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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...
REARDAN - The Screaming Eagles faced another tough matchup when Colfax, boasting a 10-1 record, came to town. The Bulldogs, led by Adrik Jenkin, pulled away late in the game to win 64-52 on Friday, Jan. 6. Behind the scoring of Jakari Singleton and Tristin McCrea, Reardan jumped out to a 13-9 lead at the end of the first quarter. The teams traded buckets in the second quarter, which featured a duel between Colfax's Seth Lustig and Reardan's Logan Flaa, who each hit crucial shots from the field....
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...
REARDAN - Five Colfax players scored in double figures as the state's number two ranked Bulldogs defeated the Screaming Eagles 59-18 in NE2B girls' action on Jan. 6. Early on, Reardan looked as if they would challenge the 11-0 Bulldogs after hitting two quick treys and converting on three other shots. By the end of the first quarter, they faded as Colfax stepped up its defense and sank shots of their own. The quarter ended with Colfax leading 21-13. From that point on, the Bulldogs dominated,...
LACROSSE - LaCrosse Elementary school was nominated by Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) National Distinguished School Awards, and was presented a plaque by Assistant Superintendent of OSPI, Jon Ram Mishra, Friday Jan.. 6 at an 8 a.m. school assembly. "LaCrosse Elementary school is being recognized for exceptional student performance and academic growth," Mishra said at the assembly, further explaining that...
COLFAX – In October of 2022, Devon Felstead and Dan Mattson were looking for anyone interested in starting a Kiwanis Club, a national club that supports youth activities and development, in Colfax. Both current members of the Pullman Kiwanis Club, Felstead and Mattson were able to recruit 17 members, and four officers. Felstead, who has been installed as coach for the new Kiwanis Club by the pacific northwest branch of Kiwanis, confirmed that officers included Dustin Dawson of Ackerman’s as President, Lisa Uhlenkott of The McGregor Company as...
COLFAX—Whitman County Deputies arrested Nicholas J. Bunch, 39 for theft of a motor vehicle, and three counts of vehicle prowl the evening of Jan. 7, states a press release from Jan. 9, 2023. According to reports, Saturday evening a citizen reported giving a ride to a stranger earlier in the morning and then dropping him off near Dry Creek Road. The citizen reported the incident to law enforcement after feeling suspicious of the encounter. Concerned deputies contacted the homeowner, and discovered that the homeowner’s 2004 Silverado pickup tru...
COLFAX - The Whitman County Sheriff's Posse (WCSP) met Saturday, Jan.. 7 at the fairgrounds with their horses for a de-spook training. Member of the WCSP, Angie Senter explained that a de-spooking training is to keep the horses safe, "they're going to be super safe around things like loud noises," she said, adding that it also includes all the things that horses don't like. The training consisted of acclimating horses to sights, sounds, and smells that would be associated with emergency...
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...
