When Shari Helvey (maiden name Walker) led James Monroe to its first girls basketball title as a player in 2001, the Mavericks became notorious for being one of the few teams in state history to win a state championship without a first team all-state selection. Twenty-five years later Helvey ...
The Sweet 16 will have a definite SEC feel with six teams advancing from that conference to the second weekend of March Madness. Top seeds South Carolina and Texas cruised into the regional semifinals of the women's NCAA Tournament and are joined by No. 2 seeds Vanderbilt and LSU, No. 4 ...
STEUBENVILLE — The Big Red softball team made the debut of their new coach a victorious one. After falling behind Wheeling Park 2-0 in the top of the first, Steubenville scored the next nine runs on the way to a 12-5 victory over the Patriots at the Crimson Complex. April Minniefield, ...
WHEELING – Madison Applegarth and Layla Markwas combined for 14 strikeouts as Linsly (3-1) defeated visiting Magnolia, 11-5, in softball action Tuesday at the Holloway Field Complex on the Linsly campus. Applegarth earned the win as she fanned eight in her four innings of relief. She ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Martin Necas scored twice, Nathan MacKinnon poured in his NHL-leading 46th goal and the Colorado Avalanche breezed past the Pittsburgh Penguins 6-2 on Tuesday night. Necas, Sam Malinski and Parker Kelly scored within a 1:55 span late in the first period to break it open as ...
West Virginia took the first game of the season against its in-state rival, Marshall. The Mountaineers pitched another shutout in a bullpen game to beat the Thundering Herd 3-0 Tuesday night in Huntington. This was WVU’s fourth shutout of the season. The Mountaineers moved to 17-4 on the season, and Marshall is 13-10 on the year. This is WVU’s sixth-straight win. As Steve Sabins does in most of his midweek games, or at least the few that haven’t been canceled, he started David Hagen. Hagen had one of his best outings and actually went longer than just a couple of innings, like ...
