Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON – The Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team beat Garfield-Palouse 12-1 in five innings in a home game on March 28. Jacob Dunn threw a great game with seven strikeouts. Kyle Gradwohl came in in the fifth inning and got three strikeouts. The pair combined for a two-hitter. DW had 13 hits on the day, with Dunn going 3 for 3 at the plate including a triple, a double and a single. Chris Philbrook was 3 for 4, including a double. Dunn led the team with three RBIs. Junior Helm, Jeff Dieu and Gradwohl each had two, and Ashton Loper had one. “Bats wer...
DAYTON – Dayton's Hayden Wooldridge won four events at the Dayton Local Schools Invite track meet here on March 28. Teammate Chris Andrews also got two wins. Wooldridge placed first in the long jump with a huge leap of 18-03, a personal best. He also topped the 110 and 300-meter hurdles with times of 17.91 and 48.62 respectively. And he was a member of the first-place 4X100 relay team. Fellow relay teammate Chris Andrews won the 100-meter race, clocking in at 12.65. He also recoreded a p...
WAITSBURG - Last week the Waitsburg girls got their first win of the season over Touchet 25-12, but lost a double header against Pomeroy, 17-12 and 33-18. In the Lady Cardinals' first league game, Devon Harshman hit a grand slam during the fourth inning in the win over the Indians. Lexi Benson went the distance on the mound, striking out four. While the Cards benefited from 16 batters being walked or hit-by-pitch by the Touchet pitchers, they also picked up 19 hits. Leading the hitters was...
DAYTON – On March 21, the Dayton-Waitsburg baseball team opened their season in the wind, rain and cold, with a 12-2 home win over non-league opponent Riverside. DW started the first inning with a bang, with Jacob Dunn striking out two and catcher Kyle Gradwohl making a throw-out at second base, as the first three batters were retired for Riverside. On the offensive side, DW scored early in the game, taking advantage of several Riverside errors, ending the first inning with six runs scored. "Dun...
COLFAX – Waitsburg’s Landon Callas won both the 110 and 300 meter hurdles at the McDougall Invitational track meet here last week, with times of 15.40 and 40.91 respectively. On the girls’ side for Waitsburg, Emily Adams came away with a win in the 1600 meter run with a time of 6:45.64, a second-place finish in the 800 meters at 2:29.84 and a fourth-place finish in the long jump with 32-08.50. Both Dayton and Waitsburg competed at the meet, which consisted of all sized schools, including 4A schools Clarkston and Pullman. For Dayton, Hayden Wool...
KENNEWICK –Dayton Senior Zech Brayan came away with wins in the 1600 and 3200 meter races at the Riverside Invite meet on March 21. Bryan ‘s time for the 1600 was 5:54.49, and he finished at 12:38.37 in the 3200. Teammate Wyatt Johnson took second behind Bryan in the 3200, with a time of 12:53.93. Cal Martin also had a big day, winning in the javelin with a hurl of 141-11’, and taking second in the shot put 38-00’. Martin was also part of the 4x100 relay which took third place with a time of 51 seconds flat. Jennifer Warren won the Triple...
WAITSBURG – Last week, the Waitsburg girls' softball team took on Riverside and Mac-Hi JV. Though the Cards lost both games, they are showing improvement, primarily in the consistency of their pitching, and they have been settling in on defense, decreasing their errors. The Cardinals hosted the Riverside Pirates on March 20, with Riverside coming out on top, 23-2, in a game stopped after five innings. Riverside had the hot bats and scored 11 in the third inning, while Waitsburg struggled with t...
DAYTON - Last week, the Dayton girls’ softball team started their season by beating Riverside 12-7, but then dropping both ends of a double-header against Colton, 6-4 and 20-10. At Riverside (Boardman, Ore.), on March 21, Hannah Becker hit a two-run homer in her first at-bat to help her team jump on top with six runs in the first inning. The offense slowed considerably after the second inning as both teams settled in with solid defense. Destiny Brincken had four RBIs for the day for Dayton. Dayton 6 4 1 0 0 1 0 – 12 runs 11 hits 2 errors Riv...
YAKIMA – Seniors Landon Callas and Emily Adams put in strong performances at Waitsburg's first meet of the season at East Valley High School here Saturday. Callas won the 300-meter hurdles and placed second in the 110 hurdles. Adams placed second in the triple jump, third in the 800 Meters, fourth in the 3200 and 11th in the long jump. The Cardinal track team started their season competing against teams from all over the region at the Papa Wells track meet. The meet consisted of 27 teams from al...
DAYTON – The Dayton High School softball team is looking to repeat a trip to the state tournament this spring. Dayton lost their starting catcher and first basemen from the 2016 season, but is fielding seven of last year's starting lineup. This year, 16 athletes have turned out for the Lady Bulldogs. Overall the Bulldogs will be fielding a young team with just two seniors, Savannah McFarland and Mia Becker, and two juniors, Megan Robins and Hannah Becker. There will be no eighth-grade players t...
WAITSBURG – The 2017 Waitsburg Softball season starts Thursday, with a non-league game against MacHi's JV in Milton-Freewater. The Cardinals are coached by Angie Potts, with assistant coaches Allan Wilson, Josh Wilson (also the middle school coach), Danielle Carpenter and Samantha Henze. Two seniors, Timber Frohreich and Jade Alleman will be leading the team this year. The Cardinals graduated their 2016 starting pitcher, so for 2017 Juniors Taylor Jones and Ariel Sandau, as well as sophomores D...
Dayton-Waitsburg enters first year as combine with experienced Waitsburg pitchers DAYTON – Dayton and Waitsburg High Schools will field a combined baseball team for the 2017 season. It’s the first year for the new baseball combine. This year, 23 young men from the two schools have turned out to play, which presents the opportunity for some JV games (dates to be announced). The combine will bring experience from Waitsburg, along with strong younger players from Dayton. Head coach Shane Loper will be assisted by Johnny Watts. Loper and Watts coa...
Richland – A cold third quarter sunk the Dayton Lady Bulldogs against the Colfax Bulldogs Saturday in Regional 2B playoff action, as the Dayton girls fell, 57-48. However, Dayton is not out of the hunt for the state title. With the #1 RPI ranking, the girls will advance to the round of 12 and play Mabton Wednesday night at 9 p.m. in Spokane. Colfax will receive a bye in the first round and play in the quarter-finals Thursday. Going into halftime, the Dayton girls trailed 21-18, but after the thi...
POMEROY – The Waitsburg Cardinals faced tough competition amongst 17 teams representing regional schools from Washington, Oregon and Idaho at the annual Pomeroy Christmas Tournament on Thursday. Weather once again brought changes to the winter sports schedule as other regional tournaments were cancelled, and Pomeroy accommodated additional teams looking to compete by adding an additional bracket round to the weight classes, as well as girls' brackets. Teams at this year's tournament included a...
Waitsburg 41, Oakesdale37 WAITSBURG – Waitsburg senior Kyle Gradwohl put up 19 points and played tough defense as the Waitsburg boys' basketball team beat the Oakesdale Nighthawks, 41-37 at home on Saturday. The Cards and the Nighthawks got off to a slow start, putting up just 10 combined points in the first quarter, including a Jordan French 3 pointer in the first minute of play. The Nighthawks put their first point on the board with a single free throw with 2:29 left on the clock, followed b...
Oakesdale 47, Waitsburg, 38 WAITSBURG – On Saturday, the Lady Cardinal hosted the Oakesdale Nighthawks. Although Harshman and Araya kept it tough for the Nighthawks under the basket, the Cardinals were unable to overcome errors, leading to a 47-38 victory for the visitors. Waitsburg sputtered at the start, putting up only 14 points in the first half when their shots just wouldn't seem to fall. Not throwing in the towel, the Cardinals came out stronger in the second half. Harshman scored 12, w...
MILTON-FREEWATER – Waitsburg wrestlers traveled to Milton-Freewater on Saturday to compete in their first match of the season, against regional schools of all sizes. Waitsburg Coach Lanny Adams took seven Cardinals and one Dayton Bulldog to the tourney. The team made it to five medal-round matches. Ky Adams placed second, while Tyler Hoffman and Joe Adams each brought home fifth-place medals. In the 138lb class, senior David Just defeated Xavier Trinidad (Southridge) by pin 1:48. Just was a...
DAYTON - For the first time in nearly ten years, Dayton High School has a wrestling team. Sophomore Josh Hartwell will wear Bulldog colors while training in Waitsburg. Josh’s family moved to Dayton about 10 years ago. Josh has always been active and enjoyed any sport where he could use his strength to win, sometimes as a way to let go of his anger without getting in trouble. He said he began asking Dayton if they could have a boxing team while he was still in elementary school, but never found any serious takers. Then he asked about w...
