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Baseball regionals are set in West Virginia

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WEIRTON - The West Virginia high school baseball teams are on the road to Charleston. The teams in the state learned their postseason fates when the regional brackets for all four classes were released Wednesday. The regional tournaments are set to begin Monday with the higher seed hosting the games throughout the tournament. Two teams from each region will advance to the state tournament. Madonna is competing in the Class A Region 1 Tournament. The Blue Dons are the No. 4 seed. Madonna is looking to make a return trip to the state tournament this season. The Blue Dons lost in the ...

Big Red's Reed to run for Tiffin

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Big Red senior Laila Reed recently signed her letter of intent to continue her academic and track and field careers at Tiffin University. Reed plans to major in forensic psychology while competing for the Dragons. Joining Laila, front, center, for the occasion were, front, from left, her ...

Rodriguez talks with ESPN on how WVU football is closing the gap financially

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MORGANTOWN — It's been almost a month since West Virginia football's Gold-Blue Spring Festival, or spring game. That means it's been a month since Rich Rodriguez talked in front of the local media. However, Rodriguez has done some national media appearances and recently sat down for a Q&A with ESPN's Pete Thamel. With Thamel, Rodriguez discussed multiple topics, including quarterback, the roster turnover, freshman Matt Sieg and the new-look defense. But what really stood out, and what Rodriguez brought up a couple of times, was the financial situation WVU is in compared to the rest ...

The PGA Championship has the biggest logjam at a major in 24 years

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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Not many players imagined Aronimink Golf Club and its wild, wavy greens would be so tough on scoring at the PGA Championship. Even fewer would have predicted Alex Smalley and Maverick McNealy to be atop the leaderboard Friday. What to expect the rest of the weekend? Pretty much anything. "Anyone who makes the cut, they've got to feel they have a shot in the tournament," said Rory McIlroy, who found himself only five shots behind with 29 players — including Scottie Scheffler and six other major champions — ahead of him. Two long days at Aronimink ...

Brooke clinches first state tourney berth since 2003

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WELLSBURG — For the first time since 2003, the Brooke softball team is headed to the state tournament. The Bruins pulled away from Grafton Friday evening for a 7-2 victory, their second in the tournament over the Bearcats, clinching their side of the Class AAA, Region 1 bracket and earning ...