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The unofficial Twitter page for Poughkeepsie Pioneer Athletics! All things pioneer sports and community! #PioneerPride 🏀🏈⚾️⚽️🏐
Joined August 2018
CHAMPIONS WELCOME HOME! Proud Community. @CodyMoffettc @plez2k8 #StateChamps #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride
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Before tonight's varsity game, the Poughkeepsie 🏀 program honored Kobe Bryant by putting 32 seconds on the game clock. The 1st 24 seconds we had a moment of silence, followed by a round of applause to celebrate his life the last 8 seconds. #RIPKOBE&GIGI #24 #8 #PioneerPride
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From the Pioneers to the Poughkeepsie Community, they say 'Thank You' for the love and support! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride
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Davontrey Thomas is a great player and a even better young man/student athlete. Very humble, hardworking and respectful kid! Well deserved . #PioneerPride @DavontreyThomas.
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POUGHKEEPSIE WINS!.Heading to the @NYSPHSAA.Class A final vs mendon tomorrow night at 7PM. #PioneerPride . Final: Poughkeepsie 74, Manhasset 63
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Zaccai Curtis swings the momentum for Poughkeepsie w a huge dunk in OT. He had 13 points on #SeniorNight #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie fall to FDA 50-42 in the Federations tournament of Champions semifinals. Pioneers were on a 21-game winning streak in 2019 on their journey to a NY State Championships! Tremendous season by the Pioneers, they made program history!.#StrongerTogether #PioneerPride
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Congratulations to Javel Cherry on his commitment to Dominican College, a D2 level program! Javal averaged 20ppg and earned Dutchess County player of the year accolades, as a honor roll student athlete. Great job Mr. Cherry 🍒🏀 #PioneerPride 💯 🔵⚪.@plez2k8 @StephenHaynes4
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Poughkeepsie’s Kyla Browne wins her heat and the girls title in the Gold Rush 200-meter hurdles at Clarkstown South w a time of 30.19. 🏃🏽♀️💨💯 #PioneerPride
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"Offense wins games, defense wins championships" . Poughkeepsie moving on to the State semifinals in Glens Falls. 🏆 #Champs #PioneerPride @StephenHaynes4 @PJSports @KDJmedia1 @lohudinsider @plez2k8
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Javel Cherry hits with the DAGGER🔥 at the buzzer to give Poughkeepsie a 62-60 win over Lourdes. Wow! #PioneerPride @KDJmedia1 @rayteodora1 @HVSportsReport @PJSports @lohudinsider
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Poughkeepsie High School Class of 2019 has a large number of students going to college this year on academic and athletic scholarships. They had a signing day for the Seniors today as they cheered each other on! #ScholarAthletes #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride
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Final: Poughkeepsie 73, Rye 60 in semifinals vs Rye. Pioneers will play for a Class A title vs Tappan Zee on Saturday at Pace University, 430pm. #PioneerPride .Message from coach Moffett after his seniors last home game. Great crowd/support tonight! @plez2k8 @CodyMoffettc
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Congratulations to Davion Bennett on his commitment to Howard University via an academic scholarship. Davion maintained an A- GPA as a student athlete. 💙🙏🏽💯 #pokKid #PioneerPride
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At the Marist vs Siena nationally televised game on ESPN, with a few Poughkeepsie students. Marist students are hilarious. 😂😂😂 School spirit! #PioneerPride #RedFoxes
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Referee Matt is the best official is the area if you ask me! He's been officiating games for many years, supporting local youth/student athletes. Always engaging and calls a fair/clean game. One of the good guys! #PMS #ModifiedGame #PioneerPride @plez2k8 @PJSports
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Congratulations to all our winter sports students athletes and coaches, on a successful season! Proud Community. #Banquet #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie boys won their first game of the REB invitational tournament in Canada, 60-54. Defensive battle but they pulled it off in game 1! Let's go Pioneers! #PioneerPride.@CodyMoffett_ @KDJmedia1 @plez2k8 @PJSports
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Congratulations to Corey Simmons and the Albright College team for winning the MAC Commonwealth Championship 🏆! Corey earned the MVP of the game finishing w 24p 12r & 1b on 73.3%FG. #Champs #pokKid Love that he honored coach Chris w an awesome warm up shirt! #PioneerPride 💙
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Congratulations to Amber Minott, Salutatorian & Mickvick Tangunu, Valedictorian of Poughkeepsie High School who maintained a 4 year grade point averages of 99.80% and 101.02% respectively. While being a student athlete. Amazing 👏 #PioneerPride 💙
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Davontrey Thomas has a career game for New Haven University basketball today. He finished with 18p, 6a & 5r. Good job Trey! 💯 #PioneerPride @CodyMoffett_ @DavontreyThomas @plez2k8
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Poughkeepsie crew team won the state championships in 2 different categories in Saratoga this weekend! Let's go! Congratulations ladies! #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride @HVSportsReport @lohudinsider @PJSports @StephenHaynes4 @CodyMoffettc @ShawnSimmons69 @plez2k8 @KDJmedia1
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Great season fellas. The community is very proud of you. It was definitely a fun ride! #PioneerPride.
It’s a final. Poughkeepsie falls in the Class A state semifinals to Manhasset, 69-55. Manhasset will play the winner of New Hartford and Amherst tomorrow at 1 p.m. for the state title.
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Poughkeepsie wins the Dutchess County Regional Championship over Ketcham 68-62. Great effort from both teams. Congratulations pioneers. Great season! 💙 #PioneerPride
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Update: The Poughkeepsie Varsity boys basketball team is currently in Edmonton Canada for the REB tournament! They will compete tonight vs Jasper place high at 8pm (NY time). Be aware of the 2 hour time difference. Here's the link below to stream the game. #PioneerPride
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Niyal Goins w the poster vs Lourdes. Wow! 💪🏾#PioneerPride.@ShawnSimmons69 @plez2k8.@overtime @Ballislife . 📸 #FanVideo
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Coach Moffett recap on the championship game w @AJ_Martelli. We appreciate you Coach @CodyMoffett_ Good work as always, on and off the court w the boys! #Champs #PioneerPride .@PJSports
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Poughkeepsie varsity basketball team attended the New Haven University basketball game at St.Thomas Aquinas College, to support their former teammate Davontrey Thomas. Trey finished w 11 points & 8 Rebounds. #PioneerPride @CodyMoffett_ @plez2k8
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And won the Dutchess County all schools local championship last season, per covid. Coach Moffett is a great coach and a even better mentor/teacher to all Poughkeepsie students. Appreciate you coach @CodyMoffett_! 💯💙🏀 #PioneerPride.
Cody Moffett does it again, bringing his third straight different group to a Section 1 final at Poughkeepsie.
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Congratulations to the Poughkeepsie Pioneers 11U youth football team on winning "The Kings of New York" Championship. Good job to all the players, parents and coaches! Awesome! #PioneerPride
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Final: Poughkeepsie 78 Beacon 54 . Pioneers wins league opener on the road with strong defense and playing at a fast pace! .Revelation Garriga 22p.Shaun Johnson 18p.Javel Cherry 12p.Zaccai Curtis 🚀.@CodyMoffett_ @plez2k8.#PioneerPride
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There will be FREE transportation provided to those interested in supporting the Pioneers in Binghamton this Sunday. Contact the Poughkeepsie Athletics dept, at 845.451.4895 until 6:00 pm Friday and 845.489.1254 on Saturday. Buses leave in front of PHS at 8:00 am. #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie Pioneers boys wins their game vs Albertus Magnus 78-45. Pioneers advances to the semifinals against Rye on Wednesday at home. #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride
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GAME DAY! Poughkeepsie will take on Tappan Zee at the Westchester County Center, in a rematch of last year's Class A finals. Game starts at 815pm. Wear Blue! Game will be streamed on LocalLive. #PioneerPride
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Still officially defending state Champions. What a great feeling! 🙏🏽 Feels like yesterday. Coach @CodyMoffett_ is the man! The Poughkeepsie community is blessed to have him! 💙 #Champs #PioneerPride.
Two years ago this weekend (3/16 to be exact), Poughkeepsie was taking care of business on the grandest of stages in Binghamton.
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FORMER PIONEER NEWS: 🔵⚪.Devontrey Thomas scored a career high in points and Rebounds in the first round of the playoffs for New Haven University, tonight. He finished with double double, 20 points and 14 Rebounds. 💯 #PioneerPride @DavontreyThomas
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ITS GAME DAY! Poughkeepsie plays Johnson City in the NY State Class A Regional Finals, 1215pm. Pioneers will have plenty of community support in Binghamton today as there are 3 bus loads en route! #PioneerPride
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Great season again to the Poughkeepsie Pioneers football team. Congratulations to Nigel Whitaker (Defensive & LB of the year) and Sam Moore (MVP) for their independent football league honors. #PioneerPride.@iii_nigel @plez2k8 @Karlgrant2019 ➡️ 📸
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Davontrey Thomas with the game winning shot vs Byram Hills! #PioneerPride @plez2k8 @lohudinsider @HVSportsReport @CodyMoffettc @overtime @DavontreyThomas
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Kyla Browne, Poughkeepsie High School senior, 1st place Northern Counties 100 meter Hurdler champion. She improved her Personal Record w/ a 15.04 and qualified for States. #PioneerPride
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#PioneerProfile: Poughkeepsie High School Senior, Jamik Carter is a honor roll student & a three sports athlete (Football, Basketball and Baseball) @PHS. Jamik is looking forward to a strong senior year! Congrats to Jamik & good luck in the 2018/19 school year! #PioneerPride
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On Friday before the Parade, Poughkeepsie HIgh School held a Collegiate letter of intent signing day ceremony, in front of the community!! Congratulations to all our seniors (student athletes) on moving on to the next level. #PioneerPride 🏀⚽️🏈🥎
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Congratulations to Shelvon Grant on his commitment Utica College, where he will continue his academic and athletic journey! Shelvon maintained a high GPA as a student athlete his entire high school career! Job well done! 🏀🏈 #PioneerPride 💯 🔵⚪
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Poughkeepsie Varsity Track and Field star Kyla Browne is now the #1 Northern Counties girls 55 meter Hurdler, in Dutchess & Putnam County! Browne is the Section 1 class A Champion in Girls 55 Meter Hurdles. With a personal record 8.77. #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie Girls Swim Team honors the memory of Natia Gorgen with a holiday wreath and plants for Spring. Natia's 4 Poughkeepsie swimming records in swimming still stand strong. Natia was 17 years old when she passed away tragically in a car accident in 2010. #PioneerPride
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Final: Poughkeepsie 72, Newburgh 54 at SUNY New Paltz for the Official’s vs. Cancer boys basketball tournament games. Pioneers improves on the season with a 13-3 overall record. Poks next game is at home on Tuesday vs Beacon, 6pm. @CodyMoffettc #PioneerPride
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#PioneerProfile: Poughkeepsie High School Senior, Tremell Reaves is a solid student & is a 2 sports athlete (Football & Basketball). He played football for the 1st time & scored 7 TDs! He plans on playing college basketball and pursuing an engineering degree. #PioneerPride
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Former Pioneer, Javel Cherry got his 1st collegiate start tonight for Dominican University, scoring 20 points. Last week he hit a game winning shot (18p) and was named rookie of the week! Good work Javel. Proud of you. #PioneerPride .@plez2k8 @KDJmedia1 @StephenHaynes4
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POUGHKEEPSIE WINS, in front of a nice community crowd. Pioneers are Heading to the NYSPHSAA Class A final vs Mendon tomorrow night at 7PM in Binghamton. #PioneerPride . Final: Poughkeepsie 74, Manhasset 63 .
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Poughkeepsie plays balanced team basketball but Jamik was the player of the game today. He played amazing defense and managed the team as a floor leader. Sealed the game w a big layup. This score was after a steal in the 1st half. Defense wins championships! 💪🏾 #PioneerPride
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ITS GAME DAY! Poughkeepsie plays Frederick Douglass in the NYS Federations at Cool Insuring Area in Glens Falls, 9am. If you can't make it to Glens Falls this weekend, NFHSNetwork will be live streaming all NY Federation games. #Community #PioneerPride
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Congratulations to the Poughkeepsie girls crew team and the boys basketball team on winning the NY State Championships! #Champions #Parade! #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie Pioneers girls varsity won their game tonight vs Sleepy Hollow on the road, 54-29. #PioneerPride .Cierra Simmons led the Pioneers w 20 Points 13 Rebs 2 blocks. Aniyah Coates 11 points 15 boards 3 blocks. Lauren salmonese 6 Points 5 Rebounds, respectively.
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Congratulations to Zaccai Curtis on earning 1st Team All Dutchess County honors. Zaccai averaged 13pts 7Reb 2Stls during his senior season. He was often the energy and spark to swing the momentum in the Pioneers favor w his monster dunks! 🚀 #PioneerPride
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2019 Poughkeepsie NYSPHSAA Class A Boys' Basketball and Girls Crew honored with their State Championship rings and banner reveal before tipoff vs. Byram Hills last night. 💯 #PioneerPride
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Pioneer Update: Due to the impending weather (snowstorm), the state playoff game between Poughkeepsie & Maine-Endwell has been moved to Sunday, March 13th at 12 noon, per coach Moffett. #PioneerPride.@KDJmedia1 @StephenHaynes4 @lohudinsider @PJSports.
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ITS GAME DAY! #1 Poughkeepsie (20-3) will play #2 Tappan Zee (23-0) for the Section 1 Class A title at Pace University 430pm. $8 General Admission • $5 Seniors and students under 12. Come out and support the team. #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride.
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Cool reminder, 3 of the last 4 Dutchess County Player of the Year recipients, are Pioneers, per coach @CodyMoffett_. #PioneerPride 💙💙💙 #WorkHard #Develop #Compete
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Senior Nigel Whitaker had his best game of the season, hitting three 3 pointers to get the momentum in the Pioneers favor. He finished with 14 points on the game. #PioneerPride
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FINAL: Poughkeepsie 32, Edgemont 6. Sam Moore had a career game w 4 TDs & over 300 total yards! Rashed Ricketts had a pick 6. Pioneers will host Horace Greeley next Saturday at 1pm. #PioneerPride .They continue to honor Ron#44!
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Not the outcome we wanted tonight but the boys battled back & competed in a hostile environment. Shout out to the Poughkeepsie community/parents for supporting the team on the road. Great energy & celebrated our student athletes, win lose or drawn. #Community. #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie will play Frederick Douglass in the NYS Federation Tournament of Champions Boys Class A game on Saturday, 3/23 @ Glens Falls Civic Center at 9am. If we advance the Championship Game will be Sunday, 3/24 at 1:45pm. #PioneerPride . @NYSPHSAA
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Final: Poughkeepsie prevails in OT vs. Lourdes, 70-61. Great effort by both teams. Jaquan Pearson with the slam in transition early in the game. #PioneerPride
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Amid racial unrest, area athletes, coaches address social justice together @sports_pioneer @ninisher1 @BiGMeechTm @24TReilly - shouts to you guys, and others, who lent your voices to this. It’s appreciated.
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On 1/4/19 Poughkeepsie Track at the Dendy Meet . Kyla Browne-1st in the girls 55 meter Hurdles, Gregory Meekins-1st in the boys Shot Put, Amber, Tahraeah, Ronica, and Kyla-1st in the girls 4x200, Kasai, Plume, Tylan, and Aziatic -2nd in the boys 4x200 meter race.#PioneerPride
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Javel Cherry does it again. Young man was on fire 🔥 for Dominican University today on the road, scoring 30 points in 28 minutes off the bench. Wow! #PioneerPride @KDJmedia1 @plez2k8 @StephenHaynes4 @PJSports
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Poughkeepsie High School concert band and choir performs together during the annual alumni concert. This year we honor the late great Chris Vadela, PHS alumn and award winning musician/director. #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie Pioneers girls varsity won their game 46-42 at Beacon tonight . Cierra Simmons had 18 points 17 Rebounds and .Lauren Salmonese scores 17 points. Good job ladies! @ShawnSimmons69 @CierraSims22 @Love2Laugh9900 @xoxolauren1234 #PioneerPride
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Balance attack by the Pioneers. 💪🏾. Davontrey Thomas 21 pts 10 Rebs.Jamik Carter 12 pts 8 assists.Jamar Campbell added 11 .Niyal Goins, J Pearson and Mell Reaves had 10 each. #PioneerPride
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Congratulations to Javel Cherry on being named Dutchess County Player of the Year! He has also earned All-Section & League MVP Honors. Javel averaged 20pts 5Reb 5Asst 2Stls while maintaining a 86 GPA #HonorRollStudent #PioneerPride 💯💙
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Final: Poughkeepsie 51 Arlington 48. High pace game, with lots of energy. Defensive battle. Kaiden Birdsong led all scorers w 25 points (7 threes). Prince Boone had 12 points for the Pioneers. #PioneerPride @plez2k8 @PJSports @StephenHaynes4 @KDJmedia1 @lohudsports
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Poughkeepsie Varsity basketball earns a big win tonight on the road vs Mahopac, 61-48. Lead by Jalen Lee and Jai Elting, the Pioneers played strong press defense all night to create offense. #PioneerPride.@plez2k8 @StephenHaynes4 @KDJmedia1 @PJSports
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Poughkeepsie Pioneers varsity girls won 59-52 vs Peekskill, who was on a 3 game winning streak. Lauren Salmonese had a career night w 23 points. Cierra Simmons had 18 pts 15 Rebs Friday night. Great job lady Pioneers. #PioneerPride
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Poughkeepsie Pioneers boys won their 1st round playoff game vs Pearl River, 72-57. #PioneerPride
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Pioneers fought hard and showed alot of heart vs one of the nation's/NYS elite high school programs. We have a very special team and a awesome coach Poughkeepsie, come out and support them this season. @CodyMoffettc @plez2k8.Final LuHi 75 Poughkeepsie 44 #PioneerPride
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Mohogany Felix, 7th grader, was unstoppable tonight for the Poughkeepsie girls modified team. She had 36 points, 8 rebounds and 4 steals vs Mahopac. Bright future for this young lady. Honor roll student also! #PioneerPride
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Pioneers fall to Kelowna in the Championship gold medal game, 78-72. Great game. Team played hard/well and represented Poughkeepsie and NY very well in Canada. (Without their best player, btw). Super proud of them! 💯💙 #PioneerPride @KDJmedia1 @PJSports @plez2k8.
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Poughkeepsie boys will play in the Championship gold medal game tonight at 10pm (NY time) vs Kelowna high school (West Canada), in the REB Invitational tournament. Bring it home Pioneers. 🏆 #PioneerPride.@plez2k8 @sports_pioneer
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GAME DAY! Poughkeepsie will host Lakeland tonight at 6pm, for a Class A quarterfinals matchup. This will be our seniors last home game. Come out and support the team. Wear Blue! #Playoffs #StrongerTogether #PioneerPride 💙⚪💯
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