ST. MARYS — With no seniors and a new head coach, St. Marys’ softball team wanted at least some version of a season in 2020. Though former Blue Devils’ assistant Lacy Mosser Riggs assumed control of the program, her past experiences with the girls didn’t mean everything as the ...
PADEN CITY — Former three-sport Paden City High School standout Luke Cooper is full speed ahead when it comes to the next chapter of his life. Going from the proverbial big man on campus as a Wildcat to a baseball player at West Liberty University, Cooper wasn’t able to have the exact ...
PARKERSBURG — Baseball coaches know the importance of having quality left-handed pitchers on their staff. Veteran West Virginia Wesleyan skipper Randy Tenney got a pretty good one last month when Parkersburg South’s Colin Bryant opted to become a Bobcat. Bryant, who was set to be a ...
Even though the spring sports high school season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, local prep baseball coaches have come up with a way for their players to get back on the field. Warren coach Ryan Lemley, Marietta coach Josh McKitrick, Waterford coach Doug Huffman and Frontier coach ...
PARKERSBURG — The padding adorning the backstop would enrage a bull, while at the same time, reminding everyone whose house one of the four Worthington Ballparks’ fields belongs to. The big white P emblazoned on a shield on the side of one of the painted red dugouts serves as a succinct ...
PARKERSBURG — Gage Fiore is ready for whatever it takes to get a shot at playing time in his first season for West Liberty University head football coach Roger Waialae. The first team all-Mountain State Athletic Conference linebacker, who was a three-year two-way starter for Parkersburg Big ...
PARKERSBURG — Roane County’s Paul Burdette was as anxious as anyone for the 27th annual Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis All-Star Football Classic. After all, the Raider head coach led the Mountain State squad to a 24-7 victory back in 2016, which marked the last triumph for the ...
NEW MATAMORAS, Ohio — Russ Morris was all set to coach in the Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis All-Star Football Classic for the second time before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the game’s cancellation. Morris, Frontier’s head football coach, last coached in the BACF game in ...
PARKERSBURG — Distance runner Allison Currey was ready for her final spring season of track at Otterbein University. An all-Ohio Athletic Conference honoree as both a student and athlete, the 2016 Parkersburg South graduate was coming off her strongest cross country season to ...
PARKERSBURG — Will the COVID-19 pandemic rule the summer? Mike Goodwin, who normally at this time is leading Parkersburg Post 15 on the diamond, sure is hoping that’s not the case. Despite being behind the state of Ohio in terms of a start date, it appears baseball is on the way ...
PARKERSBURG — Wrestling extraordinaire Braxton Amos continues adding awards to the trophy case in what has been a very busy honors season for him. After winning the state and regional Dave Shultz High School Excellence Awards given out annually by the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, on ...
RIPLEY — Carter Casto worked tirelessly to get where he is now. The Ripley basketball standout “was pretty bad at basketball coming in to high school,” he said. “I just spent a lot of time in the gym every year and got better.” That’s the kind of player Midway University men’s ...
Prep coaches in the Mid-Ohio Valley aren’t leading their respective teams for the paycheck. Rather, they often coach for the love of the game, their players and the program. Nowhere was that more evident than with now ex-Parkersburg Catholic head boys basketball coach Rob Strcula. Aside ...
PARKERSBURG — Perhaps no Class AAA softball group experienced a rougher ending to last season than Parkersburg South. After the Patriots played their best game of the season in the Region IV Section 1 tournament opener against Ripley, the chance to send rival Parkersburg High home for the ...
PARKERSBURG — Following a nine-year run at Parkersburg Catholic High School, head boys basketball coach Rob Strcula has stepped down. “It was not an easy decision,” he said. “It was hard, but I’m walking away from the game and walking toward something I’m excited about. I can ...
PARKERSBURG — Noah Inboden only spent one year as a Parkersburg Big Red, but he’s more than grateful for the time he had. After qualifying thrice for the Ohio state wrestling tournament as a Nelsonville-York Buckeye, Inboden moved to town and finished as the Class AAA 152-pound state ...
WEST UNION — Legendary Doddridge County head coach Craig Kellar received several early glimpses at the capabilities and speed of eventual Bulldog Jonna Ferrell before she became a member of the green and gold group responsible for 11 of the high school team’s state championships. Thanks ...
ELIZABETH — Golf isn’t so much just a game for the boys these days. Even though it’s estimated nearly a quarter of all golfers are female, the percentage of women golf course owners pales in comparison. Mingo Bottom Golf Club isn’t part of that vast minority thanks to owners Sandy ...
KIDWELL — Tyler Consolidated’s Gage Huffman has experienced a virtual graduation thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and now he’s mulling potential college landing spots. After playing football, basketball and baseball for the Silver Knights, Huffman admitted he’s been laser focused since ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Dawson Reynolds remembers vividly the final moments of his high school track career. As a junior for Williamstown, Reynolds was the third leg on the Yellowjackets’ 4x400 relay team which qualified for state. With Ritchie County and Magnolia also in the mix, the race was ...