All-time list of Yakima Valley state championships
May 31, 2012 by YH-R Sports
FALL SPORTS Football (6) Year Class Team 1973 AA Ellensburg (12-0) 1989 AA Toppenish (11-1) 1992 AA Prosser (13-0) 1993 AA Prosser (13-0) 1999 3A Prosser (12-2) 2007 2A Prosser (14-0) Volleyball (13) Year Class Team 1977 A Zillah 1978 A Zillah 1988 AA Ellensburg 1989 AA West Valley (36-1) 1990 AAA Eisenhower (27-1) [...]
Baseball: All but perfect for NV
May 27, 2012 by Roger Underwood
Naches Valley can’t derail undefeated Cashmere in Class 1A title game || YAKIMA, Wash. — Sometime, somewhere Cashmere will lose another high school baseball game. But Saturday wasn’t the time and Yakima County Stadium wasn’t the place, as the Bulldogs completed an unbeaten season at the expense of Naches Valley in the Class 1A state [...]
Baseball: EV goes out with a win
May 27, 2012 by Roger Underwood
YAKIMA, Wash. — Fatigue, Hugo Lemus insisted, had nothing to do with it. “Tired?” he asked rhetorically. “No, I wasn’t tired. I just turned spectator there in the last inning and decided to take it all in.” No one could blame the senior right-hander, after all, he’d just punctuated a stellar East Valley career with [...]
Baseball: DeSales on top again
May 27, 2012 by YH-R Sports
ELLENSBURG, Wash. — For a team with such a lengthy state-championship pedigree, DeSales’ baseball team has endured an unusually long dry spell in recent seasons. That finally ended Saturday as the Irish rolled past Asotin 9-2 in the Class 2B state championship game Saturday at Rotary Park. The victory secured the school’s 17th state baseball title, [...]
Track: NV’s Taylor wins second javelin title
May 27, 2012 by Frank Purdy
CHENEY, Wash. — Knee surgery last fall put Naches Valley’s Kelsie Taylor on crutches for six weeks and on a delayed schedule for all of the spring track and field season. The defending state javelin champion entered Saturday’s finals at Eastern Washington University with a district throw of 112 feet, 3 inches — more than [...]
Track: Riverside Christian boys win 2B title
May 27, 2012 by Frank Purdy
CHENEY, Wash. — It was a matter of first things first for Riverside Christian’s Fernando Valencia. Coming into the start of one of Saturday’s concluding events, he knew that if he won the javelin, his team could win a state track and field championship. His first throw put him and his team into first place, [...]
Track: Ike’s Schreiber takes third
May 27, 2012 by Scott Spruill
TACOMA, Wash. — Youngster that he is, Drew Schreiber felt all week that it was a season highlight just to earn a trip to the Class 4A state track and field championships. But that was a sophomore respecting his elders. Once here, Eisenhower’s emerging 800-meter prodigy did far more than take in the sights at [...]
Track: Wapato’s Ibarra, E’burg girls fourth
May 27, 2012 by Scott Spruill
TACOMA, Wash. — Wapato’s Nacho Ibarra ran one fast 400 meters on Saturday and Ellensburg’s girls put together four fast 400s during the final day of the Class 2A state track and field championships. Ibarra and the Bulldogs matched fourth-place finishes and highlighted a batch of 12 local medalists as the three-day meet concluded at [...]
Fastpitch: Miscues cost Selah a trophy
May 27, 2012 by Scott Sandsberry
SELAH, Wash. — Kylee Fullerton was stretching in the on-deck circle as the Selah fastpitch team was preparing to bat in the top of the third inning of its still-scoreless Class 2A state semifinal game against Tumwater. Vikings batting coach Ben Graf approached Fullerton and, with a nod of his head toward Selah’s leadoff batter [...]
Fastpitch: Chehalis rolls to crown
May 27, 2012 by YH-R Sports
SELAH, Wash. — In his 10th season as the Chehalis fastpitch coach, Mike Keen had navigated the Bearcats to remarkable success — seven top-four trophies — but had never felt the ice-water-bucket dunking reserved for state championship moments. So he relished the sweet, anticipatory moments following Chehalis’ 15-3 Class 2A title-game rout of Evergreen Conference [...]
