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WVU baseball shuts out Liberty to win 1st game of 3-game series

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West Virginia continued its perfect sheet in the series opener against Liberty, pitching its first shutout of the season. The Mountaineers beat the Flames 12-0 in the first game of the three-game series, moving to 4-0 on the new season. Liberty falls to 2-2. The rest of the series resumes ...

Hoops roundup: Holbert leads Titans past Knights

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KIDWELL — Kolten Holbert was a hard puzzle to solve for Tyler Consolidated as the Gilmer County Titan scored a game-high 27 points in a 73-63 win, Friday night in a Little Kanawha Conference placement game. Gilmer County built a 41-31 lead by halftime as Tyler Ratliff scored 10 of his 16 ...

Area swimmers make it a trifecta at state

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MORGANTOWN – Swimmers from the Mid-Ohio Valley made it a trifecta as Parkersburg’s Delaney Snodgrass and Levi Morr, along with Doddridge County’s Isabella McGrady, each won an individual title at Thursday’s West Virginia High School State Swim Meet. “Honestly, we are having the ...

Parkersburg High School basketball teams split doubleheader

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PARKERSBURG — It was a doubleheader split here Thursday night inside Memorial Fieldhouse for Parkersburg as the Big Red girls handled Wheeling Park, 60-25, before the boys suffered a 41-36 setback in the Mountain State Athletic Conference ninth-place game against St. Albans. Wheeling ...

Column: Crazy days and nights

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One of the perks of being a scribe is having the opportunity to watch and cover a lot of great student-athletes and see their exploits. Of course, one can’t be in multiple places at the same time, but the sports staff attempts to do the best we can getting out to events. It was a treat to ...

Hoops roundup: Vikings rout Monarchs

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RIPLEY — Ripley put 46 first-half points, including 30 in the second quarter, to bury visiting John Marshall early Thursday night en route to a 76-52 victory. The Vikings (16-4), winners of five straight, got a team-high 15 points from Creed Waskey. Parker Smith, Blake Justice and Matthew ...