The Pride of White Bluffs: High School Athletics Sweep the Hanford Rivalry
A banner week for local students as home-court advantage and spirited cheering help White Bluffs high school dominate the hardwood.
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We played Benton City on Friday evening, November 23rd, and won one of the games. Both boys’ teams lost but the girls won a closely contested game. On Tuesday evening, November 28th, we played Hanford in our local gymnasium and won all three games. The first team won by a score of 15 to 10; the second team by a score of 13 to 4; and our girls piled up 51 points to 12 made by the Hanford girls. It was a great day for White Bluffs high school. The fact that the home folks turned out and yelled for us helped a lot. How did you like our serpentine and the yells before the games? That helped to win the games too. But our hats are off to the teams and their coaches, Mr. McFee and Mrs. Gellermann.
“The fact that the home folks turned out and yelled for us helped a lot.”
The fierce rivalry between White Bluffs and Hanford captures a moment in time before both towns were essentially erased from the map by the Manhattan Project during World War II. Today, the site of this former rivalry is part of the Hanford Site, a landscape defined by its nuclear history rather than local high school athletics.
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