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PHS baseball drops regional game to Huntington, 5-4

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HUNTINGTON – It is tournament time in the Mountain State, and Huntington used a three-run sixth inning to come from behind to beat Parkersburg 5-4 on Highlander Mountaintop to advance to the winners bracket of the double-elimination Class AAAA South Region baseball tournament. “We did just enough to win that ball game,” Highlanders coach John Dennison said. Dennison was excited about Huntington's Jamie Legg’s performance on the mound as the starting pitcher. Legg collected seven strikeouts while allowing only two earned runs as he demonstrated great control with his off-speed ...

Hole-In-One

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Russ Montgomery, of Parkersburg, recorded a hole-in-one at Oxbow Golf Course. He used a pitching wedge to ace hole No. 4, a 105-yard par 3. Montgomery’s hole-in-one was witnessed by Scott Perry, Don Pottmeyer and Charlie Gragg.

South baseball falls to GW, 11-1

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CHARLESTON — The Patriots won Tuesday night. That would be the George Washington Patriots, picking up a 11-1 win over the Parkersburg South Patriots in the Class AAAA South Region tournament at Floyd Wilcox Field in Charleston. George Washington scored 10 of its 11 runs between the third and fifth innings, including four in the fourth inning. Eli Smith and Ryan Anderson hit home runs, with Anderson clubbing a grand slam in the fourth. Anderson's home run extended GW's lead to 8-1. "It was a tight game up until that, then, on two swings, it's a seven-run swing for us there," GW ...

Wildcats advance to district semifinals

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WATERFORD — The Waterford Wildcats were declared a 7-0 winner Tuesday evening in a weather-shortened Division VI district quarterfinal against the visiting Ripley Blue Jays. The game was called in the bottom of the second inning due to lightning in the area and it was then decided by both coaches to go ahead and pull the plug on the game and declare the Wildcats the victors over the winless Jays. The Wildcats batted around in the opening inning as they scored six times. A two-run triple by senior Braun Doak, an RBI-double by Henry Huffman and a run-scoring single off the bat of ...

Momentum carries WVU into Big 12 Tourney

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MORGANTOWN — In the end, maybe it was just unfortunate math that calculated two unconventional endings for the WVU baseball program. More to the point, the Mountaineers finished the 2025 regular season by getting swept by Kansas, yet still hoisted the Big 12 trophy and earned the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 tournament. A year later, the ninth-ranked Mountaineers (37-13, 21-9 Big 12) set a program record for conference wins and won eight of their final nine league games just to finish a game behind the Jayhawks in second place. “Couldn’t be more excited for our kids to clip ...