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The LaCrosse-Washtucna Tigercat football team took to the field for the first game of the season against Odessa-Harrington on Friday, Aug. 31, in Washtucna. The Tigercats had difficulty maintaining the larger players from the Titans team, but were able to keep the score close for the remainer of the game. The Titans were off to an early lead with a score of 0-6 after the first quarter, and their lead slowing grew over the next three quarters. By the second quarter, Sam Harder...
July 17, 8:30 p.m. – While on patrol, Sergeant Mark Cameron found a storage shed at the high school gym was open, it is normally closed. Sgt. Cameron requested dispatch contact the responsible. Sgt. Cameron checked the building and no one was found. There is a lot of sports equipment in the shed. Dispatch advised the responsible would try to contact someone to respond. Sgt. Cameron waited for 20 minutes with no one showing up. Sgt. Cameron secured the shed and cleared. July 17, 1:43 p.m. – Chief Dave McCormick responded to...
David Michaelson, author of the award-winning “The Burntwater Cook’s Kitchen Guide,” recently completed his newest book about an English man who traveled to America in the 1870’s. Michaelson, a resident of Harrington, composed his eighth book “Trail Cook.” The story set in 1874 of a poor young Englishman who travels to America to experience the adventures of the Wild West from the business end of a chuck wagon. He is also the author of a science fiction trilogy that he recently completed. The first book in the trilogy is...
John Jacob Eckhardt died peacefully on June 15, at his daughter’s home in Davis, Calif., with three of his children by his side. He was born in Ritzville, on Sept. 13, 1929, to Jake and Anna Eckhardt. He grew up on a farm outside of Ritzville and he spoke fondly of chasing roosters, playing with dogs and milking cows. Later, the family moved into town and he graduated from Ritzville High School in 1948. After graduating, he worked at his father’s machine shop before joi...
On July 10, AgVentures NW is sponsoring a Varietal Strip Trial tour at Mike Miller’s farm on Rehn Road in Adams County. The tour starts at 5:30 p.m., and showcases new wheat variety releases from six different wheat breeders; Washington State University, Oregon State University, Syngenta – AgriPro Wheat’s, USDA – ARS, Limagrain Cereals Seeds, and WestBred. Attendees can expect to see Soft White Winter Wheat, a Two Gene Beyond Tolerant Soft White Winter, several Hard Red Winter Wheat varieties, as well as Winter...
Thirty-nine cars turned out for Friday evenings’ car derby and races. The awards are as follows: Slow trophy dash winner: Joshua Hernandez, No. 31, Lind. Fast trophy dash winner: Michael Olson, No. 95, Moses Lake. Powder puff trophy dash winner: Liz Biermann, No. 88, Lind. Car heat race #1: Derek Ball, No. 162, Moses Lake, first; James Cole, No. 42, Warden, second; and Ramey Perez, No. 88, Ritzville, third. Car heat race #2: Sid White, No. 107, Othello, first; Adam Labes, N...
David Michaelson, author of the award-winning “The Burntwater Cook’s Kitchen Guide,” recently completed the third book in his science fiction trilogy. Michaelson, a resident of Harrington, composed his seventh book “Bittersweet Tamed.” The first book in the trilogy is titled “The Centauri Intervention,” followed by “Bittersweet Colony,” before he completed the trilogy with “Bittersweet Tamed.” Michaelson’s complete works are available at the Ritzville Art Center, Cow Creek Mercantile and the Davenport Times office. Books are...
The LRS tennis team traveled to the district tournament last week and the success of the athletes is sending many of the athletes on to compete in the regional tournament at West Valley on Friday, May 18 and Saturday, May 19. Zach Swanger is the only male LRS athlete moving on to the regional competition in the No. 1 singles position. Swanger won fourth place in districts after many hard fought battles during the district tournament. Swanger first played a Davenport athlete and won 6-2. The next match did not prove as easy...
Colby Starring led the Broncos on the links Monday at Deer Park during an 18-hole match. Starring posted a score of 87. The boys team finished second overall with a score of 485. Odessa-Harrington won the match with a 475. Logan Morley finished with a 92. Trevor Jantz came in with a 97. Brian Campbell shot a 103 and Drew Hartz finished with a 106. For the girls, Kristine Lamping came in with a 100. Amanda Yockey posted a 110 and Heather Hennings finished with a 142....
The spring fastpitch season has been a rough road for the Lady Broncos. The team has an overall record of 2-7. The team has not mustered a win since March 20, when it defeated Odessa-Harrington twice. Saturday the Lady Broncos lost to Kettle Falls, 9-8 and 12-11. On Thursday, April 12, they fell to Almira/Coulee-Hartline, 13-0 and 16-6....
The local women’s Bible study has just concluded their study entitled, “Discerning the Voice of God” by Priscilla Shirer via DVD. The more than 60 women who attended the study came from Ritzville’s local Nazarene, Methodist, Lutheran, Foursquare, Mennonite and Seventh Day Adventist Churches. Women also drove in from the surrounding areas of Sprague, Benge, Washtucna, Lind, Harrington and Edwall. There were two meeting times from which to choose, Monday evenings and Tuesday afternoons, and every week 50 or more women were in...
Jenna Bennett led the hitting with a triple and two doubles Saturday, but it was not enough to lift the team over the Colfax Lady Bulldogs who rolled to 15-8 win in the fastpitch season’s league opener. Originally scheduled to be played in Colfax, the game was moved to Ritzville due to poor field conditions from foul weather in Colfax. The Lady Broncos, 2-1 overall, scored eight runs on 15 hits and had five errors. Colfax scored 15 runs on 10 hits and recorded four errors. A...
The Broncos are being cautious since it is early in the season, but a 4-0 start is a nice way to begin the spring baseball season. Especially when it includes a double thumping of the Colfax Bulldogs in the league openers. The Broncos won 11-2 and 19-8 Saturday over the Bulldogs in games played in Ritzville. The contests were originally slated to be at Colfax. Head coach Jason Aldrich was smiling as he talked about the wins, but cautious. He expects the Bulldogs to improve...
The Harrington Opera House is ready to initiate the start of a new season by hosting a Tingstad and Rumble concert on Saturday, Mar. 17, with a 7 p.m. performance. The Grammy Award winning duo of Eric Tingstad and Nancy Rumble are performer/composers who are known for their Celtic sound featuring acoustic finger-style guitar and melodic woodwinds. They have been performing together since the mid 1980’s. Tingstad is a classical guitarist while Rumble plays oboe, English horn and ocarina. The St. Patrick’s Day performance featu...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna boys’ basketball team ended the week with a win after playing in three games last week and suffering two losses. The Tigercats played Odessa-Harrington, Rosalia and Garfield-Palouse all in regular season games. The Tigercats lost to Odessa-Harrington after making a tremendous come back in the fourth quarter, bringing the final score of the game to 43-46. At the end of the third quarter, the Titans led the game with a score of 40-26. “In the fourth quarter, we did a better job attacking the rim and mov...
The LaCrosse-Washtucna girls’ basketball team continues to struggle to get a win in the second half of the season, after losing all three of their games last week. The Lady Tigercats played a competitive game against Odessa-Harrington, but lost by a large margin against both Rosalia and Garfield-Palouse. The Lady Tigercats fell to Odessa-Harrington after a closely matched game on Jan. 10. The game ended with a score of 33-25 in favor of the Lady Titans. Kadie Whinery led the Lady Tigercats in scoring with a total of eight poi...
The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague junior high girls’ basketball season has ended. The last two games were against Liberty and Odessa-Harrington (OH). The “B” team barely lost both games, but played well. The season ended with the “B” teaming winning four games and barely losing six other games. The “A” team beat Liberty by one point in overtime! It was an amazing win! Then the “A” team lost to OH only by a couple of points. After the game, the girls said that they played a very flat game because of how much energy they put out agai...
The Lady Tigercats struggled against both St. John-Endicott and Tekoa-Oakesdale, losing both games on Jan. 6 and 7. The Lady Tigercats lost to St. John-Endicott with a final score of 35-53. Logan Harder scored a total of 16 points, followed by Anne Fleming who scored eight points in the game. Kadie Whinery ended the night with five points while Jena Goude, Brooklynn Hostetler and Lindsey Miller all scored two points each. “I’m really proud of the girls, they played really well from the beginning. It’s good to see them battle,...
The Tigercats struggle to find consistency after losing a close game with St. John-Endicott and then winning the next night against Tekoa-Oakesdale. Head coach Mike Jones is focusing on finding a way for his team to remain consistent for the second half of the season. “We were within three points and had 30 seconds to go, but turned the ball over when we had the chance to tie. We had a lot of opportunities during the game, but we didn’t capitalize on those opportunities,” said...
January 2011 Micah Brown wrestled at 130 pounds during the Freeman Invitational on Dec. 30 and won the championship title after pinning all three of his competitors. Miguel Hayes finished second and Keanu Niezwaag took third place, both in the 140-pound category. On Jan. 8, Broncos wrestling traveled to the Almira/Coule-Hartline tournament where Micah Brown again took the tournament title. Keanu Niezwaag and Cory Goble both had to drop out of their matches after suffering knee injuries at the competition. At the Coyote...
A big non-league win over Odessa-Harrington last week wasn’t enough to propel the Lady Broncos of Lind-Ritzville/Sprague to victory over a pair of league opponents this weekend. On Tuesday, Dec. 6, they defeated OH, 43-28. Friday they fell on the road at Davenport, 53-37. Saturday they hosted Reardan and were crushed 70-29, by the league favorite. Head coach Randy Heidenreich was happy to have a win, but also discovered his team struggles against fast moving opponents. “We had 22 turnovers because they tried to trap us out...
The weekend was unkind for Lind-Ritzville/Sprague basketball fans as league opponents Davenport and Reardan defeated the Broncos on Friday and Saturday. During Saturday’s home game against Reardan, the Broncos were sent to the showers after a tough loss, 67-43. Friday night a road trip to Davenport didn’t end much better as the Gorillas took a 64-50 win. The bright spot last week was a non-league win over Odessa-Harrington on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 74-58. “After Odess...
LaCrosse/Washtucna football coach Jeff Nelson was presented with an award for being Coach of the Week on Monday, Nov. 21. The NFL High School Coach of the Week is sponsored by Sterling Savings Bank and focuses on rewarding coaches for their involvement with youth football. Each week during football season, the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington State Football Coaches Association selected two football coaches to win their award. Nelson won the NFL High School Coach of the...
On Nov. 21 and 22, Mrs. Cindy Edgren’s sixth-eighth grade students performed a Living Wax Museum. It was a great success and many people turned out to watch the students. In all, 75 students took part in the Wax Museum. Not only did Ritzville Grade School and high school students come see the performance, Benge students came as well as junior high students from Lind Junior High. Thank you to all who helped out by donating, or loaning, costumes and props. Some costumes were made, such as Napoleon’s jacket. Thank you, Sharon Oe...
The 2011 State Land Judging Contest was hosted by the Lincoln County Conservation District on Nov. 2 at the Keith and LeAnna Schafer farm on Highway 28 five miles west of Odessa. Attending the contest were 135 students from the FFA chapters of 18 eastern and central Washington high schools. Schools sending one or two FFA land judging teams to the contest included Almira-Coulee-Hartline, Cheney, Davenport, Freeman, Garfield-Palouse, Harrington, Lacrosse, Lind, Moses Lake, Odessa, Pomeroy, Prosser, Ritzville, Rosalia,...