By Imbert Matthee
The Times 

WP Tigers Are State Champs!

 

November 24, 2011

The WP Tigers' bench and players swarm around head coach Mark Grimm after beating rival St. George last Friday, a victory that propelled the team into the final Saturday. They went on to Providence, the defending state champions 1-0, at the Chevrolet Sunset Stadium in Sumner.

SUMNER -- In only its second season as a high school soccer combine, the Waitsburg Prescott Tigers beat the defending state champions Saturday and brought home the coveted trophy.

It's the first time WP has won a state title as a combine, the first time a team has won it for Prescott in 35 years and the first time in 109 years since a team has brought a state trophy home for Waitsburg.

An eight-man PHS football team won the state title in 1976. A 1902 WHS football team won the then-equivalent of a state championship.

WHS has won other state titles, but they were for individual track athlete...



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