Sports

by ELLIS KNOX 

Tuesday, Dec. 12 vs Spring Hill, Longview

The Lady Pirates defeated the Spring Hill Lady Panthers 40 to 35. High point Lady Pirate was Taylor Bullock with 15, on defense she had 15 defensive deflections and nine steals. Bullock was also named “Player of the Game.” Heidi Hemmingsen scored seven points, and Sydney Waldrep scored six. Asia Palmer dominated the boards bringing down seven rebounds.

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By ELLIS KNOX

The Lady Pirates do it again after defeating Harmony at the buzzer, 51-50, Lady Pirates rallied to overcome a six point lead by Daingerfield at the half 22-16, to win 42-39. Three point shooting from the court by Sydney Reynolds with three and Sydney Waldrep with one and solid rebounding by Asia Palmer with 11 and Rebecca Miner with seven, was enough to put the Lady Pirates into the lead near the end of the fourth quarter.

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By ELLIS KNOX

The Pirates began their season Tuesday, Nov. 28 in the “old Gym” with a win by squeezing out the Kilgore Bulldogs by two points, 52 to 50. Both teams were pretty much evenly matched in speed, height and jumping ability. The Pirates might have been a bit faster, but seemed to be hampered by a bit of confusion in the first quarter. The Pirate team has gotten in very little practice as practically 60 percent of the team played football up until 11 days before this game. By the second quarter they began to gel somewhat and at the half were only down three points.

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By ELLIS KNOX

The Lady Pirates began their season already with a two wins and two losses. There are three returning Lady Pirate All-District seniors: Asia Palmer and Sydney Reynolds, along with Honorable Mention All-District senior Sydney Waldrep. During the 2016-17 season, Reynolds broke Pittsburg’s most three-point shots in a season record by netting 92 three-pointers.

The previous three-point record, set in 2013, was held by Cheyenne Ramey with 48. Reynolds also received the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches award for most three point shots in a season for 4A. Besides the three seniors already mentioned the other returning seniors are Taylor Bullock, Rebecca Miner, and Astella Miles. The team is rounded out by junior Maliyah Jackson, sophomores Heidi Hemmingsen, and Jalynn Smith, along with one freshman, Laci Richardson.

Senior class members, Grant McGee on the left, and Garyn Short on the right, were voted by the band students as those who most represent the PHS Band and selected as Band Beau and Sweetheart for 2017.

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By ELLIS KNOX

With the Pirates loss to the Buckeyes, the Pirates fall to third place and will be matched with the Rusk Eagles. Rusk is in second place in Region Eight. The way this works is the top team of a particular district plays the fourth team of the other district. The winners move on to the next round of play until the state finals. The winner of that game is the state champ of the class. In this case, it will be the Class 4A state champs.

The Eagles are 8-2 in regular season play. Their only loss in district play was to Jasper. Pitt was fourth last year so we played Region Eight’s district’s winner, Jasper. Jasper knocked out Pittsburg in the first playoff game last year.

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