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Girls flag football now OHSAA’s 29th recognized sport

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio High School Athletic Association has elevated girls flag football to a fully recognized sport for the 2026-27 school year, following a unanimous vote of the OHSAA Board of Directors at its June meeting. Girls flag football becomes the OHSAA’s 29th recognized sport, including 15 sports for girls and 14 for boys. There are now 23 high school state associations in the United States that sanction girls flag football and a total of 40 states that offer girls high school football programs. Flag football will be included as a new sport in the 2028 Olympic Games ...

South hires Maxwell as baseball coach

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PARKERSBURG — Levi Maxwell is changing dugouts. After spending six seasons leading the Williamstown baseball program, Maxwell was approved Tuesday night by the Wood County Board of Education to take over the reins at Parkersburg South, replacing Bryan Youngblood. “The big thing was ...

Local Golf

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Callaway Junior Tour At the Pines Country Club Boys 17-18 Carson Higginbotham, Clarksburg 69 Landen Clark, Wheeling 72 Andrew Pennybacker, Lewisburg 75 Isaac Hutchison, Lewisburg 75 Bryson Moorehead, Ridgeley 76 Trayton Hall, Ellenboro 76 Trace Tucker, Fairmont 77 Ryder Vadasz, Martinsburg 81 Guy Meneely, Weirton 81 Mason Gray, Grafton 82 William Biddington, Morgantown 83 Braden Wade, Wheeling 83 Landin Ludwick, Augusta 83 Parker Charlton, Capon Bridge 84 Nathan Davis, Parsons 85 Jagger Barnes, Morgantown 86 Tyler Huffman, Fairmont 88 Alexander ...

Post 64 earns 5-2 win over Clarksburg

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MARIETTA – One of the parents for Marietta Post 64 may be on to something. At one point during Wednesday’s game with Clarksburg Post 13 after Post 64 starting pitcher Casey Burkhammer recorded one of his nine strikeouts, a voice bellowed out “that’s Casey with a ...

Legion Baseball

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South Charleston 9, Parkersburg 5 Post 15 000 140 0 - 5 4 2 Post 94 402 003 x - 9 10 2 WP: Anderson 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 3SO Mosley 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 1SO Spencer 1IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 2SO Kimbel 1IP, 2H, 1R, 0ER, 0BB, 0SO Samms 0IP, 0H, 4R, 2ER, 3BB, 0SO Burke 2IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 2SO Gordon 1IP, 1H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 3SO LP: S. Menarchek 5.2IP, 7H, 9R, 7ER, 5BB, 3SO C. McCartney .1IP, 3H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 0SO Parkersburg Post 15 (11-5) hitting: C. McCartney 1-3 R, RBI; E. Miller 2-4; C. Cumpston RBI; C. Cancade 1-3, 2 RBIs; E. Davis R; P. West R, SB; ...

Road Race Results

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17th annual Chick-fil-A 10K Road Race Results Overall Male: Will Koenig (Athens) 34:19, Koa Navarro (Mineral Wells) 35:04, Brian Reider (Bridgeport) 36:12 Overall Female: Amber Perkins 44:08, Stefanie Moore 45:18, Chelsea Langlois (Athens) 45:36 Masters Male: Matt Fluharty 39:03 Masters Female: Lyndsey Kuhn (Little Hocking) 49:49 Grandmasters Male: Joe Wiltsey (Vienna) 45:08 Grandmasters Female: Miranda Collins (Williamstown) 55:34 Senior Grandmasters Male: Doug Orr (Athens) 52:09 Senior Grandmasters Female: Pamela Addis (Mineral Wells) 54:30 Male 0-19: Blake Seese ...