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The Odessa FFA chapter participated in the state potato judging competition in Moses Lake at Columbia Basin Tech on Wednesday, November 16. Pilot Weishaar, Colton Messer, Jordan Clark, Kiegan Wehr, Alyssa Iverson, Mya Boss, Katreace Boss and Maddie Scrupps competed. Their teams took 16th and 19th in this statewide competition....
Odessa students in grades three through eight represented the Town of Odessa very well in Ritzville at the 2016 Bi-County Academic Contest held November 16. The contest was attended by eight other Bi-County schools. The topics covered were Spelling, Math, Speeches and Geography. Of the 24 Odessa students who went on the trip, 14 placed in the top six of their category at the competition. 5th grade Dakota Steward took second place in Impromptu Speech. Hayden Schuh placed fifth...
It is that time of the season when the leaves start falling and the clay pigeons start flying. It is the season for the local Odessa FFA Trapshooting team to start shooting. The first FFA Trap Shoot was held at the Odessa Gun Club and pitted Odessa against Warden on October 1, 2016. The Odessa FFA trapshooters dominated with Pilot Weishaar, Lane Lobe, Aaron Gies and Kiegan Wehr winning first place as a team. At the same time, Aaron Gies won the High Male award and Rochelle...
Playing on a neutral field at Gonzaga Prep in Spokane last Saturday, the O-H Titans continued their trek toward the Tacoma Dome and the championship game in eight-man 1B football by defeating and eliminating Almira/Coulee-Hartline. The Titans prevailed, 60-28. After a rocky first quarter in which ACH had the Titans down by eight points, the O-H team buckled down, shutting out the Warriors during the next two quarters. Coach Jeff Nelson named Lukas Marshall the Athlete of the Week. Defensively, Marshall shut down ACH’s running...
Last Friday in another home game in Odessa, the Titans played Entiat, winning 72-16. Titan quarterback Colton Hunt was still sidelined with a sprained ankle. Freshman backup QB Camden Weber stepped up and led the Titans to another lopsided victory. Gaven Elder paced the Titan offense in this game from the very beginning, picking off an Entiat pass on their first offensive play of the game. The Titans then scored first as G. Elder ran 30 yards for the touchdown and then also...
In the state volleyball tournament in Yakima's Sundome on November 11 and 12. A fire truck and two police cars accompanied the school bus through town that was taking the team to Yakima. Quilcene The Titan girls volleyball team lost their first-found match to Quilcene by a score of 3-1. O-H 9 25 9 17 1 Quil 25 17 25 25 3 Leading the team in service aces with 2 and assists with 18 was Shelbey Watkins. Ty Evers led the team with 8 kills. Maleah Davison had 2 blocks and Zoe...
Academic honors for the first quarter of classes and Odessa Junior-Senior High School have been released for publication. Senior class members John DeWulf and Elizabeth Larson had a 4.0 grade point average. Chance Messer, Cole Kissler, Keisha McNeil, Wyatt Haase, Tyler Rollins, Rebecca Fortner, Colby Sooy, Bradley Johnston, Lukas Marshall and Zoe Clark were all also named to the honor roll. Honorable mention went to Molly Schafer, Aaron Gies, Sage Elder and Shelbey Watkins. In the junior class, Noah Anderson, Colton Hunt,...
The Shriner's Hospital in Spokane welcomed six of Harrington's agriculture students with open arms. Complete with 40 bright orange pumpkins and cookies for patients, plus brownies for the staff, Mrs. Warner's students were a welcome sight. The agriculture class not only picked the pumpkins from a field but washed and shined the Halloween treasures and then delivered them to the Shriner's Hospital as an after-school project....
Odessa High School senior Cole Kissler competed in the 1B/2B District 7/9 Regional Cross Country meet on Friday, October 28, in Colfax. He competed against a total of 93 other runners on a five-kilometer (3.1 mile) race at Colfax's golf course to determine which runners will move on to compete at the state cross country meet November 5 in Pasco. Cole placed 29th with a time of 17:58.72, beating his previous personal record by 27 seconds. By finishing within the top 35 in this...
ACH On October 18, the Titan volleyball girls played Almira/Coulee-Hartline in Coulee City. O-H 16 17 23 0 ACH 25 25 25 3 The Warriors displayed continued dominance by winning three straight matches over the Titans. Sisters McKennah and Maleah Davison each had two service aces to lead the Titan team. Shelbey Watkins led in assists with 13, and Maleah Davison and Maddy Wagner paced the Titan offense with five kills each. Ty Evers had two blocks for the defense, Shelbey Watkins led in digs with six. Inchelium On October 29 in...
Friday night’s game against Almira/Coulee-Hartline was played for the league championship, with both teams undefeated to that point in the season. Senior Sage Elder led the team defensively with 10 tackles, one quarterback sack, 2.5 tackles for loss and one interception that was returned for a touchdown. Offensively, he had 20 carries for 194 yards, three rushing TDs and one pass reception for a TD! On special teams, Sage pinned the Warriors deep with his deep kicks. He never came off the field during the entire game. O-H 1...
Odessa High School FBLA recently attended the Fall Leadership Conference in Spokane. Keynote speaker, Kevin Stocker, a former baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies, shared "Leadership from the Dugout" with students to help them set and reach their goals. In addition, students had the opportunity to choose three other exciting sessions to attend that were geared toward helping them enhance their leadership skills....
Odessa High School senior, Brad Johnston, has signed a Letter of Intent to play baseball for the Warriors next year at Corban University in Salem, Ore. He plans to pursue a degree in exercise and health science....
The Odessa-Harrington Titan junior-high football team finished the season with a 6-0 record (and a 12-0 record over the past two seasons). The Titans beat Soap Lake 56-6 in the final game of the season. The ground game of Pilot Weishaar and Drew Hardung created touchdowns behind the blocks of Tim DeWulf, Colton Messer, Bradly Singer and Tori Schlomer. “This year’s team finished the season exceeding my expectations as a coach,” said Larry Weber. “We spent a tremendous amount of time working on the fundamentals of blockin...
Last Friday at home in Odessa, the Titans played the Inchelium Hornets, winning 60-14 in a contest that was much closer than the score would indicate. With quarterback Colton Hunt sidelined with a sprained ankle, freshman backup QB Camden Weber did a credible job of guiding the offense. After some beginning butterflies, he settled down and let his fleet-footed running backs have their chances with the ball. The Hornets marched down the field after receiving the opening kickoff and scored, following up with a two-point...
Last Saturday, Odessa's Cole Kissler competed in the state 1B/2B cross country meet held at the Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco. The field consisted of 155 runners from 1B and 2B schools throughout the state. Cole placed 77th with a time of 18:42.1, a little slower than his qualifying time (and personal best) of the week before....
"Toasty Tots" is a current FBLA project intended to provide warm clothing for Odessa children this winter. Members of the Odessa High School FBLA chapter picked and decorated 100 pumpkins. These fall icons are now being offered to the community in exchange for a donation which will be used to buy warm coats and boots for children needing them. At Women's Health Night last week, FBLA member Eric Johnston manned an entire table filled with pumpkins, and many of the women...
Northport On October 11, the Titan volleyball girls welcomed the Northport team for a match played in Harrington. O-H 25 26 25 3 Northport 18 24 4 0 Alex Soliday and McKennah Davison led the team in service aces, tied at three apiece. Shelbey Watkins led the team in assists with 14, and McKennah Davison paced the offense with nine kills. Ty Evers and Maddy Wagner each had one block for the defense, while Maleah Davison and Wagner each contributed two digs Cusick On October 15, the Titans played a doubleheader, traveling to...
According to head football coach Jeff Nelson, “The Titans had over 549 yards of total offense, 399 on the ground with Colton Hunt rushing for 140 yards on eight carries for two TDs, and Sage Elder packing the ball three times for 145 yards and three TDs. The air attack totaled 150 yards with Hunt completing eight of 12 passes for three TDs. Josh Clark caught for two TDs and Chance Messer one.” O-H 48 24 12 6 90 Entiat 6 6 0 6 18 Sage Elder ran for 53 yards to score the first touchdown of the game. The two-point conversion run...
The O-H Titan junior-high football team now has a 4-0 season record. The team defeated Waterville-Mansfield 74-21 on September 29, playing in Harrington. On October 6 in Pateros, the JH Titans won again by a score of 58-12. On offense, the team is continuing to work on execution, especially of screen plays. There has been an emphasis on blocking until the whistle and getting to blocks downfield, providing pass protection, running good routes securing the ball and running the ball hard. On defense, the focus has been on...
Inchelium On Tuesday, October 4, the Titans traveled to Inchelium and got the win by a score of 3-1. O-H 25 22 25 25 3 Inch. 13 25 8 15 1 Zoe Clark led her team in service aces with seven. Shelbey Watkins was the leader in assists with 17. Ty Evers got eight kills to pace the offense. Evers also had one block on defense. Maleah Davison led in digs with six. The Titan volleyball team played a double-header in Odessa last Saturday, handing both Curlew and Republic losses. Curlew Beginning at noon, the Titans faced off against...
It was another lopsided win for the Titans last Friday, traveling to Pateros for another league game. Gaven Elder ran 15 yards for the game’s first touchdown. The two-point conversion was run in by Sage Elder. G. Elder also ran for the second TD on a 59-yard sprint. The two-point conversion pass from quarterback Colton Hunt to Brad Johnston was good, making the score 16-0. Pateros quarterback Jeremy Piechalski’s pass was intercepted by Josh Clark, who returned the ball 81 yards for the TD. Marcus King ran the ball for two mor...
The O-H high school volleyball team overcame Valley Christian in Harrington on September 29. The Titans won this one three games to one. O-H 25 24 24 25 3 VC 12 18 26 16 1 Ty Evers of O-H again led the team in kills with 15. Shelbey Watkins was the leading setter with 37 assists. Tied with two service aces each were Watkins, Malea Davison, McKennah Davison, Maddy Wagner and Brenna Carstensen. Watkins also led the Titan team in digs with 13, and Maleah Davison had three blocks for the Titan defense. On Saturday, October 8,...
The Titan football team chalked up another lopsided win last Friday in an away contest against Wellpinit. Gaven Elder led off the O-H scoring with a 26-yard run for a touchdown, with the icing on the cake supplied by his older brother Sage Elder who ran in the two-point conversion to make the score 8-0. S. Elder then ran eight yards for the team’s second TD, but G. Elder was brought down short of the goal line on a running play to put the score at 14-0. It was S. Elder a...
The Odessa School Board held a budget workshop in the district office at 6:30 p.m. on September 28 to review policies and procedures, followed by a regularly scheduled monthly meeting in the high school library at 7 p.m. Attending were board chaiman Ed Deife; board members Heather Valverde, Roland Singer, Janie Steward and Chris Crossley; superintendent Dan Read and business manager Juli Weishaar. Also present were operations supervisor Justin Parr, FBLA advisor and business teacher Terri King, student Zoe Clark, special...
