Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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SPOKANE VALLEY – Waitsburg senior Emily Adams won all four of her events at the regional track and field championships here last weekend and moves on to the State 1B tournament in Cheney beginning Friday. Adams out-paced the competition in the 800 meters, with a time of 2:25.97; the 1600 meters, with a personal best time of 5:24.12; the 3200 meters, at 11:55.45; and the triple jump with a leap of 33-03.00. Landon Callas topped the 300 hurdles with a time of 40.27, and will also be going to s...
EPHRATA, Wash. – On Saturday, the Dayton softball team traveled to Ephrata to battle in the D5/D6 Regional Tournament. The Dawgs beat Liberty Bell and DeSales to put them in the championship game, where they were defeated by Brewster for the number one seed for the State 2B tournament this weekend. Against Liberty Bell, Dayton tallied 13 hits to take them to victory, winning 11 – 4. The Lady Bulldogs scored seven runs in the second inning to take the lead, and never looked back. For Dayton, Savannah McFarland hit a triple and a double. Meg...
QUINCY - Cal Martin and Hayden Wooldridge will be moving on to the State 2B tournament this weekend in Cheney, after competing in the regional district 5/6 championships. Wooldridge qualified with a first-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles, with a personal best time of 44.37, beating his nearest competition by nearly three meters. Wooldridge was also fourth in the 110 meters, at 16.63, also a personal best. Martin will advance in the javelin, where he topped all competitors with a...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg High Senior Jacob Dunn has been chosen to play in the Earl Barden Classic 2017 East-West 2A/1A/B All-Star Football Game, which will be held at East Valley High School in Moxee, Wash. on June 24 at 1 p.m. Tickets are available for $6 each and ticket sales will help support the cost of his participation in the game. Anyone wishing to purchase tickets may do so by calling the Dunn’s at (509) 337-8857. Please leave a message if there is no answer....
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg’s Kyle Gradwohl was selected as the player of the year for baseball in the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference. Teammate Jacob Dunn was also selected as a first-team all-star for the EWAC. The first team is a hand-selected group of 14 athletes recommended by their coaches. The team consists solely of seniors. The EWAC team will play against the Walla Walla Sweets in their season opener Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla....
Twelve Waitsburg athletes will move on to regionals in Veradale this weekend SPOKANE – The Waitsburg Track team traveled to Riverside High School last Tuesday to compete in the NE/SE 1B District Championships. Emily Adams took first in all three of her events, getting a season record in the triple jump with a distance of 33-08.00. Adams also won the 800 meter and the 1600 meter races with times of 2:31.16 and 5:49.17 respectively. Landon Callas finished second in his three personal events, with...
COLLEGE PLACE – The Dayton Track Team traveled to College Place High School Friday to compete in the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference Championships regional qualifier. The Bulldogs will take four athletes on to regionals. Hayden Wooldridge had a huge day, topping the 110 and 300 hurdle events with times of 17.28 and 45.96 respectively, qualifying in both events. Cal Martin won the javelin competition with a season record hurl of 160-02, beating his nearest competitor by nearly 30 feet. M...
DAYTON – Dayton and Waitsburg high schools held meetings at their respective auditoriums last Wednesday and Thursday to receive feedback from students, parents, and community members on the 2016-17 DW athletic combine. The meetings were both attended by a little over 10 people. Waitsburg held theirs on Wednesday, while Dayton's was the following day. Comments ranged from praising the feeling of community between the two schools, as well as the combine giving more kids the opportunity to get i...
PASCO – The Dayton softball team traveled to Tri-Cities for the EWAC regional qualifier on Saturday, where they were seeded third. Dayton was paired against Kittitas, the number-two seed, for their first game. The game see-sawed back and forth, with Kittitas outscoring Dayton in the first inning two to one, and Dayton coming back in the third inning tallying four runs to take the lead after a scoreless second inning. Kittitas answered with five more in the fourth and did not relinquish the lead. Both teams had eight hits in the game, with t...
Cardinals Callas and Adams get three individual wins each DAYTON Dayton hosted local schools in a track and field meet last Tuesday. The Waitsburg boys dominated the meet and won the team competition with 172 points, with its nearest competitor, St. John-Endicott scoring 120 points. The Dayton boys came in third with 106 points. On the girl's side, Oaksdale easily won with a score of 266 points, followed by Pomeroy with 172. The Waitsburg girls scored 124 points to secure the third position out...
DAYTON – Losses last week to Liberty Christian and Tri-Cities Prep knocked the Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team out of their third-place standing in the league and forced a 3-inning playoff game against DeSales this Tuesday. DW lost to DeSales 1-0 with, each team having five hits and one error. DW played well defensively, but baserunning errors took the team out of the game. On May 2, the Bulldogs battled hard in a losing effort, dropping both games to Liberty Christian. A knee injury to Junior Helm in the first inning while stealing second b...
DAYTON – Losses last week to Liberty Christian and Tri-Cities Prep knocked the Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team out of their third-place standing in the league and forced a 3-inning playoff game against DeSales this Tuesday. DW lost to DeSales 1-0 with, each team having five hits and one error. DW played well defensively, but baserunning errors took the team out of the game. On May 2, the Bulldogs battled hard in a losing effort, dropping both games to Liberty Christian. A knee injury to Junior Helm in the first inning while stealing second b...
RICHLAND – The Dayton softball team was able to hit the ball very well against Liberty Christian’s reserve pitchers last week, as L-C’s number-one pitcher was out with an injury. With several free passes throughout the day, combined with 36 hits, Dayton scored in every inning of the double header and every starter for the Bulldogs was had a hit. In the first game, Dayton put 27 runs on the board on 21 hits with no errors, beating LC 27-0. Tatumn Laughery, Heidi Dobbs, and Kaleigh White had four hits apiece. White led in RBI’s with five followe...
TOUCHET – The Waitsburg softball team rallied from two runs down in the sixth inning to pull out a win in the first game of Saturday's double-header at Touchet, 11-10. The Lady Cards then outslugged the Indians in a high-scoring second game, taking the win, 34-17. In game one, Ariel Sandau and Tayler Jones each had three hits for Waitsburg, in a game in which the Cardinals trailed 10-7 after five innings. The team notched three runs in the sixth to tie it, and then got the winning run in the t...
WHITE SWAN – The Dayton girls' softball team took advantage of 13 White Swan errors in two five-inning games to overwhelm the home team in a double-header on Saturday, 17-1 and 12-1. In game one, Megan Robins went three-for-four and knocked in five RBIs to lead her team. Heidi Dobbs and Scully Castorena each had two hits. Robins had a strong game on the mound as well, giving up only three White Swan hits. On defense, Dayton played errorless ball. In game two, Castorena went three-for-four, w...
WHITE SWAN, Wash. – The Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team cruised to two easy five-inning wins at White Swan on Friday afternoon, 20-1 and 13-3. In game one, pitcher Kyle Gradwohl gave up only two hits, and his team played errorless defense behind him. DW batters had 14 hits and took advantage of seven White Swan errors to rack up 20 runs. Brandon Boudrieau led his team with three hits. Gradwohl, Chris Philbrook, Brayden Miller, and Cade Branson each had two hits. Boudrieau and Gradwohl had four R...
Last week, three Dayton seniors signed letters of intent to continue their athletic careers in college....
SPOKANE VALLEY - Competing against runners from dozens of schools of all sizes on Saturday, Waitsburg’s Emily Adams took second place finishes in two events - the 800-meter and 3200-meter runs. Adams also was 10th in the triple jump and anchored the ninth-place 4x400 meter relay team. The relay team also included Clarissa Espana, Leena Baker, and Kirsten Miller. On the boys’ side, the 4x400 relay team of Andre Potts, Seamus House, Daltin Lambert, and Carlos Norris took 15th place. 2017 Strandberg Invitational Central Valley HS, Spokane Val...
DAYTON - Dayton hosted Tri Cities Prep Tuesday in a double header and beat TCP in both games. In the first game the Bulldogs won easily 14-4 on 15 hits. The game started evenly matched and was tied at the end of the third inning when Dayton pulled away scoring 6 runs in the bottom of the fourth, followed by 4 in the fifth to put the game out of reach. Dayton's bats were extremely hot with Hannah Becker scoring a homerun, Megan Robins going three for four with 4 RBI's, including 2 doubles, Heidi...
A small Dayton Track team competed at the Prosser Invitational Saturday. Dayton was down numerous athletes due to sickness and an FBLA event. Hazel Tu, Dayton’s only female competitor Saturday, worked very hard on her long jump and it showed when she added almost two feet to her best jump, leaping 11-07. Wyatt Johnson pulled another six seconds off his 1600m time, crossing the line at 5:43.20. Then turned around and ran the lead off leg of the 4X100 relay. The relay consisted of 3 runners that had yet to compete in this event and Chris A...
WAITSBURG – The Cardinals hosted the Burbank Coyotes Monday in a double header. Although the Cards put 29 runs on the board, they split with the Coyotes losing the first game by two. The Cards jumped to a 9-1 lead after scoring eight runs in the second inning. Burbank slowly chipped away at the lead scoring three in the third and two more in the fourth, but the real damage came in the last two innings when the Coyotes scored seven runs between the 6th and 7th to take the game 13-11. In the s...
WAITSBURG - Saturday The Dayton Waitsburg baseball team hosted Kittitas in a double header in Waitsburg. Jacob Dunn started the pace of the first game by striking out the first batter and no runs were allowed in the first inning. In the bottom of the first, DW took the lead when the first six batters reached base and scored. DW went through the batting order in the first with Helm leading off and being the last hitter of the inning. In the second inning, the wheels wobbled a bit for DW when J...
DAYTON – In two double-headers over the past week, The Dayton softball team came away with four wins, allowing only two runs. Dayton hosted the Mabton Vikings on April 10 and shut them out twice, winning 19-0 and 23-0. Both games were ended after five innings due to the 10-run rule. In the first game Dayton had the hot bats, scoring 13 runs in the second inning as they went on to dominate. Heidi Dobbs led the Bulldogs in RBI's with four on two hits. Megan Robins and Kaleigh White each had two h...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg softball team played a tough Colton team three times last week, and dropped all three games. On April 11, the Lady Cardinals traveled to Colton and were defeated 13-3. The Cards struggled to find their offense coming off spring break, putting up just three hits in the game. On Saturday, Waitsburg hosted Colton in a double-header. In the first game, Waitsburg hit the ball well, putting up 11 hits. Ariel Sandau led the way with three hits, followed by Tayler Jones, T...
LYLE, Wa. – The Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team traveled to Lyle Saturday for a double header against Lyle/Wishram/Klickitat, and won both games, allowing only one run all day. DW pitcher Jacob Dunn threw a no-hitter in game one, and teammate Kyle Gradwohl followed up with a one-hit game in the nightcap. In the first game, DW prevailed 11-0 in five innings, getting seven hits and committing two errors. Kyle Gradwohl led the team with two doubles and a single, knocking in three RBI's. Eli W...
