PARKERSBURG – When Parkersburg South assistant football coach John Price saw Kooper Jackson’s name still on the draft board for his No. 3 overall pick for Wednesday’s Iron Man, it was a no-brainer which team would land the Patriot senior. In addition to claiming the Parkersburg ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Chris Schmitt’s tenure as Waterford’s varsity baseball coach may be over, but the veteran skipper isn’t going far. Schmitt has been named the new head baseball coach at Williamstown, where he’s been an assistant coach in the football program for six years. He replaces ...
DANIELS — A pair of former Division I golfers from the Mountain State shared the lead at 4-under par following the completion of Wednesday's first round of the 93rd West Virginia Open contested at Glade Springs Resort. Ex-West Virginia University golfer Chris Williams and Marshall University graduate Pat Carter, who is a 13-time W.Va. Amateur champion, paced the field by two strokes. In all, only nine golfers finished in the red as the competitors played on either the Cobb Course or Stonehaven with the top 60 players and ties making the cut on Thursday to Friday's final round. A ...
BECKLEY – Defensive miscues came back to haunt Parkersburg Post 15 and possibly extend the West Virginia American Legion State Tournament to a winner-take-all matchup between Parkersburg and Wheeling Post 1. Monday afternoon at Linda K. Erling Stadium, Wheeling took advantage of four Parkersburg errors, including three in one inning, and captured its third straight state tournament title with an 11-8 win. Wheeling, which went through the double-elimination bracket unscathed, advances to the Mid-Atlantic Region in Cherryville, N.C. and meets the state champion from North Carolina ...
LANCASTER, Ohio – Runs were hard to come by in the latter stages of Sunday afternoon’s elimination game for Beverly/Lowell Post 389/750 at the American Legion State Baseball Tournament. Seeking to advance to Monday’s championship round, Bev/Lowell lost to Napoleon 8-7 in eight innings. Post 389/750, which ended the campaign at 30-11 and hoping to defend last year’s state title, was limited to one run over the final five innings. Bev/Lowell’s offense was in typical form from the start, scoring two runs in the first inning and another three in the second inning. Trailing ...
