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The Pirates took a short bus trip to Greenup County to take on the 2-2 musketeers. The musketeers fielded arguably the best quarterback in the area in senior Eli Sammons. Eli has committed to Marshall. For the first three games, the Pirates had to contend with strong running teams, but this week, they had to defend a spread passing attack. Outside of a couple of missed opportunities, the Greenup Musketeers could only muster up 7 points, far from their average that was yielding well over 21 points per contest. The Pirates held Sammons to less than 50% passing and picked off two interceptions to boot. On the offensive side of the ball, the Pirates have continued to improve. The offensive line of Blair, Goode, Welch, Richardson and Johnson have been solid from the start while the QB spot has taken some time to develop.  Aaron Masters had a solid performance against Greenup throwing for two touchdowns and running for another. Clark and Vastine were both on the receiving ends of Mas...

Like a heavy weight champion up against the ropes, the Wheelersburg Pirate football team fought back in one of the most exciting high school matchups ever witnessed, and it came from 45 yards away. The Ashland Tomcats walked confidently into Ed Miller stadium with a 3-0 record and a Kentucky state ranking. Their offense was putting up video game numbers while throttling their opponents on the defensive side of the ball. Meanwhile, the Pirates were trying to heal up players and figure out ways to get the offense going after starting out 0-2, something  of rare sorts in Burg football. Early in the game it looked as if the team and the fans were going to suffer through a long season after QB Aaron Masters threw a tough pass into coverage. The pass was intercepted the length of the field for Ashland’s second touchdown of the night, taking a commanding lead 13-0. That’s when the headset came flying off of Coach Woodward and a little heart to heart happened on the sideline. One c...

The other fall sports at Burg have been very successful at the start of their perspective seasons. Girls’ volleyball and Boys’ soccer currently hold undefeated records while the lady Pirate soccer team has suffered one loss. The cross country team has done very well too bringing home several medals. Boys Soccer The boys socccer team led by Coach Jon Estep has been winning with a great balance of defense and offense. Goal Keeper Eric Green has defended just under a goal per game defensively with 36 saves while Aaron Jolly has led all scoring with 17 goals. Jacob Saxby is leading with assists. The boys are 8-0 overall with a 4-0 SOC record. They will be hosting rival Minford this Thursday at home. Girls a Soccer The girls soccer team led by Coach Todd Jarvis have a record of 6-1 and undefeated in SOC play. Chelsee Steele leads all scorers with 13 goals while Jordan Jennings and Laney Eller lead with 6 assists apiece. Goal keeper Morgan Bivens has recorded 23 saves. They will also...

Most people on the outside looking in see an 0-2 Pirate football team that is in danger of having an abysmal season, but those who are knowledgeable of the current situation, see a dangerous, talented team trying to get healthy and find their identity. Burgfan got to speak with some coaches after last Friday’s game and they were very pleased by some of the effort they saw from the film, especially defensively, which is good news because the team fielded multiple backup players filling in for injured players. Taking on Bishop Hartley was a daunting task within itself, let alone taking them on with a team with multiple injuries. In fact, it’s been said that the head coach of the Hawks believes this is the best team that he’s ever fielded. Nevertheless, the Pirates fought hard after a shaky start against D3 Hartley.  Hartley controlled the game from start to finish but one drive came easy for the Hawks from a nice return on the opening kick off , and one drive came off a Pirate turn...

The Wheelersburg football team has faced adversity before and will have to do so again as they take on Bishop Hartley this Friday night at Ed Miller stadium.  The Pirates lost last week to ironton 30-6 but don’t let the score mislead you.  Ironton held a 3-0 lead heading into half which looked to be shaping up for a defensive battle, but then Ironton came out and put a scoring drive together to capture  the first touchdown of the evening. Wheelersburg responded back as Makaya Matthews broke off a long run from the tail back position. After the P.A.T went left, the score was 10-6 mid third quarter. A monsoon began to fall and things started going south for the Pirates. Pirates forced two fumbles on Ironton’s next drive but unfortunately for the Burg, they landed back into the enemy’s hands. Ironton was able to punch it in and make it 17-6. After that score, the injury bug began to bite as two key players for the the Pirates had to exit the contest forcing the coaching st...