NEW Leighty Benefit Golf Tournament raises $2,600 - 
MILTON-FREEWATER — The Deb Leighty Benefit Golf Tournament at Milton-Freewater Municipal course raised $2,600 Sunday.A total of 54 players participated in the all-gross play, blind-draw scramble....


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NEW WWCC athletes shine at annual College Rodeo - 
WALLA WALLA — Host Walla Walla Community College won two individual championships and one team title during the final session of its annual College Rodeo that wrapped up Sunday afternoon at the Walla Walla Fairgrounds.Nick Gutzwiler won the bareback event...


NEW Improved Wolves can’t quite shake Mounties - 
COLLEGE PLACE — Walla Walla University maintained a 3-2 lead over Eastern Oregon into the seventh inning in the nightcap of their twin bill here Sunday, looking to overcome the Mountaineers following game-after-game of frustration.But one of the Wolves’ f...


NEW Lewis & Clark avoids weekend baseball sweep to Whitman - 
PORTLAND — Scoring seven runs in its last three at-bats, Lewis & Clark avoided a weekend sweep with a 12-5 Northwest Conference baseball victory over Whitman College here Sunday afternoon.Whitman, which swept Saturday’s twin bill from the Pioneers, is 3-3...


NEW Missionary men pick up two more tennis victories - 
PORTLAND —Two seniors, two sophomores and two freshmen combined forces here Sunday afternoon to vault Whitman College past Lewis & Clark 9-0 in Northwest Conference men’s tennis action.Earlier in the day, a second group of Whitman players posted an 8-1 vi...


NEW Warriors sweep Olympic in baseball bill - 
WALLA WALLA — Walla Walla Community College defeated Olympic 9-7 and 6-5 Sunday afternoon at the Warriors’ Tausick Way field to run their early baseball record to 5-3....


My son, my friend, my hero - 
Imagine, you are a 3-year-old boy, you love watching Barney (a half-hour program being the extent of your attention span) and your Dad tells you he would like for you to sit with him and watch an NBA basketball game (for the first time).So you climb up, s...


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Warriors split with Shoreline - 
WALLA WALLA — Walla Walla Community College split a NWAACC cross-regional softball twin bill here Saturday versus Shoreline, dropping the opener 3-0 before taking the 6-1 victory.The Warriors defense faltered in the first game allowing two unearned runs o...


Pioneer baseball welcomes back five senior pitchers - 
MILTON-FREEWATER — “I really can’t tell you who my starters are yet, even with the games starting soon,” Mac-Hi baseball coach Craig Angell said with a laugh. “Really, I don’t know who they will be. All of the kids know that and are working hard to earn t...


Mac-Hi softball aims for top of the conference - 
MILTON-FREEWATER — “This year I expect more,” Mac-Hi softball coach Nicole Christian said. “This is my second year on the job. All of the girls know me and what I expect.”Last season the Pioneers finished third in the Greater Oregon League and made it to ...


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Blue Devils softball ready to swing - 
WALLA WALLA ­— If predictions are true and past results are any indication of future success, then this will be a good year for Wa-Hi softball.Seven seniors are back to lead the Blue Devils, who placed third at state last year after a 29-3 season....


Whitman men net another victory - 
WALLA WALLA — The Whitman College men’s tennis team won its seventh match and assumed sole possession of first place in the Northwest Conference with a 9-0 victory over Puget Sound Saturday afternoon at Whitman.Whitman, now 7-0 in the NWC (8-1 overall), b...


Wa-Hi rides early goal past Moses Lake - 
WALLA WALLA — The Wa-Hi Blue Devils boys soccer team scored on their first shot on goal 10 minutes into the game to win, 1-0, over the Moses Lake Chiefs in their home opener Saturday afternoon.Moses Lake’s Kasey Grant tapped a weak shot to Wa-Hi goalie An...


Wa-Hi freshmen stand out at first track meet - 
RICHLAND — The Blue Devils made a strong showing at the Richland Jamboree here Saturday.“It was a great first meet for us, to say the least,” said head coach Eric Hisaw. “We got some decent weather and the kids did a super job competing today.”...


Olsons double-dose too much for WWCC - 
WALLA WALLA — Walla Walla Community College suffered from a double dose of Olsons Saturday afternoon during an NWAACC baseball doubleheader with Tacoma at Warrior Field.David Olson collected three hits in the opener, won by the Titans 3-2....


Missionaries pick up baseball sweep of Lewis & Clark - 
PORTLAND — A pair of five-run innings, one in each end of Saturday’s doubleheader, carried Whitman College to 7-5 and 9-7 Northwest Conference baseball victories over Lewis & Clark.Whitman goes for the series sweep against Lewis & Clark when the two teams...


Whit women's tennis team rolls over Loggers - 
TACOMA — The women of Whitman College put a successful wrap on a long day of tennis with a 7-2 Northwest Conference victory over Puget Sound Friday night in the Logger Tennis Pavilion in Tacoma.Coupled with a 7-2 victory over Pacific Lutheran earlier in t...


Missionary men's tennis shuts out UPS Friday - 
WALLA WALLA — Kicking off a stretch of seven Northwest Conference matches in five days, the Whitman College men’s tennis team turned an early sweep in doubles into a 9-0 shutout of short-handed Pacific Lutheran Friday afternoon.Whitman, one of two undefea...


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Wa-Hi hard-ballers ‘will play hard’ - 
WALLA WALLA — Wa-Hi’s baseball team for 2010 has seven returning players with experience and oodles of talent who love baseball. Add to that a group of gifted players moving up from the junior varsity that also loves the game, and it’s no wonder first-yea...


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Defense keys WWCC men’s run to fourth - 
WALLA WALLA — When the 2009-10 season commenced late last fall, Walla Walla Community College men’s basketball coach Jeff Reinland was unable to envision an end to the campaign that would have his team crowned as champions of the always-tough NWAACC Easte...


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