WILLIAMSTOWN — Head coach Larry Cassady knows his Williamstown girls’ cross country team dodged a huge COVID-19 spoiler in its season last year. He’s even more grateful his stacked Yellowjacket squad took advantage of the situation at season’s end. Junior Ella Hesson placed second in ...
HARTFORD, Ohio — Professional sprint car driver Cale Conley, a Vienna resident, has won plenty of races before. However, his victory on Saturday night had a little more meaning to it, and not just because he pocketed the $7,500 top prize. Conley won the Lou Blaney Memorial, which was part ...
After going undefeated against Washington County competition in the regular season, Warren secured it spot as the county's top team Saturday at Don and Sue Schaly Field at Pioneer Park. The Warriors defeated Waterford 6-2 and Marietta 7-5 in a round-robin style tournament to claim the ...
The Washington County baseball league’s season will wrap up Saturday with a postseason tournament at Don and Sue Schaly Field at Pioneer Park. Warren, Marietta and Waterford will compete in a round-robin tourney with each team playing two games. The team that goes 2-0 will walk away with ...
“Next to the platform is Christina Ullman. This is a state, American, and world record attempt.” Those are words Ullman never expected to hear from a powerlifting meet announcer. At age 49, she didn’t really plan to compete in powerlifting. It just sort of happened. “I was doing ...
PARKERSBURG — There will be high school sports in West Virginia in the fall, but they won’t be during the usual time frames. West Virginia Secondary School Activities Director Bernie Dolan made the announcement during Gov. Jim Justice’s regular COVID-19 press conference Friday inside ...
Jason and Lorie Discini faced one tall climb upon their acceptance of the Parkersburg Catholic tennis head coaching positions. Tennis had never moved the needle at the high school like football, boys basketball and especially girls basketball. Despite the spring sport carving out its fair ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to plenty of change in the sports world, and high school football is no different. Marietta’s Jason Schob and Warren’s Matt Kimes are among thousands of high school football coaches around the country who have had to adjust to new offseason guidelines. Both ...
VINCENT — Seth Dennis pitched four dominant innings, Brett Gandee clubbed a grand slam and Kurt Taylor displayed a gold glove at first base as Warren defeated Marietta in county league action Thursday. Warren took sole possession of first place in the league standings, improving to 4-0 in ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Leewood Molessa is trying to make up for lost time as he prepares to enter his senior year at Williamstown High School. The first-team Class A all-state offensive lineman didn’t get to play baseball this spring for now retired skipper Terry Smith. However, his passion for ...
PARKERSBURG — Dakota Miller, Corbin Alkire and Kail Hill delivered three hits apiece here Wednesday night at City Park as Marietta survived a seven-run fourth inning en route to besting Wood County Legion, 12-8, in what was a scheduled nine-inning showdown between 4-2 programs. Marietta, ...
For Kory Science, patience is a virtue. The Marietta High grad helped form a potent 1-2 punch at running back, along with Chase Taylor, for the Tiger football team last fall. Science now will take his talents to Alderson Broaddus, where he plans to continue his football career and major in ...
MARIETTA — A quartet of overall champions were crowned following the two-day RX and Scaled Crossfit competition known as the 2020 Weld Games. On Friday night, more than four dozen athletes competed at Marietta College’s Don Drumm Stadium to start everything off. The final events of the ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — In the past 20 years the Williamstown football program has done a lot of winning. A streak which dates back to the Yellowjackets’ time in Class AA, first-year grid boss Chris Beck is hoping 21 is indeed a lucky number. Whether or not WHS can reach the postseason again ...
RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. — Passion and vision are a pair of traits Warren Root definitely possesses. The director of golf at Greenhills Country Club since early April, Root was able to hit the ground running with his new job and hasn’t slowed down a bit. “I’m actually in charge of the ...
MARIETTA — After earning All-Ohio First Team honors last season, Marietta High softball pitcher Jillian Middleton couldn’t have foreseen her chance to repeat the feat taken away so swiftly and suddenly. Her pitching numbers from the 2019 fall league with AAU team Outlaw Parsons pointed to ...
VIENNA — Mt. Zion’s Jude Walker was the only solo winner during Saturday’s second Callaway Junior Tour Rookie League series stop at Minibel Par 3. Thanks in part to pars on No. 5 and No. 9, Walker finished with a 38 to capture the double-A division title. During the first event at ...
PARKERSBURG — Two decades ago Brian Haines graduated from Williamstown High School and then continued his gridiron career at Marietta College. To say Haines eats, breathes and sleeps football is far from an understatement and now he’s doing it for Appalachian State University as the ...
BEVERLY — While some kids her age will be relaxing for the summer, CJ Crim will be competing in rodeo on the national stage. Crim was first in breakaway roping and third in team roping at regionals, earning her a berth at nationals. Nationals will take place July 17-23 at Lazy E Area in ...
Fans who have been craving baseball since March will have a chance to watch U-19 Marietta in action at 5:30 p.m. today when the team plays host to New Martinsville. The club is coached by Larry Hiser, the head coach for Marietta Post 64. Because the legion season was officially canceled due ...