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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 ...

Conotton Valley no-hits Frontier in OVAC final

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WHEELING – Move over, death and taxes, the Conotton Valley Rockets are making their case to join you. The two-seeded Rockets dominated their OVAC 1A championship game on Friday against No. 1 Frontier, 14-0, to claim their fifth straight OVAC title, a stretch of dominance stretching beyond ...

Mid-Ohio Valley Sports Announcements

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Mid-Ohio Valley Prep Baseball/Softball Stats Teams wanting to participate in the weekly Mid-Ohio Valley prep baseball and softball leaders are asked to send in full cumulative season to date stats with their record by 3 p.m. each Monday to jholland@newsandsentinel.com and ...