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After being swept by Frostburg, Shepherd faces win-happy East Stroudsburg

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Frostburg University’s game-deciding uprising in the ninth inning of the second game played last Friday at Fairfax Field denied host Shepherd University at least getting a split of the non-conference doubleheader the teams played. And the loses left the Rams staring at the ...

Doyle readies for second Major League Baseball season

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Arizona in early March. It’s not broiling hot. It’s not a despotic sun or enervating heat to wither your spirit and resolve. It’s the Cactus League and 15 Major League Baseball teams try to ready for the 162-game Major League season without much fanfare or ...

Tournament road to the West Virginia boys state tournament begins

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Spring Mills High School and Morgantown High School are the state’s winningest boys basketball teams at the big-school level. Morgantown has lost only once and that failure came on the road at Spring Mills. The Cardinals have also lost only once and that came against ...

PSAC’s top tier hasn’t lost to troubled bottom teams

SHEPHERDSTOWN — There seems to be an elite quartet of teams and a troubled group of struggling teams in the ranks of the PSAC men’s basketball teams. East Stroudsburg, Millersville, Lock Haven and West Chester have long ago distanced themselves from the rest of the East Division pack. In ...

Hagerstown builds a stadium, returns to minor league baseball

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Professional baseball makes a return to nearby Hagerstown, Md. for the summer of 2024. It’s an independent team with no Major League Baseball affiliation. Players won’t be assigned to the Flying Boxcars by any big league team. The 26-player roster will be composed of ...

Pinned down

SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Jefferson High School wrestler Michael Graham wins second place in his weight class, as he takes a wrestler from Musselman High School to the ground in the Region Two Wrestling Tournament on Sunday morning at Jefferson High School.

Gold Glover Doyle seeks offensive improvement in second Major League season

SHEPHERDSTOWN — The trained eye can readily tell that one-time Shepherd baseball player Brenton Doyle is becoming more comfortable in the Major League Baseball atmosphere he finds himself in at Salt River Field at Talking Stick, which is the spring training home of the Colorado ...