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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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SUMNER - For the second time in three years, the WP Tiger soccer team traveled to Sunset Stadium for the state soccer championship in their division. But unlike their first appearance in 2011, they were unable to beat the other teams left standing in the final four this weekend. "Our goal was to get to the final four, which is a feat in itself," assistant coach Jay Potts said. "Once we were there, we knew anything could happen. We would have liked to have gone further, but they (pl...
SPOKANE - For the second time in three years, the WP Tigers soccer team made it into the final four for its division and are off to Sumner for the state championship tournament. "We're back," assistant coach Jay Potts said. "That feels great. The boys are really excited about it. About half the team (starters) have been there before and for the other half it's all brand new." The Tigers earned their spot by beating Northwest Christian 1-0 in Spokane on Saturday. Striker Ivan Figueroa scored o...
PRESCOTT - In the first minute of the WP Tigers' second half against St. George Friday, it looked like the home team had a chance of gaining the upper hand against an arch rival that beat them twice before during the regular season. After a scoreless first half, striker Ernesto Valdovinos broke through the Dragons' defenses in the 41st minute and put one in the net on an assist from Jose Pananagua. But then, the team made a classic mistake, assistant coach Jay Potts said. The Tigers got off th...
PASCO - The Lady Bulldogs fought hard to remain in playoff contention, but the effort wasn't quite enough to get them past Davenport or TriCities Prep this weekend. "Overall, we had a good season and I see a lot of improvement in individual players," head coach Shannon Turner said about her young team. "It was a good experience to play at the District 7 & 9 Regional Tournament and will help us for next year." Dayton lost both games that could have advanced them to state. The girls lost in t...
CONNELL - After beating Northport on Saturday, the WP Tigers move on to host a tough St. George on Friday and Northwest Christian or Valley Christian on Saturday. Both games are at home in Prescott. The Tigers could not be stopped against winless Northport and against winds of up to 50 miles per hour blowing through the field at Connell. The team logged 16 goals and allowed Northport only one ineffective shot on goal compared to its own barrage of 63 shots. "We kind of knew going in," assistant coach Jay Potts said about their toothless o...
MOSES LAKE - The WP Tigers finished their season 12-4 overall and 4-0 in league, securing the top seed in the soccer playoffs. They face Northport in Connell at 1 p.m. Saturday, and are expected to breeze past this first winless playoff opponent before facing a much tougher team - likely arch rival St. George of Spokane. "We'll be ready to play," assistant coach Jay Potts said about this weekend's first playoff test. "We'll be up for it." The Tigers won their last two games of the season. They beat Irrigon 5-0 on Friday and Moses Lake 4-1 o...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs may have lost their last two games, but the league's third-placed team is going into the district playoffs confident they can play well together, head coach Shannon Turner said. "We're excited," Turner said after seeing that her team could keep its poise against a dominant opponent in Weston McEwen. "We didn't play timid. We played well. Even though we lost, the girls were pumped about how they played against such a strong program." Dayton lost against the...
SPOKANE - The WP Tigers advanced their record to 9-4 Friday, after beating the second-year Valley Christian soccer team 3-0. "We played really well," assistant coach Jay Potts said about his team's first- ever encounter with the Panthers, another young program. In particular, WP took advantage of the scoring opportunities when they presented themselves in the often crowded box in front of their opponents' goal. "They're very defensive- minded," Potts said about the Panthers. "They pack the box and you're scoring not so much against the...
PRESCOTT - If Friday's game against the St. George Dragons is any indication of the Tigers' playoff chances, the team has made improvements. But the 2-0 loss against the powerful opponent from Spokane also means WP isn't quite there yet. "They were the better team Friday," assistant coach Jay Potts said. "But we have more talent and need to get better results. We played really well." Potts said the Tigers, playing at home, controlled the game for most of its duration. At the half, the game was a scoreless standoff. "It was a back and forth...
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs' winning streak came to an end last week with losses against number one Tri Cities Prep and second-place rival Asotin. "This was a tough week for us," head coach Shannon Turner said. "We went five games with both of these teams earlier in the season and only lost by two points in the fifth game. We just didn't go out and play as a team this (past) week." By contrast, Dayton lost to TCP in four sets last Tuesday - 5-25, 21-16 (for Dayton), 10-25 and 21-25, and in three...
BOARDMAN - Sometimes, a loss can be the next best thing to a win, particularly if it's a better loss than the last time. The WP Tigers could not prevail in their second matchup against Riverside in Boardman, but they performed much better than earlier in the season faced with the best team they'll play all season, assistant coach Jay Potts said about Friday's 3-1 loss against the Pirates. "It was a fun game to watch and be a part of," Potts said. "Riverside is the best team we'll see all year. We held our own." The Pirates scored first in the...
DAYTON - It was a good week for the Dayton Bulldogs volleyball team. The girls beat Walla Walla Valley Academy on Thursday, after cruising to victory over the DeSales Irish last Tuesday. "Everyone has been contributing, which has paid off for us with wins," head volleyball coach Shannon Turner said. "These girls have really stepped the last three matches which has made a big difference." Dayton won at home against DeSales in straight sets, 25-21, 25-20 and 25- 12. Madison Mings had 13 k...
SPOKANE - A team might win some games and lose some games, but as long as there's progress underneath it all, there's always a reason to be optimistic. That's the conclusion Jay Potts, assistant coach of the Waitsburg Prescott Tigers, drew after this past week's three games that put the soccer team's record about where it was last year at this time. On Thursday, the Tigers beat the Irigon, Ore., Knights 4-1 on that team's home turf. They lost in a tough game against St. George in Spokane 6-2 Saturday and roared back with a 6-0 win over Moses...
PRESCOTT - Some coaches worry about having enough players to field a team for the season. But that's not Mark Grimm's challenge. He could field two if he had to. The WP Tigers' head soccer coach starts the season with 26 athletes on the roster, including six freshmen and some seven talented forwards/ strikers, giving him plenty of firepower up front. What he doesn't have yet is a solid shield in the back, or a team that has brought together its diverse playing styles into a cohesive syst...
ASOTIN - For a while, it all went as well as it could for the 15-man Dayton Bulldogs squad against a tough opponent playing on home turf near the west bank of the Snake River. "It was back and forth," head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said about his team's game against the Asotin Panthers Friday. "We were shutting them down (offensively)." But with a little more than 4 minutes on the clock before the end of the first half, the Panthers broke out of their cage and went on a rampage, clawing up 20 points and leaving the Bulldogs feeling shr...
SPOKANE - When asked about Saturday's highlights in the Tigers' game against Northwest Christian, assistant coach Jay Potts had just five words. "Ernesto Valdovino and Christian Caro," he said before he went into the many contributions the other players made, and the sweetness of the team's first regular season win against last year's state champions. "We're pretty impressed with ourselves," Potts said about beating the Crusaders at their home field, which he dubbed "a hostile en...
STANFIELD, Ore. - With less than a minute before halftime, the Dayton Bulldogs ended a steady march through Stanfield territory and arrived at the half-yard line, ready to pound it into the end zone. The score was 12-7 in the Tigers' favor, but the momentum was all on Dayton's side. A touchdown would mean going into the break with a lead and the much-needed confidence that comes with it, Dayton head coach Dean Bickelhaupt said. But then the eleventh Bulldog, a freshman, was led to believe there were too many players on the field and ran a...
YAKIMA - With almost its full complement of returning starters, the WP Tigers Tuesday posted its first regular-season win over Riverside Christian, beating the Crusaders 4-0 on their home turf. Barely 5 minutes into regulation time, midfielder Paul Zamora scored on an assist from Ernesto Valdovino, who got one for his team himself 12 minutes into the second half on an assist from Luis Garcia. Unassisted, Garcia gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead in the 79th minute, followed 2 minutes later by the f...
WAITSBURG - As messy as Waitsburg Prescott's victory over Pilot Rock was last week, Friday's 49-6 win over Weston McEwen came up smelling like roses. It was so clean that this weekend's sloppily victorious Seahawks might learn a thing or two from a practice on Cardinal Field. "That was the biggest thing we focused on," head coach Jeff Bartlow said. "We made a lot of improvement and our goals were met that way." Last week, the Cardinals had five turnovers and 110 yards in penalties. This week,...
PRESCOTT - The down- side of getting a generous grant for the town swim- ming pool is that taxpayers get the wrong impression, according to Patsy Adams Warnock, chair of Prescott's Joint Park and Recreation District. Some might think they no longer need to pitch in, she said. To the contrary, the swimming pool's annual maintenance and operations levy relies as much as ever on a critical super-majority of at least 60 percent in the upcoming general election on Nov. 5. The levy calls for about the same amount as last year - $110,000 - to operate...
DAYTON - The number of returning players to Shannon Turner's volleyball team may be the same as last year: six. But there's something different about the core of the Dayton team this year. "I'm pretty positive," Turner said about the 2013 volleyball season that started with Monday's jamboree in Clarkston and gave fans a first look at this year's lady Dogs in their home game against Pomeroy on Tuesday night. "The team chemistry is really good and their confidence is higher," the team's he...
DAYTON - Half an hour after the last lightning strike flashed across the skies over Dayton Thursday night, the Bulldogs and Mac Hi Pioneers took to the field, warmed up and began their game an hour late. After the kickoff, Dayton players - 11 on the field and only three on the bench - marched down to the 4-yard line on a number of tough running plays. Then, on third and goal, quarterback Christian Warner threw a pitch pass to running back Lowden Smith, who was promptly sacked by the Mac Hi defen...
PILOT ROCK, Ore. - The bad news about the Cardinals' first game of the season against Pilot Rock Friday night was the number of turnovers and penalties: five lost fumbles and two big flags that cost WP two 60- yard runs. But the good news is that the team still won convincingly 36-6, that the defense looked strong, that quarterback Owen Lanning had a solid game and that lots of new players got to work out their jitters in the non-league matchup. "We can correct all that," head coach Jeff B...
DAYTON - Anyone hoping to buy, sell or grow pot in the Touchet Valley area under Washington state's new law legalizing marijuana, may have to wait a while. Walla Walla and Columbia counties, whose voters opposed Initiative 502 last year, are drafting ordinances placing a moratorium on such activities until the state's Liquor Control Board has its act together and the rules are clear. And while those ordinances apply only to unincorporated parts of the two counties, their cities are makin...
DAYTON - Bulldogs head coach Dean Bickelhaupt and his players are ready for their first test of the season: Thursday night's matchup against the Mac Hi Pioneers. And it doesn't faze the team to have only 19 eligible players. "We're ready," Bickelhaupt said about the home game that kicks off at 7 pm. "They're excited about it. We'll see how we do." After ending the 2012 season with a 1-8 record, the 'Dogs hope to improve their fortunes with an influx of six freshmen, some of whom Bickelhaupt d...
