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POMEROY––The Second Annual 10,000 Shot Club is underway. Local basketball enthusiasts have put together a program and prizes to promote shooting and basketball to the Pomeroy community and are encouraging players to make 10,000 shots before the end of 2023 (By January 1, 2024). "It will take time, but we promise it will be worth it," said Brock Ledgerwood, one of the program organizers. "The one skill that will take players and a team to the next level is their ability to shoot the ball. The...
POMEROY-The Junior and Senior high track and field teams held a joint awards night on June 6. The PHS track team had 13 state medal winners, including Sydney Bales' championship in pole vault and Tyler Slaybaugh's championship in the 100 meter dash. The Pirates had six players in the top eight for boys' pole vault and two for girls' pole vault. The PHS boys' track team placed third in state, the highest placing for the Pirates since 2014. Receiving varsity letters were Bethany Zimmermann,...
POMEROY–The summer pool season opened with a free admission on Sunday, June 11, and swim team practice started Monday, June 12 ,with retuning and many new participants. For those wishing to cool off during the afternoon or early evening hours, the pool will open from 1-5 p.m. and again at 6-8 p.m. Season passes are available for individuals ($85), family of four ($265) plus ($55) additional charge for each person added to that package, or pay for admittance daily ($3.50). To participate on t...
POMEROY–Local gun club had five members participate in the 2023 Colton Silver Shoot over the weekend of June 3-4, where Holly Ledgerwood takes the Lady Singles silver home. Five members of Pomeroy Gun Club participated in all or part of the Colton Silver Shoot this past weekend at Colton Gun Club. The shoot features 1 oz. silver coins displayed in nice cases as a Trophy. Holly Ledgerwood managed to take the Lady singles Silver home in Saturday's singles event. Saturday's Singles, Holly had t...
POMEROY-The Pirate Baseball awards were held at the Shepherd Fields on May 24. Head Coach Kyler Lovgren praised the 2023 team for their hard work and their willingness to make adjustments throughout the season. He recognized Trevin Kimble, Trace Roberts and Ollie Severs for their leadership in putting in extra practice to make adjustments needed to succeed. "All in all," Lovgren said, "great job guys." Trace Roberts received the Big Stick award, Jayden Slusser received Most Inspirational, and...
POMEROY–The 2023 Pirate Softball awards were handed out at the Pomeroy Jr/Sr High School on May 24. Thirteen girls received participation letters: KayLee Schmidt who also received a four-year pin, Taylor Gilbert, Jadence Gingerich, Kendyll Potoshnik, Molly Warren, Hannah Bagby, Olivia Cooper, Grace Hart, Isabella Field, Maria Altube, Emily Boyd, Clara Jentz, and Caroline McKeirnan. Giselle Morfin and Camryn Claassen were managers. KayLee Schmidt and Hannah Bagby were captains this season. C...
TUMWATER–Pirate golfers Chase Caruso and Brady Bott springboarded off their D7/D9 District Championships for high placements at the 1B/2B Golf Championships here May 23-24, Caruso repeating as the second-best woman golfer in the state 1B/2B ranks, and Brady Bott barely out of higher placings by a few strokes for a sixth-place finish. Caruso golfed a 79 on both days, but Sound Christian's Makenna Kelpman edged ahead of her by two strokes the first day and four the second to make a six-stroke d...
YAKIMA–State championships in the pole vault and the 100m. dash, and a plethora of top eight finishes from members of the Pirate boys team counted for 52 points, just a smidgeon behind the top two teams, Evergreen Lutheran and Mary Walker, which tied for the state championship with 56 points, making the Pirates second in state at the 1B-2B-1A State Championships here last week. "When adding up the points scored by everyone else who placed, Pomeroy finished with 52 points at the meet and a s...
YAKIMA–Dayton High School junior all-around athlete Reuben Yutzy finished his 2023 track and field campaign with an appearance in the shot put event, but his performance didn't quite match the throw that qualified him for the big meet here last weekend. Yutzy, an all-around athlete for Dayton-Waitsburg's track program, finished in 13th place with a 38-8½ shot put effort. "Reuben looked very sharp," commented Head Coach Dan Nechodom, "having put in a few weeks of some focused effort to imp...
WALLA WALLA–Seven members of the Pomeroy Gun Club participated in all or some of the Washington State ATA Trap Shoot at the Gun Club there, where some good scores were shot by the Pomeroy Gun Club members on Thursday May 18 through Sunday May 21. In addition, Larry Bunch brought home some trophies. Holly Ledgerwood had the top Singles score among Pomeroy participants on Thursday with a score of 95, and Larry Bunch managed a 92. Bunch had a 90 in the Day's Handicap and a 94 in Doubles which t...
By Loyal Baker COLFAX–The heat sheet for the 1B State Track and Field Championships, this weekend in Yakima, is unique: six of the 14 state berths, indeed five of the top six, are Pomeroy Pirates, and a total of ten Pirates will be competing-meet. The Pomeroy boys were edged into second place by Mary Walker, five points separating the teams, and the Pirate Women finished ninth with 29 points at the 1B D7 & D9 Regional at Colfax last weekend. Sidney Bales and Katie Boyer were regional c...
CLARKSTON–Seniors Chase Caruso and Brady Bott both won individual District championships at the Southeast 1B District Golf Tournament on Thursday at Red Wolf Golf Club in Clarkston. The two Pirate golfers advanced to the State 1B Golf Tournament at Tumwater Valley Golf Club in Tumwater, Wash., Tuesday and Wednesday, May 23-24. Caruso wrapped up her prep career with a two-day total of 177 and her third District title, said Pirate Golf Head Coach Al Damron. She intends to attend and golf for L...
DAYTON–DW's Lady Wolfpack Fastpitch ten-runned the Goldendale Lady Timberwolves 16-1 here Wednesday, May 17, to advance in the District 5 2B Fastpitch Softball tournament, but then fell to Kittitas-Thorpe and Cle Elum-Roslyn to bow out of post-season play. Dayton-Waitsburg faced EWAC 5 West league champion Kittitas-Thorpe on Friday, May 19, and trailed by a handful of points through the early innings before the Lady Coyotes poured in nine runs in the top of the seventh inning for the 17-1 w...
DW Lady Wolfpack seniors, from left, Hendrix Groom, Madison Gallardo, and Shaylah King, were honored by teammates, coaches, fans and family on the occasion of their final home game in Dayton-Waitsburg uniforms. -Chronicle photo...
WALLA WALLA–Lead by Chase Caruso and Brady Bott, five of Pomeroy's six golf-team members advanced from the Southeast 1B Sub-District Golf Tournament to the District tourney at Clarkston's Red Wolf Golf Club on May 18. Caruso continued her winning ways, finishing second out of a field of 15 with a 90 on the 18-hole, par 72 Veterans Memorial course. "Chase's prospects are good," observed Head Coach Al Damron. Bott also finished high, at second in a field of 20, carding an 87. "He's a solid g...
RITZVILLE–Eighteen Pirate track and field athletes finished in the money at the District 7/9 Regional meet here May 10. Regionals will be in Colfax May 19 and 20, with the qualifying finishers going to the 1B-2B-1A state meet in Yakima May 25-27. "Our teams showed well as the boys finished second overall and the girls took eighth," said Head Coach Adam Van Vogt. "We advanced 18 athletes to the regional qualifier, plus relay alternates. A lot of our kids not only moved on but had strong days p...
SPANGLE–After winning two "stay-alive" games against Touchet and Wellpinit, the Pirates' post-season run was cut short by a bottom-of-the-seventh rally by the Northport Mustangs, who walked away with a 6-5 win, capping Pomeroy's season at 12-9, and like so many games in baseball, it came down to a single pitch. Pomeroy won 11-6 over the Wellpinit Redskins on May 10 to advance to the Northport game. Northport, the second-place team out of District 7 behind undefeated Almira Coulee-Hartline, w...
DAYTON–Lady Wolfpack Fastpitch finished the last two double headers winning three of four and finishing in second place in the EWAC 2B Fastpitch standings with a 4-4 record, 6-9 overall. DW played Goldendale on May 17 at home in their first post-season game, and will continue in the bracket Friday at Pasco. Visit DaytonChronicle.com for up-to-date information. The Wolfpack split a road twin bill with Columbia-Burbank, losing 4-3 then winning 11-8 on May 12. DW had a 3-1 lead in the third but t...
BURBANK–Javelin thrower Reuben Yutzy was the sole Dayton-Waitsburg Track and Field team member to qualify for the state tournament in Yakima, the junior sprinter, jumper and thrower placing fourth. Yutzy and the DW track and field team competed at the EWAC District meet here Tuesday, May 16, with several Wolfpack athletes setting personal records. He advances to the State Championships for 1B, 2B and 1A schools at Eisenhower High School, Yakima, May 25-27. Yutzy also finished sixth in the 1...
DAYTON–DW's Lady Wolfpack Fastpitch ten-runned the Goldendale Lady Timberwolves 16-1 here Wednesday, May 17, to advance in the District 5 2B Fastpitch Softball tournament. Dayton-Waitsburg faces Kittitas-Thorpe on Friday, May 19, at the Pasco Sport Complex, game time 2 p.m. Kittitas-Thorpe finished EWAC 5 West league in first with a 7-1 record, 13-7 overall. The Lady Wolfpack rattled the bats for eight hits and capped errors to two in the shortened, three-inning game where they ran in eight r...
Levi Boudrieau and Zach Durham were honored as senior ball players at their final home game for Dayton-Waitsburg, along with their families. -Chronicle photo...
WAITSBURG–Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack baseball finished its season with a pair of shut-out losses to TriCities Prep here May 6. TCP cruised to win 15-0 and 10-0, with the wolfpack finishing in fifth place with a 2-8 league record, 5-14 on the year. The Jaguars stacked up runs in all innings but the top of the fourth in the first game, racking up 16 hits and playing errorless defense. Levi Boudrieau made Dayton-Waitsburg's sole hit in the game. In the second game, TriCities Prep started slow, t...
BURBANK–Two Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack athletes, Alyssa Hollingsworth and Reuben Yutzy had a good day in the first of two Eastern Washington Athletic Conference meets, the April 20 meet at Cle Elum/Roslyn, and the April 25 meet here. A third EWAC meet, held in Dayton May 2, will be reported in next week's newspaper. Hollingsworth leveraged her speed and agility to score in each of her four events at Roslyn, finishing third in the 400 m. and Long Jump, fourth in the High Jump and eighth in the 1...
DAYTON–With a pair of league doubleheaders to play in the regular season, the Dayton-Waitsburg Lady Wolfpack Fast-pitch team is tied with TriCities Prep with 1-3 league records, and that question will be decided here Friday when the two teams meet for their next-to-last twin bill. The action starts at 3 p.m. Friday, May 5 at the Dayton softball fields. The Lady Wolfpack is 5-7 overall. Warden is undefeated in league play at 6-0 to hold first, with River View in second at 3-1 and DW and TCP tied...
FINLEY–A plague of errors were felt in Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack's losses to the River View Panthers here last week, the home team winning 17-1 and 16-1 as Panther pitchers threw no-hitters in both contests. Dayton-Waitsburg is in fifth place with a 2-8 Eastern Washington Athletic Conference record, 5-12 overall. At the top of the heap is River View (7-1, 16-2), with TriCities Prep in second (6-2, 11-4), Warden in third (5-3, 11-7), and Columbia-Burbank in fourth (6-4, 8-11). The Wolfpack hosts...
