Busy Week Before Homecoming

This week has gone by really quickly and us in the sports business apologize for not keeping up on our blogs for our readers.



Monday the JV football team played Don Bosco and lost 21-14.



Tuesday the high school volleyball teams hosted Central City.

~Fr-So won in 3 games

~JV lost in 2 games

~Varsity won in 3 games



Tonight the high school volleyball teams will travel to Starmont
~~Good Luck Girls

Homecoming?

There will be a homecoming but not Alburnetts. Tonight the Pirates play the Cardinal Comets. Kick off 1 minute away!

Brawling with the Wildcats

Thurday September 23 the high school volleyball teams traveled to Maquoketa Valley High School and did AWESOME! The Freshman-Sophomore team won in two games. The JV team won in two games. The varsity was neck and neck all their games but came out on top and won in three games.
Good Job Girls!

Tonight the football team is traveling to Cardinal High School and they are bringing thier fans. The high school will be sending a pep bus to the game
Good Luck Boys.

This is Danica with your Pirate Sports
Stay classy Alburnett, and keep up the good sportsmanship

Cross Country places First at CPU

On Tuesday, September 21 the Alburnett Cross Country boys team placed first in class 1A out of 6 teams, below is the times & places:

Jason McVay 17:41, 2nd overall
Jordan Neighbor 19:15, 8th overall
Joey Freeland 19:28, 10th overall
Adam Miller 20:36, 21st overall
Shawn Barth 21:37, 30th overall
Zach Berg 21;37, 33rd overall
Josh Walker 21;47, 35th overall

Next cross country meet is Saturday at Anamosa at 9a.m.

Activities for the Week of Homecoming

Saturday 10/2-
K-6 Run, Pass, and Kick
K-6 Cheer and Poms

Sunday 10/3-
Macho Man Volleyball, 1:00
Bed Races, TBA
Powder Puff Football, 4:00
K-6 Run, Pass, & Kick winners announced, 3:45
K-6 Cheer/Poms perform, 3:45
Homecoming Court announced, 3:45
Booster Club Meal, TBA

Monday 10/4-
Nerd Day
JV Football @ Lisbon, 6:00

Tuesday 10/5-
A-Day
High School Volleyball vs Ed-Co, 5:15 (Cancer Game)
Jr High Volleyball@ Ed-Co, 4:00
Boys & Girls Cross Country, @ West Delaware, 4:30

Wednesday 10/6-
Color Wars
12- Pink
11- Blue
10- Red
9- Green
8- Orange
7- White
Teachers- Tie Dye
Class Homecoming Posters, After school

Thursday 10/7-
Dress Up (Yearbook Pictures)
High School Volleyball vs. Monticello, 5:15 (Senior Night)
Jr. High Volleyball @ Monticello
Jr. High Football vs. Monticello, 4:30

Friday 10/8-
SPIRIT DAY

Elementary Pep Assembly 10:08
* Elementary Students can dress up as pirates of wear puprle/gold

High School Pep Assembly, 1:15
Parade, 2:30

Jr High Football
* 7th Grade Purple vs. 7th Grade Gold, 3:45
* 8th Grade Purple vs. 8th Grade Gold, 4:45

Foundation Meal, during events
-5:00
*K-6 Cheer/Poms perform
*K-6 Run, Pass, & Kick winners announced
*Class competition winners announced
*Poms perform
*Band performs

VARSITY FOOTBALL GAME VS. HIGHLAND, 7:00
***POUND THE HUSKIES***

Saturday 10/9-
State Band
Sophomre Volleyball Tournament @ C.R. Kennedy
High School Dance, 8-11
*$6 per person to get in
*Pictures by Reed's Photography

Activities For The Week of September 27

Monday-
JV Football vs. Don Bosco, 6:00

Tuesday-
High School Volleyball vs. Central City, 5:15
Jr High Volleyball @ Central City, 4:00
Boys and Girls Cross Country @ Jesup, 5:00

Thursday-

High School Volleyball @ Starmont, 5:15

Jr High Volleyball vs. Starmont, 4:00

Jr High Football @ Cascade, 4:30

Friday-

JV and Varsity Football vs. North Cedar, 5:00
FFA Blood Drive, after school

Saturday-
Varsity Volleyball @ Prairie, 9:00
JV Volleyball @ Jesup, 9:00

Sweet Victory

Tuesday night the volleyball team did an awesome job defeating the Buchaneers. The Freshman-Sophomore team won all three games they could play in their 45 minute game. The JV also won all three of the games they played in their 45 minute game. And last, but not least, the varsity beat the Buchaneers in three games all by about 25-10.
Good Job Girls

In cross country news Alburnett's Jason McVay was only miliseconds away from 1st place and 10 seconds away from the school record. Keep it up Jason!

Sports This Week
Thursday-
High School Volleyball @ Maq Valley, 5:15
Jr High Volleyball vs. Maq Valley, 4:00
Jr High Football vs. East Buchanan, 4:30
Friday-
High School Football @ Cardinal High School, 7:00
Saturday-
Boys and Girls Cross Country @ Anamosa, 9:00

This is Danica with your Pirate Sports
Stay classy Alburnett!

Lions Attack the Pirates

Monday nights JV football competition against the Lisbon lions did not go over good for the Pirates. The boys lost 19-6 and will hopefully get to regain thier pride in two weeks when they play Lisbon again Monday October 4.

Tonight the Pirate volleyball players will be hosting the East Buchanan Buchaneers. The Freshman-Sophomore team will start at 5:15. The Jr. High volleyball team will travel to East Buchanan tonight and represent Alburnett.

Sorry Jr. High Football players and Cross Country runners. you have kind of been ignored in these posts but we are trying to get more caught up with all the Pirate Sports.

Tonight the Cross Country team is traveling to Center Point-Urbana High School
Thursday the Jr. High football team is hosting the East Buchanan Jr High

This is Danica with your Pirate Sports
Stay classy Alburnett!

Recap on the last week

Thursday September 16 the High School volleyball teams traveled to Springville. The freshman and sophomores we split up and played on two different courts. The freshman lost in three games and the sophomores won in two games (the sophomores also played a third game and won 20-13). The JV won in three games and the varsity lost in four games

Also that night the JV football team traveled to Waverly-Shellrock High School and lost 41-14

Saturday the varsity volleyball team went to lisbon and the JV team hosted a triangular tournament. the JV played Starmont (won in 3 games) and Lisbon (lost in 3 games). The varsity lost one game in their pool but came out of the tie and won the pool and beat Clear Creek-Amana in round one of bracket play but lost to West Branch (who they lost two in pool play) in three games.

This week:
-JV football vs. Lisbon, Monday @ 6:00
-Fr-So, JV, and Varsity volleyball vs. East Buchanan, Tuesday @ 5:15
-Fr-So, JV, and Varsity volleyball @ Maquoketa Valley, Thursday @ 5:15
-Varsity football @ Cardinal High School, Friday @ 7:00

This is Danica with your Pirate Sports
Stay classy Alburnett

The Cougars Raid the Volleyball Court

Tuesday September 14 the Cascade Cougars came down to Ablurnett for Fresh-Soph, JV and varsity competitions. The Fresh-Soph team beat the Cougars 2 games to 1. The JV team won in 2 games. The varsity fought hard and lost in 4 games against the Cougars.

The Alburnett Jr High also went and competed up in Cascade Tuesday and came back in high hopes

-Thursday the high school girls will travel to Springville for another tough game.
-Saturday if you are looking for something to do before the Iowa game the Varsity girls will be at Lisbon and the JV girls will be hosting a Triangular to Starmont and Springville
-The football team has a break this week but the JV Football team will head up to Waverly-Shellrock High School this Thursday.

This is Danica with your Pirate Sports
and keep up the good sportsmanship Alburnett

Cross Country at Starmont Results

On Tuesday night the Alburnett boys cross country runners placed second in 1A as a team with the following times:

2nd Jason McVay 17:47
9th Jordan Neighbor 18:52
16th Joey Freeland 19:47
24th Adam Miller 20:14
28th Alex German 20:47
39th Zach Berg 21:49
40th Josh Walker 21:58

The next meet is Friday in Cascade.

Volleyball girls place second at Jesup

Today the girls placed second at the Jesup invitational. The results are below:

Alburnett beat Jesup 21-15 & 21-15
Alburnett beat North Linn 21-6 & 21-13
Alburnett beat Independence 21-12 & 12-15
Alburnett beat Don Bosco 282-26 & 25-21
Alburnett played Wapsie Valley tough in the championship but lost 25-21, 27-29 & 17-19

The next volleyball action is at home on Tuesday night against Cascade-come out and support our Pirates!

Great First Cross Country Meet!

Alburnett boys cross country team ran to 9th place out of 16 teams at Benton on Saturday, September 11th. Alburnett was the highest placing class 1A team at the invitattional. Results are below:

Jason McVay 16:03 placing 7th overall
Jordan Neighbor 17:26
Joey Freeland 17:40
Adam Miller 18:33
Alex German 19:01
Zach Berg 19:46 and
Shawn Barth 20:06


Great job and next meet is Tuesday at Starmont.

Will There Be Football at West Branch?

O yes there will be!!

The Game will start around 8:45 and the updates with be under the comments on this post.

This is Danica with your Pirate sports
Stay classy Alubrnett!

Football Line-Up

If you are wondering who is playing for the Pirates or the numbers of anyone you seen here is a copy of the program:
JV
1- Dylan Windfield
2- David Smith
3- Tomas Pinochet
5- Forrest Olinger
6- Alec Phillip
7- Dalton Lillie
8- Jacob Koch
12- Tanner Arnold
22- Dylan Miller
25- Bryson Johnson
26- Caleb Carroll
30- Jacob Holsinger
32- A.J. Reed
34- Zach Holyle
36- Michael Hagerman
58- Sam MacDonald
60- Richard Magoon
66- Ross Gardner
68- Dalton Hawkins
71- Josh Hollen
72- Jacob Christopherson
78- Will Townsend
81- Karsten Wright
83- Dylan Mendiata
85- Mitchell Hagerman
86- Kyan Kierks

Varsity
1- Tyler Shulista
2- Chaz Sorensen
3- Kaleb McBurney
5- Jacob Sevening
10- Colton Martin
18- Connor Frederick
22- Colton Shadden
23- Mitchell Harger
26- Paul Boies
32- Karthar Galanti
53- Stefon Brandt
55- Sean Kearney
61- Jacob Sheets
58- Zack Olinger
61- Samuel Bowers
64- Dalton Kramme
69- Alex German
71- Dylan Liebe
72- Alex Stepanek
75- Kyle Frederick
76- Ian Reynolds
77- Miles Porter
81- Kean McBurney
83- Garret Running Hawk

Little Rose Bowl in West Branch

After a couple lightening delays the game is most likely going to be rescheuled to Monday at 7:00. The true Pirate fans in their ponchos however are hoping we get to play it out. So far the game is estimated to start at 8:30. Everybody out there keep praying we get to play the game tonight

The JV won their game 26 to 0 and it started raining right before half time and hasn't stopped yet. The boys had a couple fumbles but got themselves together and didn't let the bears score.

Volleyball in the Lion's Den

Tuesday, September 7, at Lisbon the Pirate freshman and sophomore girls came out strong and won their matches in two games (matches are best of three to 21 with the third game to 15). The JV fought hard into the third game to get the Pirate victory.

The varsity matches are best 3 of 5 with the fifth game, if needed, to 15.

After a tough first game nerves are settled and the Pirates won game 1, 25-22.
Took a hard loss in game 2, 14-25.
Another hard loss in game 3, 23-25.
Pirates Win! game 4, 25-21 so on to game 5
Alburnett wins game 5, 15-13!!

Alburnett varsity volleyball won the match 3-2 congratulations girls....great win!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Congratulations to the Fresh-Soph volleyball team for getting first at the Prairie tournament on Saturday.
Thursday, September 9th at 6p.m. there is a JV volleyball triangular with Springville and Cascade at Alburnett.
Friday, September 10, is football at West Branch with JV starting at 5 and varsity approximately 7p.m. (30 minutes after JV games ends).

This has been Danica with Pirate Sports
Stay classy Alburnett!

Pirate Volleyball off to a good start!

On Satuday, September 4 the Pirate volleyball team went 2-1 in pool play and then losing in the semifinals at the Vinton tournament.

Pirates record at 1-1

The second football game didn't have the same result as the first, but the game was close with the Pirates on the short side of the score with Iowa Valley 14-21. The Pirates record stands at 1 win and 1 loss as they enter their first district contest at West Branch on September 10th. West Branch has a rich football tradition, but the Pirates will be ready come next Friday.

Alburnett wins first football game!

The Alburnett Pirates downed the North Linn Lynx 33-6 on Friday, August 27th at home. The Pirate team rushed for over 300 yards with Mitch Harger leading the way with 188 yards on 11 carries. The defense was led by Sam Bowers with 15 tackles, 3 for a loss of 21 yards. The Pirates broke a 10 game losing streak with their next action at Iowa Valley in Marengo, then will start district play the next week.