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Tuesday's game against Valley Christian on Feb. 1 was a league win for the Tiger girls. Ashlyn Neilsen was again the scoring leader with 23 points. She also had 10 steals and was named the Odessa player of the game. VC 2 5 6 5 18 Odessa 13 20 14 2 49 Lily Starkel was the team leader in rebounds with five. Thanks to the lopsided score, every player on the bench got into the game. On Feb. 2, the team traveled to Wellpinit and overcame the Redskins by a score of 54 to 49. Neilsen...
Against Valley Christian on Feb. 1, Odessa held on to the win as the Panthers put forth a last quarter surge that nearly upset the Tigers, who had led throughout the game. As it turned out, the Panthers fell short by only two points. Collin Martin was back in the lineup and led the Tiger offense with 15 points. Jacob Scrupps had 14 and Nathan Carstensen 13 for a balanced attack assisted by several other players. VC 11 10 13 21 55 Odessa 19 13 16 9 57 In rebounding, Carstensen...
ODESSA – Public input at the Jan. 27, 2022 meeting of the Odessa hospital board was the first item on the agenda after board chair Brian Fink called the meeting to order. Each person desiring to speak to the board was given five minutes to air their concerns. The common theme among the three who chose to speak was frustration with the levels of care at the clinic and in the emergency department. One person addressed the turnover of recent months, the rumors of possible m...
RITZVILLE – In Ritzville on Jan. 25, the varsity girls faced the Broncos of Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna in a non-conference game they lost, 33-52. Odessa's Hayden Schuh and Ashlyn Neilsen were tied for the scoring lead with 13 points each. LRSW 13 14 11 14 52 Odessa 6 14 8 5 33 Laela Hardung led the team in rebounds with six, while Neilsen added five. The game scheduled for Jan. 28 against Mary Walker High School in Springdale had to be cancelled due mainly to illness o...
RITZVILLE – A league win over Mary Walker and a league loss to Cusick, plus a loss to the larger Bronco co-op of LRSW was the story for the Tiger boys last week. Most games were able to be played in the local 1B league despite Covid still doing its best to sideline players from many different teams. The Tiger boys fell to the 2B league's Lind-Ritzville/Sprague/Washtucna team, 38-76. Jacob Scrupps scored 14 points to lead the Odessa team. LRSW - - - - 76 Odessa - - - - 38 S...
The results for week #4 of the Spokesman-Review’s Inland Empire Trapshoot held Sunday, Jan. 30, are reported below by Markus Smith for Odessa and Doug Starkel for Marlin. After week #3, the Marlin-Odessa team was leading the Yakima Valley Sportsmen by two points, 296 to 294 Odessa results None of Odessa’s shooters managed to hit all 25 targets. Shooting 24 were Wyatt Haase and Garrett Braun. Brian Wraspir shot 23. Tyler Smith, Jared King, Stan Dammel and Deric Schmierer all hit 22 targets. Hitting 21 were Nathan Melcher, Nic...
ODESSA – Rocky Coulee Brewing Company is holding a benefit to raise funds for rebuilding of the Almira school building completely destroyed by fire in October of 2021. Rocky Coulee has scheduled the event for Sunday, Jan. 30, at the brewery in Odessa as a 5 km poker run and pancake breakfast. The community is invited to participate in one or both parts of the event as they choose. Those interested in competing as either runners or walkers doing the poker run can register beginning at 10 a.m. According to Katie Schafer, w...
WILBUR – Wednesday, Jan. 19, the Tiger girls traveled to Wilbur to face Wilbur-Creston-Keller Wildcats, losing by a score of 25-44. Hayden Schuh was high scorer with nine points, followed closely by Tori Schlomer with eight. WCK 5 11 9 19 44 Odessa 6 6 0 13 25 Schuh also led the team in rebounds with nine. After bouts of illness last week, the girls looked like they were not back in form. This game was a makeup game that was originally scheduled for the previous week. The T...
WILBUR – The Odessa boys registered their third victory in a row by defeating Wilbur-Creston-Keller twice last week in the Jan. 19 game at Wilbur by a score of 65-59 and in the Jan. 22 game in Odessa by a score of 52-33. The Jan. 21 game scheduled in Odessa against ACH was cancelled due to positive Covid cases spiking on the ACH team. The Tigers have also had a few positives, but most players return to action after a few days of isolation. The Tigers were on fire against W...
Week three of the Spokesman-Review’s Inland Empire Trapshoot had the shooters out in the bitter cold again on Sunday, Jan. 23. Reporting results are Markus Smith for Odessa and Doug Starkel for Marlin. Odessa results Nick Tebow had a perfect score of 25. Shooting 24 were Cody Stanford and Jared Praetorious. Markus Smith and Tyler Smith both shot 23. Jared King and Garrett Braun came in with 22. Five shooters hit 21 targets: Nathan Melcher, Corbyn Neilsen, Tom Schuh, Stan Dammel and Deric Schmierer. At 20 and under were H...
ODESSA – The only game played last week by the Odessa girls was against Moses Lake Christian Academy. The Tigers overcame the Lions last Wednesday, Jan. 12 Senior Tori Schlomer was released to rejoin the team after a volleyball injury had her sidelined for a couple of months. Ashlyn Neilsen led the scoring with 26 points. Hayden Schuh contributed another 15 points. MLCA 9 9 9 10 37 Odessa 15 13 12 11 51 Neilsen led the team in rebounds with 10 and Laela Hardung had nine. I...
ODESSA – Another week has passed of Covid messing with the basketball schedule. A non-league game against Moses Lake Christian Academy was scheduled for Jan. 11, then postponed until Wednesday, Jan. 12, when the game was played in Odessa. Collin Martin returned to the lineup, having been released to play by his doctor. The team was thus finally back at full strength. The game was definitely a hard-fought battle. Although MLCA dominated early, the Tigers fought their way back i...
ODESSA – The 104th year of the Spokesman-Review Inland Northwest Trapshoot began Jan. 9, 2022, with the Marlin and Odessa Gun Clubs again joining forces to participate in the oldest and largest shoot of its kind in the U.S. Trapshooters from Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon make up the participating clubs. After Covid precautions kept some from participating last year, both the newspaper and the club members found it challenging to get back into the swing of this long-time contest. The two clubs are now back to s...
COULEE CITY – The weather and Covid combined for a double whammy to hit the sports schedule last week. The non-league game against Oakesdale was first moved from Tuesday to Wednesday, then cancelled due to hazardous road conditions. Things settled down some by Friday, when the Tigers went to Coulee City to face Almira-Coulee-Hartline. Saturday's game was to be played in Wilbur, but a major Covid outbreak there caused that game to be cancelled as well. In the one game the T...
COULEE CITY – Of the three games scheduled for last week, only one was actually played thanks to the weather and Covid. Tuesday's non-league game against Oakesdale was cancelled due to hazardous road conditions, but the league contest on Friday in Coulee City went ahead as scheduled. Saturday's game to be played in Wilbur was also cancelled due to a major Covid outbreak there. The Tiger girls got off to a slow start after the holiday break when they faced A...
ODESSA – Schoonover Farms, LLC of Odessa is voluntarily recalling retail raw whole milk and cream after routine testing by the Washington State Department of Agriculture revealed the presence of toxin-producing E. coli in a raw cream sample on Dec. 23. Out of an abundance of caution, raw whole milk and cream displaying “best by” dates of Dec. 23, 2021 through Jan. 2, 2022 have been recalled. The recalled product was bottled in 8-ounce, quart, half-gallon and one-gallon containers and was sold to local consumers in the Odessa...
ODESSA – The Odessa girls suffered their first loss this season to 2B school Reardan on Dec. 21. Fortunately for the Tigers it was a non-conference matchup. The Tigers are still undefeated in league play. Ashlyn Neilsen scored 20 points, and Hayden Schuh scored 8 for the team's entire scoring effort. Neilsen scored more than half of her points from the free-throw line, where she was 12 out of 13 for a 92 percent success rate. Reardan 14 7 15 12 48 Odessa 4 2 13 9 28 Neilsen a...
ODESSA – Jacob Scrupps returned to the varsity lineup Tuesday and gave a much-needed boost to the team. Playing in Reardan against the Indians, the team lost the game but made a much better showing than in the other games played thus far. In fact, Scrupps led the scoring for Odessa with 16 points, supported also by Nathan Carstensen's 11 points and Dakota Steward's 10. The Tigers took a beating in the first half and trailed 50-19 at the mid-point of the game. Reardan 19 31 1...
ODESSA – The members of the Odessa Lions Club have again sponsored the residential Christmas lighting contest. The judges have made their selections and provided photos of the top three homes judged Monday evening, Dec. 20. The home of Keith and Becky Kolterman on south Alder took first place, winning them a $150 gift to spend on next year's decorations. Joel and Danielle Hardung on Fairway came in second in the judging and were awarded $100, while Brad and Jamie Hawley, n...
ODESSA – With Daeton Deife, Collin Martin and Jacob Scrupps still on the injured list, the varsity boys have struggled so far this basketball season. They took a 69-27 drubbing from Davenport on Dec. 14 in Odessa's home gym. Senior forward Nathan Carstensen led the scoring with 12 points. Fellow senior Landen Brooks contributed 5 points. Davenport - - - - 69 Odessa - - - - 27 Carstensen and Dakota Steward led the team in rebounds with five each. Turnovers were a serious p...
ODESSA – The Tigers upped their season win streak to four by defeating both Davenport and Harrington on Dec. 14 and 16. Ashlyn Neilsen was again the leading scorer in both contests and was named Odessa Player of the Game for both. Neilsen scored 26 points in the non-conference game against 2B school Davenport. With the score tied at halftime, the Tigers came out and posted a five-point lead by the end of the third quarter. Davenport kept the game close, but the Tigers p...
ODESSA – Business educator and FBLA advisor Terri King reports that the toy drive by the Odessa High School chapter of FBLA is still in full swing. Toys are available for pickup at the Old Town Hall on Wednesday and Thursday of this week from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. She says the community has been very generous and encourages any Odessa area residents who need toys for their children to help themselves. The chapter also hosted a Christmas party for Odessa senior citizens at the O...
ODESSA – Paul Katovich of HighLine Grain Growers, Inc. met with firefighters Jon Fink and Roger Sebesta in Odessa Tuesday, Dec. 21, to officially announce the donation to Lincoln/Adams Fire District #3 of a flathouse and the property on which it sits in the Town of Odessa. The building lost its roof to fire a few years ago and has stood empty ever since. It came to his attention while visiting his Odessa friends Bill and Carol Bell that the local firefighters were having a d...
ODESSA – The Tiger girls got their season off to a winning start, defeating both Wellpinit and Valley Christian last weekend on Dec. 10 and 11. Ashlyn Neilsen was the leading scorer in both contests and was named Odessa Player of the Game for both. Friday's home game initially looked like it was going to be a blowout, as Wellpinit had trouble finding the basket in the first quarter. Shots aplenty were made from all over the court but failed to drop through the net. By the f...
Council approved: 2022 budget for the Town of Odessa FUND REVENUES EXPENDITURES 001-General $1,071,133.73 $1,071,133.73 012-Cemetery $35,890.73 $35,890.73 101-Street $84,700.00 $84,700.00 103-Hotel/Motel $1,500.00 $1,500.00 313-Cumulative Reserve $13,000.00 $13,000.00 401-Water $264,691.67 $264,691.67 402-Solid Waste $254,338.00 $254,338.00 422-Sewer $1,221,234.00 $1,221,234.00 633-State Remittance $100.00 $100.00 TOTAL 2021 ALL FUNDS $2,946,588.13 $2,946,588.13 ODESSA – The Odessa Town Council met in the public library M...
