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Frank Colalella Charitable Foundation awards scholarships

STEUBENVILLE — The Frank Colalella Charitable Foundation awarded five $1,000 scholarships to area seniors at their awards banquet.  This year’s recipients were Catholic Central’s Matthew Sprochi, Madonna’s Rylee Birkhimer, the Jefferson County JVS’ Leigh Anne Anderson, Brooke’s Rocco Sacripanti and Big Red’s Emily Tuttle. The foundation was formed to honor the legacy of Colabella by friends and teammates. This is the third year that the foundation has awarded scholarships to area seniors.  The foundation has one fundraiser a year,a golf tournament in the ...

Reynolds hits 2-run homer in 9th to lift the Pirates past the Twins, 6-5

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning — after Oneil Cruz hit a mammoth shot early — to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. Reynolds launched a 422-foot shot to left field off Taylor Rogers ...

MLB owners propose a salary cap for the first time since 1994-95 strike

Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected salary cap proposal to the players' association on Thursday, a system the union has vowed never to accept, setting the sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond. Baseball owners hadn't proposed ...

WVU wins regional opener at packed home field

GRANVILLE – Perhaps Ben Lumsden is just made for the spotlight of the NCAA tournament. West Virginia’s senior outfielder would never admit to that, in fact he kind of played the moment off Friday. Still, it was a heck of a moment for Lumsden to try and make routine. In the opening game of the NCAA tournament, Lumsden reached base four times, hit a three-run home run and scored twice in the Mountaineers’ 10-1 victory against Binghamton in front of a sold-out crowd of 4,120 inside Kendrick Family Ballpark. WVU (40-14), which reached 40 wins for the third time in four seasons, ...

WVU AD Wren Baker ‘positive’ about men’s soccer split-season change

MORGANTOWN — Amidst all the college football and basketball news and all the postseason changes, there was some big men's soccer news this spring. The Division I Men's Soccer Oversight Committee adopted legislation changing the men's soccer season into two semesters, which would start on Aug. 1, 2027. The action is supposed to be reviewed by the Division I Cabinet during its June 23-24 meeting. This change still keeps the maximum of 25 games. A max of 18 will be played in the fall, starting in late August and going until the Saturday before Thanksgiving. The spring season would start ...