Prescott Tigers have a handful of league games left to play, but assistant coach Bart Baxter is already looking ahead to state. The first-year soccer team hit the ground running and hasn't stopped. The Tigers are going into the fifth week of the season undefeated. "No 2B team has ever gone to state undefeated in Washington," Baxter said. "We could set the bar in a lot of places this year. Some of these things have never been done before." In a practice game at Milton Freewater's...
DAYTON - The eight-mile trip home must have seemed like an eternity for the Cardinals volleyball team Tuesday night after they lost in three games against the Bulldogs. It was WP's second loss of the season against their cross-valley rivals. Despite a sizeable Waitsburg crowd that showed up to rally its players about as hard and loud as their Dayton counterparts, the Cardinals lost 22-25, 19-25 and 19-25. "I had a good feeling going into it, and I was happy with the first game," Ca...
DAYTON - The last time the Bulldogs won a football game, Hayden Fullerton was a freshman. Now a junior and strong safety for the Bulldogs, Fullerton is relishing his team's first victory since Dayton defeated Tekeo-Oakesdale during Homecoming 2008. Friday's 13-3 win over Tri Cities Prep is particularly sweet as it comes a week before this year's Bulldogs Homecoming and ends one of the longest winless spells in the high school's football history. Dayton squares off against the undefeated WP Card...
WAITSBURG - The Irish may have put up a fight against WP teams the last few weeks, but it wasn't enough to escape the broom. From middle school to high school and football to volleyball, it was a clean sweep for WP competitors against DeSales, their arch rivals from Walla Walla. Starting out with the Cardinals' high school varsity volleyball team taking the Irish in three games 25-13, 26-24 and 25-12 on Sept. 24, the streak continued a week later with the WP Mustangs' 34-25 win over their...
WAITSBURG - The win wasn't quite as sweet as last year. The crowd didn't take the field after the whistle, and the final score of 27-14 didn't seem as unbelievable as WP's last-minute 2009 victory over DeSales. But that's precisely why WP head coach Jeff Bartlow said the team has even more reason to celebrate last Thursday's defeat of the Irish than the one the year before. "Last year, we felt we could beat them but knew it would be close," he said. "This year, we came out with a swagger. It...
WAITSBURG - In an impressive hometown season opener, the Waitsburg-Prescott Mustangs last Wednesday took Liberty Christian to the wood shed for a punishing 20-0 victory that bodes well for the rest of the middle school football season. "I was proud of the kids," head coach Jim Leid said. "They did well." In the opening minutes, with the Patriots in possession, Luke Alexenko brought down a Patriot running back for a loss of two yards. His tackle was followed by two more tackles from Alex B...
DAYTON - Dayton cross country runners did well at their league meet at home last week. On Tuesday, Sept. 21, the entire team ran, and took second place. "The Tri-Cities Prep team was intimidatingly large, but several people improved their race pace," said coach Dan Nechodom. "Many of our athletes are learning the truth of the fact that a common training error is to push too hard on the easy days and not hard enough on the hard days." Nechodom has always focused on a developmental approach to the training of his athletes, "but sometimes it...
SPOKANE - The Waitsburg Prescott Tigers are 2nd in the state after defeating the next-to-best team in Washington - St. George - 3-2 Saturday. "It was a very interesting game," assistant coach Bart Baxter said. "They're definitely the toughest team we've faced. It was a very physical game. We're the toughest team they've faced. We've never been that close." WP, the brand-new team in the 2B league from the Touchet Valley, has now beaten the top two teams, Riverside Christian and St. George, t...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs fought the Irish until the end, but they could not hang on to the momentum with which they started their four-game match against DeSales. They won the first game 25-18, but despite the fired-up hometown crowd, they lost each of the last three games by a small point spread 22-25, 24-26 and 23-25. "I wasn't disappointed in the way we played," head coach Shannon Turner said. "But the Irish picked up everything. We made more unforced errors and played too tired at th...
