WHEELING — Cooper Blair has faced more adversity and obstacles than most could say they have. However, with the mindset Blair has, it would give anyone the motivation to get out there and run a lap on the track. Blair, a freshman member of Wheeling Central’s track team, runs the 100 and ...
MORGANTOWN — Colton McKivitz is one of the most veteran players on the West Virginia football roster. The fifth-year senior has already made 35 career starts along the Mountaineers offensive line. Despite that type of on-field experience, McKivitz said spring football, which concluded ...
BRIDGEPORT — It’s been nearly two years since the 100-year-old home bleachers at Bill Jobko Stadium in Brookside were declared unsafe after an inspection by M&G Architects on Wheeling. Bridgeport High School was forced to play its 2018 ‘home’ games at the Dave Bruney Football ...
PITTSBURGH — Buster Posey kept insisting the longest homerless drought of his career wasn’t weighing on him even as days turned into weeks and weeks stretched into months. The San Francisco Giants catcher believed if he simply kept showing up for work, then the ball would eventually find ...
CLEVELAND — Josh Donaldson had two homers and four RBIs, Freddie Freeman added three hits and the Atlanta Braves pounded Cleveland’s pitching for the second straight night, beating the Indians 11-5 Sunday. Donaldson belted a solo homer in the first and followed with a three-run shot in ...
BIG SCHOOL Alex Vargo Junior, Wheeling Park To keep things simple for Wheeling Park’s Alex Vargo, the kid can flat out play basketball. And not only was he one of the best players in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference, he was one of the best players in West Virginia. During his junior ...
GLEN DALE — Cameron coach Matt Carnahan knows that if the bottom of his lineup can get on base, his team can do some damage. As a matter of fact it was those hitters who provided a spark for the Dragons on Saturday during a OVAC 1A semifinal matchup against Conotton Valley. Zane Clutter ...
WHEELING — Coach Fred Heatherington and his Big Red baseball team were not worried about the magnitude of playing in an OVAC tournament game or about avenging an earlier season loss against Wheeling Park. They simply wanted to play their game. His players made sure they did. Steubenville ...
BARNESVILLE — The third and fourth innings of Saturday evening’s OVAC Class 3A baseball semifinal presented both Barnesville and Union Local with an opportunity to get the upper hand on snapping what was a 1-1 deadlock. In the two innings combined, the Shamrocks put six runners on base, ...
SHADYSIDE — Temperatures are climbing and times are dropping. Such was the case Saturday at sun-drenched Fleming Field for the 48th running of the Shadyside Relays. With the OVAC Cal Giffin Track Championship slated to begin qualifying rounds two weeks from Monday, area teams got another ...
PITTSBURGH — Cole Tucker’s day began with him frantically packing up what he could in his Indianapolis apartment in the middle of the night, grabbing a 5 a.m. flight to Pittsburgh with fellow Pirates call-up Bryan Reynolds and trying not to be overwhelmed by the prospect of his major league ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Joel Embiid had 31 points and 16 rebounds, and passed to Mike Scott for the go-ahead 3-pointer with 18 seconds left as the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Brooklyn Nets 112-108 on Saturday to take a 3-1 series lead. Embiid also had a flagrant foul that led to a scuffle and two ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicklas Backstrom needed five games to match his goal output from the entire 2018 playoffs, and he and Alex Ovechkin have the defending Stanley Cup champion Capitals one victory away from the second round. Backstrom had two goals and two assists, Ovechkin had a goal and ...
WHEELING — It’s a long journey from Benwood to Nashville via New York. But it is one that Travis Tellitocci has navigated quite successfully. The Bishop Donahue High School graduate continued his academic career at Marist University. After picking up his college diploma in 2004 from the ...
WEST LIBERTY — The West Liberty University football team brought down the curtain on a productive spring with an entertaining Black and Gold scrimmage Saturday afternoon before a strong turnout at sun-splashed West Family Stadium. The Black (offense) prevailed by a 36-27 count over the Gold ...
WHEELING — The Wheeling Oglebay Tennis Club will present the spring session of Millie Mulhern Youth Tennis beginning on Tuesday, May 7 and running through Sunday, June 2. All practices and matches will be held at the Hilltop Tennis Facility at Wheeling Park, thanks to the generosity of the ...
Keondre’ King is heading for West Virginia University Tech to continue his academic and athletic careers. In his time at Wheeling Park, King collected 1,069 career points. As a senior, he helped the Patriots to the OVAC 5A champioinship game and the W.Va. Class AAA Regional Final. In ...
RICHMOND — Edison scored five runs in the sixth inning en route to a 6-0 victory over Cambridge in an OVAC Class 4A semifinal matchup. The Wildcats will ace off against the winner of Meadowbrook and St. Clairsville. The Red Devils and Colts will play Monday. George Ash went the distance ...