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Consistency the strength for PHS boys tennis team

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PARKERSBURG — Gut check time for the Parkersburg tennis program. Big Red coach Eric Stanley received an eye-opener earlier this week when the pairings were released for Thursday and Friday’s Class AAA state tournament in Charleston. With a resume that included a pair of wins over ...

South blanks PHS, 8-0, for sectional title

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PARKERSBURG — Alexi Dellinger pitched to contact Tuesday evening at Godbey Fields to help lead Parkersburg South to the Class AAAA, Region IV, Section 2 championship. Dellinger pitched a five-inning, complete-game shutout as the Patriots bested rival Parkersburg 8-0. South’s hurler did ...

Large steel Brooke Bruin to be unveiled today

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WELLSBURG, W.Va. — Since Brooke High School opened in 1969, visitors have encountered its bruin mascot in many places, from cartoon depictions of the crouching grizzly painted in hallways to the large paw print found on the 50-yard line of the football field. But the most imposing form of ...

Big 12 title on hold for WVU baseball

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MORGANTOWN — Kansas State, courtesy of a grand slam from Seth Dardar, put a hold on No. 13 West Virginia’s run for a Big 12 title on Sunday. The Wildcats (30-21, 16-11 Big 12) put up seven runs in the eighth inning – four coming on Dardar’s blast – for a 14-9 victory inside Tointon ...

Stretch run nothing to write home about for WVU

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MORGANTOWN — If I may offer up a sportswriter’s personal tale first before delving into the situation West Virginia’s baseball finds itself in this week, I would like to turn the clock back to 1970. It was early August and the team that was becoming the Big Red Machine was running away ...

WVU lineman wraps up minicamp with Jaguars

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Wyatt Milum could be seen wearing No. 64 for the Jacksonville Jaguars instead of his No. 74 for the West Virginia Mountaineers on Saturday. Milum lined up in a three-point stance to the left of the center, shed block the coach, who was in place of a defensive tackle, and drove through his ...