SHEPHERDSTOWN — With the Area championship under its tournament belt, the Jefferson Little League 10-12 year-olds qualified for the West Virginia state tournament in Lewisburg. Jefferson had stopped Hedgesville, 10-0, in four innings when Liam Sager fashioned a two-hitter with eight ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — After defeating a Brave Old Army Team with a nifty bowl comeback to complete the muddled 2020 season, what will be ahead from the fast-approaching West Virginia University football schedule? The newly instituted “transfer portal” has seen departures away from Morgantown ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Throughout history, the Shenandoah River has never been able to toot its own horn. Folk singer John Denver gave us a lyric or two about the leisurely stroll the river makes in his beloved “Country Roads.” And the western movie with the moniker “Shenandoah” opened just ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Reduced to 20 rounds this year, the Major League Baseball draft of amateur players was held from July 11-13 and was welcomed news for five players either from West Virginia University or Shepherd University. The player receiving the best news and the largest bonus if he signs ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — College baseball players have returned to the Valley Baseball League in Virginia for the two-month summer season. The infamous pandemic eliminated the 2020 season. But now the league has made its own comeback of sorts, playing a 42-game schedule before a quick round of ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — For some reason, once the 100-plus degree temperature finally moderated in the interior of the northwest, professional minor league outfielder Brenton Doyle began to consistently get his hits and hiked his 2021 season’s batting average to .268. Doyle, who began his ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — The picturesque Hudson River below its cliffs. In the fall, pastel-colored leaves rising on the slopes above its campus. History behind every tree and campus symbol. It’s West Point in New York state, home of the United States Military Academy or Army West Point as the ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Standing 6-feet-6. Weighing about 268 pounds. Huge black beard in place above his tattooed right arm — the right arm that earned him a $4,547,500 signing bonus from the Toronto Blue Jays, when he was selected as the 11th overall pick in the first round of the 2019 Major ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — It wasn’t karma. And it wasn’t the old saying, “what goes around, comes around.” One of the old Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s might have said, “it’s a game of inches” or “wait ‘til next year.” Jefferson High School just couldn’t avoid the head-shaking ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — David Bradshaw, the former Jefferson High School and Shepherd University golfer, was back in the state last week for his annual run at winning the West Virginia Open golf title. That he was successful was a surprise to no one. In carding a five-under par score for his three ...
