It’s A Sweep! WP Over Irish

WAITSBURG - The Irish may have put up a fight against WP teams the last few weeks, but it wasn't enough to escape the broom.

From middle school to high school and football to vol­leyball, it was a clean sweep for WP competitors against DeSales, their arch rivals from Walla Walla.

Starting out with the Cardinals' high school varsity volleyball team taking the Irish in three games 25-13, 26-24 and 25-12 on Sept. 24, the streak continued a week later with the WP Mustangs' 34-25 win over their DeSales middle school counterparts in football. On Friday, the Cardinals football team beat the Irish for a second year in a row. The last time that happened, accord­ing to local sports historian Ross Hamann, was in 1972 and 1973 when Mike DeCoria was quarterback and Marshall Maib one of the better running backs. Last week's 27-14 win over DeSales was by a bigger margin than the 35-28 squeeker in 2009. To top off the perfect storm against the Irish teams this year, WP's middle school volleyball team defeated De­Sales in three games 25-11, 25-12 and 15-12 last Thursday. In the first game, Samantha Fedderson served for the first seven points of the game, and Jaidyn Brown served for the last fivepoints. In game two, Paige Wood served for 16 straight points.