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Cole pitches Mountaineers to series win over Texas Tech

MORGANTOWN — After losing a tough series to UCF, No. 17 West Virginia baseball bounced back to beat Texas Tech in a three-game series by winning the rubber match on Sunday in Lubbock. The Mountaineers starter Chansen Cole allowed just two runs and pitched into the ninth inning to secure the third game of the series, 10-2, over the Red Raiders. WVU has won its ninth series on the year with the win. The Mountaineers are now 24-8 on the year and 10-5 in the Big 12. The Red Raiders fell to 20-15 and 6-9 in the conference, but did secure Game 2 over the top 25 squad on Saturday. In ...

Former Pirate great Phil Garner, who managed Astros’ first WS team, dies at 76

HOUSTON (AP) — Phil Garner, a three-time All-Star infielder who went on to manage the Houston Astros to their first World Series appearance, has died. He was 76. Garner’s family issued a statement Sunday saying Garner died Saturday after a two-plus-year battle with pancreatic cancer. “Phil never lost his signature spark of life,” Garner’s son, Ty, said in a statement. “He was so well known for his love for baseball, which was with him until the end.” Nicknamed “Scrap Iron” for his blue-collar approach to the game, Garner had a 16-year playing career with the ...

Busch, Cubs overcome five-run deficit to beat Pirates, 7-6

CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Busch ended an 0-for-30 slide with a tying, two-run single in the eighth inning and Carson Kelly had a winning single in the ninth as the Chicago Cubs overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6 on Sunday. Brandon Lowe hit a grand slam and a solo homer off Jameson Taillon, and Oneil Cruz homered leading off the game for Pittsburgh, which led 5-0 before third-inning solo homers by Dansby Swanson and Moises Ballesteros against Bubba Chandler. Lowe’s fifth-inning homer boosted Pittsburgh’s lead to 6-2 but Chicago closed on Alex Bregman’s ...

Lady Tigers coast past TV

HUTTONSVILLE — Braelynn Washington had four RBIs as Elkins coasted to a 20-1 win over Tygarts Valley on Friday night. Meria Tarley added three RBIs, going 3 for 5, Hailey Riffle went 2 for 3 with a pair of RBIs and Maddie Lambert, Zeya Price and Maddie Shreve collected two RBIs apiece ...

Teter powers Bulldogs to win; Colts fall to GW

MILL CREEK — Caleb Teter drove in five runs to power Tygarts Valley to a 16-1 victory over Richwood on Friday. Teter had a bases-clearing single and RBI single in the second inning as the Bulldogs plated eight runs to build a 9-1 lead. They tracked on seven more in the third as the game ended due to the 10-run mercy rule. Austin Gear tallied an RBI double in the first for Tygarts Valley and Austin Wilson and Austin George RBI doubles in the third. Teter, Wilson, Gear and Cooper Markley all had two hits for the Bulldogs. Zayden Defibaugh went all three frames to garner the ...

WVU making progress for short-yardage situations, adding size, experience

MORGANTOWN — One of the lasting images to come from West Virginia football’s 4-8 season and Rich Rodriguez’s return was after the Arizona State game, where he showed a foot with his hands, saying they needed this much and couldn’t get it. Being physical and getting that extra ...