Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Seattle is once again on the road this week. This time against a San Francisco team that lost to Green Bay last week in the game’s final seconds. The Seahawks (1-2) and 49ers (2-1) are looking up in the standings at the Rams and Cardinals, who are undefeated on the season but play each other next week. So, this is an excellent opportunity for one of these teams to improve in the division with a win. At quarterback for the 49ers is Jimmy Garoppolo. Garoppolo played in only six games last season, missing several games with a high ankle sprain. H...
Seattle travels to Minnesota this week to play the Vikings. After dropping a very winnable game last week against the Titans, the Seahawks are last place in the NFC West as other teams in their division have won both of their games. It’s a little too early to call this a must-win game, but with games against San Francisco and Los Angeles the following two weeks, Seattle can’t afford to lose any more ground in the standings. At quarterback for Minnesota is Kirk Cousins. He is thirty-three years old and in his fourth season with the Vikings aft...
WAITSBURG/DAYTON - After 2 weeks of cancellations due to COVID-19, Dayton Waitsburg Wolfpack Football traveled to Cowiche to take on the Highland High School Scotties. "We are a very young team with three seniors and four returning starters. We welcomed 18 new players that have never played for our program, so there is a huge learning curve for our young kids," Coach Troy Larsen shared in an email. Monte Pettichord had a day at quarterback, rushing for 175 yards and two touchdowns, passing for 1...
WAITSBURG/DAYTON - After 2 weeks of cancellations due to COVID-19, Dayton Waitsburg Wolfpack Football traveled to Cowiche to take on the Highland High School Scotties. "We are a very young team with three seniors and four returning starters. We welcomed 18 new players that have never played for our program, so there is a huge learning curve for our young kids," Coach Troy Larsen shared in an email. Monte Pettichord had a day at quarterback, rushing for 175 yards and two touchdowns, passing for 1...
DAYTON/WAITSBURG-Volleyball season is in full swing for the Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack ladies. The season kicked off at River View High School, with the Wolfpack narrowly falling against the Panthers. Set scores were 24-26, 21-25, 22-25 Emily Rodrick had four aces, three kills, and three assists, and Megan Forney had one ace, two blocks, six digs, and five kills. Peyton Struckmeier had a 100% serving streak for the night, four kills, one block, and eight digs. "I am so proud of these girls. Due t...
This week Seattle hosts the Tennessee Titans in their first home game of the season. The early schedule for the Seahawks looks like a typical division one school’s three-game tune-up against junior colleges. Last week, the Seahawks won 28-16 against the Indianapolis Colts. It would be hard to find anything wrong with the previous week’s performance. Solid running game. Check. Russell Wilson accurate and in control. Check. New tight end fitting in seamlessly. Check. Dominating wide receivers. Check. Improved defensive play. Check. The Tit...
WAITSBURG/DAYTON-Sports seasons are resuming for Wolfpack athletes, as students return to the classroom for in-person instruction following a COVID-19 outbreak. Middle and high school cheer, and middle school volleyball, will practice in Waitsburg from 4 p.m - 6 p.m. The bus will leave Dayton at 3:30 p.m for athletes. Middle school volleyball will play against John Sager Middle School on Tuesday, September 21, at the Waitsburg High School Gym. The game starts at 5:30 p.m. High school volleyball...
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With about four weeks left in the regular season, the Mariners are still within reach of a playoff spot. Although the Mariners front office claimed that this team could compete for a wild card spot at the beginning of the season, few fans likely believed them. Now the Mariners are one of five teams in the American League playing for two wildcard spots. The teams in contention are the New York Yankees (78-59), Boston Red Sox (79-61), Seattle Mariners (75-63), Toronto Blue Jays (74-62), and Oakland A’s (74-63). The Yankees currently hold a h...
DAYTON/WAITSBURG-Hut, hut, hike! Fall sports are officially underway from Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack athletes. Full rosters for both volleyball and football teams have given athletic officials high hopes for the upcoming season. Wolfpack Football had more than 30 players turnout at the first practice of the season on August 18, with numbers continuing to climb as late registrations rolled in. Athletic Director Sam Korslund said that those numbers provided the strong potential for a junior...
Rollen Stewart was born in 1944 and grew up in Spokane, Washington. He had a difficult childhood, losing both parents before he was fifteen. As a young adult, he was interested in drag racing and owned an auto repair shop. Eventually, he sold the auto shop and became a marijuana farmer. At this time, he set himself the unrealized goal of growing the world's largest mustache. In 1977, Stewart got on camera for the first time at the NBA finals in Portland, Oregon. Hooked on being in the...
With thirty-six games left to play, the Seattle Mariners find themselves still competing for a playoff spot. Though the Mariners are unlikely to catch the Houston Astros for the division title, they are only three games behind the second wild-card spot. Ahead of them are the Oakland A’s, who Seattle is currently playing a two-game series, and the Boston Red Sox. After the short series with the A’s is over, they will have seven more games with them before the end of the season, so there is time to catch up to them in the standings. As luck wou...
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days added a new specialty act for their 2021 line-up. DockDogs is a dock diving orgnazation offering competitions in this exciting, nationally recognized competitive dog sport. You may ask, what is dock diving? The sport combines two favorite dog pastimes, swimming and chasing toys. Canine atheletes race down a dock, launch into the air in pursuit of a high-value toy or toy "bumper," then splashes into a pool or other body of water. It doesn't...
The U.S. Men’s Olympic basketball team won its fourth straight gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics last week. They beat France 87-82 for the gold medal, avenging their opening game loss in pool play. Aside from Kevin Durant team USA didn’t have top NBA players on the squad as we’ve seen in the past. Hopefully, it is a reminder that basketball has become an international sport, and the NBA is filled with players from all over the world. The team for France had five active NBA players on it; fortunately for the U.S. team, none were among the top p...
SEATTLE—As expected, the Mariners made some moves during this year’s trade deadline. Most fans were probably hoping the team would attempt to pick up some players to help during this season’s playoff. Instead, they shuffled the roster around a bit without significantly improving the team. Mariner fans will have to wait for the offseason and this year’s winter meetings to add the necessary pieces to take the team to the next level. For now, the Mariners sit in third place in the American League West and are tied with the New York Yankees, three...
After dropping the opening game of the Oakland series in Seattle, the Mariners rebounded with three straight wins by one run to win the series. They also beat the Astros on Monday, coming back from an early seven-run deficit to win 11-8. This stretch has moved them up to one game behind the A’s for second place in the division and one game out of the second wild-card spot. With the trade deadline coming up on July 30th at 4 p.m., it’s surprising the Mariners haven’t been more active trying to improve the team for this year and beyond. The T...
The Seattle Mariners are currently in third place in the American League West behind the Houston Astros and Oakland A’s at 50-44 on the season. They are also just three games out of the second wildcard spot. With forty games left against AL West opponents, they certainly have an opportunity to move up in the standings. Outside of Mitch Haniger offensively, they haven’t been that impressive, and as a team, they are hitting just .219/.295/.380. The offensive scores an average of 4.13 runs per game which ranks 22 in the league out of thirty tea...
KENNEWICK—For the first time in league history, PBR (Professional Bull Riders) will buck into Kennewick, Wash., welcoming fans to the Toyota Center Sept. 10-11 for the Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour’s PBR Tri-Cities Classic. For two nights only, some of the best bull riders in the world will battle the sport’s rankest bovine athletes in the ultimate showdown of man vs. beast in one of the most exciting live sporting events to witness. The PBR Tri-Cities Classic will also tentatively mark the first major ticketed touring event hosted at full cap...
The NCAA hasn’t had a good year. First, they lost a Supreme Court ruling; then, in a rush to respond to the name, image, and likeness state laws some states had passed, the NCAA quickly pushed out their interim (NIL) policy across the league. Now a new league has formed targeting the very best high school basketball players and paying them a minimum of $100,000 a year to skip college and the NCAA altogether. The new league is called Overtime Elite and is an offshoot of the distributed sports net...
Jack Lohrke started his minor league baseball career in 1942 at age eighteen when he signed with the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. After seven games he was sent to Twin Falls, Idaho, in the Class C Pioneer League. He hit .271 as the team's third baseman and won the team's MVP award. He wouldn't play baseball again until after returning home from World War II. The train that took him to ship off to war derailed. Three people were killed and many others were severely burned by...
We’ve all heard stories about professional athletes that have squandered millions in salary and ended up homeless. The following story is not one of those. It is about a great decision made by a major league baseball player who retired in 2001. Thanks to a good agent, high interest rates, and a leap of faith retired player, Bobby Bonilla has been getting a check for $1.19 million every July 1 from the New York Mets since 2011. He will continue receiving a check through 2035 when he is s...
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court sided with the plaintiff Shawne Alston against the NCAA. It essentially ruled that the NCAA could not place limits on education-related benefits schools may make available to student-athletes. The ruling did not touch on whether student-athletes could be paid directly to play but hinted that the Court might rule in favor of the athletes if such cases were raised. College sports are about to go through significant changes. Supreme Court Justice...
The following is a brief interview with the Prescott School District’s Dean of Students/Athletic Director, Jeff Foertsch. We discussed summer activities, school sports schedules, Esports, and the Prescott School District App, which can be found by searching for “Prescott School District, WA” in the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. Q: When did you start using the Prescott School District App? A: “We’ve had the app maybe three or four years, but in terms of athletics, it started last year. The new administration here, Justin Bradford,...
A combination of injuries and graduations have challenged the depth on the team and provided an early look into what the team may look like next year. As a result, the DW Girls basketball team dropped their last three games to Mabton, WWVA and Columbia. DW @ Mabton June 1st 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total DW 7 3 9 0 19 Mabton 20 24 15 6 65 DW: Forney 5, Andrews 3, Barron 2, Beamer 2, Kilts 7. Mabton: Chavez-Graciano 6, Galarza-Tampa 4, Bonewell 18, Roettger 1, Moreno 4, Garson 2, Becerra 3, Torres 4, Sanchez-Gomez 12. “We suited up a very young team, w...
DAYTON-The game started out with the boys taking advantage of four Walla Walla Valley Academy turnovers in the first quarter to take the early lead in the game. From that point until halftime, it was all WWVA. Wyatt Costello's only shot in the second quarter accounted for all of DW's points in the second quarter as DW went 1-12 from the field and also missed a couple of free throws. WWVA kept swapping out players every few minutes from their bench like a hockey team and built a 29-10 halftime le...
