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OAKESDALE–A slow start gave the Oakesdale Lady Nighthawks the lift they needed to come out ahead 60-43 over the Lady Pirates here Jan. 24. In the SE 1B Wheat Division, the Lady Buccaneers are firmly in fourth place with a 6-5 record with hopes of winning out the final three games of the regular season schedule. Gar-Pal is leading the division at 13-0 with Oakesdale at 12-2 in second and Colton at 9-4. The Lady Wildcats come to the Pomeroy gym Friday for Senior Night. At Oakesdale, the Lady P...
POMEROY–With tough and undefeated Garfield Palouse, 75-52 victors here last Saturday, and 10-1 Oakesdale in first and second, respectively, the Lady Pirates are in third place with a 6-3 record, 9-6 overall. The Lady Buccaneers pulled away from Dayton on Friday, riding two big middle quarters to a 37-23 win on the home maple. Pomeroy scored well against the Lady Vikings, but their opponents' handful of points each quarter added up. The Lady Pirates trailed by only three points after the first e...
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...
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–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 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–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...
POMEROY–The Lady Bucs are in the consolation bracket of the SE1B Volleyball Tourney after DeSales took a 3-0 opening-round win. Third-place Pomeroy hosted fourth-place Liberty Christian yesterday in a loser-out match (full story next week). With a win, the Lady Pirates would face the loser of Oct. 30's No. 2 Gar-Pal v. No. 1 Walla Walla Valley Academy Friday at Pomeroy's gym. The Lady Pirates finished the SE1B Wheat Division in third with a 9-5 league, 10-6 overall record after splitting the fin...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates hosted opponents Dayton and Oakesdale last week, defeating the Lady Bulldogs in four sets and battling top-ranked Oakesdale through five sets before bowing out 15-7 in the fifth set. Pomeroy is 9-4 overall, 8-4 in SE1b Wheat Division behind number two Garfield-Palouse and first-place Oakesdale. Oakesdale visited and the Lady Bucs had difficulty passing to drop the first set, but went on to force a fifth set. "We also showed great resolve in our next match against Oak...
POMEROY––A rocky match that the Lady Pirates (8-3 overall, 7-3) pulled out of the fire paid dividends in the next match as the squad downed Waitsburg in three sets October 8 then overwhelmed the Colton Lady Wildcats in three sets on Colton's home court Oct. 10. The Pirates faced Dayton at home last Tuesday and host Oakesdale tonight. Next week they visit Garfield-Palouse on Oct. 22 and wrap the regular season Oct. 24 against SJEL. Pomeroy downed the Cards 25-13, 25-8, 25-22. "We had some mental...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates are not 6-3 on the season following a four-set win at St. John and a five-set loss at Tekoa-Rosalia. "I think our girls grew tired after a brutal stretch of the schedule where we had the fair, four of our last five matches on the road, two tournaments, and a stretch of sickness go through," observed Head Coach Adam Van Vogt. "I am proud of how we finished that stretch this weekend with great play at the tournament. "Despite how things stacked up for us," he con...
POMEROY––Three unbeatens duked it out last week-Pomeroy, Oakesdale and Gar-Pal-and both of the Lady Pirates' opponents sailed away with wins. Oakesdale cruised through the Buccaneers in three sets and the Lady Vikings got quite a battle, taking the match in five hard-fought sets. Pomeroy visited St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse and Tekoa-Rosalia this week and will compete in the Pea and Lentil Tournament in Genessee Saturday before visiting Waitsburg October 8. The team is 5-2. Oakesdale dominated in...
POMEROY––Squads from Colton and Dayton buckled under the Lady Pirates in league matches last week, the girls downing the Lady Wildcats in three sets and the Dayton Bulldogs in three. This week the Lady Pirates visited Oakesdale, and tonight, September 26, they host Garfield-Palouse. Saturday is the annual Border Battle on the Pomeroy court. The Lady Buccaneers counted the first six points against Colton and kept the pace the remainder of the match, winning 25-18, 25-8, 25-18. Pomeroy cou...
POMEROY–The Lady Pirates have three wins and look to up the ante against Colton and Dayton this week. The Lady Buccaneers beat DeSales in five sets, swept Tekoa-Rosalia and downed Waitsburg 3-0 to kick off the season. Pomeroy defeated DeSales 25-20, 28-26, 11-25, 23-25, 15-11 and T-R 25-14, 25-11, 25-20 at home, and Waitsburg 25-4, 25-8, 25-11 there. "It has been a great start to the season for us," said Head Coach Adam Van Vogt. "The keys for the first three matches are we have done a great j...
POMEROY––The Pirate Fall Sports campaigns will be getting underway with Pirate Football hosting a nine-team jamboree here on Friday, August 30, with kickoffs at 5 p.m., and Pirate Volleyball begins its fall season against DeSales with a home match on September 6, first play getting underway at 5:30 p.m. Volleyball slides right into its busy season with another home match on Tuesday, Sept. 10, against Tekoa-Rosalia, first play at 4 p.m. The following day, September 11, the Lady Pirates tra...
RICHLAND–The Lady Pirates closed out the 2024 fast-pitch softball campaign with twin-bill losses to the Lady Patriots of Liberty Christian last Saturday, April 27 but not before Senior Pirate Hannah Bagby hammered a grand slam in her last Pirate at-bat. The Lady Patriots shut out the Pirates 16-0 in the opener and lost 14-4. The team finishes in fifth place in the SE1B Wheat Division with an 1-11 league record and a 3-17 overall record. Colton landed on top with a 10-1, 13-3 record followed by D...
By Loyal Baker POMEROY––The Lady Vikings rapped the bats and scored steadily to register a 14-8 league win here Saturday, April 13, then the Lady Pirates rallied with a 12-run third inning to even the score with Gar-Pal. Pomeroy is 2-10 on the season, 0-4 in league. Garfield-Palouse's strong hitting combined with a handful of Lady Pirate errors to tilt the game to the Lady Vikings, who rode big third and fourth innings to with win. Pomeroy bats were quiet until the last innings when the tea...
COLTON–The Lady Pirates kept swinging but the Colton Lady Wildcats out swung 'em, romping to two lop-sided wins here March 29. The Bucs start the second half of the season April 9 with a home game. They host Gar-Pal for a twin bill April 13. "The girls did well on the field and kept swinging," said Coach Alexis Beale. "Taylor Gilbert and Kendyll Potoschnick had doubles and Hannah Bagby had an over-the-fence home run!" Beale said. Molly Warren started in the circle for the Lady Pirates and was r...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates broke two tie scores and jumped ahead of the Prairie Pirates with six runs in the fifth inning, winning their first game of the 2024 campaign 18-14 at home March 20. Tekoa-Rosalia handed the team a pair of losses on the home diamond, and with a rematch played earlier this week at Tekoa-Rosalia, a home game today against Yakama Nation Tribal followed by a double header at Colton the next day, March 29, the team will be ready for Spring Vacation. Kendyll Potoschnick hit...
SPANGLE––The Lady Pirates battled the Liberty Lady Lancers, who scored in dribs and drabs on their way to an 11-1 win over Pomeroy here March 16. The Lady Buccaneers were hammered 30-8 in the nightcap. The team's record is 0-4 as they look to a home game against Prairie on Wednesday of this week and a home double bill against Tekoa-Rosalia, first pitch at 11 a.m. "In the first game," said Head Coach Lexi Beale. "The fielding was great! The girls worked hard each inning to keep the Lancers at bay...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates battled the Lady Panthers of Asotin High but came up short in both games of the season-opening double header here Tuesday. Asotin win the opening game 25-13 in spite of a good showing at the plate by the Lady Pirates, said Head Coach Alexis Coleman. "The Pirates had great batting in the first game with Taylor Gilbert having two doubles, Izzy Field one double, as well as Carolyn McKeirnan," Coleman commented. "The Pirates came out swinging and battled hard today," she...
POMEROY–The Pomeroy Pirate Girls Basketball team suffered from low-scoring second halves in two losses in the SE1B Girls District Tournament, falling 44-25 to Sunnyside Christian on Feb. 7, then being bounced from further post-season play by Liberty Christian 59-31 on Feb. 9. The Lady Pirates finished the season at 5-13. "We have struggled in the second half of games," commented Head Coach Brian Koller. The Lady Bucanneers scored five points in the second half in the tournament opener versus S...
POMEROY–A fourth-place finish for the Lady Pirates steered them to a Wednesday, February 7 rematch with an opponent they had played five days earlier-and lost to 57-26. Pomeroy played Grape Division No. 1 Sunnyside Christian in the first round of District (results next week). The Lady Buccaneers were fourth with a 4-6 league, 5-11 season record after Feb. 2 loss to Sunnyside Christian. The Lady Knights hammered the team 20-2 in the first quarter and flew to a 32-7 half time lead. The Lady P...
POMEROY––The Lady Buccaneers are gaining experience and improving, according to Head Coach Brian Koller, with the team holding a 4-6 record and fourth place in the SE1B League behind 7-2 Colton, 8-2 Gar-Pal and 8-1 Oakesdale. "We put together about two and a half pretty good quarters against a very good Viking team," Koller commented. "They are very physical and aggressive and we handled that okay. They pulled away late in the third quarter as we just didn't take care of the basketball very wel...