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PULLMAN — The women’s volleyball and soccer teams for Washington State University (WSU) both rose in rankings after a perfect week from both teams. The WSU football team also received one vote for ranking in the top-25, but need more wins to move up. They started their season winning 50-24 against the Colorado State Rams Saturday, Sept. 2. The volleyball team had three games over the weekend, winning all three of them. They started their streak Friday, Sept. 1 against Northwestern State, winning all three sets, 25-13, 25-11, 25-11. Their nex...
COLFAX - Colfax High School sports are in full swing this week. Football will host their second-straight home game of the season, while the volleyball team will start their season on the road. The Bulldogs football team is hosting the Chewelah Cougars at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 8. The Bulldogs are 0-1 on the season after taking a heavy 49-14 loss at the hands of the Lind-Ritzville Broncos. JP Wigen was a bright spot for the Bulldogs early, scoring a touchdown on the first drive for the Bulldogs, but they could not produce much else until the la...
TEKOA — The Tekoa-Rosalia football team opened their football season with a rough 32-0 loss at the hands of the DeSales Irish Friday, Sept. 1. DeSales scored all 32 points of the game in the first quarter, scoring three touchdown runs, one touchdown pass, and scored on a safety from the defense to help the Irish reach 32 points. The game was then called off after the first quarter as the Irish put up a quick 32 points in the 12 minute quarter, with no sign of slowing down anytime soon. The Timberwolves managed to reach only three first downs i...
OAKESDALE — The reigning back-to-back state volleyball champions for the 1B division returned to the court Thursday, Aug. 31, at the Freeman Jamboree in Rockford. The Oakesdale Volleyball team took on all four teams that were at the Jamboree. The varsity teams that attended the event were: Oakesdale, Freeman, West Valley and East Valley. The first game for the Nighthawks was against West Valley. The teams split one set each, with Oakesdale losing the first set 19-25, then took the second set 25-23. The next game for Oakesdale was against E...
COLFAX - The Colfax Bulldogs started their 2023 football season against the number three ranked team in state, the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos. The Broncos were all over the Bulldogs after a shaky start, putting up all 49 of their points in the first half. "This has been their four year build up, and they proved that they were the number three team in the state tonight," head coach Mike Morgan said post game. Morgan praised his opponents for playing a clean, respectful game, and giving the Bu...
ST. JOHN - The football season started one day early for the St. John-Endicott (SJEL) Eagles this year. They opened their season Thursday, Aug. 31 against the Garfield-Palouse (GAR-PAL) Vikings. Last year, the two teams met twice, with SJEL winning both of them. The first game was a 55-0 blowout by SJEL, and the second was much closer, but SJEL pulled out the 54-48 victory. Thursday, Aug. 31 saw SJEL lead from start to near finish, the only time the Vikings had the lead was with seven minutes...
PULLMAN — The final blow to the PAC-12 conference hit Friday, Sept. 1, as two of the remaining four PAC-12 schools announced departures from the conference to head to the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Stanford and The University of California, Berkeley (Cal) have departed for the ACC, a conference which now will have 18 members, including 17 for football after Southern Methodist University (SMU) was also added to the conference along with the Cardinal and Golden Bears, staring in the 2024-25 season. With the departure, Washington State U...
PULLMAN — The Pullman Greyhounds will host two volleyball matches and two football matches in the middle of September. On Thursday, Sept. 7, the Greyhounds volleyball team will host Cheney High School in Pullman. The game is set for first serve at 7 p.m. On Tuesday, Sept. 12, the team will head to Spokane to take on Ferris at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14 will see the Greyhounds host University High School from Spokane at 7 p.m. in Pullman. The Greyhound football team has a home game Friday, Sept. 8, against Moscow High School. Then, on T...
WHITMAN COUNTY — All around Whitman County, the 1B volleyball teams start their season after football took all the glory of last week. The St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse (SJEL) football team lost their first district game of the season last Thursday, Aug. 31, to Garfield-Palouse (GAR-PAL) 36-32. SJEL will have a chance to event their record Thursday, Sept 7, as they host a non-district game against the Wilbur-Creston-Keller Wildcats in St. John. The game is set to kick off at 7 p.m. After defeating SJEL last Thursday, Aug 31, the GAR-PAL Vikings h...
ST. JOHN - Before the 2023 St. John-Endicott (SJE) volleyball fall season can get underway, one of their players is already making headlines in her community. Kaitlyn Hough announced that she has committed to play volleyball at Linfield University in 2024, after she graduates from SJE high school this upcoming spring. Hough started playing volleyball when she was in sixth grade, about age 12. Playing in college was always her goal. "I always kind of knew that I would want to play college volleyb...
WHITMAN COUNTY — The summer has ended, school is back in session, and the 1B Whitman County teams are ready to make names for themselves this year. Football, volleyball, and cross country are all set to start this week. St. John-Endicott (SJE) is set to open their football season one day earlier than most. They are hosting the first game of the season Thursday, August 31, against Garfield-Palouse, the game is set to start at 7 p.m. SJE also has their second game of the season on a Thursday, with the game being another home game against W...
COLFAX — JD Peterson, recent graduate from Colfax High School, and leader of the 2023Colfax baseball team, was selected to the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association (WSBCA) team for B Baseball. There were around 80 schools chosen from by the committee. “I was very happy to see that JD was selected for the WSBCA All State Team. He had an outstanding career as a Bulldog baseball player and finished his senior season playing the best baseball he played in a Colfax uniform, Colfax will miss him next year, but I’m very excited to see him c...
COLFAX - The school year has started for Colfax, and with that, fall sports are right around the corner. Starting Friday, September 1, Colfax opens their football season. They will host Lind-Ritzville with kick off set for 7 p.m. "Everyone in the league predicted them to be first, rightfully so. They're big, strong, and physical, we gotta play a really good game," head coach Mike Morgan said. Morgan also said that his Bulldogs are "ready to hit somebody other than us." This game is the first...
OAKESDALE - After an impressive season in 2021-22, the Oakesdale Nighthawks volleyball team won the state title, finishing the regular season 24-0, and 9-0 in district play. The team lost eight sets all season during 2021-22, winning 72 sets along the way. There was not much opportunity for the Nighthawks to improve on the stellar season two years ago, however, they managed to do just that last season. In the 2022-23 season, they went 24-0 and 9-0 in districts, winning a second-straight state...
PULLMAN — After the first two weeks of the soccer season, the Washington State University (WSU) soccer team, currently ranked 23 in the country, are off to a perfect start. After a solid 2-0 start in week one, WSU headed down to Portland to take on the Pilots. After a defensive battle, WSU pulled out the 1-0 victory. This was the first time in program history that WSU has defeated the Pilots. Goalkeeper Nadia Cooper came up clutch for the Cougars on the day, totaling 10 saves, which matches her single-game career high. As the game was a d...
ST. JOHN – For the second time this summer sprint boat races made waves at Webb's Slough. Participants and fans from all over the state and Pacific Northwest came to enjoy the sprint boat races Saturday, Aug. 26. The weekend-long event started with the St. John golf scramble tournament Friday, Aug. 25. After the tournament, the Show and Shine event happened, where fans met the racers, saw the boats, and even sit in them to learn more about them before Raceday. The racing started at 10 a.m. on S...
PULLMAN — Washington State University is getting a new indoor practice facility. A groundbreaking ceremony for the facility that will replace “the bubble” is set for Saturday, Sept. 9. The date aligns with WSU’s home football game against the Wisconsin Badgers. On Sept. 15, the week following the groundbreaking, the university regents will consider the final approval of the project. A final budget, financial plan and design have yet to be released for the indoor practice center. In May, officials estimated the project will cost $27.5 million...
PULLMAN - The Washington State University women's soccer team scored six goals in two games to remain undefeated in its 2023 campaign. Thursday saw WSU defeat Eastern Washington University, 3-1. It took three goals in the second half of the game to earn the home victory in front of one of the biggest crowds ever at The Lower Soccer Field. The game Sunday against Texas A&M once again saw WSU claw from behind to win. This time, the Cougar women were behind after 14 minutes, but quickly responded...
PULLMAN — After ending the 2022 volleyball season undefeated in conference play and finishing fourth in the state 2A tournament, the Greyhound girls are practicing for the 2023 season. Pullman finished last year with an overall record of 16-5, including a 10-0 record in the 2A Greater Spokane League. The local girls ended with league and district championships. The Greyhounds posted an undefeated league record in 2020 and 2019, when they went 12-0. Heading into state last year as the No. 9 seed, there were not many expectations for the Greyhoun...
PULLMAN - Moving the Lentil Festival from a two-day event to a single day created a morning, afternoon and evening full of sports activities for this years Saturday, Aug. 19. More than 100 runners took part in Saturday morning's Tase T. Lentil 5k Fun Run, which started by the train depot, looped around the community, as well as around the Washington State University campus. Runners raced by Beasley Coliseum, where the men's and women's basketball teams play, and Martin Stadium, where the...
COLFAX — Following an impressive 2022 season, the Bulldogs girls volleyball team, under Coach Megan Dorman, are looking to return to state. Dorman is in her second year as head coach. But she’s not new to Whitman County. Before coaching Colfax, she coached at the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse girls from 2007-19. Colfax volleyball runs through her family. Her mother, Sue Doering, coached for Colfax starting in 1998. Before then, Doering coached Deer Park. “I played for my mom in junior high and high school until I graduated from Colfax in 2001,...
COLFAX - The fall sports season has begun, but challenges are already cropping up that have changed some practice times for teams. The smoke from wildfire fires in Spokane and Whitman Counties has made it difficult area football teams to practice outdoors. And with limited gymnasium space available for multiple teams to practice at each school, schedule adjustments have been made. In Tekoa-Rosalia, practices for the week had been moved indoors for all sports. Middle and high school football and...
ST. JOHN — Looking to build off the successes of last season is the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse (SJEL) football team. The 8-man league Eagles went 5-4 last season, a drastic improvement to their 1-7 overall record in 2021. “Our players developed a tremendous amount of growth, and along the way we developed a sense of team unity,” said head coach John Hergert. Hergert is entering his sixth year coaching organized football. He moved to high school in 2021 after coaching at Endicott-St. John Middle School starting in 2018. He describes his footb...
ST. JOHN — Jenn Johnson, from Roseburg, Ore., going into her sixth year as head volleyball coach, is ready and ecstatic for the start of the upcoming season. Since moving to St. John in 2015, Johnson has been coaching at the school. She was an assistant coach for three years before taking over the head coach duties. Johnson is also the St. John-Endicott PE/Health teacher, going into her second year. She’s a city girl turned farm girl, and could not be happier. Johnson started her own volleyball journey in fifth grade. “I played all throu...
COLFAX — With the upcoming high school sports season set to kick-off in about two weeks, Colfax high school is gearing up for the start of the 2023 football season. The Bulldogs are returning six starters from last season, but lost eight starters from 2022, the Bulldogs are in need of new starters and bodies to make an immediate impact. Colfax also graduated 10 lettermen players from last season, but are returning 10 letterman players for the upcoming season, where the Bulldogs first game is Friday, September 1, a home game against Lind-Ritzvil...
