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Wheeling Central wins Class A Champions Cup titles

he WVSSAC has announced the Class A winners of The Health Plan Champions Cup, recognizing the top-performing high schools for excellence in both athletics and academics. Wheeling Central Catholic swept both the boys and girls competitions. The Health Plan Champions Cup honors the leading ...

Miners lose close AAL title game

WHEELING – Columbus and Wheeling met twice during the regular season of the American Arena League with the Lions prevailing by a total of three points. Saturday night inside WesBanco Arena, the Georgia-based outfit defeated the Miners, 49-46, to capture the AAL championship. Wheeling ...

St. C pulls away from Post 33

STEUBENVILLE — Miscues leading to a big inning have been a thorn in the side of the youthful Post 33 baseball team all summer. On Saturday, St. Clairsville Post 159's older, more experienced ball club was able to take advantage of both. The visitors from Belmont County took full ...

White Sox hope No. 1 pick in the draft spells sure thing in Chicago

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Expected to go as the first pick in the amateur draft, Roch Cholowsky submitted a video to Major League Baseball with the correct pronunciation of his last name. For the record, the name is pronounced chil-OW'-skee. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred still botched the pronunciation of Cholowsky's name at the podium Saturday when the Chicago White Sox indeed made the UCLA shortstop the No. 1 pick of the draft. No harm done, Cholowsky insisted. "I didn't hear it get butchered," Cholowsky said. "I heard Roch and kind of lost it." Cholowsky burst into tears at ...