American Legion Post 273 Holloway-Moore

10/17/2026

Game 2 ending video

10/17/2026

Game2 video sinking the free throw

10/17/2026

Still sharing and our fans are young and old - Game 2 against the Princess Anne Cavaliers, another power team whose 2025-2026 season ended in the Class 5 Region A Semifinals, started off quick with the Cavaliers scoring quickly but just as quick was our O8. Up and down the court both teams went, our O8 would score to get within 3 but the Cavaliers would score to regain the lead until the halfway point of the 2nd half. The score with 8:38 left in the second half Cavs 32, O8 29… fast forward a minute and a half (7:04) and itsCavs 34, our O8 33. Jump ahead 45 seconds and it’s O8 35, Cavs 34… up and down the court they go as is the blood pressure of the fans until only 20.8 seconds left, a score of Cavs 41, our O8 40 and we have the ball for the last shot… Blood pressure is up…. Eli brings the ball down the court, defense is strong, timeout is called at 10.6 seconds left. After the timeout Dylan inbounds the ball at half court to Eli, who cuts right then back to his left and shoots….misses but rebound goes to Dylan who gets fouled while sinking the rebound with .8 of a second left to put our O8 up 42-40. Dylan sinks the free throw to go up 43-40 leaving the Cavs the inbound with .8 of a second… see the video for the free throw and the ending in our next two postings…And Let’s start showing up to see our resilient young men get ready for this coming 2026-2027 season.

10/17/2026

So great to share our community’s highlights from our public school system being recognized as being the the only division in Region 2 with every school earning Virginia’s highest performance designation and ranking in the top 10% statewide, to achieve this distinction to our athletics being so great. Since sharing is caring, let’s share what happened today.
Today PHS’s Dylan, Seth, Eli, Ben, Wyatt, JT, Jake and Brody got up early today and went down to the Williamsburg Sports Center to take on some area high school basketball teams. Where there was once seven now it’s eight getting up on the shiny floors. WHAT A MORNING!!
First up - VHSL State Class 4 Runner-up Hampton Crabbers where our Outstanding Eight (O8) went up early at one point 18 to 5 over the Crabbers only to trail down 20-18 at the half. Chipping away from behind in the scoring in the 2nd half was the theme until the mid point of the 2nd half when these O8 got back to within 1. By the four and a half minute mark these O8 were up 37 to 33 and never looked back as they kept their composure and maintained solid shooting on a up and down game to finish 49 to 42. Next up Princess Anne Cavaliers.

10/17/2026

It is with great sadness the American Legion Post 273 had to pack up and leave the Poquoson Seafood Festival. Our kettle corn popper suffered a catastrophic failure and could be repaired onsite. We will be making repairs and be up and running soon. Watch out for future posts because we still have 600 pounds of popcorn kernels to convert into kettle corn. Since Hanes and The Dump went of business American Legion Post 273 might have to have “The Sale of the Century”

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10/04/2026

We provided a Post member to train two senior Army Cadets at W&M on September 4th before W&M’s first home game on the proper way to handle our National Colors. We do not know whether or not the photographer that sent us their picture conducted any remedial training on the non ROTC person or not but we know that that flag has been disgraced.

10/04/2026

After a sporting event there is always things to cleanup and usually you have a standard operating procedure (SOP) on how things get done. Normally you build these SOPs off regulations, policies and past experiences. With our National Colors (US Flag) we have SOPs and there are actually codified in our US Code in Title 4 of the US Code. SO it was extremely disheartening to see such disrespect to our National Colors by the staff at William & Mary after yesterday’s football game.

If William & Mary Tribe Athletics need help in understanding the right way to do things with regards to National Colors then please ask the SROTC units (Army and Navy) on your campus for help. Or if you wish you can read up on our webpage https://www.legion.org/advocacy/flag-advocacy/flag-code

09/28/2026

“Defense travels” was the quote and so did the offense over the last two days as our PHS Basketball squad took seven players down to the Virginia Beach Sports Center to take part in the Phenom Hoops, taking on the VHSL Class 5 teams from the south side.

These magnificent seven did OUTSTANDING beating the likes of Deep Creek and Salem High Schools before fatigue caught up to the seven as they lost to Kellam High School by 13. That might seem like a lot but let’s give you the circumstances of this event. Each opponent had more than 12 players on their bench and subbed in a fresh five players every five minutes of each fifteen minute half. The break between halves was just 2 minutes enough for our seven to quickly hydrate and catch their breath before getting back after it for the second half.

Your Saturday Seven: Eli & Seth Green, Dillon Demay, Ben Bamford, Brody Bunting, Wyatt Howser and JT Gawlik.

Your Sunday Seven: Eli & Seth Green, Dillon Demay, Ben Bamford, Dylan Welch, Wyatt Howser and JT Gawlik.

Great Job you Seven!!

09/12/2026

Congrats to our Poquoson City Public Schools Poquoson High School Cross Country Team as both Boys and Girls took 1st Place at the Woodside High School Cross Country Invitational this morning at Newport News Park. Way to go team!!

08/19/2026

If you follow us then you may know that our American Legion Post 273 Holloway-Moore Senior team finished third in the Virginia State Baseball Championship at Longwood University but did you know that Post 273 also sponsors an American Legion Air R***e Team (Sporter and Precision) in partnership with the Lafayette Gun Club. The competition (State and National) is unique with team competitions as well as recognition for individual performances.

Our Sporter Team placed 1st in the State this summer automatically qualifying for the National competition and the Precision Team also qualified for the National competition.

At the National Competition both Precision and Sporter Teams placed 3rd in the Nation in the 35th Junior Three-Position Air R***e American Legion Championship! Yes, that is 3rd in the Nation.

American Legion then invites the top 30 athletes to an Individual Nation Championship at Hillsdale College in Michigan. This is the top 15 Precision and the top 15 Sporter athletes from across the Nation. All of their expenses, - transportation, food and lodging for the athlete and coach are covered by the AL for this tournament. Your post had 3 athletes out of the 30 representing you at this National Event. Pretty impressive odds there 🙂

One of our athletes, rising PHS Junior, Alexandra Orr - won the Sporter Championship for the second time - she won the National Title in 2024 however AL rules do not allow consecutive year winners so she had to wait until this year to repeat her National title. And she set some National Records in the process!

Let’s explore this sport that offers full ride scholarships to Colleges & Universities around this Nation and also remember this is also an Olympic Sport.

The tournament is shot over 4 days. They have a practice day on Wednesday, where they shoot a 3x20 for practice. This is 20 shots in each position - kneeling, prone and standing, with sighters (confirming your zero) this ends up being close to 80-100 shots total. The next 2 competition days are the same with a 3x20 in the am and pm. The final day is a shoot off for the top 8 in each category. The scores are added to the athlete's total from each match. This a lot more shooting than most of these athletes ever shoot as most Nationals consist of just one 3x20 match per day.

Alexandra (Alex) Orr lead by 19 points going into the Finals and she set a National Record on Thursday then broke her own record on Friday. She shot a 200x17 in prone on Thursday then shot a 200x19 on Friday. This is 20 shots that were in the ten ring with the X's indicating shots greater than 10.1.

Alex set the American Legion Sporter Record for Prone and the CMP/Civilian Marksmanship Program records for Club, U17 and then tied for the Overall Prone record. The American Legion has never had a shooting athlete repeat a win in the same category before.

The winner is awarded a 5K scholarship and is honored with the other Youth Champions at the American Legion National Convention in Kentucky the end of this month.

The other Youth Champions include -
American Legion Boys Nation President
High School Oratorical National Champion
American Legion Baseball All-Academic Team Captain (the eight regional winners are honored at the National Championship tournament - Post 273 had the 2025 East Regional Winner - Landon Kettles)
American Legion Eagle Scout of the Year
And
The Junior Three-Position Air R***e Sporter National Champion (Alex).

This is a considerable achievement of these athletes that are representing our local programs and Posts on a National Level. These athletes have a pretty long season from September to July and have worked really hard this year.

Let’s figure out how we can encourage more to join our programs because we have great kids in the Peninsula and they are looking for opportunities.