HUNTINGTON — The South Charleston Black Eagles used a nine-run fourth inning to blow open a close game and cruised to an 11-0 win in four innings over Huntington on the Highlanders senior night Thursday.
RED JACKET — Mingo Central High School will be looking for a new football coach this coming season after Joey Fields resigned from that position late this week.
Alex Jarrell struck out 13 en route to a two-hit shutout as South Charleston blanked visiting Riverside 8-0 Thursday in prep baseball.
Score round one in Class AAA Region 3’s Kanawha Valley rivalry for Riverside.
Hurricane softball standout Caiti Mathes hit three home runs to go with four RBIs and the Redskins stayed undefeated with a 8-0 blanking of South Charleston on the road Wednesday.
Charleston Catholic golfer Nate DeTemple will continue his athletic career at the Division I level, after signing Wednesday to play at High Point University in High Point, North Carolina.
WINFIELD — It wasn’t always a flawless performance for Winfield, but when the Generals absolutely, positively needed a pitch, a putout or a well-placed hit, they delivered.
HUNTINGTON — It’s been a wild 36 hours for both the Cabell Midland and Ironton (Ohio) high school football programs.
Johnny Barker, who called sports events in Charleston for nearly 60 years and was widely regarded as “the Voice of Laidley Field,’’ died Monday at the age of 88 following several years of declining health.
Jake Carr went 2 for 3 with a home run, a double and three RBIs as host St. Albans beat Capital 11-1 in five innings Tuesday in prep baseball.
It would be a bit unfair to call the season Hurricane junior shortstop Caiti Mathes turned in last year a disappointment.
BECKLEY — Trey Doomes and Jordan McCabe came a long way to participate in Saturday’s Scott Brown Classic, but they made the most of their venture to West Virginia.
HUNTINGTON — As Chapmanville head coach Brad Napier took the podium following the Tigers’ 69-60 win in the Class AA Championship, he couldn’t help but smile.
BECKLEY — The best players from Class AA’s best teams were at their best on Saturday during the opening game of the Scott Brown Classic.
Hurricane used a six-run second inning to put away Woodrow Wilson 15-4 in five innings Saturday in prep baseball.
HURRICANE – Hurricane celebrated the careers of four seniors Friday who have helped push the program to a 119-8 mark and three state championships over the last three-plus seasons.
Several Kanawha Valley boys basketball standouts, as well as WVU and Marshall recruits, are scheduled to participate in Saturday’s Scott Brown Memorial Classic at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center.
Over the course of three games in two days against both Class AA state title game combatants from a year ago, Nitro coach Greg Garber learned a lot about just how far his team had come.
HUNTINGTON — The wind blew hard to right field at Huntington High School’s softball field Thursday.
For the first three years of his Winfield High baseball career, Brett Morris felt the pressure of trying to succeed. Yet it was when he let that pressure melt away that the success he sought came to him.
ONA — Coaches will often downplay a big contest because they don’t want a team to get tight or nerves to set in prior to a game.
Autumn Elswick enjoyed playing for Mitch Jacobs’ high school travel team so much that, when the chance came to keep playing for Jacobs in college, it was a no-brainer.