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CLARKSTON–Three Pomeroy Pirate golfers–Chase Caruso, Brady Bott and Jett Slusser–will advance to the 1B State Golf Match at Deer Park May 27-28. Caruso continued her streak of golf-match wins by firing a career-best 82 for a two-day total of 166 to capture the Girls District Championship. "Chase was steady all day, tee-to-green, and very good with her putter as well," commented Head Coach Al Damron. "The prospects are good for the Pirates at next week's state tourney," he added. Bott has rebou...
POMEROY––After playing superlative baseball and beating Sunnyside Christian 7-2, the Pirates looked like a different team in the nightcap, dropping the must-win ballgame 18-1 May 3, finishing fourth in league and out of further post-season play. "It was a frustrating loss for us," said Head Coach Kyler Lovgren of the nightcap loss. "We weren't able to make the plays like we did in the first game and we got down on ourselves, which caused quite a few mental errors." The Pirates finished the sea...
WALLA WALLA–The Pomeroy Golf Team is sending five golfers to District in Clarkston on May 16. Chase Caruso continued to chase the district championship, winning the field of 17 girls at Walla Walla's Veterans Memorial Course last Monday with an 84 at Sub-District. "Chase Caruso once again led the girls' field," said Head Coach Al Damron, "this time by an impressive 33-stroke advantage over the second-place finisher, carding an 84 at the sub-District." Brady Bott shot a 97 to tie for second in t...
POMEROY––The Pirates lost two games to league-leading DeSales on April 26 and defeated Touchet April 30 as the season winds down with the play-offs at stake. A pair of wins in the Tuesday, May 3 home double-bill against Sunnyside Christian, played after this edition’s deadline, will be crucial for the Buccaneers in their quest to secure the District 9 No. 3 berth in the D7/D9 tournament. DeSales has the No. 1 berth locked up and Liberty Christian appears firmly in the second berth with the squads from Pomeroy, Colton and Sunnyside Chris...
COLTON–A chance to continue the softball season slipped away earlier this week as the Lady Pirate Fast-Pitch team dropped a pair of games to the Lady Wildcats. Pomeroy softball finishes its season with a 4-8 record and won’t see further play in the District 6/7/9 1B Regional Tournament. The Lady Wildcats won 9-4 and 16-4 in Colton. “We played hard, but left too many runners on base,” said Head Coach Sonia Hevener. In the second game, “Colton capitalized on all our defensive errors. We got some solid hits but not enough to keep us in the game....
COLTON–The Pirates got the bat on the ball plenty, but the Colton Wildcats were in the right place at the right time and made the right plays, and leveraged a single run into a win in a classic pitching duel between Pirate Trevin Kimble and Wildcat Angus Jordan. In the nightcap, Pomeroy ten-runned Colton 14-2. The 6-6 Pirates head to Touchet for a double-header on April 30, then host Sunnyside Christian May 3. “It was a tough, defensive game the whole way,” commented Head Coach Kyler Lovgren. “We were able to hit the ball, but Colton made th...
POMEROY––Keely Maves whapped a home run and went six for six at the plate with five runs batted in, but the team's 20 points wasn't enough as the error-plagued Lady Pirates dropped the second game of a double header 24-20. The Lady Irish also won the opener 12-1 here April 19. The Lady Bucs played Tekoa-Rosalia at home and visited Prairie earlier this week, then will travel to Sunnyside Christian on April 30 for a non-league game and finish a string of three road games with a double bill at Col...
POMEROY––In a rare occurrence, the Lady Pirates’ fast-pitch double header against Sunnyside Christian was snowed out on Thursday, April 14. That game has been rescheduled to Monday, May 9 in Pomeroy. After the Lady Pirates’s meeting with DeSales last Tuesday, they Host Tekoa-Rosalia on April 26 for a 3 p.m. twin bill. The team travels to Prairie on April 27 for a nonleague double header and venture to Sunnyside for another nonleague matchup. Earlier, the Lady Buccaneers had run roughshod over the Asotin Lady Panther Jayvees 22-8 on April 1...
POMEROY–Crucial fielding errors and spring break had its effect on Pirate baseball as a rescheduled double header counted for two losses last week, bringing Pomeroy’s record to 5-5 heading into the second half of the season. The Pirates lost a 6-4 close one to Liberty Christian at home April 8. “A couple of fielding errors were the difference in the game,” said Head Coach Kyler Lovgren. In the night cap, Pomeroy had just eight players on the roster and lost 20-4. Asotin downed the Pirates in a 24-21 hit-fest April 5. Sunnyside Christi...
ST. JOHN–Two Pirate golfers finished a match here March 23, coming in third. Kiersten Bartels and Jett Slusser each placed third at the four-way meet. Slusser carded a 49 for the Pirates and Bartels finished with 58. “All of our players did well, considering they played in brutal cold and windy conditions,” commented Head Coach Al Damron. When classes resume after Spring Break, the team will compete at Pasco’s Sun Willows April 13 and Ritzville on April 14. Bartels, Slusser and other Pirates competed with teams from St. John, Tekoa-R...
POMEROY––Its first league double-bill canceled last Saturday due to a scheduling issue, the Pomeroy Pirates headed into Spring Vacation after a pair of non-league wins over Liberty Spangle and Prairie. The Pirates are 5-2 overall. The Pirates downed Prairie 18-14 at Shepherd Field on March 31, and earlier edged Liberty Spangle 6-5 on March 29. Last Saturday's double header at Liberty Christian was canceled and the Pirates will take the diamond next on April 14 in a home stand double header aga...
RICHLAND–The Lady Pirates were outgunned by the Liberty Christian Lady Patriots in a road-trip twin-bill last weekend, losing 9-4 and 10-0. "We played hard," observed Head Coach Sonia Hevener. "We just came up short." The Lady Bucs travel to DeSales April 12 and Sunnyside on April 14 when play resumes after Spring Vacation. Pomeroy built a three-run lead by the top of the third, but LC rallied with two runs in the third and six in the fourth, going on to win 9-4. LC's defense blanked the Lady P...
Ten years ago April 4, 2012 It will be Pirates on donkeys Monday, April 9, in the Elementary School gym, when Pomeroy High School Associated Student Body sponsors a fundraiser with a donkey basketball tournament. According to senior Haylee Koller, each high school class will have a team, and each team will have two teachers participating. The tournament comprises four games “filled with laughs,” Haylee promised. A group of agriculturally connected residents of Finland is the fifth led to eas...
KOOSKIA–The Pirate nine finished as runner-up in this year’s Southfork Slugfest here, dropping the championship game to North Star after defeating Clearwater Valley 4-3 and Clarkston JV 10-0. North Star rode big fourth and seventh innings to the 20-9 win. The Pirates split the season-opener versus Touchet, dropping the first game 6-0 and winning the second 10-0. Play continues this week against Liberty and Prairie, wrapping up with a twin bill at Liberty Christian Saturday, April 2 and an April 5 single with Asotin. North Star 20, Pomeroy 9 ...
PALOUSE–The Lady Buccaneers split a double header with the Garfield-Palouse Lady Vikings last weekend, losing the opener 10-3 then rallying in the nightcap with a big sixth inning for a 10-9 win. Pomeroy faces Liberty and Prairie this week and rounds off the pre-Spring Break schedule with a Saturday double header at Liberty Christian. Play resumes April 12 at DeSales. “In the first game, we fought hard and came up short,” said Head Coach Sonia Hevener of the opener at Gar-Pal. “We made some crucial errors that cost us the game. But the Lady Pi...
POMEROY––Lady Pirate Senior Keely Maves has received honors since helping her team bring home a fourth-place trophy from the State 1B Tournament earlier this month. Maves was selected to play in the Washington State Girls Basketball Coaches Association Senior All State Games in Seattle, as a member of the 1B team, and she was chosen MVP of the 1B girls’ tournament by media members participating in a poll conducted by Scorebook Live. “I thought it was a really cool honor to be selected to play...
Daniel Moffett Williams June 19, 1925–March 9, 2022 For ninety-six years, Daniel Moffett (Dan) Williams called Pomeroy, Wash., home. Born to Winfrey and Mary Howard Williams on June 19, 1925, Dan spent his life growing wheat, barley and bluegrass, as well as maintaining a small herd of Hereford/Angus cattle (or as Dan called them, red cows and black cows) on the Williams Brothers Farm. He graduated from Pomeroy High School in 1943 and went on to study at Washington State College for two years w...
Pomeroy Middle Schoolers Kyzer Herres and Gunner Magill are Bi-State Wrestling Champions. Gunner Magill finished his Junior High career with an undefeated season, going 21-0, said Coach Fred Knebel. Magill missed the record (22-0) by one due to not having another match scheduled. He did break Tory Knebel’s 2 Pt. Nearfall Record with 23 (previous record was 20). Kyzer Herres came up one 3 Pt. Nearfall short of breaking the record of 35…he was trying to get one more 3 pt. Nearfall when the ref called the pin. “I truly believe these wrest...
SPOKANE–The "Overtime Kids" did it again. For the sixth time this season and in this state tournament's first overtime game, the Lady Pirates won this season's sixth and final overtime game, a 57-48 win over Mossyrock in Saturday's fourth/sixth contest in the Spokane Arena. The Lady Pirates reached the trophy round after a solid 63-39 win over Wilbur-Creston-Keller on Friday, a 57-43 loss to league-rival Colton Thursday and a 46-32 first-round, loser-out victory over Willapa Valley on the A...
SPOKANE–By just a basket, the Pomeroy Lady Pirates missed staying out of the elimination round of the 2022 WIAA State 1B Girls Basketball Tournament, falling to top-seeded Mt. Vernon Christian by 37-34 last Saturday, and they’re slated to face No. 8 Willapa Valley Wednesday night in the Spokane Arena in a must-win game. The Lady Pirates nearly pulled off one of their trademarked heart-stoppers in Mt. Vernon. “We struggled to get the ball to fall in the third quarter,” said Head Coach Tai Bye, “but we overcame a nine-point deficit and found our...
DAYTON–The Pomeroy Lady Pirates head to regional play against No. 1 seed Mt. Vernon Christian in Mt. Vernon Saturday after a nail-biting run through the District 9 consolation bracket. Tip off will be at noon, Saturday, February 26 at Mt. Vernon High School. A win would send the Lady Pirates to a 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3 contest against the winner of the State first-round game played Wednesday, March 2, in the Spokane Arena. Should the Lady Bucs lose, they will play a 9 p.m., Wednesday, M...
POMEROY––A late fourth-quarter run put Pomeroy in front briefly, but Yakama Nation Tribal's top scorer Justice Hart swished a three to give the Eagles the lead, and the Pirates were unable to get it back, bowing out of the District Tournament with the close 52-45 home-court loss. In their first District game, the Pirates fell to Sunnyside Christian 60-40 on the Knights' home court Feb. 10, and the Pirates beat Colton 64-28 in the final regular-season game Feb. 7. "We lost a tough one," com...
PALOUSE–Pomeroy's Lady Pirates are in the consolation bracket, in a battle to stay alive and set to play DeSales in a loser-out game Wednesday following their second-round loss to Garfield-Palouse by 45-16 her Friday, Feb. 11. "We had a really hard time getting things in movement," said Head Coach Tai Bye after the loss to Gar-Pal. "We really struggled to get a shot to fall, especially in the first half, and our defense can only hold on so long before the deficit becomes too great for us to rema...
POMEROY––Student-athletes from Pomeroy High School's girls and boys basketball and wrestling programs are anticipating District tournaments and Regional wrestling matches-all with the goal of reaching the state tournament. In an unusual twist of fate, both girls and boys Pirate basketball teams finished this tumultuous basketball season-made so by frequent schedule changes caused by covid eruptions at schools across the 1B league-in the third seed into their respective District tournament bra...
POMEROY––Like their Pirate maties, the Pomeroy boys landed in third seed to District, opposite Sunnyside Christian, in a game set for 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, in Sunnyside, following a rough final weekend where Pomeroy (9-8, 6-3) suffered three losses, one in overtime. Win or lose at SSC, in the second round Pomeroy will play either No. 4 Yakama Nation or No. 1 Oakesdale, a 69-61 overtime winner over the Pirates Feb. 2. The winner or consolation game will be played at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at the highest seed. The third-round game will be...