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RCB edges Tigers; Bucs, Bulldogs roll

ELKINS — Robert C. Byrd plated two runs in the fourth inning to hold off Elkins, 5-4, Saturday in Big 10 Conference action. The Tigers (4-7) had taken a 3-2 lead in the third inning as Blayne Thompson and Owen Stanley delivered RBI singles and Trent Stone cracked an RBI double. Jaxson Maglowski earned the win for the Flying Eagles, going the distance and allowing just one earned run on seven hits, striking out six and walking one. Dyer Barger took the loss in a complete-game outing, scattering eight hits and fanning 10. Stanley finished with two RBIs in the loss. Elkins ...

EHS softball earns win; Lady Bulldogs swept

ELKINS — Gabby Mahanes had three hits, including a solo homer, and Braelynn Washington and Zeya Price three RBIs each as Elkins celebrated Senior Day with a 15-0 win over Pocahontas County Saturday at Betty Heckel Field. Mahanes also cracked a triple and double on the day. She finished ...

Tygart Valley Little League Celebrates Opening Day

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 ...