Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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TOUCHET – The Dayton softball team took on the Touchet Indians in a single game here Thursday, and won easily, 7-1. Pitcher Megan Robins gave up only one hit, and the Lady Bulldogs took advantage of four Indian errors, as they racked up seven runs on only five hits. "We had a solid game in Touchet with our pitching, defense, and timely hits," said Dayton assistant coach Desirae Jones. "We ran the bases well, and moved girls when we had the chance." Robins got six strikeouts and walked only t...
ASOTON – The WP girls' softball team lost two league games to Asotin here Saturday, 11-3 and 5-4. In game 1, the Tigers struggled early, giving up seven runs in the first two innings. After taking a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, they couldn't get much going offensively. "We got ourselves in a hole in the first game and just weren't mentally ready to play," said WP Coach Angie Potts. "We started to play with more focus in the later innings but weren't able to make up the run difference." W...
PRESCOTT – The WP Tiger Baseball team came away with a big 8-2 win at home against Touchet on March 31, on the strength of a big seven-run sixth inning. Strong pitching from Talen Larsen and Jacob Dunn allowed the Tigers to hold the Indians to two runs, while scattering six hits. "We struggled early putting the ball in play, and left some guys stranded on base," said WP Coach Dustin Snedigar. "I'm pleased we stayed patient, and were able to adjust late and put the ball in play. The defense p...
MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. – The WP boys track team took third place Friday at the giant Carnival of Speed track at Shockman Field here. The meet featured schools of all sizes and, among at least 25 participating, WP's point total was surpassed only by the two largest, Wa-Hi and Pendleton. WP got three individual wins at the meet: Owen Lanning in the 300 meter hurdles, Travis Crockett in the 200 meters and Emily Adams in the girls' 800 meters. According to WP Coach Jeff Bartlow, Lanning, a s...
MILTON-FREEWATER – Dayton's Kaitlyn Andrews continued her domination of javelin events, taking first place at the Carnival of Speed meet held here Friday. Andrews' throw of 121 feet, 10 inches, outdistanced the second place finisher by more than 14 feet. Andrews, a senior, also won the long jump by one inch, with a jump of 16 feet, 4 inches. She finished second in the triple jump and fourth in the 100 meters. On the strength of Andrews' points alone, Dayton finished 7th out of 25 teams at the m...
LAPWAI, Ida. – The Waitsburg-Prescott boys’ track team easily won the first Southeast District 9 1B/2B track meet this year, which was held here last week. The Cardinals outpointed a strong Asotin boys’ team, 191 to 174. Senior Owen Lanning and sophomore Travis Crockett each tallied three individual wins at the meet. Lanning captured both the 110 meter and 300 meter hurdles events. He also won the triple jump and took third in the long jump. Crockett won the 100 meter and 200 meter races and t...
DAYTON – On a beautiful sunny Saturday here, the Dayton girls' softball team lost a heartbreaker to River View, 15-10, in ten innings. The Lady Bulldogs scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the score at seven and send the game into extra innings. Those runs came on a clutch two-RBI single by Kellie Moore. Taylor Frame and Madison Mings had started off that inning with doubles. Moore was 4-for-4 on the game. River View scored three runs in the top of the ninth, but Dayton m...
POMEROY – The WP baseball team was 2-1 for the week last week, beating Mac-Hi Thursday, 7-2 at home, and then splitting a double header here Friday against Pomeroy, 13-7 and 5-6. On Friday, the Tigers started got a rough start in both games, giving up four runs in each of the first innings. After falling behind 6-2, in the first game, WP rallied for 11 runs in the third, fourth and fifth innings, to put the game away. Sophomore pitcher Tyler Fedderson relieved Jacob Dunn in the third inning a...
LAPWAI, Ida. – Dayton senior Kaitlyn Andrews won the javelin, long jump and 100 meter dash, as she led the Bulldog girls to a fourth place finish at the Southeast District 9 1B/2B league meet here last week. Andrews won the javelin by more than sixteen feet. She also finished second in the triple jump event, which was won by WP’s Emily Adams. Dayton junior Angella Mascal also had a big day, finishing second in the 200 meters, fourth in the 100 and anchoring the third-place 4x100 relay team. Car...
DAYTON – The Dayton softball team scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh and final inning to cap a big comeback and beat Colton in the first game of a Saturday double-header, 12-11. After giving up nine runs in the first two innings, the Dayton girls chipped away at the Colton lead, scoring two runs in each of the first three innings and one run each in the fourth and sixth. Trailing 11-8 going into the bottom of the seventh, Dayton got the runs they needed. Taylor Frame hit a two-run s...
RICHLAND - After falling behind 4-0 in the third inning, the Waitsburg-Prescott baseball team got their bats going and came back to defeat Liberty Christian, 12-5, in a game here Friday. Pitchers Talen Larsen, Kyle Gradwohl and Jacob Dunn combined to give up five runs on seven hits. Gradwohl got the win. The three pitchers got a total of ten strikeouts. The Tigers struggled at the plate all game, stranding eight runners. But they took advantage of late-inning pitching struggles by the Patriots...
PENDLETON – WP senior Owen Lanning had a stellar day at the Buck Track Classic meet in Pendleton last week, taking first place in the triple jump and second in the long jump and 300 meter hurdles. Lanning was also fourth in the 110 meter hurdles. The large meet here included teams from fifteen northeast Oregon schools, from 1A to 5A, as well as three 2B schools (WP, College Place and Walla Walla Valley Academy), and one 1A school (Columbia-Burbank) from Washington. Lanning's winning triple j...
RICHLAND – Dayton senior Kaitlyn Andrews won three of the four events she entered at the Hanford High School Invite held here last week. She missed a sweep by one-half inch in the triple jump. The Hanford meet featured teams from six southeast Washington schools, including four A-level schools. The only B schools were Dayton and DeSales. In her specialty, the javelin, Andrews set a new personal record with a throw of 126 feet, 3 inches. Her previous PR was 122'10", which she achieved in her s...
MILTON-FREEWATER – The WP girls’ softball team hit the road Friday for their first game, and fell to a strong Mac-Hi JV team, 6-4. The Lady Cards fell behind early, giving up two runs each in the first and third innings. They responded with four runs of their own in the next three frames, but it wasn’t enough. “For our first full game out I’m pretty pleased with how we did,” said WP Coach Angie Potts. “Since we have some players missing, we started some younger girls and after the first couple...
My Dad gave me an old router awhile back – it’s a wood router, not an internet router. (I have a couple of those, too.) There’s a shop next to my house. I call it that, though it also serves as a home office and a storage unit. I recently decided that, to go along with the router, I needed a router table in the shop. I knew you can build one (if you have a shop) but I wasn’t sure how. So I turned to YouTube. I also knew that people put videos of themselves up on YouTube showing how to do things,...
PRESCOTT – Waitsburg-Prescott baseball Coach Dustin Snedigar knows that if his team is successful in its league, he'll have one of the best teams in the state. "DeSales has won the last two state (2B) championships," Snedigar said. "Last year they lost to Asotin in the first round, and still went on to win it all." On top of that, the coach said that Tri-Cities Prep is much improved this year, with a left-handed pitcher that's very tough. "I think we'll be right in there," he said. With the c...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg-Prescott track coach Jeff Bartlow is enthusiastic about his boys' track team this year, and yet disappointed with the girls' turnout. "We only have four girls out, which is disappointing," he said, "but they'll get some great experience in individual events." The one veteran returning girl is sophomore distance runner Emily Adams. "Emily's been working out all winter and she's in great shape," Bartlow said. "She should do well in the 800, 1,600 and 3,200 (meters). She a...
PASCO – The Dayton girls' basketball team needed one more win to make the trip to the Hardwood Classic state finals tournament in Spokane this weekend. But in their regional game against the White Swan Cougars here Saturday, they came up short, taking a 50-41 loss, which ended their season. The Lady Bulldogs finished with a 17-5 record for the season. The Lady Bulldogs fell behind early. Against a tenacious full-court press from the outset, Dayton couldn't get its offense going. White Swan h...
It’s hard to feel bad about the world during a week like this. That’s because spring training has begun. As you read this, position players (that’s what they call non-pitchers or catchers) are reporting to major league training camps in Arizona and Florida. (Pitchers and catchers showed up last week.) The news from Washington (D.C.) and the Middle East may be dismal, but the Mariners are tied for first. So are the Cubs and the Mets. Hope “springs” eternal, as the “Cactus” and “Grapefruit...
WALLA WALLA – Cold shooting and turnovers plagued the Dayton girls' basketball team Saturday night, as they lost to Colfax here, 47-29, in the final round of the 2B District 7/9 sub-regional tournament. The Lady Bulldogs still advance to the 2B state round of 16, as #2 seed. They will play White Swan at Chiawanna High School in Pasco at 10 a.m. Saturday. Dayton and Colfax both struggled to get anything going in the first quarter Saturday, as Dayton held on to a 1-0 lead until less than four m...
SPOKANE – With cold shooting hands and facing an unfamiliar defensive scheme, the Dayton girls' basketball team fell behind quickly in their sub-regional matchup here Monday afternoon against Northwest Christian. The Lady 'Dogs trailed 13-3 at the end of the first quarter, and struggled to get anything going. With about five minutes to go in the first half, Jenna Phillips downed a three-pointer and quickly stole the ball back and drove for a short jumper to draw to within eight, 18-10. But D...
SPOKANE – The Waitsburg-Prescott boys' basketball team's season ended Monday afternoon, after the Cardinals lost their sub-regional playoff game here to Wilbur-Creston, 84-72. A frustrating third quarter saw Wilbur-Creston score 34 points, and WP's 11-point halftime lead erased, as they were outscored in that frame, 34-14. The Cardinals trailed 59-50 after three. "We ran into a buzz saw," said WP coach Tavis Crittenden of Wilbur's third-quarter performance. "I've never been involved in a 3...
Preliminary Results: Yes 497 (71%) No 203 (29%) DAYTON – Voters in the city of Dayton overwhelmingly approved a measure Tuesday that will increase the sales tax rate in the city from 8.1% to 8.3%. More than 70 percent of voters said yes to the measure. Turnout was just under 45 percent. In December, the Dayton City Council approved putting the measure before voters. With its passage, the City expects to collect approximately $69,000 per year in additional revenues due to the increase. Dayton w...
The newspaper business has changed a lot since the first issue of the Waitsburg Times was published in (get this) 1878. For example, it was some time after that that they started putting in photographs. The beginnings of this newspaper, which (without fail, as far as I know) has been published every week since, preceded such technological icons as the telephone, radio and television. Oh yes, and the internet. For most people in and around Waitsburg in the late 19th century, this was their only s...
WAITSBURG – The Dayton girls' basketball team held on Monday night to defeat a relentless Asotin team, 52-50. The win garnered the Lady 'Dogs the District 9 league tournament and number-one seed going into the sub-regional tournament next week. Dayton moved into Monday's winners' bracket after defeating Tri-Cities Prep in Saturday's first round, 46-37. The Bulldogs faced Asotin, after the Lady Panthers upset league champion DeSales, a team Dayton lost to twice during the regular season – the...
