Category: <span>Archived Sports</span>

Published: October 12, 2005 Catch professional league players, PJC Pirate alumni and local celebrities as they take to the field at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22 for an afternoon of baseball at the Pensacola campus. There will be a Celebrity Home Run Derby with famed stars including George Blake, former PJC Pirate, Faulkner University star...

Lindsay Spencer Published: October 12, 2005 The PJC Volleyball Invitational was held this past Friday and Saturday at the L.I.F.E. Center in Milton, where the Lady Pirates went undefeated. Friday night, PJC played the College of Lake County from Chicago, Ill., and beat them in three straight games: 30-16, 30-18, and 30-24. “We did very...

Corey Reese Published: October 12, 2005 Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and flattened many other cities and towns in Louisiana and Mississippi. Professional and collegiate sports organizations have stepped forward to help contribute to the relief efforts. Major League Baseball contributed two million dollars to Hurricane Katrina relief the day after the disaster. All players’...

Morgan Gates Published: October 12, 2005 Lady Pirate April Snow, a 6-foot-1 post player for the women’s basketball team, is inspired by her sister, Michelle Snow, to follow in her footsteps and become a WNBA player. Michelle is a 6-foot-5 center for the Houston Comets. She was drafted to the WNBA from the University of...

Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 PJC’s Golf Club is gearing up to start a fresh new term. The club has been in limbo since Hurricane Ivan blew into Pensacola last year. “We’re reforming right now,” says club advisor and Intramurals Coordinator Doug  Rogers. “The club’s just starting to get off the ground again.” Right...

Morgan Gates Published: October 12, 2005 The PJC baseball team carried out its 25th Annual Fall Tournament recently, featuring a nationally recognized baseball showcase on Oct. 1. The weekend was full of opportunities, with scouts and recruiters from the university and professional levels. Most attended the showcase on Saturday, where about 150 high school junior...

Lindsay Spencer Published: September 28, 2005 The PJC Lady Pirates went 2-2 at the Gulf Coast Community College Volleyball tournament held September 23-24. Before the tournament, Coach Pete Pena said there was some work the girls needed to do to prepare for this tournament and it definitely paid off in the long run.  There were...

Morgan Gates Published: September 28, 2005 Since Hurricane Katrina, PJC’s athletic department has accepted a new athlete into the basketball program. Sophomore Ron Fontenot, a 6-foot 8-inch forward, has transferred to PJC from Delgado Community College in New Orleans, La. “Delgado Community College is now under water,” said PJC men’s head basketball coach, Paul Swanson....

Morgan Gates Published: September 28, 2005 It’s a late school night and you are approaching a dark area of a parking lot after leaving a night class. You sense an uneasy silence and suddenly begin to feel very alone. In your mind you conceptualize a stranger walking up to you and snatching you right off...

Morgan Gates Published: September 28, 2005 Only two women participated in the first women’s intramural flag football game on Sept. 22. The event was actually co-ed; eleven men played along with the women. The men’s flag football games started on Sept. 19 and have had a consistent number of about 30 participants play so far,...