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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - A female Tour of Walla Walla cyclist was injured and reportedly rendered unconscious in a bicycle crash that took place on McKay-Alto Road north of Waitsburg during the race Sunday afternoon. Waitsburg Ambulance Service responded to the call and transported the cyclist to Waitsburg Elementary School playground where a Life Flight helicopter landed at approximately 4:25 p.m. to pick up the victim. She was reportedly being transported to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland. The...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg’s current mayor and city council members ran unopposed in the 2015 elections this month and were sworn in by City Admininstrator Randy Hinchliffe at the April 15 City Council meeting. Mayor Walt Gobel said he was disappointed to see that Izzy the Camel failed to receive his traditional write-in vote this year. Hinchliffe said 157 voters cast ballots which is 30 shy of the year prior. Gobel was re-elected mayor, for his third one-year term, with 117 votes. The following ind...
WALLA WALLA – Dayton senior Kaitlyn Andrews continued her dominance of javelin and long jump events last week, winning those, as well as the triple jump and 100 meter race at the Irish Invite here on April 15. WP senior Kobe Brown, competing in his first meet this year, also won all four of his events. Brown captured the high jump, long jump and two hurdles events: 110 and 300 meters. The WP boys had a strong team showing, racking up 189 points for second place, only 16 points shy of the w...
PASCO – In a field of more than 2,000 athletes from 100-plus northwest high schools, four Touchet Valley athletes gave strong performances Saturday at the Pasco Invite track and field meet. WP Senior Kobie Brown had a personal best time of 41.15 seconds in the 300 meter hurdles, which was good enough for 12th place. Brown also finished sixth in the long jump, with a distance of 20 feet, six inches. He was 16th in the high jump, at 5 feet, 10 inches. "He will soon be under 41 and will be in t...
PRESCOTT – The defending state champion DeSales baseball team came to Prescott Saturday, and the WP Tigers gave them all they could handle. But the Tigers came up just short in both games. A seventh-inning run gave the Irish a 1-0 victory in the first game, and three extra-inning DeSales runs in the ninth were the Tigers undoing in the second game – a 6-3 loss. The first game was a pitching masterpiece between WP's Jacob Dunn and DeSales' Cam Richman. Richman was a little better, throwing a no-...
WP pitcher Jaidyn Brown . . ....
GARFIELD – The Dayton girls’ softball team showed the offense they’re capable of, as they swept Garfield-Palouse/Oakesdale here Saturday. The Lady Bulldogs scored 29 runs on 20 hits, including three home runs in the first game. In game 1, pitcher Savannah McFarland gave up three runs on four hits for the win. Hanna Becker, Lexie Ramirez and Caitlyn Robins each had home runs. Becker had five RBIs. In the second game, Dayton took a 4-3 lead into the fifth inning before breaking the game open...
