WHEELING – After a week of two-a-day practices, the Ohio team – coaches and players alike – are ready to take the field Saturday when they meet West Virginia in the 80th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All Star Football Game. Kickoff inside Wheeling Island Stadium is set for 7:15 p.m. “Like ...
WHEELING – Entering the 80th annual OVAC Rudy Mumley All Star Football Game Saturday night at Wheeling Island Stadium, on paper West Virginia appears to be an underdog once again. However, that’s a role that Mountaineer head coach Chris Daugherty, of Wheeling Park relishes. “I talked a ...
WHEELING — On a hazy day at Wheeling Park High School, one thing was clear when Wheeling Post 1 and Parkersburg Post 15 took to the field Friday: both teams would be going to the West Virginia American Legion state tournament, where two teams from each area advance, but only one would hoist ...
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 ...
