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Red Riders outlast Big Red in five sets

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WEIRTON — Mental toughness has been a point of emphasis recently for the Weir High volleyball team. The Red Riders showed a lot of it on Thursday night. In a back and forth battle with a visiting Big Red team that had more than double Weir’s win total, coach Fran Capaldi’s group put ...

Beall nets 100th goal, Big Red ties Weir High

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STEUBENVILLE — One hundred goals and counting. Big Red senior standout Bailee Beall tallied the 100th goal of her illustrious career with 10:25 left in the match against Weir High to salvage a 1-1 tie in girls’ soccer action Thursday night on Reno Saccoccia Field inside Harding ...

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Weir wins Hancock County Cup NEW CUMBERLAND — The Weir High golf team topped its county foes to close the regular season on Thursday. The Red Riders won the inaugural Hancock County Cup event at Woodview. They shot a team score of 148, defeating Oak Glen (183) and Madonna (235). ...

WVU prepared to play in tough environment on the road at BYU

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Thursday, West Virginia gets on the plane and travels 1,738 miles to Provo, Utah, for its sixth game, and its third road game of the season. It’s by far the farthest WVU’s traveled this season, with the other road games being at Ohio and at Kansas. There’s a significant time change, ...

Tigers beat Guardians 6-3 to win Wild Card Series, reach the ALDS

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Dillon Dingler hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning, Wenceel Pérez drove in a pair of runs in a four-run seventh and the Detroit Tigers defeated the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 on Thursday in the deciding Game 3 of their AL Wild Card Series. It is the second straight ...

Guardians unable to maintain momentum in Wild Card Series loss

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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians staged the largest in-season comeback in MLB history, claiming the American League Central Division title after trailing Detroit by 15 1/2 games in early July and by 11 games in early September. That momentum didn’t carry over into the ...