BEVERLY — The Fort Frye baseball team is off to an 11-1 start this spring, and nobody is enjoying the Cadets’ success more than senior Dawson Layton. Layton, who earned the pitching win in Fort Frye’s 6-3 win over Williamstown Friday, is in his third year on the Cadets’ varsity ...
Something strange in the air Saturday. High school basketball for Ohio teams in the Mid-Ohio Valley felt it. Marietta College felt it. I felt it. Seven teams seeking to advance in a postseason setting. Throw in a couple of amazing finishes on the national scene and you have the perfect storm. Noon: Checked in on a nationally-televised college men’s game featuring a school from hometown area of Iowa City, Iowa. Michigan State at Iowa. Iowa falls behind by 13 with less than two minutes in regulation. Announcers basically calling it in and referring to the next game for both ...
Saturday is shaping up to be one of the busiest days in recent memory as far as local sports are concerned. Five Washington County high school basketball teams will be looking to cut down nets, both Marietta College hoops squads are hoping to pull off upsets while area wrestlers are set to begin sectional tournament competition. Starting with girls basketball, Fort Frye and Waterford both are one win away from reaching the Sweet 16 in their respective divisions. The Cadets will take on Union Local at 1 p.m. at Zanesville High School in a Division III East District championship, ...
PARKERSBURG — Regardless of the departures, there are no shoes to fill. As the Class AA defending state champions, the Parkersburg Catholic girls basketball team is about to embark on creating their own identity. Creating their own legacy. One full week into preseason practices, the ‘Crusaderette 10’ have pushed the reset button just like PCHS teams of the past which have combined for 10 state titles since the first team was established 50 years ago. The formula works. “As special as last year’s team was, it wasn’t just about a one and done deal,” Marty Vierheller, who ...
Players from Fort Frye and Linsly earned their degrees in drama last Friday on homecoming night at Cadet Stadium in Beverly. Behind the main storylines were numerous subplots as Linsly pulled off a 41-38 victory after Santiago Graneros kicked a 40-yard field goal with 1:08 remaining in ...
Not to make you feel like an under achiever — but — if you are reading this you are likely not at this moment running in the News and Sentinel Half Marathon, particularly if you are reading it when most people do, early Saturday morning. For literary purposes I am going to assume that you are reading it at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug 20. Thirty minutes ago, hundreds of men and women started the News and Sentinel Half Marathon, thereby returning long distance racing to the streets of Parkersburg for the first time since 2019. The fastest runners are making their way up and ...
