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WVU coaches pay visit to Mid-Ohio Valley

VIENNA – The young blood mixed in with the spirited veteran made for an entertaining night on the first stop of the WVU Mountaineer Athletic Club Coaches Caravan. The Grand Pointe Conference and Reception Center on Monday night welcomed WVU head coaches from football (Rich Rodriguez), ...

Steve Sabins learns there’s a whole lot more to managing

MORGANTOWN — We think of a baseball coach — or manager, as he is known in the major leagues — as a man whose main function is running a ball game. Who starts where? Who bats where in the line up? When is the right time to change pitchers? Should the batter bunt or hit and run? But a ...

Thirteen meet records fall at Belpre’s Bob Holdren Invite

BELPRE — Federal Hocking’s Annamarie Montle nearly established three meet records here Friday night at the weather-delayed Belpre Jerry’s Auto Bob Holdren Invitational as the Lancer girls topped the field with 116 points to finish ahead of New Lexington (89.5), Marietta (85.5), Alexander ...

Grant Hussey homers, WVU falls to Texas Tech 6-4

GRANVILLE — Steve Sabins just may have been the smartest guy inside Kendrick Family Ballpark on Saturday. He was certainly the angriest. The WVU baseball head coach got tossed by first-base umpire Jeff Spisak in the top of the first inning for arguing a balk call. In the events that ...

Reunited: Signed baseball finds its way back to South

PARKERSBURG — During the 1975 state baseball championship between Parkersburg South and Tridelphia, a random foul ball flew into the stands at City Park and into the hands of a then 11-year-old Greg Eaton. At the time, nobody knew how important that baseball would end up being. After ...