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POMEROY–Lady Pirate junior varsity will not play Dayton this Friday due to Dayton being unable to field a team. Action begins with jayvee boys at 4:30 p.m., varsity girls at 6 p.m. and varsity boys at 7:30 p.m., according to athletic director Toddette McGreevy. A "C"/JV boys game has been added January 18 versus Gar-Pal. It tips off at noon with other games following at 1:30 for two quarters of JV girls, jayvee boys at 2:30, varsity girls at 4 p.m. and varsity boys at 5:30 p.m. Lady Pirate j...
POMEROY––With three weekends of the regular season remaining, the 5-2 Lady Pirates are in third place in the SE 1B Wheat Division behind second-place Oakesdale with an 8-2 league mark and leaders Garfield-Palouse at 9-0. Dayton, the Lady Pirates' opponents this Friday, is in fourth place with a 5-4 league record. Gar-Pal comes to Pomeroy Saturday and the Lady Bucs travel to Colton next Tuesday, Jan. 21. The Lady Pirates jumped to a 16-8 first-quarter lead and never looked back, the defense hol...
By Loyal Baker POMEROY––The Pirates won three games last week, adding to a win over Genessee for a four-game winning ramble in SE 1B play, edging Tekoa-Rosalia 56-35, clobbering SJEL 59-14 and defeathering the Cardinals 55-13. The Pirates are 6-1 in league, 7-5 overall. Dayton visits Friday and Garfield-Palouse comes to town Saturday then the Bucs set sail for Colton Tuesday, January 21 as the last couple weeks of the regular season approach. In spite of coming out "flat," the Pirates were hit...
COLBERT–Pirate junior Peyton Cannon finished second in the 190-lb. division at the Crusader Classic here January 11. "Junior Peyton Cannon continues to lead the team," commented Head Coach Mat Slaybaugh. "He looked tough through all of his matches, even in his finals match where he lost. Peyton wrestled a 2024 1A state placer but held his own losing after three rounds by six points." "I continue to be impressed by how much our guys are improving each week," Slaybaugh said. "The young guys are l...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates are now 5-4 overall and 2-2 in SE 1B basketball standings after edging the Dayton Lady Bulldogs in overtime and suffering a fourth-quarter fade to drop a non-league contest to Genesee 54-46. The Lady Pirates hosted Waitsburg Wednesday of this week, meet St. John/Endicott-LaCrosse at home Friday and visit Tekoa-Rosalia Saturday. The Lady Pirates were led by Hollie Van Vogt and Kiersten Bartels, both with nine points, and Carmen Fruh with seven in the loss to Gen...
DAYTON–There's an interesting video available online that includes numerous mentions of Our Fair City in connection with one of its most famous inhabitants, Frank Finkel. Finkel, as has been described in past editions of the Dayton Chronicle, in 1923 and 2020 and inbetween, was said to be the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Frank Smith Finkel died August 28, 1930, at the age of 76 and is buried in the Dayton City Cemetery. The documentary was made in 2011 and is made for the type of t...
DAYTON–The Pirates rolled up a 29-16 half-time lead and the defense kept the lid on the Dayton Bulldogs throughout the game giving the Buccaneers a 51-37 SE 1B league victory here last week. The Pirates visited Liberty Christian on Monday of this week, then hosts Genesee for a non-league game on Saturday. They travel to Waitsburg for a league counter on Tuesday. The pirates are 3-4 overall, 3-1 in league. Pomeroy's defense played a big role in the win. "We defended well all game long and were go...
DAYTON–The Lady Pirates are now 2-2 in SE 1B league play and 5-3 overall after notching a 39-21 win at Liberty Christian on Monday and a squeaky-tight 38-36 overtime win in Dayton last Friday, December 27. The team faces Genesee at home on Friday then hits the road to Waitsburg next Tuesday. "Defensively we played one our better games and we rebounded better," commented Head Coach Brian Koller after the Liberty Christian game. Taylor Gilbert scored a game-high 15, pouring in nine in the first q...
POMEROY––The Pirates are 2-2 in league after splitting weekend contests with Whitman County rivals Gar-Pal and Oakesdale before breaking for the Christmas holidays. Pomeroy sliced through the Nighthawks here last Saturday, 65-46, but took a beating at Gar-Pal the night before 59-43. A post-Christmas visit to Dayton on December 27 and a non-league rubber match at Liberty Christian on December 30 are the remaining games of the year for the Pirates. Everything was clicking for the Pirates aga...
POMEROY–The Lady Buccaneers look to wrap up the 2024 side of this season's schedule with away games at Dayon this Friday and at Liberty Christian on Monday, December 30 following a pair of losses to Whitman County rivals Garfield-Palouse and Oakesdale. The Lady Nighthawks pummeled the Lady Pirates with a 21-point second half to edge the team 31-20 in the league counter. Lucy Hockett lifted her team with 13 game-high points. Isabella Field was Pomeroy's top scorer with six. At Palouse, G...
POMEROY––Three Lady Pirates scored in double figures to lead the team to a resounding 56-30 win over the Liberty Christian Lady Patriots here Tuesday, and the team edged Asotin the night before, 27-20. The Pirates are 1-0 in league and 3-1 overall. This weekend's games are at Gar-Pal on Friday with a home game Saturday versus the Nighthawks of Oakesdale. Pomeroy jumped to a 14-6 first-quarter lead and grew it to 30-16 at the break. The team continued with double-digit scoring in the second hal...
POMEROY––It was nip and tuck the entire game and the Asotin Panthers nudged ahead by outscoring the Pirates 13-9 in the final stanza for the 41-35 league decision. The Buccaneers are 1-2 overall, 1-0 in league. They faced Liberty Christian last Tuesday then hit the road to Gar-Pal this Friday and are home Saturday against Oakesdale. "This was a close hard-fought game the whole night,' said Head Coach Chris Wolf. "The boys did everything I asked them to do offensively but we just weren't abl...
POMEROY–Downtown businesses Meyers Hardware and Pomeroy Pharmacy were aglow with the spirit of the Christmas Season here December 5. The East Washingtonian lens was on hand to capture some of that spirit in Pomeroy....
DAYTON–Fire and rescue crews responded to an accident on Hartsock Grade Saturday morning, December 7, and successfully extricated the driver of the vehicle for treatment at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston where she was listed in fair condition Tuesday. Marilyn T. O'Shaughnessy, 2114 Tucannon Road, Pomeroy, was driving a 2008 Nissan Frontier when it left the roadway about four-tenths of a mile from the top of Hartsock Grade at about 10 a.m. Saturday. The vehicle came to rest on i...
POTLATCH, IDAHO–The Pirate Wrestling team ventured to the Dick Griswold Invitational last Saturday with Peyton Cannon finishing fourth in the first match of the season. Pirate grapplers competed this week at a Colfax Mix and Match, and travel next Saturday to the Liberty Invitational at Spangle. "Pomeroy has a young team with two eighth graders and a freshman competing," commented Head Coach Mat Slaybaugh of the team's first match of the season. "Overall, the team looked good despite what the d...
SOUTH BEND, WASH.–The Naselle Comets repeated their playoff denial of further Pomeroy Pirate football play with a hard-won 60-50 decision here last weekend, sending the Buccaneers home for the season with a 10-2 overall mark. Naselle faces Wilbur-Creston-Keller this Saturday in Moses Lake. With the Pirates trailing by 14 in the fourth quarter, senior quarterback Jett Slusser scored back-to-back touchdowns to tie it 44-44. Slusser rushed 31 times for 187 yards and four touchdowns, and passed 1...
The Pirates congratulated one another as the final seconds ticked off the scoreboard and the team advanced to a quarter final contest versus the Naselle Comets next Saturday in South Bend, Wash. The Pirates looked to have a fight on their hands in the early going but Odessa's offense couldn't muster enough juice against the stubborn Buccaneer defense, and the Pirates broke several big plays for points on the scoreboard in the 52-12 State Football Tournament win....
Tomorrow is the sixty-first anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas. Like Pearl Harbor for my parents’ generation, and September 11 for our sons’ and daughters’ generation (an ours, of course), you remember exactly where and when you heard the news: Jeannie Hofer’s mom Ginger told Jeannie and me on the lawn in front of Waitsburg High School when Mrs. Hofer came to pick Jeannie up from Kindergarten. Like 1963, this year’s November 22 is a Friday. Hundreds of books have been written on the subject and my dad was fascinated...
POMEROY––The Pirates hit the road to South Bend this weekend for a 1 p.m. Saturday, November 23, playoff game against the Naselle Comets following the Bucs' convincing 52-12 win over the 7-2 Odessa Tigers here last Friday. The Pirates are in the quarter finals of the 1B State Bracket, and 9-1 Neah Bay and 9-0 Naselle are the only west-side teams remaining. DeSales (8-1) faces top-ranked Liberty Christian (9-0) Friday, Nov. 22 at Fran Risch Stadium in Richland. In addition to the Pom...
POMEROY––The Pirates downed Cusick to secure a berth in the 16-team state football playoffs and will play the first game of that tournament Friday at Lybecker Field versus the Odessa Tigers, kick off 7 p.m. The 9-1 Bucs face the 7-2 Tigers, who defeated Sunnyside Christian 66-18 to set up the upcoming game. "Jett Slusser, Jacob Reisinger, and Kyzer Herres ran wild on Cusick early and often," commented Head Coach Kyle Kimble. "Our defense really stepped up and played well," Kimble said. "Th...
POMEROY–Preliminary Election-Night returns show that some 79.50% of Garfield County's voters cast ballots in the 2024 General Election and it appears that conservative candidates and causes were favored by local balloteers. Washington's Fifth District will remain in the Republican Party as Michael Baumgartner outpolled Democrat Carmela Conroy 59.79% and 164,626 votes to Conroy's 110,352 votes and 40.08%. Here voters gave Baumgartner 79.89% and 1,037 votes to Conroy's 20.11% and 261 votes. Statew...
By Loyal Baker RICHLAND–The Pirates dropped a tough one to the Liberty Christian Patriots 34-68 in the SE1B league championship game here November 1. The loss sends Pomeroy into the NE1B/SE1B crossover as the number two seed. The Bucs will face NE1B No. 7 Cusick on the home field, kickoff 6 p.m. "I'm super proud of our boys for their grit and effort during the game," said Head Coach Kyle Kimble. "We played the number one team in the state tough for three quarters." The Patriot struck first but P...
COLFAX–Pirate Cross Country's Kiersten Bartels wrapped up her 2024 season with a 28:34.68 time at the 1B/2B and NEA Regional XC meet here Nov. 1. She finished 78th out of 84. "Kiersten ran a great race today in the rain at 45 degrees in Colfax," said Coach Greg Sharp. "Kiersten had a great season with her slowest average mile pace of 10:32 and ending with her fastest average mile pace of 8:19." Bethany Zimmerman was ill and didn't compete, Sharp said. "Bethany had a great season with her s...
POMEROY–The Lady Pirates were handed a pair of district-tourney losses bringing the season to an end. In the opening game, DeSales won in three sets and against Liberty Christian, a four-set loss. Lady Pirates Taylor Gilbert, Olivia Cooper and Hollie Van Vogt made First Team All-League, and Sadie Klaveano made second team with Isabella Field receiving all-league honorable mention. The team got off to a slow start in game one at DeSales but rallied to play competitive games in the second and t...
Since Joe Biden was inaugurated, it has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Thousands started streaming across the southern border. No amount of exposure of this disregard for our nation’s border and the laws that keep them secure had any effect. The vice president was put in charge of the border and she did nothing. For three years, we watched helplessly while migrants from around the world waded across the Rio Grande. This went on until Kamala Harris was repositioned as the presidential candidate at the national convention, a...