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JOHNSTOWN, Pa.— After losing its first game in the WVIAC baseball tournament, Shepherd rebounded to win its final two games in pool play and then defeated Alderson-Broaddus, 10-5, in the event’s championship game. In winning the conference championship, the Rams received an automatic berth in this week’s NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional tournament being held [...]
Continue reading …SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— With seven hits and four runs in the first two innings of Saturday’s win-or-gone Sectional baseball game against unbeaten-in-the-tournament Washington, homestanding Jefferson grabbed the early lead . . . and turned the bright, baseball-weather afternoon into an 11-5 win. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of [...]
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Back in the times when nearly every village and hamlet had a baseball team to play on its cow-pasture field, the old-timers looked upon a moundsman who relied heavily on his fastball and said he was a traditional “good ol’ country hardball” pitcher. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The [...]
Continue reading …WESTON— In winning the team championship by almost 100 points at the Class AAA, Region II Meet, Jefferson swept all four of the relays that were held. Of the 171 points the Cougars literally amassed, forty of those points came from winning the 4×100, 4×200, 4×400, and 4×800 relays in the meet held last Thursday [...]
Continue reading …Shepherd will hold a large number of sports camps for both boys and girls this summer. Coming in June and July will be camps for boys including basketball, baseball, football, and soccer. Summer camps for girls include softball, basketball, volleyball, and soccer. There will be co-ed soccer camps. For other information or to register for [...]
Continue reading …Shepherd will hold a large number of sports camps for both boys and girls this summer. Coming in June and July will be camps for boys including basketball, baseball, football, and soccer. Summer camps for girls include softball, basketball, volleyball, and soccer. There will be co-ed soccer camps. For other information or to register for [...]
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SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— Both Washington High tennis teams repeated as the Class AAA, Region II champions when they posted lengthy wins at that tournament held last weekend on the courts at both Jefferson and Washington high schools. The Washington girls were crowned Regional titleists for the fourth straight year and the Patriot boys were winning their [...]
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SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— Years ago, headline writers began calling track and field athletes or their teams “thinclads” because they wore shorts and lightweight tops. On Saturday at the Potomac Valley Conference Meet, the Washington girls team was just plain “thin” in numbers . . . but numbers mattered little as the Patriots won their division of [...]
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With Jefferson pitcher Alexandra Witt limiting Washington to six hits and two runs, the Cougars managed a 5-2 win over the Patriots in the first game of a best-of-three softball series that decided the winner of the Class AAA, Region II, Section 1 championship. Witt’s route-going performance had Jefferson just a win away from another [...]
Continue reading …SHENANDOAH JUNCTION— Jefferson showed this year’s wares to the rest of the state when it ran away from the field of over 30 teams at the Gazette Relays in Charleston. Even after the Cougars claimed state championships in both 2010 and 2011, some down-state doubters still remained in their little enclaves. On Saturday, the Cougars [...]
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