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All-East District Baseball

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All-East District Baseball Teams Local Honorees Division V First Team: Witten Schaad, Morgan Second Team: Aaron Baker, Morgan; McGuire Winner, Morgan Honorable Mention: Lucas Huger, Morgan Division VI Coach of the Year: Trey Engle, Fort Frye Pitcher of the Year: Grady Hesson First Team: Kainan Bradford, Fort Frye; Grady Hesson, Fort Frye; Preston Binegar, Monroe Central; Mason Landefeld, Monroe Central; Caedyn Silva, Monroe Central; Cameron Sidwell, Caldwell; Jake Laswell, Caldwell; Kyler Starr, Caldwell Second Team: Jack McCurdy, Fort Frye; Chatum Courson, Fort Frye; ...

COLUMN: What? No program?

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I, myself, am an avid Mountain State high school wrestling enthusiast. Every year I look forward to acquiring a souvenir program from the state tournament. This year I was informed that there would be no more programs sold at the state tournament. Asking why, I was told that the cost of printing the programs was too expensive, and now you could only visit the WVSSAC website to see a digital state program. Did you know that? I was very disappointed, and you should be disheartened by this change as well. In the past, the state wrestling tournament program cost five dollars, which was ...

MC pitcher earns D3 All-American honor

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Marietta College junior pitcher Austin Ziance earned a spot on the 2026 D3baseball.com All-America team Thursday morning earning a spot on the fifth team. Ziance is the 149th All-American selection in program history and the first since 2023. "Austin has worked very hard to make himself one ...

Hesson, Cadets blank Redskins in district semi

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BEVERLY – Fort Frye starting pitcher Grady Hesson came into Thursday evening’s D-6 district semi-final against the Caldwell Redskins sporting an incredible 0.39 earned run average on the season. The only way the Cadet junior could lower that minuscule ERA would be to shut out the Caldwell Redskins for the third time this season and that is exactly what the Fort Frye ace did as he scattered five base hits and the Cadets blanked Caldwell 6-0 to advance to the district championship game. Hesson had shut out the Redskins at home and away in the regular season on games that were ...

Etta Express duo named All-Region

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Marietta College placed two players on the 2026 ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Team Tuesday morning. Pitcher Austin Ziance was named to the second team and outfielder Michael Ciavolella was named to the third team. Ziance was also named to the D3baseball.com All-Region third team. Ziance, a ...