CRESCENT – With Sunday’s 6-1 victory over Barton in Game 2 of the Ohio Valley Baseball League’s championship series on sun-soaked Henning Field inside Pramesa Park, Bethany is now just one win away from securing its first title in quite some time. However, the second-seeded Brewers ...
WHEELING – Fifty years ago West Virginia defeated Ohio in the 30th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All Star Football Game, 33-20, at Wheeling Island Stadium. Saturday night, 26 players and coaches who participated in that contest will be recognized during the first quarter of the 80th annual mid-summer classic. Both head coaches are deceased. They were Jim Thomas of Wheeling Central and Ron Pobolish of Cadiz. Members of the West Virginia team returning are John Bonar, Rick Ebbert and Pete Magnone from Bishop Donahue; Jeff Cecil of John Marshall; Linsly’s Paul Peluchette; Jeff Kreider ...
WHEELING – Entering the 80th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All Star Football Game Saturday night at Wheeling Island Stadium, on paper West Virginia appears to be an underdog once again. However, that’s a role that Mountaineer head coach Chris Daugherty, of Wheeling Park relishes. “I talked a ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians and Pittsburgh Pirates will play a doubleheader on Saturday after the opening game of the weekend series between the teams was postponed on Friday night because of poor air quality caused by wildfires. The teams and umpire crew met at 4:30 p.m. EDT, ...
WHEELING — On a hazy day at Wheeling Park High School, one thing was clear when Wheeling Post 1 and Parkersburg Post 15 took to the field Friday: both teams would be going to the West Virginia American Legion state tournament, where two teams from each area advance, but only one would hoist ...
MORGANTOWN — For a moment, we flash back to last June. Only minutes had passed since West Virginia was eliminated by North Carolina in the College World Series. Just what was brimming on Steve Sabins’ emotional sleeve at that moment was, in all likelihood, dozens of different feelings. Exhaustion was there. Disappointment was there, too. A sense of enormous pride and great sorrow weren’t far behind. It’s been nearly a month now since the Mountaineers’ magical ride ended in Omaha, Neb. The memories are just that. Paul Schoenfeld’s home run against Kentucky is no longer ...
