BETHANY – Gian Degenova felt at home Friday night. The Bethany College junior-to-be fired a complete game four-hitter as second-seeded Bethany doubled up No. 4 Barton, 8-4, in Game 1 of the Ohio Valley Baseball League’s best-of-5 championship series despite smoke from the Canadian ...
MARIETTA – One bad inning was all it took to send St. Clairsville Post 159 into the loser’s bracket of the American Legion Baseball Region 4 Tournament Thursday night. Post 159 allowed seven runs in the bottom of the fourth, erasing a 1-0 lead, to Cambridge/Belle Valley Post 84/641 during a 8-4 doubling up at Marietta College’s Pioneer Park. St. Clairsville was scheduled to play an elimination game at 7 Friday night against the Marietta-Beverly/Lowell winner. That winner punched its ticket to the Ohio State Tournament on July 24-27 at Beavers Field in Lancaster as the top two ...
WHEELING – Weather forecasts for Saturday night could put a damper on the festivities surrounding the 80th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All Star Football Game inside Wheeling Island Stadium. According to Game Director Corey Murphy, plans are still intact for the start of the game at 7:15 p.m., but with weather forecasts calling for severe thunderstorms, damaging wind and flash flooding could be possible. “I just talked with a meteorologist that told us there will be two waves (of storms) starting at approximately 5:30 p.m., but they will be moving through pretty quickly,” Murphy ...
WHEELING — The Wheeling Central Catholic High School Athletic Hall of Fame is announcing four more honorees for this year’s HOF induction ceremony. The quartet of Maroon Knight enshrines include Nicole Yahn, Dan Gordon, Aaron Schneid and Chris Martin as part of the Maroon Knight Hall of Fame Class of 2026. They join previously announced honorees Zac Stahl, Mo Mull and Alex Peluchette. Additional honorees will be chronicled next week. All of the freshly-minted Hall of Famers will be feted during the Maroon Knights’ annual Hall of Fame Brunch on Saturday, Sept. 12, sponsored ...
A pair of Wheeling 10 year-olds will highlight the 5th annual Nick and Alice Gaudino Memorial golf tournament to be held at the Bloch Memorial Course at Wheeling Park. The event was rescheduled to Monday, July 20 at noon due to atmospheric conditions in the Wheeling area. The fifth-graders, who are also good friends as well as competitors, will highlight the event. Andrew Bieniek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Bieniek, has distinguished himself by annually successfully competing on the national level in a number of youth golf events. He will be joined by his friend and competitor Luke ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The lineup of sports legends simultaneously on the stage at Fanatics Fest on Friday night was almost absurd. There was Tom Brady, the greatest Super Bowl champion of all time. There was Novak Djokovic, the winner of more men's Grand Slam tennis tournaments than anyone else. ...
