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Another familiar Pomeroy institution that has been missing and it back is the superb announcing talents of Voice of the Pirates John Gates. He returned to the microphone during Pomeroy's hoops contests last weekend, much to the delight of the Pirate faithful. -EW photo by Naomi Scoggin...
Pomeroy Pirate basketball player Kyzer Herres was on fire when SJEL visited last weekend, pouring in 23 points against the Eagles to lead the Pirates to a 59-14 victory. Here he runs into heavy traffic on his way to the bucket. -EW photo by Naomi Scoggin...
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...
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...
POMEROY––The second half of the basketball season is underway and the Pirates are 3-1 in SE 1B play and 4-5 overall following a 62-27 win over Genesee. The Pirates face Waitsburg this week, host SJEL on Friday and visit Tekoa-Rosalia Saturday that will leave eight games remaining in the regular season. Kyzer Herres paced the Bucs with 18 points and Braxton McKeirnan popped in 17 in the Genesee win. Adjustments after half time ballooned the lead as Pomeroy outscored Genesee 21-1 in the thi...
OROFINO– The Pirates wrestled in Orofino at the Maniac Invitational. Juniors Peyton Cannon and Levi Bowen led the team with second place finishes. Kole Zimmerman finished third and Jess Winona was fourth. "The guys continue to wrestle well and got some really good experience today in some tough matches," commented Head Coach Mat Slaybaugh. "We continue to talk about growth as we compete in the non-league competitions and I'm pleased with their progress as we head into the second half of our s...
POMEROY––The Pirate Wrestling Team finished sixth with 88 points, and three grapplers advanced to the championship match but ended up with second-place medals here Saturday, December 28. "The boys brought their A game for the home crowd," said Head Coach Mat Slaybaugh. "The whole team wrestled really well today," Slaybaugh said. "It can be tough wrestling right after a few days off for Christmas but that wasn't an issue today for the Pirates. I'm very happy with how each of them are pro...
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...
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...
Ten Years Ago November 19, 2014 Only one team leaves the State Volleyball tournament undefeated, and in the 2014 1B tournament, it was the Pomeroy Pirates. With a strong 12-0 record in sets through the four-match State run, the Pirates outdistanced the field while capturing their third State Championship, the second since 2005. Pomeroy head coach Jim Greene pointed to the team's offensive power as a key. Twenty-Five Years Ago November 24, 1999 Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash) made a stop in Pomeroy...
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...
By Kyler Lovgren Pomeroy Junior High Football had great numbers this year, but were very young with only three 8th grader players and twelve 7th grade players. They started the season off as road warriors with the first 3 games being away. The first was a tough game against Waitsburg where the Pirates stayed competitive until the 4th quarter, where they finally ran out of gas. Waitsburg was an experienced team that played aggressive and Treyton Kimble and Lincoln Lovgren carried the Lion’s share of the ball as they were a better size match u...
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...
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...
By Loyal Baker DAYTON–The Pomeroy Pirates finished the 2024 football campaign with an unblemished 5-0 league record with an 84-30 win over Dayton and first place in the SE1B Wheat Division, and they head to Richland on Friday to take on the also unbeaten Liberty Christian Patriots (5-0, 8-0) to secure the SE1B number one seed against NE1B rivals. It was the Bucs' highest-scoring game of the season. The Pirates had a fight on their hands early, but Jett Slusser and Kyzer Herres combined for a s...
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...
WAITSBURG–With a 56-0 win over the Waitsburg Cardinals, the Pirate football team solidified its hold on the Wheat Division top spot. The undefeated Buccaneers visit Dayton Friday to finish out the regular season. The Pirates' first playoff game will be against the winner of the Liberty Christian v. DeSales game, at that opponent's field on Friday, Nov. 1. "Jett Slusser had another great day on offense with 199 yards rushing and four touchdowns along with going 6 for 8 passing for 126 yards a...
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...