Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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High school sports teams are honoring their graduating seniors as the fall sports season draws to a close. Graduating seniors playing fall sports in Waitsburg, Dayton and Prescott include: DW Football Isaiah Ford Joe LaRue Elijah Walker Junior Helm Brandon Boudrieau Chris Philbrook Hayden Wooldridge Colton Johnson Cade Branson Drake Lamere Dayton Volleyball Hannah Becker Megan Robins Waitsburg Volleyball Ariel Sandau Tayler Jones Karlie Mathews Prescott Volleyball Bianca Flores Jocelyn Granados Yoali Ortega Erindany Reyes Esperanza Virgen...
POMEROY – Waitsburg junior Daltin Lambert placed third, against 15 racers, at the 5,000 meter D-9 League Championships in Pomeroy on Oct. 19, with a time of 20:06.5. Senior Tom House placed twelfth with a time of 24:35.7 and junior high runner Caleb Barron placed thirteenth with a time of 28:52.7. The Cardinals ended their season at the District 7/9 Regionals, held in Colfax on Sat., Oct. 28. Lambert placed 43rd out of 87 runners with a time of 18:35.71, House finished in 22:16.5 and Barron finished with a personal record of 2...
PRESCOTT – The Prescott Tigers soccer team ended their regular season with a 0-0 tie at home on Fri., Oct. 28. The final game of the regular season left Prescott standing with a 9-5-1 record going into playoffs. The Tigers will host the first district playoff game on Fri. Nov. 3 at 3 p.m....
WAITSBURG – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team was unable to claim their first win of the season on homecoming night Friday, as Kittitas-Thorp prevailed in their game here, 24-7. DW dug itself a hole on the first drive of the game, as Kittitas recovered a fumble on the fifth play and returned it 25 yards for a score. DW lost its second fumble on its next drive as well. Kittitas scored once each in the next three quarters and built a 24-0 lead late in the game. DW got on the board with 22 s...
WALLA WALLA – The Lady Bulldogs handed Walla Walla Valley Academy their first league loss of the season on the Lady Knights court on Oct. 18, but it was far from easy. The Bulldogs brought all they had to the court winning in five hard-fought sets 25-20, 21-25, 22-25, 25-23, 15-12. “It was a battle every set! We passed the ball pretty consistently so we were able to run our offense all night. Our defense stepped up and played the best we have all season. We finally competed in every game and...
MABTON – On Monday night, the DW football team traveled to Mabton for the second time this month, and this time a football game took place, with Mabton prevailing, 40-6. The two teams were scheduled to play here Oct. 6, and DW made the trip, but the game couldn’t be played, because no officials had been assigned to the game by the league. Mabton jumped out to an early lead, scoring two touchdowns each in the first and second quarters, and taking 26-0 lead into the half. Mabton was up 40-0 in...
WAITSBURG – The Lady Cardinals had a good week with a four-set league win against the Touchet Indians on Oct. 18, followed by a homecoming-week alumni game win on Friday. The Touchet Indians won the first set 25-21 but the Cardinals quickly recovered to win the next three 25-22, 26-24 and 25-18. “During the Touchet match, we struggled a little with consistency and had to play four sets, but overall the girls really played well and came together like they had early in the season. They’ve been run...
WHITE SWAN – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team overcame penalties, turnovers and a season-ending injury to its starting running back, and nearly secured its first victory of the season on the road Friday against White Swan. DW ultimately came up short, falling 30-29 to the Cougars. With starting running back Chris Philbrook out for the season with a broken leg, suffered in DW's game against Lyle/Wishram on Sept. 29, coach Troy Larsen made some changes to his starting offensive backfield. B...
Dayton vs. Davenport Dayton’s volleyball team traveled to Davenport Monday evening where they trounced Davenport in three matches, 25-15, 25-16, 25-12. The match leaves Dayton standing 3-2 in league and 8-4 overall. Hanna Becker served a perfect 13/13 and made nine kills, four assists, and six blocks. Megan Robins served 23/24 with seven aces, one kill, and five digs and Scully Castorena made two kills, eight assists, and nine digs. Kaleigh White threw in another five kills, one block and two d...
Waitsburg vs. LWK The Lady Cardinals traveled to LaCrosse on Thursday, losing three sets against LaCrosse/Washtucna/Kaholotus, 25-21, 25-16, 25-17. The league loss leaves the Cardinals standing7-10 overall and 0-6 in SE1B league play. “Defensively, we had a better week this week against Colton and LWK. We dug more balls and sustained more rallies. We still need to keep improving on our serve-receive passing and transfer what we’re doing in practice into the matches,” Coach Angie Potts said....
ASOTIN, Wash. - The Waitsburg X-C team traveled to Asotin on Oct. 10 for a District 7 meet attended by Pomeroy, Waitsburg, Colfax, Garfield Palouse, St. John-Endicott and Tekoa-Rosalia. Asotin’s Maia Dykstra wtook the girls’ race by nearly a full minute with a time of 20.02.17 and Mason Nicholas placed first in the boys’ race with a 17:03.46 finish time. For Waitsburg, Daltin Lambert placed 16th out of 41 boys with a time of 19:45.03. Tom House placed 34th with a time of 23:28.46 and middl...
MABTON - The Lady Bulldogs made a quick win over Mabton, taking the Vikings 25-8, 25-9, and 25-23 in a league match, here on Oct. 5. The win places the Bulldogs 6-3 overall and 2-1 in league play. Scully Castorena made nine kills, 11 assists, one ace and four digs and Hanna Becker dished out 11 kills, nine assists, two digs and one ace. Megan Robins made eight kills and nine digs, Tatum Laughery served a perfect 19/19 with three aces and ten digs and Shaelyn Fortier served 12/12 with three aces...
ST. JOHN - The Lady Cards fell to St. John-Endicott in a hard-fought four matches on the Eagle's court on Thurs., Oct. 5. Waitsburg dropped the first two matches 18-25 and 13-25, won match number three 25-18, but dropped the final match 20-25. "We didn't play very well in the first two sets. We tried a couple of different rotations with girls in different positions and they didn't make the adjustment. In the third set we went back to our original rotation and the girls were clearly more...
WAITSBURG/DAYTON – Due to declining numbers on the DW football roster, the last high school junior varsity football game was Mon., Oct. 9 in Irrigon. JV athletes will remain on the roster, at practice, and at varsity games but there will be no further JV games for the season. The original JV/Varsity roster listed 35 athletes. An updated roster, released last week, lists 27 players. Head DW football coach Troy Larsen attributed the decline to a mix of students moving from the district, players q...
MABTON – The DW football team traveled to Mabton for a league game Friday night but a failure to schedule referees, which is the responsibility of the home team, resulted in the game being cancelled. Both teams arrived ready to play and waited for approximately an hour before heading home, according to WHS school officials. The schools are working to coordinate a makeup game date. The WIAA is testing the RPI system, which is used to seed tournaments, so the game must be played....
WAITSBURG – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team lost its fifth game of the season here Friday night, falling to Lyle-Wishram, 46-6. DW started out strong, stopping L-W on its first drive and returning a blocked punt to the L-W 11-yard line. Running back Chris Philbrook punched the ball in from the two to give DW an early 6-0 lead. L-W got their first score late in the first quarter, to tie the game at six. The flood gates opened in the second quarter, as L-W scored 34 unanswered points to put t...
COLLEGE PLACE – The Dayton Volleyball team fought a hard match here on Sept. 26, but fell to Walla Walla Valley Academy in five sets, 21-25, 25-16, 25-17, 22-25, 14-16. The Lady Bulldogs struggled at the start of the match, dropping the first set before winning the next two sets convincingly. After WWVA evened things up by winning the fourth set, Dayton came within a point of sealing the match in the final set, taking a 14-11 lead. But they couldn’t hold on, as WWVA won the next five points to...
Defense can't stop TCP running game on wet night in Dayton DAYTON – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team struggled on a soggy home field here Friday night, and took a loss against Tri-Cities Prep, 47-14. DW is now 0-4 on the season. With poor field conditions, each team stuck to their ground game, completing only one pass each the entire game. TCP scored two touchdowns in the first quarter and added three more in the second, to build a commanding 33-0 lead, before DW got their first score late i...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg cross-country team has just three boys competing this year, but they’ve had an encouraging early season, according to coach Ann Adams. After their first meet, the Seaport Invite, in Clarkston on Sept. 16, Adams said, “I am very happy with how the boys did and looking forward to seeing what they can do this year.” At that meet on a three-mile course, Daltin Lambert had a personal best time of 20:54.21. “He ran well, smart and had a good show for the first meet of the se...
TOUCHET – The Waitsburg volleyball team cruised past Touchet on Thursday, sweeping the Indians here, 25-14, 25-21, 25-16. Ariel Sandau led her team with 4 kills, 15 assists, 8 digs and 8 aces. Tayler Jones had eight kills and 10 digs. Devon Harshman had 8 kills and two blocks. "I'm so happy with how the girls played this match," said Waitsburg Coach Angie Potts. "They worked as a team, communicated really well, hustled, and were smart. They made the right adjustments on their own as needed a...
WALLA WALLA – The Dayton girls’ volleyball team took care of DeSales in their league opener this week, sweeping the Lady Irish on the road, 25-13, 25-12, 25-5. Megan Robins led her team with 21-for-21 serving, including six aces. Hanna Becker was 16 of 18 serving, and also had eight kills, nine assists and four digs. “It was our first league match,” said Dayton Coach Shannon Turner. “Dayton is 4-1 overall…Great start to the season.” The Dayton girls were to host Walla Walla Valley Academy on Tu...
Lady Cards finished 19th out of 32 teams after long day of tourney play YAKIMA – Members of the Waitsburg girls' volleyball team got up early last Friday and drove to Yakima, where they made a strong showing, finishing 19th out of 32 teams. The Lady Cards played three two-set matches in morning pool play, and then played two more matches in bracket play in the afternoon. In pool play, Waitsburg split with Goldendale, 19-25, 25-22 and lost two sets to Selah JV, 20-25, 19-25. They then split with...
Dayton-Waitsburg moved the ball well, but was unable to score WALLA WALLA – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team brought an improved offense into their game against DeSales here on Friday night, but was still unable to score. DeSales racked up 22 points in the first half on their way to a 32-0 victory. The Valley-Football team moved the ball well on the ground and drove deep into Irish territory twice. But they were unable to convert either drive for a score. Running back Chris Philbrook had an o...
DAYTON – The Dayton girls' volleyball team started the season at home last week, sweeping their match with Garfield-Palouse (25-18, 25-13, 25-17) on Tuesday and beating Athena Weston in five sets (19-25, 25-15, 29-27, 14-25, 15-4) on Thursday. Senior Hannah Becker dominated the net in both games, getting 14 kills, 13 assists and eight blocks against GP, and 17 kills, 17 assists and five blocks against AW. Megan Robins was 14 of 14 serving in the GP match, with two aces, and she was 24 of 26 s...
BURBANK – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team went on the road Friday night, but was unable to mount an offense, and came away with a 42-2 loss to Columbia-Burbank. For the second week in a row, turnovers hobbled the team, as they lost two fumbles and suffered three interceptions. CB dominated the first half, scoring five touchdowns and building a 32-0 lead. CB scored an additional TD and a field goal in the third quarter. DW got its only score of the game in the fourth quarter on a safety. W...
