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Winter sports officially started this past week as the Dayton-Waitsburg girls opened up their basketball season with three games.

They fell to St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse 59-28, to College Place 64-35, and 50-30 to Mac-Hi in their first home games of the season at the Dayton gymnasium.

While things did not start off optimistically with three losses, the team came away with valuable lessons that will become instilled in them as the season progresses.

“They now understand that they have to work hard for four quarters and to play 32 minutes,” said first-year Head Coach Tamira Culley. “Every posses...