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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA—Dayton-Waitsburg’s girls basketball team got off to a great start against league foe DeSales Irish last Tuesday in its final league game of the 2019-20 season but a quiet third quarter led to an Irish victory of 40-24 heading into the post season. Neither team played well in the first quarter that ended in an 8-8 tie. Junior MacKenna Culley looked like she was going to get D-W going with a three-pointer to take the lead 11-10 with five minutes left in the first half. But DeSales put out that fire with a bucket by Morgan Thomas who...
WALLA WALLA—The Wa-Hi girls basketball team (13-7) qualified for the district playoffs. However, the last two games they played in the regular season were losses against Kennewick and Hermiston. This dropped them from a third-place finish in their conference down to a fifth place finish. As a result, they will be on the road for the first round of the District 8 4A playoffs. That game will be against the Gonzaga Prep Bullpups (14-6) February 12th in Spokane at 5 p.m. February 4th 58-53 (Loss) Kennewick @ Walla Walla 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total K...
COLTON-Prescott boys basketball traveled to Colton on Saturday Feb. 8th for their final regular season game of the year. In the first quarter, #23 Miguel Ayala opened the scoring under the basket after getting an offensive rebound. A couple of possessions later #12 Jonathan Cardenas stole the ball in the backcourt and scored to give Prescott and early 6-0 lead. Colton then went on an 8-0 run behind some hot shooting to take the lead 8-6. For the rest of the quarter, the teams would trade the...
The matbirds are back in town!...
Dayton-Waitsburg’s Freshman phenom Claudia Benavides scored a career high 25 points Wednesday in leading her team to a 69-43 victory over Liberty Christian in an Eastern Washington Athletic Conference contest. Her effort also nabbed her the $100 bill her Grandfather Sal Benavides has been holding onto until she finally scored 20 points in a game. The results also moved D-W up in the standings, giving them a shot at playing in the district tournament, a tournament they weren’t even thinking abo...
Freshman Monte Pettichord tried heroically to repeat his miracle shot from last week against Pomeroy, instead his 3-pointer for the win clanked off the rim. However, one person's miss is an opportunity for another. His teammate, Junior Mason Finney grabbed the rebound and dribbled backwards out to beyond the three-point line to launch another buzzer-beating winning shot for the D-W win over Liberty Christian 50-49. Historically it was the combined program's first Eastern Washington Athletic...
PRESCOTT-Prescott hosted St. John Saturday February 1st in a home conference game. It was Senior Night in Prescott and all five of Prescott's seniors started the game. St. John took an early 4-0 lead, but it quickly evaporated in the next three possessions for Prescott. First, #23 Miguel Ayala hit a free throw then #12 Jonathan Cardenas hit a three-pointer. Next, #3 Victor Garcia stole the ball and passed to Jonathan Cardenas who took it all the way for the 6-4 lead. Later in the first quarter...
RICHLAND-The Walla Walla Blue Devils girls basketball team traveled to Richland Friday, January 31st in a conference game. The Blue Devils got out to a quick 10-0 lead to start this game. Within the first three and half minutes of the game all five of the Blue Devils starters had scored at least two points to take a 16-4 lead. They would close out the first quarter up 18-8. In the second quarter, #32 Karyssa Olivares started the scoring for Walla Walla. A few minutes later Kamiakin went on a...
RICHLAND-The Walla Walla boys varsity basketball team played the Kamiakin Braves in a conference game Friday, January 31st. Just like in their first meeting of the year, the Braves started out hot, scoring on their first five possessions going up 12-2. Walla Walla came back on seven straight points from #2 Dylan Ashbeck and a three-pointer from #14 Diego Jaques gave Walla Walla the lead briefly at 14-12. Each team traded points for the remainder of the first quarter which ended 18-17 Kamiakin....
Early into the contest the Patriots rushed out to a 7-2 lead and one of the D-W's top two scorers, freshman forward Claudia Benavides, fell hard to floor two and half minutes into the game with an apparent twisted ankle. Without their offensive threat and defensive presence in the middle, Liberty Christian made it 19-10 midway through the second quarter. However, a healthy Benavides returned just before Head Coach Tamira Culley called a full time out, and that was the beginning of things...
PRESCOTT—Prescott played in back-to-back conference games over the weekend with mixed results. At home against Touchet they had a dominating performance with all five seniors (Omar Velazco, Victor Garcia, Jonathan Cardenas, Miguel Ayala and Andrew Patzkowski) scoring. #12 Jonathan Cardenas had an excellent all-around game making 12-15 of his shots from the field, good for twenty-seven points. On the defensive end he contributed eleven steals. The Oakesdale game was as bad as the Touchet game was good. Absolutely no shots seemed to fall for P...
POMEROY-Dayton-Waitsburg held a 20-point advantage at the intermission, with a score of 28-8, however a pesky Pirate team led by 6-foot-2 sophomore guard Trent Gwinn, battled all the way back to tie the score at 40 on his three-pointer following a Pomeroy timeout that left 5.5 seconds on the clock. With the game tied, junior Colton VanBlaricom inbounded the ball with a pass with five seconds left, to junior Sean Evans who then passed it up to a streaking Pettichord, who launched a prayer over...
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla girls varsity basketball team hosted rival Richland Bombers in a conference game Friday January 24th. The opening quarter had several lead changes. #22 Emmalyn Ogden hit an open jump shot in the early going to retake the lead for Walla Walla 7-6. Richland would answer on the very next play to take the lead 8-7. #23 Rian Clear would take it right back with a jump shot in the lane making the score 9-8. Richland was distributing the ball well as four different players...
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla boys varsity basketball team played their rivals the Richland Bombers in a conference game Friday January 24th. In the first quarter #12 Dillon Wasser got things started for the Walla Walla Blue Devils hitting a three-pointer. #10 Michael Cornia made his presence felt early with a blocked shot. Four of the five starters scored in the 1st quarter to give the Blue Devils the lead 16-10 at the end of the 1st quarter. In the 2nd quarter Richland came out shooting hot....
PRESCOTT-Prescott High School boys basketball played Colton High School Friday the 17th in a home conference game. Coming into this game Prescott had won four straight games to start the New Year. Three of those four included conference wins over Oakesdale, Pomeroy and St. John. Normally the top four teams in the conference advance to the playoffs. If that is the case again this year, then Prescott is in excellent position to advance to the playoffs with six games left in the regular season....
Turnabout is fair play. It only seemed right Thursday night that the Dayton-Waitsburg girls basketball picked up its first victory of the season over visiting Walla Walla Valley Academy, 52-33, because last week in College Place, WWVA earned its first win of the season over visiting D-W, 47-34. After their last meeting and D-W’s last game, it was hard to gauge what the outcome might be. But after WWVA nabbed the opening tip and then promptly turned the ball over that’s when the first glimmer of hope at a first victory appeared. One of WWV...
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla boys varsity basketball team hosted the Pasco Bulldogs in a conference game Tuesday January 14th. Pasco opened the game with a very slow-paced offense that included lots of passing. For the first couple of minutes of the first quarter there was no score. The first play of note was a blocked shot by #10 Michael Cornia. He had at least four blocked shots in the game. #24 Jacob Coram opened the scoring for Wa-Hi with two three-pointers. A great pass from #12 Dillion...
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla girls basketball team hosted the Pasco Bulldogs Tuesday January 14th in a conference game. They lost their previous matchup this season in Pasco on December 14th. Tuesday's game didn't begin well for Wa-Hi as they quickly went down 8-0. #34 Mia Huxoll scored the first points for Wa-Hi with a three-point play. Unfortunately, those would be Wa-Hi's only points in the first quarter. Pasco would answer with three of their own points ending the quarter at 11-3. The second...
League 3A/4A Boys Overall School W L W L Chiawana 9 0 13 0 Walla Walla 7 2 11 2 Kamiakin 7 2 11 2 Richland 7 3 10 4 Kennwewick 6 3 8 4 Southridge 3 7 4 10 Hermiston 1 8 2 11 Pasco 1 8 2 11 Hanford 1 9 2 11 League 3A/4A Girls Overall School W L W L Kennewick 8 1 11 1 Chiawana 8 1 11 2 Pasco 6 3 9 3 Richland 6 4 7 7 Walla Walla 5 4 9 4 Hermiston 4 5 7 6 Hanford 3 7 4 9 Kamiakin 2 7 3 10 Southridge 0 10 3 11 League 2B Boys Overall School W L W L White Swan 7 1 11 4 WWVA 6 1 10 3 Columbia 5 2 7 8 Kittitas-Thorp 5 2 7 6 DeSales 3 5 5 8 Tri-Cities...
The Dayton-Waitsburg's boys basketball team took a step closer to picking up its first league win in a 51-37 loss that was a low scoring battle against the visiting White Swan boys on Saturday night. After a tough road loss on Tuesday, D-W worked harder and better as a team, as Head Coach Roy Ramirez was heard saying from the sideline," it was right there," referring to the just missed baskets. It was also evident that he saw the progress of the team as well and continued to encourage his...
Saturday night felt like the Dayton-Waitsburg girls basketball team took a big leap forward despite a setback to the visiting White Swan Cougars 64-39. Oftentimes this season things have gotten away from D-W early, Saturday was different. The team stayed close for the entire first half after a 9-6 deficit after one quarter they were still in it at the intermission 20-15. One of the huge differences was the existence of a defined team unity. "Our team has come a long way and we will continue to...
LACROSSE-Prescott traveled to LaCrosse High School to host Wilson Creek January 7th in a non conference game. Wilson Creek and Mary Walker are two teams from the Spokane area Prescott plays in LaCrosse. LaCrosse acts as a midway point to reduce travel distances for both schools. Prescott dominated from the opening tip off and quickly built a big lead. #12 Jonathan Cardenas made a great pass to an open #3 Victor Garcia for a layup. Moments later #11 Antonio Hernandez completed the three-point...
COLLEGE PLACE—The script of the Dayton-Waitsburg boys basketball team played out almost identically to their female counterparts against Walla Walla Valley Academy in a league loss last Tuesday 67-32, only there were more 3-pointers involved. In the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference contest D-W got off to a slow start with its first bucket coming from Junior guard Mason Finney three minutes into the contest. Finney would score five more of his team leading 13 points in the first quarter as the team finished only two points behind the Knigh...
Recently awarded trophy for the 1979 champions!...
League 3A/4A Boys Overall School W L W L Chiawana 8 0 12 0 Walla Walla 6 2 10 2 Kamiakin 6 2 10 2 Kennewick 5 3 7 4 Richland 5 3 8 4 Southridge 3 5 4 8 Pasco 1 7 2 10 Hanford 1 7 2 9 Hermiston 1 7 2 10 League 2B Boys Overall School W L W L White Swan 5 1 9 4 WWVA 4 1 8 3 Columbia 3 2 5 7 Kittitas-Thorp 3 2 5 6 Tri-Cities Prep 2 2 8 4 DeSales 3 3 6 5 Liberty Christian 1 2 6 5 Lyle-Wishram 0 1 1 8 Dayton-Waitsburg 0 4 1 9 Mabton 0 4 1 11 League 2B Girls Overall School W L W L Columbia 5 0 10 2 Tri-Cities Prep 4 0 8 4 Mabton 3 1 9 3 DeSales 3 3 5...
