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Thirteen meet records fall at Belpre’s Bob Holdren Invite

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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

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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

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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 ...

PHS boys, Williamstown girls win Erickson Invite

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PARKERSBURG — Here Friday night at the Erickson Invitational, which was contested at Parkersburg’s Stadium Field, host Parkersburg South received golds from Jordan Foster in the 300 hurdles and Kymani Prince in the long jump. Prince’s leap of 16 feet, 7.5 inches topped the runner-up ...

Morgantown bests South to repeat as OVAC champs

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WHEELING – One of Morgantown’s darkest days as a softball team this season came at the hands of Parkersburg South. The two schools met for a second time Friday night at Wheeling Park High School for the OVAC Class 5A Championship. Again the day was dark, but only initially due to the ...

Grady Hesson leads Fort Frye past Waterford

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BEVERLY — Make no mistake about it — Grady Hesson is the ace of the Fort Frye pitching staff. The sophomore right hander continued his outstanding season Friday night by tossing a two-hitter and fanning 12 batters in Fort Frye’s 9-1 win over arch-rival Waterford. The Cadets offense ...