After a one-year absence, the San Pedro High boys basketball team brought back their own Pirate Shootout tournament... and for the first time in its 13-year tenure, was able to win it.

It was a terrific Thursday for the Pirates, as they ended four days of Holiday hoops by treating their fans to a gritty 52-45 victory over perennial CIF-Los Angeles City…

In the first crosstown high school sports battle since the coronavirus pandemic, San Pedro High boys basketball battled visiting Mary Star Of The Sea in a San Pedro Pirate Shootout pool play game on Tuesday night.

It was a true game of runs, but it was the Pirates who pulled away in the midway point of the third quarter to eventually defeat the Stars,…

The 2021 San Pedro Prep Girls Volleyball season was a celebration of a return to somewhat normalcy.

Fans were able to take in the hard-hitting, fast and furious action while still adhering to the rules of the pandemic era that is still ongoing with seemingly no end in sight.

One area school managed to stand triumphant even when not fully…

On this past Saturday, San Pedro High girls volleyball was denied a fifth CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship when Sylmar swept their way to a Division 1 title.

Tuesday was a different story, as the Pirates got the next best thing.

For the first time in seven tries, the third oldest school in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)…

LONG BEACH - On Thursday, the San Pedro High girls volleyball team accomplished something few could do in recent years, and that's a Marine League championship.

By virtue of defeating host Rancho Dominguez Prep 25-10, 25-10, 25-12 in their regular season finale, the Pirates clinched an automatic share of their first league title in the Fall semester…

Due to adjustments made on the fly thanks to the coronavirus pandemic... San Pedro Prep Football fans got just an appetizer of what to expect this past Spring.

Now it's time to unleash the main course.

Thursday, August 19 marks the start of the traditional high school season when San Pedro High football battles St. Anthony of Long Beach at St.…

So many sports, so little time.

When the 2019-2020 school year was booming into the Spring, all high school sports everywhere was cancelled on March 14, 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak, ending the hopes and dreams of potentially make a run for a CIF Sectional championship for everyone who had them.

Some were still…

With the recent two California Interscholastic Federation sectional championships claimed last month by both San Pedro High baseball and Mary Star Of The Sea High girls basketball, San Pedro Prep Sports has finally come full circle in the ten years of San Pedro News Pilot online, which gives us the opportunity to review the ten best CIF sports championship…

San Pedro High baseball was well represented on the 2021 All-City Open Division teams after capturing the program's second CIF-Los Angeles City Section major division championship when it won the Open Division title on June 19 with a 7-6 victory over El Camino Real.

Senior INF/P Dylan Kordic was named the City Section's Open Division Player Of The…

Springing up excitement in 2021 for San Pedro Prep Softball was the uprising of a new era for San Pedro High softball.

First-year head coach Leanna Flores injected some well-needed optimism and a whole new level of intensity to a program that has produced 17 CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship seasons. With the combination of senior leadership…

The 2021 San Pedro Prep Baseball season... was a pick-up of what the 2020 season left off, due to the early cancellation of it due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.

Finishing their business the most out of all three schools, is San Pedro High.

Losing most of their incredible talent from their abbreviated 2020 campaign, the Pirates…

Normally, high school basketball seasons in California end in March, but the 2021 season for many started in March... and ended in June.

As things seem to return to normal around town, San Pedro and Mary Star Of The Sea High Schools went on with their boys and girls basketball seasons this Spring, while Port Of Los Angeles opted out to return to hoops…

The seasons were short, and it wasn't the kind of season many are accustomed to, but at least the Class Of 2021 for both San Pedro and Mary Star High football programs had a season this spring.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic cancelling the usual Fall seasons last September, the Pirates and Stars managed to play abbreviated seasons, with Mary Star…

1992 still feels like a long time.

That was when San Pedro High baseball won their first CIF-Los Angeles City Section championship when it outlasted Polytechnic of Sun Valley at Dodger Stadium under the leadership of longtime coach Jerry Lovarov.

Reaching a championship game was few and far between for the Pirates, only managing two more…

In a season that was truly unusual, San Pedro High softball would provide something truly familiar.

On a day where the Pirates celebrated their five seniors, the entire team rose up to the challenge of facing Marine League foe Carson one more time, and with the winning prize being the Marine League championship, San Pedro reversed the trend of falling…

It was VINTAGE San Pedro High softball... 2021 edition.

For the sixth time in the 21-year history of the Jim Robertson Memorial Alumni Field, the Pirates capped off a comeback against Marine League rival Carson with a walk-off hit to win it, but none was more wilder or more dramatic than what went down on Thursday in a battle for sole…

From arriving on the grass of Mike Walsh Pirate Stadium all the way to the final chant when it was over, this Friday night, was unlike any other night in the annals of San Pedro High football.

The Golden Pirate Regiment band wasn't around, nor was the Drill Team, not to mention both sides of fans were smaller than usual. Yet, Pirate Pride was still…

729 days.

That's how long San Pedro High softball had to wait to play at home on campus, even if there was not a lot of people there to see the game.

May 1, 2019 was the last time the Pirates played at the Jim Robertson Memorial Field, a run rule Marine League victory over Rancho Dominguez Prep. San Pedro was never able to enjoy the fruits of…

WILMINGTON - 508 days... added by fourteen more days.

That's exactly how long it has been for San Pedro High football to showcase themselves on the gridiron.

November 25, 2019 was when the Pirates previously played. The entire Fall semester of 2020 was void of high school football in California due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Los…

High school sports is coming back.

One year after the world of San Pedro Prep Sports played its last sporting events on March 11, 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic forced the abrupt shutdown of all sports all across the nation days later, youth sports is starting to make a resurgence with the new Los Angeles County Public Health guidelines in place.…