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CHARLESTON — Hedgesville won its first-ever baseball state championship when the Eagles dumped Parkersburg South, 6-3, in the Class AAA semifinals and defeated Cabell Midland, 4-2, on Saturday in the championship game at Appalachian Power Park. Cabell Midland had stopped Beckley Woodrow Wilson, 5-0, in another Class AAA semifinal game. Herbert Hoover, which had lost [...]
Continue reading …Back when Jefferson County had never heard of YouTube or iPhones or even Twitter much of the land here was covered in alfalfa, barley and orchards. The pastures had more than limestones breaks and thistles. The dairy farms were many and the summer days were filled with workers baling hay and mending the fences not [...]
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While the buzz surrounding the Triple Crown series evaporated soon after Oxbow thumped Orb in the Preakness Stakes, the stakes schedule resumed one week later at Charles Town with the Fancy Buckles Stakes for fillies and mares. Heading into the $50,000 Fancy Buckles last Saturday night, much of the attention focused on the freakishly fast [...]
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MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame will accept seven more members in September. Being added to the Hall of Fame list are baseball-basketball player Pop Popovich, women’s basketball player Olivia Bradley, wrestler Dean Morrison, rifle coach Ed Etzel, basketball player Dale Blaney, football’s Tom Woodeshick and gymnastics coach Linda Burdette-Good. Induction [...]
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New Valley League baseball team set to play opener Friday On Friday evening, the baseball being played at Sager Field in Shenandoah Junction will have a slightly different look to it. Instead of Jefferson High facing an area high school team, the first-year Charles Town Cannons of the Valley League will begin a new era [...]
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VIENNA — After rallying to defeat Ripley, 3-2, in its first game in the softball Class AAA state tournament, Jefferson didn’t find any other late-game offense in its other two games. The Lady Cougars committed four errors against Ripley but still moved to the winner’s bracket. In its second game on opening day, the Lady [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University freshman quarterback Chavas Rawlins will transfer. Rawlins’ high school coach, Andy Pacak, has confirmed the former Monessen (Pa.) High player will be leaving WVU but did not reveal where he will next enroll. Rawlins had been recruited by former quarterbacks coach Jake Spavital, but Spavital left West Virginia to take [...]
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Vanderbilt has been voted to the top spot in college baseball. LSU of the same Southeastern Conference has been voted to the No. 2 position in all the polls that give their attention to baseball. Sitting atop the voter’s polls may get a school a Regional host role and then right back at home in [...]
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