WHEELING — Winning Game 1 of a three-game series on the road is a dream come true in any playoff format. Just ask St. Marys softball coach Lacy Riggs. Her Blue Devils squad accomplished that feat on Tuesday as it roared past home standing Wheeling Central 12-0 in a Class A, Section 1, ...
STEUBENVILLE — With two outs in the top of the seventh inning, veteran Big Red head coach Fred Heatherington walked to the mound to talk to his ace, Cooper Blackburn, who had just fired two pitches outside of the zone. “When I went out and talked to him, he said he was getting a little ...
COLUMBUS – Ohio High School Athletic Association member schools passed 12 of 14 proposed revisions to the OHSAA Constitution and Bylaws, Executive Director Doug Ute announced Tuesday morning. The OHSAA’s annual referendum voting period ended at 4 p.m. Monday. Each member school has one vote on each item, which is cast by the high school principal. Once again, nearly every school participated in the voting process, with 813 of the OHSAA’s 817 member high schools casting their ballot (99.5 percent). The Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) proposal failed by a margin of 538 to 254. ...
NEW MANCHESTER, W.Va. — The Oak Glen softball team is on a mission this season and the Golden Bears are one game away from returning to the Class AA state tournament after a 6-4 win over Keyser on Tuesday in the first game of a best-of-three Region 1 championship series. Oak Glen improves to 25-2 and will head to Keyser today for the second game of the series. First pitch is set for 5 p.m. Keyser fell to 30-4 and was riding an eight-game winning streak. Oak Glen has won nine straight. The Golden Tornado team was plagued by four errors caused by aggressive Oak Glen base ...
CAMERON — Madonna’s baseball team has gotten used to having its backs against the wall over the past week. Since they fell into the losers’ bracket of the Class A, Region 1, Section 1 tournament last Tuesday, the Blue Dons won five straight elimination games — including a ...
GLEN DALE — Monday afternoon’s West Virginia Class AAA Region One championship series between University High and John Marshall opened with a pitcher’s duel that over three hours later turned into an instant classic. Senior pitcher Autumn Stemple fanned 20, including the final eight ...
