ONA, W.Va. — Frankfort and Keyser brought home plenty of hardware after the WVSSAC cross-country championships Saturday at Cabell Midland High School. The Frankfort boys team claimed the Class AA team title, while two individual state champions were also crowned. Keyser’s Luca Altobello won the Class AAA boys race and Frankfort’s Bailey Ferguson won the…
Eloise Woolsey all but willed this national championship into existence. “I said it out loud every day,” she said. “I’m gonna win Fargo.” Indeed, Woolsey, the indomitable multiple state champion from Cleveland High School, fulfilled that quest Saturday, capturing the 155-pound title at the Junior Girls Freestyle Wrestling Championships in Fargo, North Dakota. For the…
CHICAGO — The Chicago Sky were always waiting on Gabriela Jaquez. Weeks before they selected the guard with the No. 5 pick in the 2026 WNBA draft on Monday, general manager Jeff Pagliocca and head coach Tyler Marsh had already landed on Jaquez as their preferred pick. There are plenty of obvious reasons why the…
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Illinois needed a get-right game. The fans at Bon Secours Wellness Arena probably needed a rest from the nail-biters. The third-seeded Illini delivered both late Thursday night with a good old-fashioned blowout of No. 14 seed Penn in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Illinois turned a 10-point halftime lead into…
It’s easy for young athletes to become conceited and arrogant, especially with as much success as Reading’s Eric Martinez has had in his amateur boxing career. But the 20-year-old boxer is the complete opposite, thanks to the way he was raised and the people he surrounds himself with. “In boxing, they come, and they go,”…
The strategy for coach Aaron Elmore and the Stone Memorial High School golf teams before the season began was pretty simple. They wanted to do whatever they could to get the boys and girls teams to this year’s state tournament. SMHS took the first step in that journey Monday when Stone Memorial won the boys…
