The Pittsburg Pirate soccer team improved to 11-0 in District 13-4A last week with a 3-1 win at Chapel Hill to set up a district championship showdown against visiting Sulphur Springs on Tuesday, March. 3. The Pirates and Wildcats battled to a 1-1 draw in the first meeting with Pittsburg winning a shootout, 4-2. Sulphur Springs stands at 10-1 in league play and 17-5-1 overall.
The Pittsburg varsity girls track & field team racked up 89 points to place second in the team standings at the Winnsboro Rugged Red Relays on Feb. 27, just one point behind team point champion Tyler Heat’s 90 points.
The Pittsburg Lady Pirates ran into a buzzsaw on Tuesday night in Canton as Sunnyvale ran away with a 94-27 bi-district victory. The loss ended the Lady Pirates season at 25-8 while the Lady Raiders followed that victory up with a 43-28 win over Canton in area to improve to 30-4 overall.
Pittsburg ISD recently congratulated four students on their signing commitments to play college football. These students were Xzaydeon Doddy, Bethel College; JR Thompson, Southern Arkansas University; Kaiden Butler, Kilgore College; and Marcus Morton, Southern Arkansas University.
