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Almira-Coulee-Hartline The Tigers defeated ACH in a close game at home on December 12. Odessa 18 7 10 19 54 ACH 18 12 12 7 49 Ryan Moffet scored 26 points to pace the Tiger team, and Marcus King scored 14. On defense, King led in rebounds with 8. Moffet and Camden Weber each had one blocked shot. Wellpinit The Tiger boys defeated Wellpinit last Saturday, December 16, by only one point to maintain their undefeated season so far this year. Getting off to a good start in the...
Wilbur-Creston Last Tuesday, December 5, the high-school boys basketball team played a non-league contest at home against Wilbur-Creston, currently playing as a 2B school. With most of the team having just finished the football season, some basketball skills were a little rusty. Nevertheless, the teamwork of this group showed, as the boys overcame a slow first-quarter start to win by 20 points. Odessa 5 19 16 17 57 Wilbur-Creston 9 4 12 12 37 Ryan Moffet led the scoring with...
Wilbur-Creston On December 5, the Tiger high-school girls played W-C in Odessa, defeating the Wildcats by 10 points. Odessa 15 10 14 7 46 Wilbur-Creston 10 5 6 15 36 The Davison sisters, senior Maleah and sophomore McKennah, led the Tiger scoring with 11 points each. Maddy Wagner added 9 points and Brenna Carstensen 6. Wagner led in rebounding with 13, while Mc. Davison pulled down 8 more. Kettle Falls The next day, December 6, the girls played Kettle Falls, like W-C another...
The two most recent basketball games for the juniork-high girls were played against Wilbur-Creston on December 7 and against Reardan on December 11. The varsity squad won both of its games, defeating W-C by a score of 34-6 and Reardan by a score of 37-28, while the junior varsity settled for a split, defeating W-C, 25-20 and losing to Reardan, 16-25. According to James Poe, who supplied the scores to The Record, the Reardan JV game was very close right up to the last couple of minutes of play. Odessa was forced to foul the...
The junior-high girls have been having a great season so far, and Monday afternoon was no exception. The junior varsity won their game handily by a score of 31 to 16. The varsity game was much closer, 28-26, but the Tigers came out on top. At one point in the game, the score was stuck at 9-7 for several minutes of play, reported James Poe, who supplied the final scores to The Record for both games. The next game for the girls will take place Thursday against Wilbur-Creston at...
Back on November 16, Kaedin Schorzman did an outstanding job at the Washington State FFA tractor driving competition in Moses Lake. He placed sixth out of 97 contestants, scoring 289 out of 300 points. This was the first time in a while that Odessa's FFA chapter has competed in tractor driving, so being able to take two teams and place sixth is quite an accomplishment, said FFA advisor HaLee Walter. Clint Campbell of Odessa helped teach the driving portion of the course to...
In our wrap up of the football season last week, we neglected to mention that the Tiger boys received the third-place trophy in the state 1B football tournament. Lummi, the other team eliminated in the semi-final round also received a third-place trophy. The two winning teams, Sunnyside Christian and Almira-Coulee-Hartline, faced off Friday, December 1, in the Tacoma Dome for the championship. SC 8 14 16 22 60 ACH 18 16 30 20 84 ACH dominated throughout the game and took home the state championship. The final score was...
The youth group from Odessa churches has collected just under 2,000 pounds of food and toiletries to help fill the shelves of the local Food Bank, generously donated by the Odessa community. A group from the high school agriculture class will help sort food, and members of the National Honor Society chapter will help with bagging and delivery for the holidays this month and next....
On November 6, five schools from eight different towns across the Bi-County joined Odessa for the eighth Annual Bi-County STEM Challenge. Odessa, Wilbur, Lind, Sprague, Ritzville, Creston and Harrington showed up at Harrington High School at 9 a.m. to compete in the annual science-like "Junkyard Wars." Each school brought a team of six students to vie against the other schools for the traveling trophy. Team Odessa consisted of Kiegan Wehr, Colton Hunt, Tori Weishaar, Natosha...
On November 15, a scientific crew of 30 headed to the Tri-Cities to visit the recently awarded Nobel Prize facility called LIGO. As you may or may not know, the local Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory in Hanford recently helped earn the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in observing the universe's gravitational waves for the very first time since Einstein predicted them in 1916. Since we live so close to a Nobel Prize-winning research facility, we...
The Tiger football team lost to Sunnyside Christian Saturday at Edgar Brown Stadium, Pasco, in one of two semi-final games played this weekend. Almira-Coulee Hartline won its game against Lummi and will face Sunnyside Christian in the championship game December 1 in the Tacoma Dome. SC 12 22 14 14 62 Odessa 6 8 8 0 22 The Odessa team was simply not playing up to par on Saturday. Facing the number-one ranked team among 1B schools, it should have been at least a much closer scor...
At the Yakima Sundome on November 9, the Tiger volleyball team played two state matches. They were among the teams that got started at 8 a.m. that morning. Against Three Rivers Christian of Kelso, the Tigers dropped the first game, then warmed up and took the next three to win the match. Game 1: 14-25 TRC Game 2: 25-16 Odessa Game 3: 25-18 Odessa Game 4: 25-19 Odessa Brenna Carstensen led the team in service aces with four and also in assists with 22. Maddy Wagner had 15 kills to lead in that category and McKennah Davison...
The Tiger football team was to play Selkirk last Friday in Odessa, but the game was forfeited by Selkirk due to injuries and illness. The win thus goes to Odessa, which moves on face Garfield-Palouse in Royal City this Friday, November 17, in a quarter final leading up to the championship game December 1 in Tacoma. The winner of the Odessa vs. Gar-Pal game will face the quarter-final game winner of Friday’s contest between Cusick and Sunnyside Christian. The other two quarter-final games, being played Saturday, are A...
The P.C. Jantz Elementary School will again be hosting a Family Holiday Reading and Math event for students in elementary grades. The theme is Polar Express. The event will begin on December 4 at 6:30 p.m. Parents and children are to check in at the Train Station…or cafeteria. Upon signing in, families will receive a Boarding Pass and Train Schedule that tells them the order to go to the different centers. Students and parents are invited to enjoy the many festive activities. An ever-popular story teller, Dee Deife, will s...
Last month, a gentlemen named Jerry Dyar from The Rural Alliance organization approached the Odessa High School Science Department and offered our laboratory the opportunity to be a part of a new program entitled STEM Gems. This program allows our nine students in the Advanced STEM Research Laboratory, as well as five students from our regular classroom laboratories, the freedom to pursue their interests in science, technology, engineering or mathematics as they explore...
This past Wednesday, November 15, Odessa students ranging from third through eighth grades competed in Ritzville against eight other Bi-County schools for the 2017 Bi-County Academic Contest in the categories of Spelling, Math, Speech and Geography. Of the 28 students competing, 17 placed in the top six, while five placed in the top three. Listed below are the Odessa students who placed. Third grade: Jordyn Lewis first place (Spelling). Fourth grade: None. Fifth grade:...
A few weeks ago, Odessa High School Junior Megan Shafer submitted an application to become one of Washington state's Aerospace Scholars and on November 25, 2017 Megan found out she was selected. Washington Aerospace Scholars is an educational program for high school juniors from across Washington state. The program emphasizes science, technology, engineering and math, and encourages students to consider careers in these fields. Thanks to the Washington Aerospace Scholars...
The Tiger football team handily defeated the Garfield-Palouse Vikings last Friday in a quarter-final game played in Royal City. Gar-Pal 8 6 0 0 14 Odessa 16 8 28 8 60 Quarterback Camden Weber completed eight out of 10 passing attempts for 158 yards in the air and two touchdowns. He also added 172 yards rushing and two touchdowns to his activities for the night. Gaven Elder carried 20 times for 98 yards rushing and two TDs, while adding two receptions for 67 yards and another TD. Colton Hunt carried 17 times for 161 yards and...
Operation LEAN On Us is underway. The goal of this FBLA community service project is to support Odessa senior citizens. The first phase of the project "N" is to cook for Odessa senior citizens who are in need of home-cooked meals. Last year FBLA members delivered 500 meals to Odessa seniors who were very grateful for the assistance. To raise money to fund this project, FBLA members have made over 150 carameled apples and are selling them by donation at local events. Carameled...
In the crossover game between the north and south portions of the 1B Northeast league, Odessa traveled to Cusick and defeated the Panthers by a score of 60-16. Odessa 8 14 16 22 60 Cusick 0 0 16 0 16 Quarterback Camden Weber had a big night, rushing for 197 yards on 14 carries and passing for 154 for a total of 351 yards and three touchdowns. Joshua Clark also had a very good game, rushing for five yards and pulling in five passes for 107 yards and three TDs receiving. Gaven Elder and Colton Hunt carried nine and six times,...
At Selkirk November 2, the Tiger volleyball team played two district playoff games opposite the Northport Mustangs and the Selkirk Rangers. Odessa defeated Northport, 3-0 to take the match handily. Game 1: 25-11 Odessa Game 2: 25-14 Odessa Game 3: 25-20 Odessa Maleah Davison led the team with four aces, four blocks and seven kills, while Brenna Carstensen led in assists with 10 and digs with seven. Against Selkirk, a team with only one loss all season, the going was tough. The Tigers won only one out of four matches. Game 1:...
Football The Tiger football team defeated the Almira-Coulee-Hartline team, so often their nemesis, to take the league championship crown. The Tigers took a pounding in the first half but must have had some kind of pep talk in the locker room at half time. They came out in the third quarter and were on fire. Odessa 6 6 36 16 64 ACH 22 14 12 6 54 Now back at full strength after being out with an injury, starting quarterback Camden Weber completed 13 of 17 pass attempts for a...
Football The Tigers got another lop-sided win last Friday in Yakima against the Yakama Tribal team. Quarterback Camden Weber, out of action last week due to an injury, was partially back in action, along with Jett Nelson. Weber completed three of six pass attempts for 36 yards and also rushed for a touchdown. Nelson had an even better game, completing 11 of 12 pass attempts for 212 yards and four TDs, while adding another five yards rushing. Odessa 24 28 14 6 72 Yakama 0 0 8 8 16 Gaven Elder led the team in receiving,...
Football The Odessa Tiger football team played an away game in Entiat last Friday, October 13, and came away with another win in their undefeated season thus far. Odessa 8 28 8 22 66 Entiat 0 8 6 6 20 Freshman quarterback Jett Nelson guided the team to this victory, completing seven of 13 pass attempts for a total of 122 passing yards and keeping the ball seven times for a total of 10 yards rushing and one touchdown. Senior running backs Gaven Elder and Colton Hunt carried most of the load and led the team in rushing,...
Football The Tigers shut out the visiting Pateros Billy Goats by a score of 77-0 Friday night, October 6, at Finney Field. Starting quarterback Camden Weber opened up the scoring on a 49-yard QB keeper to put six points on the board. Gaven Elder made the two-point conversion on a pass play from Weber. Backup QB Jett Nelson scored next, also keeping the ball and going 44 yards for the TD. Colton Hunt made the two-point conversion on a pass from Nelson. Hunt then scored six on a 47-yard pass play from Nelson, and Nelson also...
