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OAKESDALE - The Oakesdale Nighthawks girls basketball team wrapped up its season with a dominant 85-20 win over the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves Feb. 3 in Oakesdale, and secured the Wheat Division's second seed in the upcoming 1B District 9 tournament. Oakesdale wasted no time running up the scoring totals in the game – going up 15-0 on its league rivals with just under six minutes to go in the opening quarter. Tekoa-Rosalia scored four points in the first quarter to prevent a shutout in the f...
POMEROY — Several Whitman County wrestlers punched their tickets to the Feb. 11 Regional Tournament in Reardan after competing in Districts/Sub-Regionals on Feb. 4 in Pomeroy. Tekoa-Rosalia, Colfax and Garfield-Palouse all sent wrestlers to regionals, giving Whitman County representatives from all schools who participated in wrestling this past season. For Tekoa-Rosalia, Alexis Taylor finished in the sub-regionals in the girls 145-lb. weight class, advancing to Regionals after being named an alternate last year. Bryce Casey finished fifth in h...
COLFAX – The Lady Bulldogs celebrated Senior Night before a Jan. 31 game against Asotin in Colfax. The seniors (Harper Booth, Jaisha Gibb and Makiah Zorb) and the rest of the Colfax girls basketball team ended the regular season a perfect 20-0 after beating the Panthers 70-29. Colfax's seniors wasted no time making their impact felt. Booth opened the game's scoring with a long two-pointer to put the Bulldogs up in the opening minute. Fellow senior Gibb would soon join the scoring proceedings, h...
ST. JOHN - The Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves traveled to St. John to take on the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles on Jan. 27, searching for its second league win of the season. St. John ultimately defended its homecourt and took down Tekoa-Rosalia 59-24 off the back of a high-scoring second quarter. "We were coming off a Gar-Pal game that was a tough loss last week and was just kind of a struggle overall," St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse head coach Jeff Gates said. "So it was just trying to build the...
COLFAX — After going 1-1 over the weekend with a 64-54 loss to Lind-Ritzville/Sprague on Jan. 27 and a 60-54 win against Liberty (Spangle) on Jan. 28, the Colfax Bulldogs returned home on Jan. 31 for Senior Night and ended their regular season with a 70-48 win over the Asotin Panthers. Asotin opened the scoring of the game with a quick bucket that was immediately answered by a 3-pointer by one of the Bulldogs’ honored seniors that night, Carsen Gray. Colfax and Asotin continued to exchange buc...
OAKESDALE - St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse gave Oakesdale one of its biggest tests of the year, making a second-half push after trailing by as many as double digits. But the Eagles couldn't complete the comeback, losing 55-43 in the 1B Southeast League game. Strong defense was displayed by both teams in the opening quarter, with Oakesdale only mustering six total points and St. John putting up a singular point with 2:15 to go in the first frame. Both squads scored five points each in the remaining...
ST. JOHN – A Dec. 16 game between the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves and the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles saw the Timberwolves come out the winners of a game that saw 159 total points between the two squads. Tekoa-Rosalia once again came out winners between the two teams, beating the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles 83-36 on Jan. 27. The first half of the opening quarter was a back-and-forth affair. After Matthew DeFord scored to give the Eagles a 13-11 lead with 4:23 left in the first q...
OAKESDALE – The Oakesdale Nighthawks opened with a 30-2 first quarter enroute to a dominant 72-17 win over the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles on Jan. 28. Oakesdale held St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse scoreless for the majority of the first quarter. Olivia Danielson scored a bucket with 30 seconds left in the frame to end the shutout at 28-2. The Nighthawks put up one more bucket in the remaining seconds of the opening quarter to go into the second frame up 30-2. The second quarter didn't fare m...
COLFAX — The Colfax Bulldogs had back-to-back games on Jan. 20 and Jan. 21, the first being a home game against the Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars and the second being an away game against the St. George’s Dragons in Spokane. Colfax walked away the winner in both contests, beating Jenkins 67-51 and St. George’s 60-48. The Bulldogs opened against Jenkins with a 25-14 opening quarter, but were outscored by the Cougars by three points in the second, and went into halftime with a 36-28 lead. Colfax proceeded to outscore Jenkins 31-23 in the secon...
COLTON — Trapshooting in Whitman County began early this month, and the Tekoa Gun Club has already seen its first competition of the new season. The Gun Club is managed by Tekoa High School teacher Ashton Davis, who teaches agriculture education and is an FFA advisor at the school. Practices usually take place on Sundays at 9 a.m., with the Gun Club’s participants being Tekoa students, many of whom competed for the first time in Colton on Jan. 14. The participants received a total score out of 50 for the event, shooting one round from 16 yards...
PULLMAN - When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it was an eye-opener for a lot of people. Day-to-day activities that were on a constant schedule just stopped – along with the rest of the world. One of those activities was athletics. From grade school all the way to professional levels, seasons were either moved to atypical dates, heavily abbreviated or outright canceled. Such was the case for Special Olympics athletics. The Special Olympics committees and policy-makers placed a heavy emphasis on h...
COLTON - Washington's first-ranked girls 1B basketball team, the Colton Wildcats, faced 1B Southeast rival and fourth-ranked Oakesdale Nighthawks on Jan. 20 at home. The Wildcats survived a second-half push from the Nighthawks enroute to a 56-50 win. Marilla Hockett hit a 3-pointer to give Oakesdale a 3-0 lead to start the game, which was immediately answered by Kyndra Stout to tie the game. Colton hit back-to-back 3-pointers to take a 9-3 lead, a lead that they would only continue to build...
COLFAX — The Lady Bulldogs of Colfax remained atop the Northeast 2B League with a 60-12 win over the Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars on Jan. 20 and a 57-23 win over the St. George’s Dragons (Spokane) on Jan. 21. Colfax wasted no time establishing dominance against Jenkins and opened with a 20-4 first quarter and further bolstered its lead in the second. The Lady Bulldogs went into halftime with a 37-9 lead. A 17-2 third quarter and a 6-1 fourth quarter was what followed in the second half and Colfax walked out with the 48-point win, never allowing t...
COLTON - Coming off a four-game skid that included two of the top 10 1B boys basketball teams in the state, the Oakesdale Nighthawks traveled to Colton on Jan. 20 looking for a win against a flu-ridden and injured Colton Wildcats team. Oakesdale came out with the win in dominant fashion, defeating Colton 66-25. "I think tonight we largely came in and the effort and focus was there," Oakesdale head coach Carl Crider said. "After having lost our last four, I said 'We got to find a way to get back...
COLTON - St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse was able to hold Colton scoreless in the third quarter en route to a 63-26 win in a 1B Southeast league game Jan. 13 in Colton. In the opening minute-and-a-half of the game, the Wildcats looked like they were up to the challenge of the Eagles, taking a 5-3 lead with 6:23 to go in the opening quarter off a Grant Wolf 3-pointer. Then, St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse went on a run and never looked back, ending the quarter on a 17-2 run to have a 20-7 lead heading...
OAKESDALE - The Oakesdale Nighthawks returned home on Jan. 14 after a 77-30 win against Tekoa-Rosalia on Jan. 13 to take on the DeSales Fighting Irish. Oakesdale defended its homecourt, taking down DeSales 72-28 in a one-sided affair. "Our game plan was to really bring the pressure and pressure the ball no matter who had it," Oakesdale head coach Heidi Perry said. "And I think we did a good job on that. And it was really nice to see us execute that. We were pretty consistent, I think,...
OAKESDALE - Coming into Jan. 14, DeSales was ranked second amongst 1B boys basketball teams in the most recent Associated Press Media Poll and Oakesdale was ranked seventh. The Nighthawks were looking to bounce back after a two-game skid to Sunnyside Christian and Tekoa-Rosalia, and DeSales was looking to defend its position at the top of the 1B Southeast league. The Fighting Irish ultimately came out on top, beating the Nighthawks 55-37, extending Oakesdale's losing streak to three....
DAVENPORT -Wrestlers throughout Whitman County had a busy week of competition. After a girls league meet in Newport on Jan. 10, the athletes participated in a league meet in Davenport on Jan. 12 and wrapped up with the Crusader Classic at Northwest Christian High School in Colbert on Jan. 14. The Jan. 12 league meet was designated for male competitors, but several schools brought their female wrestlers along to compete. Tekoa-Rosalia's Alexis Taylor, Washington's eighth-ranked small-school girls...
COLTON - The Colton Wildcats hosted the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles on Jan. 13 and dominated, winning by a final margin of 79-15 to improve to 10-1 on the season and 4-0 in league competition. Head coach Clark Vining and his Wildcats started the game with an emphatic showing and took a 13-2 just three minutes into the opening quarter. Head coach Jeff Gates and his Eagles team did a good job in the opening stages, limiting shot opportunities from inside the paint for the Wildcats – n...
PALOUSE - The Garfield-Palouse Vikings boys basketball team was still searching for its first win of the season Jan. 7 at home against the Colton Wildcats. Garfield-Palouse was able to get that ever-elusive win, beating Colton 54-45 in a 1B league matchup. "This first half of our schedule has been tough," Garfield-Palouse head coach Nate Holbrook said. "And if you look at the first half of our schedule, there's no one playing a tougher schedule at the 1B level this first half of the season....
OAKESDALE - A girls basketball game between teams representing the Wheat and Grape divisions of the Washington 1B Southeast league was won by the Wheat on Jan. 7. Oakesdale beat visiting Sunnyside Christian 54-35 off the back of a strong second quarter. Both teams kept a neck-and-neck pace with each other in the opening quarter, and both teams were knotted up 8-8 going into the second quarter. The Nighthawks opened the second quarter of the game with a 11-0 run, going up 19-8 after a Marilla Hoc...
COLFAX — 1B and 2B schools went to Colfax on Jan. 5 to compete in a boys wrestling league meet. Tekoa-Rosalia, Garfield-Palouse and Colfax were all represented. Although the meet was originally scheduled to be a boys league meet, some schools brought their girl wrestlers to compete, including Colfax with Grace Jones and Garfield-Palouse with Laynie Southern. Southern went 1-0 in her lone match at the meet, winning via first-round fall against Davenport’s Emma Cash. Grace Jones went 1-1 in two...
PALOUSE — The Colton Wildcats visited Palouse to take on their league-rival Garfield-Palouse Vikings on Jan. 6. Colton improved to 8-1 on the season (3-0 in league competition) with a 55-43 win over Garfield-Palouse. Neither team could find separation over the other in the opening quarter of the game. Both teams found themselves tied at five points apiece following a free throw by Colton’s Sidni Whitcomb with 4:24 left in the first. Colton held a narrow 11-9 lead heading into the second qua...
OAKESDALE – Sunnyside Christian came to Oakesdale on Jan. 7 and beat the Nighthawks 71-56 to extend its undefeated record in 1B Southeast league competition. Neither team could find much separation from each other in the opening quarter. Logan Brown started the scoring for Oakesdale – hitting one of two free throw shots – and SSC quickly responded. After a technical foul was called on Sunnyside Christian head coach Dean Wagenaar, Jackson Perry hit one of his two free throws to cut the Knigh...
PULLMAN – Until Jan. 8, the Washington State Cougars women’s basketball team was winless in PAC-12 competition, which started with a loss to in-state rival Washington Huskies on Dec. 11 in Seattle. Washington State avenged the loss against Washington from earlier in the year and got its first conference win of the season with a 66-52 result on Jan. 8 at the Beasley Coliseum in Pullman. “Just super happy for this team,” Washington State head coach Kamie Ethridge said. “I’ve kind of been rubbing it in their faces so much being 0-3 and I’m sure I...
