Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON- The sultry heat outside was no comparison to the heat inside the Dayton gym last Wednesday night as the WP Cardinals and the Dayton Bulldogs went head-to-head battling point-for-point in their season opener. Dayton came out on top, winning the match in five games. Waitsburg scored first in the opener and kept the lead until Dayton went on a scoring spree and tied the game up at 14. Dayton rode that momentum to a 17-14 lead. After a series of long vollies the Cardinals got the serve back...
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals took its first league victory at home Tuesday night as they defeated the Walla Walla Valley Acedemy Knights in three games. It was a faced- paced match with the teams battling point for point in the first game. With Waitsburg up 11-10, the Knights called the first time out in hopes of breaking WP's momentum and take control of the game. A combination of a solo block by Dionna Baker, a Jennifer Nichols serving ace and a Ronnie Hulce kill would contribute to a...
PILOT ROCK-The WP Cardinals were at it again last Friday night in Pilot Rock blasting the Rockets with a 60-14 non-league victory. It took a little more than the 65 seconds it took last week to get the Cardinals up and going, but once they started, they didn't stop. The Cardinals offense ended the night with 583 yards, with the defense holding the Rockets to just four first downs and 124 yards total offense. "We started out kind of flat footed for whatever reason," said WP head coach Jeff...
WAITSBURG-The WP "Boys of Fall" were back in action under their Friday night lights starting the season off with a 48-18 victory over the Davenport Gorillas last Friday. Buzz about the opening game began early in the afternoon Friday with local farmers outside the grocery store discussing who they thought would be filling in for last year's graduating seniors. WP Cardinal fans began arriving as early as an hour before kick-off to grab their favorite spot and ensure that they didn't miss a...
WAITSBURG-The WP Lady Cardinals Volleyball Team are licking some bruises and soaking sore muscles after a very long and hot first week of practice . Angie Potts begins her first season as head coach for the Cardinals and Wendy Richards will assist. The Lady Cards lost four 2010 seniors, including league standout Genesis Pearson who now plays for Blue Mountain Community College. Seven seniors return to Kison court to put in their bid for the district title. Leading that group are outside hitter...
WAITSBURGThe lure of cotton candy and corn dogs will soon be in the air as local kids gear up for the Walla Walla County Fair & Frontier Days and the Columbia County Fair in early September. Waitsburg Corral Wranglers and FFA members began their quest for a shot at the Grand Champion title last spring at the Waitsburg Jr. Livestock Show. Six-year-old Zach Norris won the crowd and judges over last spring in the youth swine open class division showing "Party Pig." Norris plans on stepping up his g...
WAITSBURG- Labor Day is just around the corner. With harvest still in full swing, many families may be skipping that usual weeklong vacation in search for a quick getaway to rejuvenate the soul before school and seeding begins. Right in our own back yard is a little piece of paradise that my best friend and I rediscovered while looking for a place to take a dip in the Touchet River. Our usual spot by the train trestle along Highway 12 near Huntsville was occupied that day, so we decided to take...
CENTRALIA-Waitsburg senior softball standout Hailey Goenen participated in a three-day invitational softball tournament beginning last Monday July 25. Sponsored by Fast Pitch Northwest, the tournament is in its second year running. Selection process for the tournament began back in June. WP softball head coach Angie Potts nominated players for the first round S.P.A.R.Q. testing at Columbia Basin College's softball day camp. Here, the players are scored on their speed, agility, and core...
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla Transmission Babe Ruth team ended its summer league season with a win and a loss in the playoff tournament. The loss left them one game shy of the championship game. Last Saturday night the Waitsburg-based team faced the Eastgate Lyons in the first round of the tournament. The team wasted no time warming up to plate. Dalton Estes slammed his first pitch, sending it over the fence for a three-run home run in the top of the first inning. The Lions answered right back...
WAITSBURG - Local 4H and FFA groups came to the Fairgrounds this last weekend for the annual Waitsburg Junior Livestock show as they have for more than half a century. Youths as young as six years old were out in force to strut their animals' stuff in the arena for the chance at the Grand Champion title. Blue and red ribbons were awarded in all classes and each division's reserve and grand champions competed for the overall Grand Champion honors that came with tack prizes, gift certificates and...
PRESCOTT- Summer vacation starts Friday for hundreds of kids in the Touchet Valley. It will be a time filled with family outings, youth programs, sports camps and many other activities, but one summer pass time still is more popular in the valley than any other: swimming. "Our swimming pool is extremely important," Dayton City Clerk Trina Cole said. "This is something the children look forward to." Valley pools are even popular with families in Walla Walla, which no longer has a functional outdo...
HUNTSVILLE-Spring has finally arrived and along with it, are gardens that need weeding, flower beds that need mulching, ponds that need cleaning and flowers that need planting. Just off Highway 12 in Huntsville is a gardener's new little helper. No, we're not talking about "Buddy,"the black lab who meets you at the gate. Rather, it's what's behind the gate that makes you want to grab a wagon and stuff it full of all the color spread over half an acre south of the highway. John Palmer of Ace...
PRESCOTT- The WP Tigers lost a double header to the Desales Irish last Tuesday in Prescott. The Irish held a two run lead until the bottom of the fourth when Tre Brannock hit an RBI double scoring the Tigers first run. By the bottom of the sixth the Irish lead 4-1. Zach Bartlow took a freebee from the Irish mound followed by a single from Dalton Estes. Another Brannock RBI and a hit from Matt Hamilton put two more runs on the board for the Tigers but they came up short losing the opener 4-3 ....
TOUCHET - The Lady Tigers suffered a 9-2 nonleague defeat against the Touchet Indians Monday, but it didn't matter from a playoff perspective. After splitting a double header with the De- Sales Irish last Tuesday in Prescott, WP is the No. 1 seed in the SE2B and play the No. 2 league seed at districts May 20 at Trac in Pasco. The opener against De- Sales last week was scoreless until the bottom of the third when Alyssa Hafen made it safely on base then continued to steal her way across the plate...
COLFAX-The WP track teams competed in a District 7 track meet last Tuesday in Colfax. The men added another first place victory to their season with a total score of 108 points. The women finished second behind the dominating Colfax team. Ronnie Hulce led the Cardinals with three first place finishes. She put in a stellar performance in the 300 meter hurdles, finishing with a time of 49.49. She set a new personal record and broke the existing school record which she herself had set last year as a sophomore. Hulce also hopped, skipped and...
DAYTON-The WP Tigers swept the Dayton Bulldogs in a league double-header last Saturday in Dayton. But they weren't as effective against arch rival DeSales on Tuesday, losing 3-4 and 8-2 in their doubleheader with the Irish. Their league games done, the Tigers now await the outcome of other league games to see if they're in the running for the playoffs. More details and results of Tuesday's game will appear in next week's edition of the Times. This weekend, the Tigers came out in full force...
DAYTON- T h e Lady Tigers Tuesday spl i t their doubleheader against the Irish following a similar result against the Bulldogs this weekend. Those scores mean WP is now tied with Dayton for first in the league. The Tigers lost their first game against DeSales 3-5, but won game two 8-1. More details will be in the Times next week. WP and Dayton Bulldogs split a league double- header last Friday afternoon in Dayton. The Bulldogs took the first game in eight innings 7-6 while the Tigers took the...
RICHLAND- The WP Tigers split a double-header with the Liberty-Christian Patriots Saturday in Richland. Tiger Zach Bartlow took the mound in game one throwing two of his five strike outs of the day in the first inning. The Tigers' offense backed it up with three runs and took a 3-0 lead to start the third inning. A single from Bartlow and Dalton Estes loaded the bases and a double from Matt Hamilton scored two. The Patriots were held scoreless in the bottom of the third with three up, three...
RICHLAND - The WP Lady Tigers softball team kept their perfect league record by sweeping the Liberty Christian Patriots Saturday in Richland. They got off to an explosive start with the bats and had the Patriots ten-runned by the top of the second inning in the opener. Sophmore Jennifer Nichols took control from the mound in game one striking out six Patriots and only allowing one hit. The Tigers combined their fierce swings for 18 total hits. Taylor Moon, Dionna Baker, and Hailey Goenen...
WALLA WALLA - The Waitsburg-Prescott boys and girls track teams came away with first-place finishes in last Wednesday's meet at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla. The girls had a total score of 102 with the nearest competitor being DeSales with 68 points. The boys blew everyone out of the water with a total of 134 points with the nearest competitor also being DeSales, at 50 points behind. Kristin Potter put in another top-notch performance, clenching three first-place honors in the 100, 200, and...
WAITSBURG - Shannon Elliot was living a typical American lifestyle. She worked two jobs to make ends meet and spent her free time with friends and family. She enjoyed NASCAR races with her father, playtime with her nieces and nephews, and high school pillow talk with her sisters. In high school, Shannon played volleyball in Waitsburg, couldn't get enough of softball, and she was a cheerleader. Her friends enjoyed her carefree, loving personality and huge smile. She was the All-American girl....
PRESCOTT - Coming off a nearly three-week break since their last outing, the Waitsburg- Prescott Lady Tigers swept the TOR Nighthawks in a league double header. The Tigers took the first game 11-6 with Jennifer Nichols getting things started from the circle with a solid performance, striking out six Nighthawks and walking just three. "Limiting the amount of batters walked is the biggest thing," said head coach Angie Potts. "If you can take away the freebies and not just give runs away, you're go...
PRESCOTT - The WP Tigers dropped the ball here Saturday to lose another league double-header against the TOR Spartans. Zach Bartlow pitched six innings for the Tigers in the opener, throwing three strike outs. Dalton Estes seemed to get the Tigers started with his single to center and one runner on, but with two outs, Matt Hamilton's grounder beat him to the bag. The Tigers were left scoreless with two runners on. Joe Purdin made a diving catch for a line drive at second to spark up a little defense, but a bad hop at the plate from an outfield...
WALLA WALLA - The WP track team had a phenomenal day last Wednesday at Borleske Stadium. It was no wonder that the skies above opened up with a downpour during the event because these Cardinals were on fire. The lady Cards took home the second place title with 62 points losing out to Asotin. They missed out on scoring opportunities from a lack of normal races with unavailable team members due to injury and illness. "Kristen Potter and Ronnie Hulce both had outstanding days," said head coach...
WAITSBURG-The Waitsburg Booster club held a "Not So Silent Auction" and Spaghetti feed last Friday night to raise funds for a new press box on the football field. While attendance was a little lower than expected, approximately $4,000 was raised for the project. That brings the boosters closer to their $25,000 goal with a total of $10,000 raised to date. Items up for bid ranged from gardening goodies and barbecue gear, to a sevennight stay in a Matzatlan five-star resort. The truck load of...
