Category: <span>Archived Sports</span>

Corey Reese Published: December 7, 2005 The PJC men’s basketball team opened conference play at home against #2 Chipola losing 103-77 at home. Julian Allen led the Pirates with 22 points and Clinton Kilbert chipped in 15 points but Chipola was just too much. PJC trailed at half 42-35, but was never was able to...

Morgan Gates Published: November 23, 2005 The Lady Pirates, now 7-2, were on the road over the Thanksgiving Holidays participating in the Okaloosa-Walton Thanksgiving Classic. On Friday the 25th they played Central Florida Community College in Niceville where they had a close win of 73-70. Women’s Head Coach Chanda Rigby said they were down by...

Morgan Gates Published: November 23, 2005 The Lady Pirates hosted the World Ford Classic tournament Nov. 18-19 where they competed against the defending national champs of the NJCAA division II, the South Monroe Community College Tribunes, and South Georgia Technical College Jets. In Friday night’s game the Lady Pirates went to halftime on a 10-point...

Morgan Gates Published: November 23, 2005 Two of PJC’s intramural flag football teams participated in the 26th Annual West Florida Flag Football Regional Championships on Nov.12-13 where a total of 15 teams played at Ashton Brosnaham Park. According to intramural coordinator and Team A quarterback Doug Rogers, the Team B club team for PJC,  lost...

Joshua Kinser Published: November 23, 2005 On July 13, 2000, PJC student Chris Lynch fell 2 « stories during a combat training exercise in France with the U.S. 82nd Airborne division and suffered a massive brain injury. He lay in a coma for 45 days and doctors believed he would never talk or move again....

Corey Reese Published: November 23, 2005 The PJC men’s basketball team rebounded from Thursday’s loss, defeating an undermanned Shorter College team 91-53 Saturday Nov. 26. Four players scored in double figures and all 10 dressed players scored at least 2 points.  PJC’s scoring leader was Tyrone Evans with 16.  Yarrish Hammons and Julian Allen had...

Corey Reese Published: November 23, 2005 PJC matched up against Columbia State in men’s basketball on Thanksgiving Day, losing 84-68.  Yarrish Hammons led the Pirates in scoring with 20 points.  Durrell Baker also chipped in with 14 points, but it was not enough to get past Columbia State. “We played solid early but their zone...

Morgan Gates Published: November 23, 2005 The results were split for the now (6-5) PJC Pirates at the Panhandle Shootout in Mariana. They won last Friday’s game against Middle East Georgia Community College with a final score of (79-73). However the Pirates didn’t play quite as well on Saturday. Tifton, Ga.’s Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College...

Morgan Gates Published: November 23, 2005 The PJC Pirates, now 5-4, took a big blow from Faulkner State in last night’s game in Bay Minette, Ala. with a final score of 91-79.The Pirates’ Men’s Head Coach Paul Swanson said the players were only down one point at halftime, but that in the last half they...

Aline McKenzie Published: April 28 2004 In the early morning, it’s as if humans had never set foot here. Pristine sand dunes rise to 70 feet high amid the scrubby West Texas vegetation. Damp with dew, they’re marked with the tracks of nightly visitors, insects, birds of various sizes, the resident mammals: skunks, jackrabbits, coyotes,...