Goldendale’s Wanderscheid wins state golf title

YAKIMA, Wash. — With a state championship within her grasp, Bree Wanderscheid didn’t back down. In fact, the Goldendale sophomore stepped up and played even better than she had in the opening round to capture the Class 1A girls state title in convincing fashion. Showing no nerves despite this being just her second state tournament, [...]

West Valley boys team could gets its shot at state champ … twice

YAKIMA, Wash. — The West Valley boys tennis team is ready to take its best shot at the state’s best. Twice if need be. Defending Class 3A state champion Jordan Smith of Mercer Island resides in the same semifinal half of the state bracket with Rams junior Aaron Farmer and senior Mitchell Anderson. If Anderson [...]

Conference call: SCAC West shines at state golf tournament

YAKIMA, Wash. — Over the past eight years, the SCAC West has left its mark on the Class 1A state golf tournament. Two titles, two runner-up finishes (including one ending in a sudden-death playoff for the title), 10 total top-10 finishes, and another seven top-20 showings have shown the West has held its own against [...]

Baseball: One-hit wonder lifts East Valley

Lemus leads EV into state semifinals || YAKIMA, Wash. — After a resounding pop echoed throughout Davis Field, the result of another Hugo Lemus fastball finding its mark, Cheney’s first base coach turned toward his dugout and said, “The kid’s throwing hard, OK? So let’s pick it up a notch.” Which was much easier said [...]

Tennis: DeMonds, WV duo repeat as champs

YAKIMA, Wash. — Two area girls doubles teams doubled their regional title count Saturday. Davis’ Erica DeMond and Megumi DeMond repeated as CBBN-Greater Spokane League 4A regional champs at Central Valley High School, while Carly Riehl and Carley Schmidt of West Valley made it back-to-back CBBN-GSL 3A titles at University High. Also at U-Hi, West [...]

Fastpitch: Selah tops Ellensburg for third place

SPOKANE, Wash. — Sophomore McKenzie Zerr pitched a four-hitter with six shutout innings to lead Selah to an 8-1 victory over Ellensburg in the third-place game at Saturday’s CWAC-GNL regional fastpitch tournament at the Merkel Sports Complex. The Vikings broke open a 1-1 game with four runs in the fourth inning. Ashley Wilkey, Bailey Turner, [...]

Track and field: Vargas sets Valley record in 3,200

Eisenhower’s Brown captures javelin || RICHLAND, Wash. — Santos Vargas may have just barely missed the victory, but did he ever get the time. Eisenhower’s senior distance ace finished second by an eye lash in one of the fastest Class 4A regional 3,200-meter races ever, clocking a Valley record 9 minutes, 1.82 seconds Friday night [...]

Prep baseball: Three for One at Davis regional

Trio of CWAC teams and Cheney vie at Davis for berth in state baseball final four || YAKIMA, Wash. — Ellensburg dominated league, Selah owned district and East Valley swept its two league games against Selah. Each of the CWAC’s elite baseball teams has made plenty of trouble for the other, but now they will [...]

Toppenish’s one-year turnaround

YAKIMA, Wash. — With every leap forward Toppenish’s boys soccer team has taken this season, Uriel Gonzalez will always remember the first step his Wildcats took that started it all. “Last year, honestly, we didn’t have a very good season even though we were young. We barely made it to district and lost at Ellensburg,” [...]

5/18/12 Prep poll question

Which baseball team will emerge from the Davis regional on Saturday to earn a spot in the Class 2A state baseball semifinals?

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