Corey Reese Published: February 22, 2006 The PJC Lady Pirate softball team swept a doubleheader against Meridian Junior College, winning by a combined score of 30-7. PJC won the first game 13-4 behind Amanda Leggett’s 5 innings of pitching. They won the second game 17-3 behind Alicia Burnett’s 4 innings of pitching. The only two…
Corey Reese Published: February 22, 2006 The Pensacola Junior College Baseball team carried a 15 game winning streak into Tuesday’s game against Mississippi Gulf Coast CC. That streak ended with a 4-1 loss at home to the Bulldogs. Nate Hall drove in PJC’s only run of the game with a sacrifice fly in the first…
Corey Reese Published: February 22, 2006 Every two years the eyes of the world turn to one spot on this great planet. Right now the eyes are turned to Torino, Italy. In 2008, the focus shifts to Beijing, China. The five linked rings symbolize the greatest competition on this Earth; The Olympic Games. To compete…
Moria Dailey Published: February 22, 2006 Long is the word Ashley Morris used to sum up her experience at PJC. “Long,” Morris said, laughing, “Long and stressful.” She has been the captain of PJC’s cheerleading squad since her freshman year three years ago. This is her last semester at PJC. Her last game as a…
Corey Reese Published: February 22, 2006 The rosters for Pensacola Junior College’s athletic teams contain players from the Pensacola area all the way to places like New York, Illinois, Canada, and even Europe. How do the players find a place like PJC, an area that’s just a speck on the national map? Local players know…
Published: February 22, 2006 Writing a resume can be a painstaking process if you don’t prepare yourself along the way. Employers want you to sum up your life experiences and objectives into one page (in most cases). You can prepare for this early by gathering information on yourself along the way. Creating a list that…
Melissa Brown Published: February 22, 2006 Are you covered? By health insurance, that is. A study by the Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Chickering Group found that about 30 percent of college students in 2002 were uninsured. And according to a 2004 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and eHealthInsurance, “43.3 million non-elderly Americans lacked…
David LaRock Published: February 22, 2006 Valentine’s Day is over which means two things: A) Hallmark and local flower shops are counting their income and B) many couples celebrated the ‘Holiday for Relationships’ together or some couples just started relationships themselves. Either way, the most important factor in starting a relationship is not the dozen…
Pam Griswold Published: February 22, 2006 In the world of a college student, time seems as if it is moving at warp speed. In addition, having a job shrinks that timetable to an indiscernible size. Keeping up with the rapid pace can become stressful, especially around midterms. Sophomore Haley Satterfield is no stranger to this…
Dawn Baird Published: February 22, 2006 Pensacola Junior College’s Gulf Coast Pirate Swimmers brought home a trophy after winning first place in the 2006 Auburn Masters Invitational Swim Meet Feb. 11-12. Swimmers, separated into age groups, competed in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and IM categories, winning by a whopping 500 points and outdoing last year’s…