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WALLA WALLA–After dropping last week's opening-round contest to Garfield-Palouse, the Pirates headed into the stormy waters of the consolation bracket, facing the Prescott Tigers in a loser-out game at WWCC here Friday and being sent home after letting a half time lead evaporate and losing 53-41. The Pirates finished the season 5-7 in Southeast 1B play, 6-16 on the season. To reach the District tourney, they won a tie-breaking game against SJEL 56-33, then fell to League Champions Garfield-Palou...
All League Teams for the 1B Southeast League were recognized at halftime of the District Tournament in Walla Walla. Pomeroy's Maddy Dixon was named Player of the Year....
POMEROY–Sunday’s Camas Prairie Shoot was challenging to say the least. The weather was sporadic with occasional pauses in the wind mixed with extremely strong gusts and rain. Club scores suffered with no 25s. Travis Ledgerwood and Mason Blachly both had a great day shooting 23s during singles and a 24s during handicap. There are three more weeks left in the Camas Prairie 10-week shoot to go. Here are the high scores from each division for week. Adult 16yd–24s: Buck Geiger, Holly Ledgerwood, Jeff Wade; 23s–Kenny Bott, Larry Bunch, Clark Capwell...
RICHLAND–The Lady Pirates start their third consecutive return to the 2020 1B State Tournament today, March 5, at the Spokane Veterans Arena, facing the winner of the annual tournament's first round, either No. 7 Curlew or No. 15 Naselle, who will face off in the tourney's opening round Wednesday. Tip-off of Pomeroy's game will be at 5:30 p.m. Behind a 24-point performance by Maddy Dixon, four treys by Emma Severs and cool ball handling by Heidi Heytvelt, first-ranked Pomeroy defeated the W...
e word to describe this weekend Camas Prairie Shoot for the Pomeroy Gun Club. The wind pushed shooters off balance as they tried to hold still during each shot. But that didn’t seem to fazed Steve Brown as he went straight 25/25 from the 16-yard line and 24/25 from the 20-yard line. Tracy Hanger led the pack in Continentals shooting an impressive 23. The high scores from each division are: Adult 16yd-25s: Steve Brown; 24s–Clark Capwell, Lee Koller, Mark Lawrence; 23s–Buck Geiger, Mitch Ruchert, Jeff Wade; Adult Handicap High Score...
POMEROY–The Lady Pirates will face Oakesdale Friday in Walla Walla to battle for a return trip to the state tournament. Oakesdale has been the Lady Pirates' toughest competitor this season. The game tips off at 6 p.m. at WWCC's Dietrich Dome Friday, February 21. Number one Pomeroy opened District 9 1B play with a sweet 39-29 win over No. 10 Garfield-Palouse here February 14. The win, coupled with No. 3 Oakesdale's 51-34 victory over No. 4 Colton, advanced the team to the championship game. "...
REARDAN–Two Pomeroy wrestlers qualified for the State Wrestling Meet in Tacoma next weekend, finishing the 1B/2B Region 3 Tournament here in third and fourth places, plus a third Pirate is state-bound as an alternate. Braedyn White, 170 lb., and Will Winona, 182 lb., finished third and fourth, respectively, to qualify, and Curtis Winona, 160 lb., was fifth and is an alternate. Dayton-Waitsburg's Carlos Norris qualified at the 1B/2B Region 2 in Oroville. These three guys battled their guts out i...
PALOUSE–To advance to regionals, the Pomeroy Pirates will have to win the consolation-bracket contest with Prescott on Friday, and another game Saturday. The Bucs beat SJEL 56-33 to play in to the District 9 1B tournament, but fell to Garfield-Palouse in the first round Saturday by the nearly identical score of 54-33. The Pirates will need their "A" game Friday at 4:30 p.m. at the WWCC Dietrich Dome in Walla Walla. Prescott prevailed in both meetings this season, 51-41 on Jan. 10 and 71-53 on J...
POMEROY–Garfield-Palouse offered little resistance to Pomeroy as the league-leading Lady Pirates cruised to a 47-29 win, closing the regular season with a 9-1 league mark, 18-1 overall. Second to the Lady Bucs was Oakesdale, then Colton in third and GP in fourth. In the first round of the District 9 tournament, the Lady Pirates face GarPal at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 on the maple in Pomeroy. In state RPI rankings, Pomeroy finished the regular season in first with an 18-1 record, 9-1 in 1B S...
POMEROY–This past weekend marked the halfway point in the 10-week Camas Prairie Shoot. It was a great week with numerous shooters only missing one or two targets. There were three perfect 25s from the 16-yd line by Buck Geiger, Travis Ledgerwood, and Jeff Wade. Luke Ledgerwood also posted a perfect score during continentals. High scores for the fifth Camas Prairie Shoot are as follows: Adult 16yd-25s: Buck Geiger, Travis Ledgerwood, Jeff Wade; 24s: Brian Bingman, Clark Capwell, Justin Dixon, Terry John; 23s: Sean Beale, Lee Blachly, Robert D...
LEWISTON–On Saturday February 1, 2020, the Pomeroy Jr. High Wrestling team traveled to Lewiston to wrestle at the Jenifer Tournament. Pomeroy took 12 wrestlers to compete at the first tournament of the year. As a team, the Pirates placed sixth out of 12 teams, winning 16 matches and losing 18. Ethan Prevost, Walker Flynn, and Kyzer Herres all won their brackets and took home gold medals. "I was impressed at the aggressiveness our wrestlers demonstrated, and even though we have a lot to work on i...
SPANGLE–Pirate wrestlers advanced to Regionals this Saturday at Reardan after competing in the District 7/9 South League Tournament last Thursday at Liberty H.S. Regionals starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at Reardan H.S. and the top four advance to state Feb. 21-22 at the Tacoma Dome. Braedyn White finished second in the 170 lb. division, defeating T. Ensley of Colfax by fall and then losing to J. Turner of Liberty. "White continued his strong season after a hard-fought loss in the f...
POMEROY–The Pirate boys' post-season play involves the Touchet versus St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse game, postponed from last Saturday due to flooding, and rescheduled for Tuesday night in Touchet. A Touchet win would give Pomeroy sole possession of fourth but an SJEL win would set up a Pomeroy-SJEL playoff game, set for 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in Colton. Visit eastwashingtonian.com for the breaking information. Either the Pirates or SJEL will face GarPal 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 at Palouse, t...
The Pirate Junior High “A” volleyball team played two more games on February 3 and 6. Pomeroy hosted Colfax Feb. 3. We ended up losing by the scores of 25-16, 9-25, 11-15. “We played them earlier this year and lost all three games so I was very happy with not only taking a convincing game 1 from them but also playing a tough game 3,” said Coach Adam Van Vogt. “I feel like we’ve improved steadily every week this season and it is nice to see evidence of that based on closing the gap against an opponent we played earlier.” The team had its best se...
POMEROY–The Pomeroy Pirates will play the SJEL Eagles in Colton, 6 p.m. Thursday, February 13. The play-in game is the result of Pomeroy and SJEL finishing the season tied for fourth place. Winner of the game will advance to the District 9 1B Boys Tournament, and face the No. 1 Garfield-Palouse Vikings. Gametime will be 4 p.m. at GarPal in Palouse....
COLTON–The Pomeroy Pirates defeated St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse in a play-off game here Thursday 56-33 and will face the No. 1 Garfield-Palouse Vikings in the first round of the District 9 1B Tournament. The game will tip off at 4 p.m. in Palouse. The Pirates were trailing 4-2 in the waning minutes of the first quarter when they went on a 20-2 run through the bottom of the first and first 4:30 of the second quarter, helped by three pointers by Evan Bartels, Danner Maves, Trent Gwinn and Maves a...
The first wrestling meet of the year and the only home meet that the Jr. High wrestlers got to host this year was January 22. The wrestlers performed very well in front of a large home crowd, with teams including Colfax Jr. High and Sacajawea Jr. High (Lewiston). The wrestlers were very nervous for the first match, but everyone wrestled to the best of their ability, which is all a coach can ask. The outstanding wrestler of the evening, in my opinion, was Jacob Reising, who won all three of his matches by fall. This year’s team is a young t...
The Pirate Jr. High A team played its first games of the season. Due to the weather cancelling early games, we played three games within a week’s time. Our two games next week are home against Colfax on February 3 and at Tekoa against Tekoa/Rosalia on February 6. Our first game was against Colfax. It was a tough first game to start our year as they are a really good team and we were on the road with a lot of our girls playing on the A team for the first time. We lost by the scores of 10-25, 11-25, 10-25 but had some positives to take away f...
RITZVILLE–Three Pirate wrestlers head to the District 5-6 1B/2B South League Tournament, working to advance to the regional meet and keep the 2019-2020 season going. Pomeroy's Curtis Winona, Braedyn White and Will Winona recently competed, along with Dayton-Waitsburg co-op wrestler Carlos Norris, at a league match in Ritzville. Both White, in the 170 lb. class, and 138-lb. Norris won both of their matches here. Will Winona, in the 182-lb. division, pinned his Lind-Ritzville-Sprague opponent b...
TOUCHET–The tenacious Touchet Indians relented in the second half as the Pirates shot prolifically and capitalized on the rebound put-back for a 55-45 league win here Saturday night. The Buccaneers are now 5-6 in district play, 5-13 on the season, and are in fourth place behind Prescott with an 8-3 record and with Oakesdale and Gar-Pal tied for first with 9-1 records. (The teams meet Feb. 8 in Palouse.) Pomeroy has one more regular-season game against Garfield-Palouse Friday, February 7. “We were able to get a road victory with great eff...
POMEROY–Post-season play is assured for the Lady Pirates and, for the Pirate boys basketball team, the post-season picture is a bit more complicated and would be helped by a season-finale win over Garfield-Palouse. With a win over Gar-Pal this Friday, the Lady Pirates would clinch first place in the Southeast 1B League and would start the playoffs with home-court advantage, playing the number four team on February 14, according to Athletic Director Toddette McGreevy. Barring upsets elsewhere in the league, Gar-Pal is likely to finish fourth a...
POMEROY–During the fourth Camas Prairie shoot, the Pomeroy Gun Club Junior Shooters battled high winds last Saturday and on Sunday, the Senior Club found a snowy background difficult to shoot over. Forty-eight shooters battled the conditions on Sunday and Wayne Tetrick and Robert DesJardin were the only shooters who managed perfect 25s for the weekend. Lee Koller achieved a 24 while Sean Beale, Larry Bunch, Tracy Hanger, Mike Hastings, Buck Geiger, Richard Gittens, and Fred Zack all recorded 23s. Juniors were led by the 23s of Mason Blachly a...
COLTON–Despite a loss last weekend, the Lady Pirates retained their top ranking in the WIAA RPI and Oakesdale, who edged Pomeroy 38-37 last Friday, nudged its way from third to second. The Lady Pirates rebounded with a decisive win over Colton here Saturday night, winning 55-45. Pomeroy is cruising to the end of the regular season, facing Prescott on Pirate Court Friday and hitting the road to Touchet Saturday. The final week of hoops sees a non-conference contest with Sunnyside Christian on T...
COLTON–Danner Maves and Byron Stallcop led Pirate scorers in the 61-33 win over the Colton Wildcats here Saturday, bouncing back after two consecutive home losses, to Oakesdale and by a heartbreaking buzzer-beater to Dayton-Waitsburg. The Pirates are in the middle of the 1B Southeast standings with a 4-5 record behind Prescott (6-3) in third, and Garfield-Palouse and Oakesdale tied for first with 8-1 records. The Pirates are 4-12 overall. Prescott visits on Friday and the Bucs visit Touchet on Saturday, February 2. Travel to Sunnyside C...
POMEROY–The annual Pomeroy Little League meeting will be held in the Elementary Library on January 30 at 5:30 p.m. New board members will be elected and the upcoming 2020 season will be discussed. Interested community members and ALL parents are encouraged to attend. Voting is however limited to current volunteers, board members, coaches, score keepers, pitch count, concessions and other form of volunteer work completed in the 2019 season. Pomeroy Little League is always looking for v...