WHEELING — Five local baseball teams will take the J.B. Chambers I-470 Baseball Complex this week fighting to keep their legion baseball seasons alive. The Area One Legion Baseball Double-Elimination Tournament kicks off today at 5 p.m. as Moundsville Post 3 takes on Wellsburg Post 34. ...
WHEELING — Despite never playing football before this past season, the game has had an immense effect on Ayden Baker and the course of his life. Then a rising senior at Wheeling Central, Baker decided to go out for the football team just because he thought it could be fun and it was going ...
WHEELING — The cliche says the world is much smaller today than it once was. That’s proven accurate each summer in mid-July when the all stars of Ohio and West Virginia report to camp to begin preparations for the annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football Game. There was a time when ...
Jerrae Hawkins Wheeling Park, Captain Following in the footsteps of former teammate Torrence Walker, this Wheeling Park rising junior proved he is the fastest boy in West Virginia by winning state titles in both the 100 and 200 in Charleston. Despite missing parts of the season with an ...
ELM GROVE — Jon-Michael Brunner wants his team to spend this week focusing on themselves as Wheeling Post 1 makes its final preparations for the start of next week’s Area 1 Tournament. Two points of emphasis Brunner is focusing on this week are hitting with runners on base and doing the ...
Offense sells the tickets, but defense and special teams are usually what play the biggest role in winning games. Whether it’s a regular-season game or the annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All-Star Football Game, that still applies. Hence why University and West Virginia head coach John Kelley paid significant attention to the defensive side of the ball and specialists when selecting the Mountain State squad for the July 23rd battle with Ohio at Wheeling Island Stadium. Kelley completed the breakdown of his players with the announcement of the linebackers, defensive backs and ...
