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POMEROY––Pomeroy's Pirate Wrestling Team topped seven other teams to win the annual Christmas Tournament, and 182-lb. Braedyn White won four straight to win the weight class and an individual award here December 30. Eight teams braved wintery weather conditions to compete in the Pirates' annual Christmas tournament, venturing to town to battle for the coveted Santa Hat, awarded to the weight class champions. "It was a good day with four of the five Pirates placing in their respective weight cla...
COLTON–A strong first half propelled the Colton Lady Wildcats to a comfortable lead and they never looked back to put a 46-24 league win over the Lady Pirates into the books here December 22. Pomeroy is now 3-3 overall, 1-2 in league play as the rest of the season resumes in January. The Lady Buccaneers forge their way into 2022 with a Tuesday, January 4 non-league home matchup with DeSales followed by weekend games at Oakesdale Friday and versus Prescott on Saturday. The Junior Varsity t...
COLTON–After edging ahead by six points in the first quarter, the Pomeroy Pirates clamped down on the Colton Wildcats in the second period, outscoring them 16-2 to take a twenty-point lead into the half time locker room, and finished with the same margin of victory in the 54-34 league win here December 22. Pomeroy's win-loss record is now at 4-2, with three of those wins being league counters. The Pirates resume the 2021-22 basketball schedule with a non-league home contest with DeSales on T...
POMEROY––The outcome was never sure until the final buzzer, and when it finally blared, the Pomeroy Pirates had wrested a 59-56 non-league win away from Yakama Nation Tribal School here Saturday. The Pirates played two games prior to the Christmas Break, a Monday non-league contest at Liberty Christian and visiting Colton for the third league game of the 2021-22 season Wednesday night. As of the Yakama Nation game, the Pirates are 3-1 overall, 2-0 in league. Yakama Nation played with pre...
By Loyal Baker POMEROY–Lady Pirate Keely Maves nailed a shot at the buzzer to knot the score and send the game against Yakama Nation Tribal School's Lady Eagles into overtime, and the Lady Pirates rode their fourth-quarter momentum to a come-from-behind 43-39 non-league win here Saturday, December 18. Pomeroy had two contests remaining before going into the Christmas Break. Monday, December 20, they faced Liberty Christian for a non-league game in Richland, and Wednesday, December 22, the Lady B...
POMEROY––Wrestling teams from Oregon, Idaho and Washington will converge on Our Fair City Thursday, December 30, for the Pirate Christmas Wrestling Tournament. Some 10 to 15 schools are expected to participate, according the Pirate Wrestling Head Coach Ben Slaybaugh. Each school has the option to enter a full varsity team of 14 wrestlers. The action gets underway at the Pomeroy High School gym at 10 a.m....
POMEROY––The Pirates are 2-1 after losing to Asotin then beating Gar-Pal in their gym for the first time since 2017, then soundly defeating SJEL at home Saturday. Pomeroy plays Yakama Tribal School Dec. 18 and Liberty Christian Dec. 20 before closing the December schedule Dec. 22 at Colton. Pirate defense held SJEL to 38-14 at half, the "D" leading to easy transitions baskets, said Head Coach Chris Wolf. The game with SJEL "will go a long way towards determining where we stand in the league thi...
POMEROY––The Lady Bucs clobbered SJEL 65-30 Saturday after a hard 40-26 loss to Gar-Pal Friday. Yakama Nation is their next opponent Dec. 18 at home, then Liberty Christian on Dec. 20 and Colton on Dec. 22, both away. "We showed up to play tonight," said Head Coach Tai Bye of the SJEL win. "It was a hard loss emotionally last night, which always makes it tough to turn around and play but my girls stepped on the court expecting to win tonight." Keely Maves led with 40 points, nine rebounds and...
SPANGLE–Pirate wrestler Will Winona finished first in the 220 lb. division in P.H.S.'s season opener at the Brice Williams Invitational here Dec. 11. Pomeroy will host the Christmas Tournament on December 30. Winona pinned E. Shelton of Chewelah and R. Piat of Hanford to take first. "The guys looked tough for their first competition of the season with four out of five guys placing in the top four in their brackets," said Coach Ben Slaybaugh. Senior Will Winona had an especially good showing n...
POMEROY–The Pomeroy Pirates' season opener against Liberty Christian was rescheduled out of an abundance of caution following a local student-athlete testing positive, and one of Liberty Christian's players also testing positive, Athletic Director Toddette McGreevy said early this week. The game was to be played Saturday in Pomeroy, but is now on the schedule for January 19. The non-league game against Asotin, played on Wednesday, December 8, did not include a boys' junior varsity game due to t...
Pomeroy Pirate seniors Trevin Kimble (43) and Trent Gwinn (13) do a high chest bump following Kimble's punt-return touchdown with time expired, closing out the Pirates' phenomenal 10-1 season with a play-off ending loss. Kimble's score came as the Naselle Comets punted with seven seconds remaining, with the score 72-36, and the ball in play as the closing horn sounded. Kimble picked up the punted ball that Naselle failed to down and jogged unmolested 43 yards to the end zone, scoring one last...
POMEROY––The Naselle Comets had enough of a defensive edge and offensive fire power to hand the Pirates its first loss of the season and knock them out of further post-season action by a 72-42 margin in the second round of the B1 8-Man football playoffs here Saturday. Naselle outscored the Pirates three touchdowns to two in both the second and third quarters then tacked on three more scores in the fourth stanza to put an exclamation point on a game where the Pirates' usual weapons either mis...
The Seventh Place 2021 Pomeroy High School Volleyball Team dropped its first match against Naselle, then won out to bring home another State Volleyball trophy. Some of the matches were intense, and the Lady Pirates fought through the adversity–something the tumultuous, covid-altered regular season prepared them for–and finished strong. Head Coach Adam Van Vogt said the team never gave up, nor did they falter in believing in themselves, their coaches and on another. See page 9 for more. Fro...
YAKIMA–A hallmark of the 2021 volleyball season, the Lady Pirates battled adversity and up hill through the consolation round to come out of the 1B State Volleyball Tournament with a seventh-place trophy after losing in the opening round. "In a lot of ways, State reflected our season," commented Head Coach Adam Van Vogt, whose squad finished the season 17-9. "We overcame so much adversity and there were many times our girls could have just said, 'this is too hard or too much to overcome.' T...
POMEROY––The undefeated Pirates continue their pursuit of a state trophy this Saturday on Lybecker Field as they take on the Naselle Comets in the second round of the 2021 1B State Football playoffs. The kickoff is at 1 p.m. Naselle defeated Waterville-Mansfield 68-12 to advance to Saturday's meeting with the Pirates. Below these teams on the bracket is Wilbur-Creston-Keller versus Almira-Coulee-Hartline, at Lions Field in Moses Lake on Saturday. WCK was a 50-22 winner over Neah Bay in Mos...
Pomeroy High School's Lady Pirate Volleyball Team, pictured above, and the Pirate Football Team are both headed to post-season action. Last weekend, the Lady Pirates fought their way through the consolation bracket to secure a berth at the 1B Volleyball State Tournament, starting today in Yakima. The Pirate Football program has a bye week as other teams play this weekend before all teams dive into the playoffs. See page 8 for more about Pirate sports. -Submitted photo...
WALLA WALLA–The Lady Pirates, who battled Covid quaranties, adversity and fatigue down the stretch of the regular season, are state bound again after fighting their way through the District Tournament consolation bracket, defeating Sunnyside Christian and Garfield-Palouse to capture the third berth to the 1B Volleyball State Tournament in Yakima this weekend. Pomeroy (14-8) faces the Naselle Lady Comets (9-2) at 1:30 p.m. today, Thursday, November 11, in the opening round of the 24-team t...
SUNNYSIDE–The Pomeroy Pirates are the undisputed champions of the Southeast B-1 8-Man Conference, finishing the season 10-0 overall, 7-0 in conference, an even 100 years since the 1921 P.H.S. Pirates went undefeated, and 51 years since the 1970 Pirates were undefeated and untied. The show-down with the 8-1 Sunnyside Christian Knights last week was played against a steady breeze blowing straight down field and it didn't hamper the Pirates one iota. Receiving the opening kickoff and facing into t...
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...