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A West Virginia win

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University played host to the 2024 NCAA Rifle Championship, which it placed second in last weekend.

Both Means and Manoah are questionable for beginning of Major League season

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Former West Virginia University baseball players Alek Manoah and John Means are questionable for the beginning of Major League Baseball’s regular season. The two one-time Mountaineers are pitchers — Means with the again-popular Baltimore Orioles and Manoah with 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 ...

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 ...

In baseball, just how important is pitching?

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Just how important is pitching in the game of baseball? Many baseball experts from Major League managers to general managers to players generally rate pitching anywhere from 60 percent to even a high as 80 percent of the game. Nothing happens in a game until the pitcher ...

Mazzulla has Celtics scoring points and winning games

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Joe Mazzulla was a known commodity when playing basketball at West Virginia University. Known and valued for his knowledge and courage as much as for his on-court skills. He had come to Morgantown as a recruit of Coach John Beilein. His playing days ended as a cerebral ...

Final weeks of season saw Gold Glover Doyle advance hitting skills

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Not exactly a forbidden subject, Major League Baseball rookie Brenton Doyle’s offense still had to take a backseat to his noticeable defensive skills. Doyle had advanced to the big leagues a little ahead of schedule when the Colorado Rockies brought him up from Class AAA ...

Could Doyle receive Gold Glove Award after rookie season?

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Former Shepherd University outfielder Brenton Doyle just completed his rookie season with the Colorado Rockies of the National League with a headfirst slide that helped his team win the season’s finale, 3-2, over playoff-bound Minnesota. Doyle had been placed on second base ...

Omaha is a distant destination for any team from cooler climates

SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Supposedly they all have equal chances to reach college baseball's Holy Grail. But if you are from above the Mason-Dixon Line or the Midwest or Plains, your hopes of somehow claiming the NCAA baseball national championship are diminished. This year, Oral Roberts in Oklahoma ...

50 years haven’t diminished the absolute greatness of ‘Big Red’

SHEPHERDSTOWN -- It's difficult not to gush and almost swoon over the accomplishments of the massive and photogenic chestnut-colored thoroughbred, Secretariat. A half-century has passed by since the nearly invincible head-turner ran off with racing's Triple Crown, setting record times in the ...