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WWCC women No. 1! Men No. 4!
It was an exciting winter for Walla Walla Community College basketball fans.
It came to a successful end Tuesday during the final session of the NWAACC Championships at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.
The women claimed the WWCC program’s first title in nearly a decade with a hard-fought, 75-72 victory over Eastern Region rival Yakima Valley while [...]
Battle tested
Battle tested is a phrase that could apply to any high school team that qualifies for a state tournament.
The phrase certainly applies to our area basketball teams who will be competing in state-championship contests this week.
Routes to extending seasons varied – from reaching a district championship game by winning the first two games in the [...]
Wa-Hi boys heading to Tacoma
The opening rounds of both the Big Nine District and 4A Regional basketball tournaments were not kind to the Wa-Hi boys basketball team.
The Blue Devils, champions of the Big Nine’s Cascade Division, were upset at home by Kamiakin before earning the district’s No. 3 seed to the regional tourney with a pair of victories.
The week [...]
Zags Rule
The Gonzaga University men’s and women’s basketball teams both embraced common threads Thursday night.
Both were overwhelming winners in West Coast Conference games with Santa Clara. The men prevailed in Spokane while the women came away victorious on the road.
GU’s men captured a share of the program’s 10th straight WCC regular-season championship. The women have now [...]
W-P headed to state
Kudos to the Waitsburg-Prescott boys basketball team.
W-P secured a berth in Saturday’s championship game of the Southeast 2B District 9 boys basketball tournment and punched its ticket to next week’s Class 2B state tourney with a 53-46 triumph over Garfield-Palouse on Monday night at Whitman College.
Waitsburg-Prescott’s victory provided partial proof that Southeast 2B South Division [...]
Another typical weekend in the Pac-10
It was the best of times and the worst of times for our state’s Pac-10 men’s basketball teams over the weekend.
On Thursday, both Washington and Washington State were defeated by the visiting L.A. schools. The Huskies let a winnable game slip away to USC and the Cougars were manhandled by UCLA.
Saturday offered better results for [...]
Warriors hot, hot, hot!
An argument can be made that the hottest teams in the NWAACC basketball ranks these days both reside in Walla Walla.
Both the Warrior men and women will be participating in the NWAACC tournament next month in Kennewick.
Each team sports an impressive winning streak heading into Eastern Region contests on Saturday at Big Bend.
The women are [...]
Touchet boys survive
It isn’t how you start, but how you finish.
Some of the time.
The Touchet boys basketball team proved on Monday that you can win by starting and finishing strong during a loser-out game in the Southeast 1B District boys basketball tournament in Endicott.
The Indians led Lacrosse-Washtucna, 17-9, after one quarter, and had to rally in both [...]
Weston-McEwen boys a pleasant surprise
Weston-McEwen’s Blue Mountain Conference boys basketball victory over Stanfield on Friday night in Athena by a final count of 78-74 completed what some would regard as an improbable regular season.
That is if one based its reaction on pre-season expectations.
The TigerScots were picked to finish in the bottom third of the BMC in the coaches’ pre-season [...]
What a difference a few weeks made
Just a few weeks ago, many NFL experts proclaimed the New York Giants were the league’s best team.
Others delivered similar accolades the Denver Broncos’ way.
And with good reason.
The Giants started the year 5-0 while the Broncos jumped out to a 6-0 start.
Who would have thought that the former team would be eliminated from playoff contention [...]
