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WVU walks off Kentucky to begin regionals

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CLEMSON, S.C. -- After a two-hour and 47-minute delay, West Virginia walked it off in the bottom of the ninth inning to win 4-3 over Kentucky. The Mountaineers third baseman Armani Guzman walked it off in heroic action with a sacrifice fly to send Brodie Kresser home. “He gets a start in ...

Sabins waited turn at WVU, embraces 1st shot at NCAA tourney

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It wasn’t exactly a journey of 1,000 decisions that guided Steve Sabins to West Virginia. Rest assured, there were plenty of steps the WVU baseball coach took that ultimately brought him to Morgantown. Others were made for him. There was one instance where he was ...

Williamstown falls to Central in opening game of regional finals

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BETHANY, W.Va. — Wheeling Central placed itself in the catbird’s seat Thursday afternoon on the scenic campus of Bethany College. The Maroon Knights — in the midst of an amazing season — pocketed the all-important opening game in the best-of-three WVSSAC Class AA Region 1 Tournament ...

Mountaineers proud to have earned national respectability

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MORGANTOWN — Kyle West’s recollection of his conversation with WVU baseball coach went back to the old days. Well, maybe they weren’t the old days, but certainly they were different from the current state of the program. “He was telling me there was a time when you couldn’t pay ...

Marietta, PHS rowers earn gold medals at SRAAs

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PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — Madi Lovejoy and Wilkey Smith probably couldn’t hear Nanna Kehr as they crossed the finish line, but the Parkersburg High School rower was cheering as loud as she could. Kehr, a foreign-exchange student from Denmark, was watching the Marietta High School rowers win ...