Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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CHENEY – Waitsburg senior Emily Adams dominated the long-distance events at the state 1B tournament here on Friday and Saturday. Adams won state titles in the 800, 1600 and 3200 meter races, and took third in the triple jump. On Friday Adams won the 1,600 easily, setting a new personal record of 5:20.32. On Saturday, Adams took an early lead in the 3,200 and kept putting distance on the rest of the field, beating her nearest competitor by a full minute. Adams shattered the existing 1B state reco...
YAKIMA – The Dayton softball team traveled to Yakima to participate in the 2B state tournament on Friday and Saturday. The Lady Bulldogs played three games before being knocked out of the tournament by Northwest Christian. In the first game Dayton faced off against Ocosta, but came up short losing 11-6 and sending the Bulldogs to the consolation bracket. Dayton outhit Ocosta 13-12, but couldn’t put together their hits to score. Ocosta put big hits on the board when they needed them by hitting four doubles and a triple. Dayton’s Hanna Becke...
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...
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...
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...
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...
CHENEY – With 1,100 athletes from throughout the state, Dayton’s track and field team faced a lot of great competition on Saturday at the Van Kuren Invitational here. Hayden Wooldridge came out with personal record times in both hurdle events, placing sixth in the 110-meter hurdles, in a field of 39, with a time of 16.90. Wooldridge crossed the line at 46.32 in the 300 hurdles, placing 14th. Chris Andrews also scored a PR in the 100-meter dash, at 12.17, taking off half a second from his previous best time. Teammate Wyatt Johnson came in wit...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg track team kept their coaches very busy this last week, as they participated in two regular meets and a special invitational meet. The team competed at Colfax Tuesday and Cheney Saturday. Landon Callas and Emily Adams also competed Saturday at the Pasco Invitational. At Colfax, 1B and 2B schools squared off, with Waitsburg athletes posting 22 personal records and three season records. For the boys, Landon Callas led the way winning the 110m and 300m hurdles, and scoring a personal best time of 11.34 in the 100 meters...
POMEROY – The Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team traveled to Pomeroy on April 5 for what turned into a pitchers' duel that took the game into extra innings. DW prevailed, 1-0 after a wild ninth inning. D-W struggled at the plate, always seeming to hit the ball to a fielder. The team had only one hit through eight innings. Pomeroy tallied six hits, but was unable to score. The game remained scoreless until the ninth inning, when Brandon Boudrieau was hit by a pitch, taking one in the knee. Josh H...
DAYTON – The Dayton softball team hosted Desales in a double-header Friday, and lost both games, 7-5 and 12-6. The first game was a hard-fought battle, with the lead changing throughout the game, before the Lady Bulldogs fell, 7-5, in nine innings. Dayton tied the score at three after five innings, but Desales brought in two runs in the top of the seventh. In the bottom of the seventh, Destiny Brincken got on base on an error. Tatumn Laughery then bunted for a base hit. After an out, Heidi Dobbs grounded out to first, advancing the runners. W...
MILTON-FREEWATER – Dayton and Waitsburg track teams traveled to Milton-Freewater on Friday to take part in the "Carnival of Speed" track and field meet. Waitsburg senior Emily Adams brought home two first-place medals. She won the 800 meters, with a time of 2:26.86, and the triple jump with a distance of 33 feet. Adam's time of 22:08.68 was good enough to put her in second place in the 3000 meter. Freshman Kirsten Miller was sixth in the 300-meter hurdles for Waitsburg, with a time of 55.20. She...
DEER PARK –Waitsburg's Emily Adams brought home three wins at the Deer Park Invite, a large invitational meet here on Friday. Adams won the 400-meter and 1600-meter races, with times of 1:03.01 and 12:04.34. She also leapt to 33-00.00, to get the win in the the triple jump. Adams achieved personal records in the 400 and season best scores in the 1600 and the triple jump. Also for the Waitsburg girls, Kirsten Miller took third in the 300-meter hurdles, with a time of 57.52. On the boys' side f...
