Ninth-seeded Mountain Ridge continued its strong playoff push by beating 12th-seeded Smithsburg 9-4 for its third win in as many days Thursday afternoon at Frostburg State University.

Tyler Smearman and Neal Eshleman homerd in a five-run third inning and Bishop Walsh rolled past Washington Christian, 16-4, in the first round of the Maryland Class B Private Schools State Tournament on Thursday.

Jeff Crosten celebrated senior night by hitting a two-run home-run in the first inning that sparked the Hornets offense in a 10-run win over Southern Fulton.

Tyler Stevens outdueled Matt Sisler as Mountain Ridge, the only team to defeat Northern during the regular season, repeated the feat in the Maryland 1A West Region quarterfinals with a 3-2 win Wednesday afternoon.

Second-seeded Clear Spring put on a slugging display before the game and then during the game when it counted, clouting four home runs to defeat seventh-seeded Allegany in six innings in the Class 1A West Region quarterfinals.

Mike Godissart hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning and Chestnut Ridge held off a late Hyndman rally.

Cody Ellsworth homered and singled twice, and Matt Leasure doubled home the go-ahead run in a four-run fifth inning that rallied seventh-seeded Allegany to a 7-6 win over 10th-seeded Poolesville in their Class 1A West Region playoff game at a sunny Campobello on Tuesday.

Mountain Ridge, clinging to a 6-5 lead after five innings, erupted for six runs in the sixth and held off Southern over the final two innings to advance in the Class 1A West Region playoffs.

Bo Crites had two hits and knocked in four runs in an eight-run fourth inning that powered Moorefield past East Hardy 9-4 in the Class A, Region 2, Section 4 championship game Tuesday evening.

Hyndman kept its playoff hopes alive Thursday by forcing a split of a doubleheader with McConnellsburg Thursday evening.

Pendleton County wasted little time in going after the West Virginia Class A Region 2, Section 3 title when the Wildcats scored five times in the first inning of a 7-1 win over Tucker County.

Frankfort's Patrick Marchetti came through with a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the seventh inning to even the best-of-three regional playoff series with a 10-9 win over Berkeley Springs Tuesday at Frankfort.

Allegany broke a 8-8 tie with five runs in the top of the 10th inning and secured a 4-0 record in the City by beating Fort Hill, 13-9, in a wild high school baseball game Wednesday at Legion Field.

Payne Turner homered leading off the third inning, and Bishop Walsh scored three times in the fifth to take a 5-3 lead and beat Southern by the same score Wednesday at Al Martin Field.

Anthony Hillegas pitched five innings of relief, giving up no runs or hits as Salisbury beat Shanksville 4-3.

Northern needed only five innings to beat Fort Hill Wednesday in the final game of the season for the Sentinels.

Northern scored eight runs despite leaving 12 men on base Tuesday evening as the Huskies wrapped up the Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference with a 8-2 win over Fort Hill.

It seems a few days was all the Allegany Campers needed. After rain suspended their meeting with Bishop Walsh with the Campers down 4-0, Allegany scored four times in its first at-bat on Tuesday to tie and eventually pull ahead of the Spartans. The Campers would then go on to win 9-5 and secure the City championship from the defending champs at Allegany High School.

Mountain Ridge scored six times in innings four through six to hand Allegany a 9-3 loss immediately following the Allegany-Bishop Walsh contest.

Petersburg avalanched eight runs onto Keyser during the late innings of their first-round playoff contest to end the Golden Tornado's season Tuesday.

Musselman scored in the bottom of the seventh inning to steal a win from Hampshire Tuesday in the first game of the best-of-three West Virginia Class AAA Region 2, Section 1 Playoffs.

Tucker scored four runs in the fourth inning to tie the score, but Pendleton scored eight over its next three at-bats to advance to the championship of the West Virginia Class A Region 2, Section 3 playoffs with the win.

Allegany scored three times in the seventh inning to open up a 1-0 game hand Mountain Ridge just its second loss of the year.

Trey Beasom worked a complete game, and escaped danger in the sixth and seventh innings to lead top-ranked Northern to a 5-4 win over Southern Monday evening at Southern High School.

Chandler Tomlinson allowed only four hits and had three himself, including a home run, to lead the Bishop Walsh Spartans over Hancock Monday afternoon at Bishop Walsh School.

Petersburg took advantage of eight walks, and several wild pitches from the Keyser pitching staff to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series in the opening round of the West Virginia Region 2, Section 2 Playoffs.

The Allegany junior varsity team won two games over the weekend to improve to 10-5 with its final game of the season coming up today.

Allegany took a 7-0 lead after the second inning, but needed to tack on even more runs later to stay comfortable in a 12-6 win over Frankfort in a game that followed the completion of a suspended game from earlier in the year.

Mike Moyer had three singles and a double, and Tre Smith doubled to lead the Fort Hill junior varsity to a win over the Bedford jayvees Friday.

Jason Ashby had a day most players only dream of having and Southern scored 10 runs in the second inning of each game as the Rams swept Keyser, 16-7 and 16-3, in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference doubleheader at Southern.

Matt Sisler and Trey Beasom combined on a four-hit shutout with 10 strikeouts, and top-ranked Northern struck for nine runs in its final three at-bats in a victory over Bishop Walsh at Al Martin Field.

Eric Phares singled home Noah Sites to break a tie game in the seventh inning and send Petersburg to a 6-5 win over fourth-ranked Pendleton County.

A.J. Saweikis pitched a six-hit complete-game, throwing 86 pitches, striking out seven and walking just the first batter he faced to lead Calvary Christian Academy over Cumberland in a Mason-Dixon Christian Conference game at Cumberland Valley.

Trailing 10-5, the Hyndman Hornets scored seven runs in the sixth inning to forge ahead and hold the lead in a come-from-behind victory over Forbes Road.

Demtreous Taylor fired a two-hit shutout and struck out seven as Allegany blanked Fort Hill in their junior varsity baseball game.

Bishop Walsh scored a run in the sixth inning on a line-single by Neal Eshelman, but the story of the day was right-hander Chris Stein, who pitched a masterful one-hitter after taking a perfect game into the sixth inning, as the Bishop Walsh Spartans defeated the Mountain Ridge Miners, 1-0, Wednesday at Al Martin Field.

Jami Rohrbaugh belted a three-run triple that highlighted Petersburg's seven-run fifth inning, sending the Vikings over third-ranked East Hardy Wednesday evening at Petersburg High School.

No. 4 Pendleton left nothing to the imagination Wednesday as the Wildcats combined for 24 runs and 27 hits, while allowing no runs and four hits sweeping Tucker County.

Jason Ashby and Tommie Reams both hit home runs, and Southern survived a six-run fourth inning by Frankfort to win Wednesday during a AMAC contest in Oakland.

A four-run inning proved to be all that Meyersdale would need in the Red Raiders win over Fort Hill Wednesday.

Ryan Reddinger tossed a two-hitter, and struck out 10 in five innings as Mountain Ridge beat Bishop Walsh in six innings Wednesday in Frostburg.

Andy Umbel and Justin Shaw each had two hits and three RBIs to help Northern defeat Allegany Wednesday at Northern High School.

Tyler McCain singled home the game-winning run in a two-run seventh inning in the first game, and an 11-run first inning all but took care of the second as the Hedgesville swept Keyser, 13-12 and 20-12, in high school baseball on Saturday.

Brett Raines homered, doubled and knocked in four runs in fourth-ranked Pendleton County's rout of visiting Harman in a Potomac Valley Conference game on Saturday.

Mason Stevens hit a two-run home run as two-time defending champion Altoona knocked off Bishop Walsh 8-3 in a consolation game of the Dean Patterson Curve Classic Saturday at Blair County Ballpark.

Ryan Sweitzer scored Jake Briley with a fifth-inning single that broke a 3-3 and lifted Southern past Frankfort in an AMAC game.

Mountain Ridge took the first one, 7-2, and Southern took the second one, 6-3, as the AMAC junior varsity squads split a twinbill Saturday at Broadford Park.

Jeff Crosten needed just 26 pitches to beat Turkeyfoot as he got plenty of help from his offense a win over Turkeyfoot that took only three innings.

Third-ranked Moorefield scored 43 runs on 38 hits Friday during a 22-6, 21-2 sweep of Tygarts Valley Friday night in high school baseball.

Brandon Raines went 4-for-4 to lead Pendleton County past visiting Philip Barbour.

Derek Ebersole doubled home the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth and Scott Hamilton pitched a scoreless bottom half as Central beat Bishop Walsh in a 14-13 marathon on the opening day of the Dean Patterson Curve Classic at Blair County Ballpark.

Kevin Hupe led Allegany by pitching a complete game and collecting two hits at the plate in the Campers win over Fort Hill in junior varsity baseball.

Corey Proietti fired a two-hitter and Keyser scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to defeat Petersburg 3-1 Thursday evening at John Kruk Field.

Trey Beasom pitched a complete game and hit a grand slam home run to lead top-ranked Northern over fifth-ranked Allegany in Thursday's Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference contest at Northern.

Mark Watson twirled a three-hitter and Tygarts Valley scored five runs in the fourth inning to defeat East Hardy in a Potomac Valley Conference game.

Cody Weese had two hits, two runs scored and two runs batted in to lead visiting Frankfort past Moorefield.

Kody Boyer had three hits, Shane Malloy drove in three runs, and winning pitcher Scott Rice added a pair of hits in Fort Hill's victory at Hampshire.

Tussey Mountain, the top-rated team in the district, scored seven runs in the second inning to defeat Hyndman in five innings Thursday.

Dan Alkire singled home the go-ahead run during a three-run fifth inning to lift Frankfort past Fort Hill Wednesday.

Cody Ellsworth did just about everything Wednesday afternoon at Al Martin Field, where the fifth-ranked Campers shut out Bishop Walsh 4-0 to move to the top of the Cumberland City League standings.

Six Mountain Ridge batters hit safely in a five-run sixth inning that snapped a tie game as the Miners ended top-ranked Northern's 11-game winning streak and handed the Huskies their first loss, 8-4, Wednesday evening at the Armory.

Second-ranked East Hardy scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to come-from-behind to defeat Keyser Wednesday evening at East Hardy High School.

Trevor Sites and Ethan Reynolds combined for six hits and Josh Stickley fired a five-inning shutout as Moorefield overpowered Tucker County Wednesday evening.

Three Pendleton pitchers combined to allow no earned runs as the Wildcats swept Tygarts Valley Wednesday, needing only 10 innings to take two from its Potomac Valley Conference foe.

Seth Hinebaugh homered and Derek Taylor threw six solid innings and added two hits of his own to lift Southern past visiting Hampshire in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic League game.

Hyndman erupted for six runs in the sixth inning but a poor defensive game and a strong relief effort by Anthony Gardill helped Chestnut Ridge rally for a victory.

Ryan Bennett and Jeremy Sharpless hit home runs and Southern rallied from six down to beat Hampshire in junior varsity play.

The Bishop Walsh Spartans will face Central, of Martinsburg, Pa., in their opening round game in the Dean Patterson Curve Classic, a three-day high school baseball tournament that begins Friday.

Willie Powell singled home Jake Foreman in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift Hancock to a 5-4 win over Paw Paw Tuesday evening.

East Hardy hit three home runs as the Cougars took the first game of a doubleheader with Pocahontas 10-0, but struggled in the second as the teams spilt Tuesday night.

Northern's junior varsity team won its seventh game of the season Tuesday by handing Bishop Walsh a loss.

Playing in the shadow of the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame, Pendleton County took on two of the biggest and best teams in the state of West Virginia Saturday and walked away with a split.

Colton Jones belted a base hit on a 3-and-2 count that scored Scott Smith and lifted Keyser over Musselman 11-10 in the second game of a doubleheader, giving the Golden Tornado a split against the Appleman Saturday afternoon.

Skyler Minke bounced a single over the third baseman’s head that scored Dan Alkire and lifted Frankfort to a split of two nine-inning games with Hedgesville.

Steve Holtschneider struck out 12 while allowing only three hits as Northern took the first game of a doubleheader with Meyersdale 8-6.

Bishop Walsh put together a big inning to win the first game, and Hampshire did the same in taking the second in a doubleheader at Al Martin Field.

Trevor Sites and Bo Crites homered in the seventh inning to lift third-ranked Moorefield past second-ranked East Hardy 7-5 Friday night.

Sean Collette hit a grand slam, and Allegany avoided a late-inning collapse to beat Fort Hill and win its first City League game of the season.

Errors caught up with Paw Paw Friday afternoon as the Pirates committed 10 of them in an eight-inning loss to the Panthers.

Justin Combs raced home on a wild pitch in the top of the eighth inning to break a tie game and send Hampshire past third-ranked Moorefield.

Mountain Ridge remained undefeated by outlasting Frankfort in a game that began as a pitchers duel, but escalated in the later innings as the Miners won by three runs.

Trey Beasom and Patrick Brady hit RBI doubles and top-ranked Northern got out of a bit of a jam in the seventh inning to beat Bishop Walsh, 4-3, and remain undefeated Thursday afternoon.

Starting pitcher Jeff Conley drove in three runs to lead Frankfort over fourth-ranked Keyser Thursday afternoon at Keyser High School.

Sean Fazenbaker homered and singled, and Josh Neilson won a pitcher's duel with Jason Ashby as visiting Mountain Ridge edged Southern in an AMAC game.

Nick Corbett fired a one-hitter and aided his cause with a pair of hits to power Paw Paw past Salisbury.

Jesse Minnick scored on a passed ball to break a tie game in the seventh and lift Hyndman past Southern Fulton.

Jordan Marshall went 3-for-4 with a home run as Allegany overpowered Bishop Walsh in their junior varsity baseball game at Al Martin Field.

Derek Taylor and Cody Parsons teamed on a one-hitter and Southern shut out Petersburg, 7-0, on Wednesday at Southern.

Already ahead 7-2, East Hardy added seven more runs in the fourth inning on its way to a 14-3 win over Shenandoah Valley Wednesday.

Tyler Sweitzer and Jeremy Sharpless combined to two-hit Petersburg in Southern's 10-0, six-inning, victory over the Vikings Wednesday.

Top-ranked Northern remained undefeated and atop the Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference with a pair of wins over Frankfort Tuesday evening in Accident.

Mike Twigg singled in the go-ahead run and dominated on the mound as Berkeley Springs handed East Hardy its second straight loss.

Bishop Walsh and Fort Hill needed extra innings to decide their second meeting of the season, and the Spartans came through in the eighth for a sweep of the season series.

Pendleton and Paw Paw tok part in both a pitcher's duel and a slugfest, and the Wildcats came out on top in both, 3-2 and 8-4 in a Potomac Valley Conference doubleheader.

Broadfording scored three runs in the fourth inning, and then helped secure the win by adding three more in the seventh in a win over host Calvary.

Alex Weisenmmiller hit two doubles and Jeremy Kunis and Chris Barton had two singles to lead Fort Hill past Bishop Walsh in junior varsity baseball.

Joe Risbon pitched allowed only two hits and struck out seven in a five-inning shutout of Hyndman.

Pendleton County busted the score open with a seven-run second inning against Pocahontas in a PVC game Monday.

Top-ranked Northern relied on two big innings and the pitching of Matt Sisler to defeat Keyser 10-2 Monday at Northern High School.

Todd Thorne doubled on a 2-2 count with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to lift Hampshire to a 8-7 win after Allegany had rallied to tie the score in the top half.

J. Stonestreek struck held Hyndman to only two hits and Everett made a four-run first inning stand up Monday at Hyndman High School.

Pendleton County lost to Class AAA schools East Fairmont, 9-0, and Bridgeport, 13-3 Saturday.

Grace Christian scored 14 runs in the second inning and defeated Calvary Christian, 16-6, in a Mason-Dixon Conference game on Saturday.

Mountain Ridge broke a 1-1 tie by scoring five runs during the fourth and fifth innings as the Miners jumped back above .500 with a 4-3 record after beating Bishop Walsh 6-1 Thursday at Westmar.

Ethan Reynolds pitched a complete game and had 11 strikeouts as Moorefield beat Keyser Wednesday night at Moorefield.

Jeremiah Bowman and Dakota Hoover hammered two-run home runs, leading East Hardy over Shenandoah Valley Academy in a shorted five-inning game Thursday at East Hardy.

Drew O'Neal posted 12 strikeouts and just two walks in a complete game as Allegany took a junior varsity baseball game from Northern on Thursday.

The Bobby Cavanaugh Junior Varsity Baseball Tournament, hosted by the Fort Hill Baseball Parents Association will be staged Saturday, beginning at noon at the Hot Stove Baseball Complex.

Northern scored four runs in the top of the seventh to separate itself from Fort Hill as the Huskies defeated the Sentinels, 7-2, in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game to remain undefeated on the season Wednesday at Legion Field.

East Hardy erupted for 12 runs in the bottom of the first inning and needed only five innings to beat Union in a Potomac Valley Conference game.

Allegany scored four runs in the third inning to take a 5-0 lead, and Cody Ellsworth kept Southern in check with in a complete game effort in an AMAC victory.

Louis Berrios pitched a complete game, and Kody Boyer tripled, doubled and singled, scored two runs and knocked in another to lead Fort Hill to a 6-1 Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference victory over Frankfort at Legion Field.

Ethan Reynolds smacked a two-out single in the seventh to cap a furious Moorefield comeback that sent the Yellow Jackets past Musselman.

Kyle Bishop threw a four-inning no-hitter and Hyndman erupted for 13 runs in the fourth inning in beating Turkeyfoot for its first win of the year.

Allegany put up a run in the top of the seventh to tie the score, and added three in the eighth inning to defeat Mountain Ridge in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game at Westmar.

Trey Linaburg hit a two-run homer and Josh Godfrey and Gavin Nazelrod belted solo shots in Pendleton’s five-inning romp over Harman.

Frankfort scored 12 runs from the third to the fifth inning to force the 10-run rule and win for the first time this season with a 13-3 victory over Bishop Walsh Monday afternoon.

Northern’s Matt Sisler edged Southern’s Jason Ashby in a pitcher’s duel that featured 21 strikeouts and just six hits in a 3-1 Huskies win in Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference baseball.

Kody Boyer carried a shutout into the seventh inning, striking out 11 along the way, and Fort Hill used a six-run second inning to beat visiting Bedford Monday at Legion Field.

Hyndman committed three errors in the fifth inning which led to three unearned runs in the Hornets’ tough loss to Forbes Road Monday evening.

Cody King had a two-run single in the Mountain Ridge four-run fourth as Russell Knieriem and Garrett Dickel combined to limit Allegany to five hits, while striking out 11, in Mountain Ridge’s victory Monday at Allegany.

Jacob Bowman fired a two-hitter and Jeremiah Bowman and Dane Biller had two hits and an RBI to lift East Hardy to a 4-3 win over Van in the first game of their high school baseball doubleheader on Saturday.

Keyser scored two runs in the top of the ninth inning to win the first game, and scored twice in the seventh inning of the second game to sweep Allegany, 6-4 and 6-5, in a non-conference baseball doubleheader on Saturday.

Kyle Gillum and Ben Diehl knocked in runs in a four-run seventh inning that carried Northern to a 7-3 win over Allegany in their Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference win Thursday at Campobello.

Chandler Tomlinson, Chris Stein and Aaron O'Rourke teamed for a five-inning no-hitter as the Spartans blanked Paw Paw at Al Martin Field.

Keyser scored five runs in the first and sixth innings as the Golden Tornado took care of Frankfort, 12-7, in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game Thursday evening.

Logan Runk drove in two runs with a double and single, and Adam Runk singled and doubled and had one RBI as Fannett-Metal beat Hyndman a game-shortened to five innings.

Dave Kernox hit a pair of two-run homers as Shalom spoiled the season debut of Calvary Christian.
The game was not only the first of the season for a young Calvary team, but the first in two years as the Eagles did not field a team last year.

Justin Combs hurled a one-hitter and struck out eight to lead Hampshire to its first win, a 4-0 shutout of visiting Mountain Ridge in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game on Wednesday.

Pendleton County received two one-hitters from its pitching staff as the Wildcats easily took two from visiting Highland County (Va.).

Danny Oliver pitched a two-hitter and had 10 strikeouts as Paw Paw beat Union in a Potomac Valley Conference game.

Defensive blunders were Frankfort's Achilles' heel as the Falcons dropped a pair of games with Berkeley Springs Tuesday.

Kody Donaldson hit a home run, double and two singles and drove in four runs, leading Meyersdale over Salisbury Tuesday.

Steve Holtschneider pitched a two-hitter and Andrew Sisler and Andrew Umbel belted doubles to lead Northern past Bishop Walsh in a six-inning junior varsity game at Al Martin Field Tuesday.

Winning pitcher Jeremy Sharpless struck out seven and aided his cause with three singles in leading Southern over Fort Hill Tuesday.

Josh Neilson pitched a complete game, registering 10 strikeouts and allowing only three hits in leading Mountain Ridge to an 8-1 win over Keyser in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game Tuesday at John Kruk Field.

J.D. Hook earned the victory in his very first varsity appearance on the mound as he led Allegany to a six-inning shutout of Hampshire in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game.

Fort Hill posted five runs in the fourth inning, and a pair of Sentinel pitchers limited Southern to three hits in an AMAC win at Legion Field.

Brandon Raines, Phil Wimer and David Bowers combined on a two-hitter as Pendleton County (5-1) beat Trinity.

Adam Stowell pitched three-hitter and Garrett Dickel and Shannon Farrell had a double and two singles for the Miners.

Scott Rice struck out the side three times and scored the first run to lead Fort Hill over Mountain Ridge 2-0 Monday evening at the Westmar Middle School field.

Nathan Shoemaker hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the fifth inning to keep East Hardy undefeated with a win over visiting Hampshire.

Jared Weatherholtz's double in the fifth inning broke a 6-6 tie and led Musselman to a 9-6 victory over previously undefeated Pendleton Saturday at Musselman High School.

Colton Jones had three hits and knocked in five runs to lead Keyser to a 15-7 victory at Petersburg in high school baseball action on Friday.

Trey Beasom had three hits and two RBIs and was dominating on the mound as Northern remained unbeaten with a 13-3 victory over Hampshire on Saturday.

Jeremiah Bowman drove in eight runs for East Hardy in the second game of a doubleheader the Cougars swept from Paw Paw in Thursday afternoon Potomac Valley Conference action in Baker.

Pendleton County won the first game by the 10-run rule and was about to lose the second the same way but exploded for 12 runs in a wild sixth inning and remained unbeaten by sweeping Bath County (Va.), 11-1 and 19-17 Thursday evening.

Kevin Hupe fired a no-hitter as Allegany returned the favor of a 16-6 loss to Hampshire in the first game by beating the Trojans 17-0 in the second Tuesday in Romney.

Cody Parsons and Nathan King combined for 14 strikeouts in a three-hit shutout as Southern beat Hampshire, 10-0, in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game on Wednesday.

Maverick Nelson knocked in three runs, and threw five strong innings to get the win in leading Keyser over Tucker County at John Kruk Field.

Fort Hill used a seven-run sixth inning to turn a 11-9 contest into an 18-9 Sentinels win over BW at Legion Field Tuesday.

Sisler doubled and singled to lead Northern's jayvees over Keyser Tuesday.

The Northern Huskies won the 2007 Cumberland Times-News area baseball championship and were recognized prior to a Northern boys basketball game.

Tyler Smearman delivered a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth inning to send Bishop Walsh to a 5-4 win over Fort Hill in the Cumberland City League opener on Tuesday.

Matt Sisler fired six strong innings and aided his cause with a double and single to lead Northern to a 6-1 win over Keyser Tuesday afternoon at John Kruk Field.

Jeremy Shingler homered in a four-run first inning and Tyler Stevens homered in a four-run second as Mountain Ridge jumped on Frankfort early and held on late for an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference win at Westmar.

Pendleton County collected a five-inning win over Potomac Valley Conference opponent Pocahontas after the Wildcats scored eight runs in the first and finished off with five more in the fifth.

Petersburg held a 4-1 lead after three innings and put any chance of a Tucker County rally to rest with a five-run fifth inning.

Dane Biller and Chris Kerr combined for four hits and eight RBIs in the first game, and Jeremiah Bowman homered in the second as East Hardy cruised to a sweep of visiting Harman in a pair of five-inning games.

Morrow hit a three-run home run in the third inning to lead Tussey Mountain to a four-run inning and a victory over a young Hyndman team making its season debut.

Pitchers Russell Knieriem and Ryan Redinger held Frankfort to five hits and the Mountain Ridge junior varsity baseball team defeated the Falcons Tuesday at Frankfort.

Cody Ellsworth allowed one run on one hit, and struck out four in five innings pitched as Allegany downed Southern 2-1 in the season and Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference opener for both teams.

Mountain Ridge rallied for three runs in the top of the eighth inning to defeat Fort Hill in an Appalachian Mountain Athletic Conference game Monday at Legion Field.

Cody Spotts scored on an error in the top of the eighth inning to give Keyser a 7-6 win over Hampshire in a game that was suspended on March 14, and the Golden Tornado took advantage of eight Trojan errors to win 9-2 in the second game to improve to 2-1.

Moorefield scored five runs in the first inning, and forced the mercy rule by tacking on four more in the sixth as the Yellow Jackets swamped Frankfort Monday in Short Gap.

Trey Linaberg hit two doubles to power Pendleton's eight-hit attack as the Wildcats defeated Union Monday in the season-opener for both at Pendleton High School.

Garrett Dickel and Ben Russell combined for eight strikeouts in Mountain Ridge's 14-8 win over Fort Hill Monday evening in junior varsity baseball action.

The defending area champion Northern Huskies won another title after just playing two games of the season by beating Ferndale (Pa.), 11-1, and host Hancock, 15-2, by the “mercy rule” Saturday in the H.L. Kerns Easter Tournament.

Hedgesville struck for 11 runs in the second inning of the first game, and snapped a 4-4 tie with a three-run fifth in the second for a 17-7, 8-4 doubleheader sweep of Hampshire in the Trojans’ season opener Saturday afternoon.

Martinsburg scored six unearned runs in the first inning and defeated Keyser in their junior varsity baseball game played Thursday afternoon.

Bishop Walsh finished its stay in Winston Salem by being shut out by Cave Springs (Va.), and finish 1-2 in the three-game set that opened the season for the Spartans.

Walks and errors spoiled a strong pitching performance from a trio of Bishop Walsh hurlers that led to Mountain State (W.Va.) Academy collecting a 9-6 win over the Spartans Friday in second day action at the Duel on the Diamond Classic at Ernie Shore Stadium in Winston-Salem.

Chandler Tomlinson and Neal Eshleman each had two hits and three runs batted in to spark Bishop Walsh to an 8-5 win over Windsor (Ga.) Academy in the opening round of the Duel on the Diamond Thursday afternoon.

Jacob Bowman fired five hitless innings and Dakota Hoover had two hits and scored three times as East Hardy opened its season with a blanking of Petersburg Thursday afternoon.

Lace Shaw allowed one earned run on six hits in a complete game, and Taylor Rice had four hits as defending Times-News Area champion Frankfort won its season opener, 12-2, over Petersburg in high school girls softball on Monday.

Three Hampshire players had two hits to lead the Trojan junior varsity over Keyser 8-3 Friday afternoon at Keyser High School.

Northern Garrett's Corey Carr, who broke single-season and career records while leading the Huskies to their first area and region championships, will receive the Cumberland Times-News High School Baseball Player of the Year award at the 60th annual Dapper Dan Sports Banquet on Sunday, at 6 p.m., at the Ali Ghan Shrine Club.