By SETH STASKEY For the News-Register WHEELING — The Linsly boys basketball team climbed to the top of the OVAC Class 3A mountain this past winter when it claimed the school’s first conference title since 2012. Two of the key contributors on that team – Caleb Murray and Raef Wykes ...

By KIM NORTH For the News-Register ELM GROVE — After winning its first dozen games of the season, the Martins Ferry softball team tasted defeated for the initial time Thursday at Edison. They didn’t like the taste. Deadlocked with No. 2 seeded Shenandoah at 1 after two-and-a-half ...

By ANDREW GRIMM For the News-Register ELM GROVE — Sydney and Sarah Brown have been hitting the ball well for Oak Glen all season. So, naturally, it was one swing of the bat from each of them that made all the difference in the Golden Bears’ biggest game of the season so far in ...

By CODY NESPOR Sports Writer RICHMOND — You’ve heard of Christmas in July, but how about Valentine’s Day in April? That was the situation at Edison High School Friday night as Cambridge right-hander Jack Valentine tossed a complete-game shutout en route to the Bobcats claiming ...

GLEN DALE — The Monarchs pushed three runs across in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 3-3 tied and score a big 7-3 win over Washington on Friday. Braden Sobukta tossed 4 2/3 innings of two-run ball on the hill for the Monarchs, scattering four hits and three walks while striking ...

By CODY TOMERSports WriterMOUNDSVILLE — John Marshall baseball coach Mark Cisar had a plan three years ago to get schools throughout the Ohio Valley to start a middle school baseball league so that players could play together in the spring and build chemistry together before heading into high ...