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POMEROY––With a 62-6 win over Liberty Christian behind them, the undefeated Pomeroy Pirates set sail for the 1B Southeast 8-Man Championship at Sunnyside Christian tonight, Nov. 4. Sunnyside Christian (8-1, 5-1 1B SE) had been unbeaten until a 54-14 loss to DeSales last week, which makes Pomeroy's upcoming contest crucial for an uncontested league championship. "A win versus the Knights clinches the outright league championship for the Pirates," commented Head Coach Kyle Kimble. "It was ano...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates crammed half of their Southeast 1B league season into a 50-hour segment of last week, and when the dust cleared, they held a third-place berth to the District Tournament, and faced Liberty Christian last Tuesday night on the court in Richland. (Game info to appear next week.) Pomeroy achieved a tournament berth by beating Colton on Monday, November 1, in three games, then getting the higher seed thanks to a favorable number draw over Garfield-Palouse. The Lady Bucs got...
COLFAX–Pomeroy’s four-man Cross Country team ran in the District 7/9 Regionals here Saturday, October 30 and counted individual improvements for two on the team, but the team’s placing in the 110-runner field resulted in the season ending without advancement to the State XC Meet. “Our athletes did a great job as Trevin [Walton] and Cash [Copher] both were able to obtain new PRs for the season, while Brady [Bott] came within three seconds of his season PR,” said Head Coach Greg Sharp. Pirate XC runner Trevin Walton’s time of 21:16.29 and Cash Co...
TOPPENISH–The undefeated Pomeroy Pirates are looking to the last two games of the 2021 campaign atop the Division 1B standings, and anticipating Homecoming Week and their meeting with Liberty Christian Friday at Lybecker Field. Last Friday, the Buccaneers downed Yakama Tribal School 74-0. The season finale will be the SE B1 championship showdown against undefeated Sunnyside Christian there Thursday, November 4. The Pirates are in first place in the Washington Interscholastic Athletics A...
ROSALIA–Bouncing back from the effects of coronavirus, which cut about half of the team out of contention for about two weeks, the Lady Pirates put together a gutsy five-set win over Tekoa-Rosalia with six matches remaining in an accelerated final week of the regular season. On the schedule down the home stretch is an Oct. 26 double bill with Gar-Pal, an Oct. 27 Senior-Night match versus Tekoa-Rosalia and an Oct. 28 double header at St. John. Remaining to be played is a postponed match a...
POMEROY––Three Pirate Cross Country Team members, running in the SE 1B Championships here October last Friday, qualified for the District 7/9 Regional XC Meet in Colfax this Saturday. Pirate XC runners Trevin Walton, Brady Bott and Cash Copher will compete in the Regional meet, which will be held Saturday, Oct. 30, at the Colfax Golf Course. The boys event will begin at 1:45 p.m. "Trevin Walton, Brady Bott, and Cash Copher have all run well this season considering injuries/sickness," com...
POMEROY––It was a record-setting night for Pirate senior Trent Gwinn as he and the Pirates scored prolifically to defeat the DeSales Fighting Irish 76-44 and continue their unbeaten record in the 1B Southeast League. Pomeroy visits Yakama Tribal School next Friday at Toppenish Middle School, facing the 1-3 team with a 3 p.m. kick off. The Pirates and Sunnyside Christian are tied atop the league standings with identical 4-0 league and 7-0 overall records, portending a championship-deciding sho...
POMEROY––In eight days between Wednesday, October 20 and Thursday, October 28, the Lady Pirate Volleyball Team will shoe-horn in eight matches to finish the 2021 campaign which was upset by positive covid tests last week. The Lady Pirates played at Oakesdale on October 20, recovering from their covid outbreak to get the season back on track earlier than reported last week. Colton's Lady Wildcats visit Friday, Oct. 22 for a 6 p.m. match, and the Lady Buccaneers host the Nighthawks of Tek...
ST. JOHN–Pomeroy High School’s Cross Country team competed in an event in St. John on October 12 with four Pirate harriers finishing in the aft part of the pack. Competing in the boy’s varsity event, Trevin Walton, a junior, finished 27th out of a field of 45 runners, notching a time of 21:43. Teammate Samuel Lamb, also a junior, trailed Walton by less than a minute and a half, coming in 35th with a time of 23:10. Brady Bott, another P.H.S. junior, was about a minute later, in 39th place with a 24:09 time. Rounding out the Pirate XC runners was...
POMEROY–How tournament play will go after the regular volleyball and football seasons has been charted, according to Athletic Director Toddette McGreevy. The Southeast 1B volleyball is divided into two divisions, the Grape Division and the Wheat Division, and the top four teams from each division will play in the tournament, set for the first week in November. Games will be played at the court of the higher seed. Three teams from the SE 1B league will go to the state tournament, McGreevy s...
POMEROY––In a rare occurrence for high school eight-man football, the Pirates scored over 100 points in a game for the first time in school history, soundly romping past the Touchet Indians here last Friday, 104-12. The Pirates' Friday meeting at St. John has been canceled due to student-athletes from that school being ordered into distance learning due to covid, according the Athletic Director Toddette McGreevy. At this time, there is no information on it being rescheduled. Mark your schedules:...
COLTON–The momentum, as well as volleyball players with the Pomeroy Lady Pirates and Colton's Lady Wildcats, took some wild swings here September 29, but the orange and black prevailed in a tightly contested five-set win to start off league play. This Tuesday's match at St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse has been canceled due to student-athletes in that program at St. John being ordered into distance learning due to covid, reports A.D. Toddette McGreevy. The Bucs host Oakesdale tonight, Oct. 7, in the l...
LEWISTON–Three Pirate cross country runners competed well at a District 7/9 South League Meet at LCSC in Lewiston September 28. Last Tuesday, the team heads to Colfax to compete against the same field, then on Saturday, October 9, returns to the LCSC course for the Inland Empire Meet. On the schedule is an October 12 meet at St. John, start time 4 p.m. Samuel Lamb, Brady Bott and Cash Copher showed decent times over the 3.1-mile course at LCSC. Lamb, a junior, finished 24th out of 35 with a time of 22:27 to lead Pirate runners. There were f...
TEKOA–The Pirates blew to the running clock by 7:24 in the second quarter, dominating the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves with not only a shut out, but also holding their hosts to 43 yards of total offense in this season's first league contest. The Touchet Indians come to town this Friday for a 7 p.m. kick off against the 4-0 Pirates. "Our boys came to play this afternoon," commented Head Coach Kyle Kimble. "I was thrilled with our relentless, physical, and fast play, especially on defense. H...
POMEROY––The Lady Buccaneers put together a complete match September 21to counter an earlier loss to the Lady Irish of DeSales and now have a 2-1 record as league play gets underway. A September 23 trip to Palouse has been rescheduled to October 28 due to Garfield-Palouse and other Whitman County schools being in virtual learning due to covid. Pomeroy visited Colton earlier this week and tonight hosts Tekoa-Rosalia at 6 p.m. The Pea & Lentil tournament in Genesee is scheduled for October 2. The...
POMEROY––Pirate Cross Country runner Trevin Walton finished eighth in a field of 15 in the Pomeroy Invitational XC meet last Wednesday, September 22 at Lybecker Field. It was the Pirate harriers' first meet of the fall season. A District 7/9 meet in Lewiston was held Wednesday, September 28 at Lewiston's Lewis Clark State College course, with another meeting of District 7/9 runners set for October 5 in Colfax. The Inland Empire Meet is set for 9:30 a.m. on October 9 in Lewiston on the LCSC cou...
POMEROY––Pitted against Liberty Bell, whose reputation reads like a description of the Pomeroy Pirates-fast and physical-the Bucanneers wasted no time taking a quick lead and building an insurmountable lead as they downed the visiting Mountain Lions 58-12 here Friday, September 17. The Pirates visit Tekoa-Rosalia at Rosalia this Friday to begin 1B League play. Kick off is at 7 p.m. "The team played really well through some adversity," commented Kyle Kimble. "Liberty Bell is a fast and physical football team and we matched them in their spe...
POMEROY––Due to covid concerns, the annual Border Battle volleyball tournament has been canceled, Athletic Director Toddette McGreevy reported this week....
DEARY–The Pirates put the game out of reach in the first quarter then finished with a few touchdowns to accelerate the end of the 50-0 win over the Mustangs here Friday, September 10. The Pirates host Liberty Bell this Friday, Sept. 17 at Lybecker Field. "Liberty Bell will be a very physical," commented Head Coach Kyle Kimble. "They'll be a tough opponent with a veteran quarterback and a unique offensive scheme that will challenge us." At Deary, Pomeroy scored first on a 16-yard Trent Gwinn r...
POMEROY–The P.H.S. Pirate Volleyball team opened the 2021 campaign with a win at DeSales, then dropped the first home match to Asotin in five sets September 9. The Lady Pirates' next match is Tuesday, September 21 against DeSales on the home court. "I was really pleased with how our team didn't get down on themselves or quit mentally after losing two close games and then took it to five games," observed Head Coach Adam Van Vogt of the five-set loss to the Lady Panthers. "It showed resiliency t...
SPANGLE–The 2021 Wrestling Season was short and intense, with the four Pirate wrestlers competing in the regional match here Friday, June 18, going for broke and a medal. Braedyn White, in the 182-lb. classification, and Will Winona, in the 195-lb. division, finished with medals following the approximately four-week season consisting of six meets, which culminated with regionals at Liberty High School. "It was a short and different season but the guys wrestled tough and kept good attitudes," c...
POMEROY––Pirate wrestling had a successful meet last Saturday, taking the crown in one weight class and finishing second in three others. The match included teams from Reardan, Colfax, Liberty, Lind-Ritzville, and Davenport, and it prepped the wrestlers for the final event of the season, a regional tournament this Friday, June 18, starting at 9 a.m. at Liberty High School in Spangle. "The boys all had a good showing," commented Mat Slaybaugh, assistant coach. Walker Flynn won both matches to...
DAVENPORT–Pirate grappler Walker Flynn won both of his wrestling matches and teammates Curtis Winona and Will Winona had mixed results at a league meet here Thursday, June 3. Flynn pinned both of his opponents from Reardan in the league match that included wrestlers from Davenport, Reardan, Lind-Ritzville, Colfax, Liberty-Spangle and Garfield-Palouse. "The boys continue to make improvements each week and are wrestling really tough," said Head Coach Ben Slaybaugh. "Walker Flynn and Curtis W...
ASOTIN–The Pomeroy Junior High A volleyball team finished its short season with a 1-3 record with a loss to Asotin on June 2, 25-20, 25-22, 15-9. The Pirate A Squad opened the season with a win over Asotin, lost to Endicott and Colfax, and wrapped with the loss to Asotin. "Our girls competed well against Asotin in our last match and our stats showed our improvement," said Coach Adam Van Vogt. "We had more digs in this game than in any of the other three matches we played and we had our best s...
By Loyal Baker WALLA WALLA–The Lady Pirates finished the season with a four-games-in-four-nights run, winning the final two games and finishing with a 3-5 record. Pomeroy defeated DeSales 55-39 May 27, downed Liberty Christian 51-25, fell to Yakama Tribal 61-50 and lost to Oakesdale 42-24. "We played eight games in 15 days, capped off with four straight this week," said Brock Ledgerwood, Interim Head Coach. "We played a short rotation all season and our girls are flat out exhausted right now. T...