Moorefield Examiner
The Lady Yellow Jackets defended the Hive with a nine-point halftime advantage, but Southern Garrett found a way to penetrate the honeycomb scoring inside the paint causing it to crumble leading to a 50-48 victory rally on Friday night in Moorefield. “[We] Played good first half. Thought we should have
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Coming off winter break both teams struggled to break the ice on the rims combining for 50 missed field goals with the Yellow Jackets chipping away for a 17-14 halftime lead, but Pendleton County warmed up the hoop with late third quarter shooting as Moorefield became frigid during the Wildcats
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By Jean A. Flanagan Moorefield Examiner Ronald Griest, 38, of Moorefield, Ieesha S. Cole, 24 of Moorefield and Aaron A. Eye, 31 of Ft. Seybert were ordered to complete the South Branch Valley Drug Court Program as a condition of their guilty pleas in Hardy County Circuit Court in December 2018.
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The Lady Yellow Jackets were grounded on the courts by Parkersburg Catholic in the Class A state volleyball quarterfinals at the Charleston Civic Center last Friday in straight sets: 25-17, 25-11 and 25-20. Moorefield entered the state tournament for a fifth straight season, but that experience wasn’t enough to survive the
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Unofficial Results U.S. Senate Patrick Morrisey — 2,460 Joe Manchin, III — 1,870 U.S. House of Representatives Alex Mooney — 2,855 Talley Sergent — 1,418 State Senate Dave Sypolt — 2,755 Stephanie Zucker — 1,613 House of Delegates (Including Pendleton County) Jon Hof — 2,292 (+726) = 3,018 Isaac Sponaugle — 2,228 +(1,092) = 3,320 Hardy County Circuit Clerk Steve Davis — 1.338 Kelly Shockey
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The Lady Yellow Jackets are the new queens of the Hardy County courts winning the Class A Region II Section 2 Volleyball championship after dethroning East Hardy’s reign for 12 seasons in straight sets last Tuesday in Moorefield: 25-14, 25-9 and 28-26. Moorefield’s last section championship was in 2003, the same
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East Hardy Volleyball utilized good service accuracy to bounce the Lady Wildcats out of the Class A Region II Section 2 semifinal playoff match in straight sets in Baker on Monday: 25-4, 25-14 and 25-11. The Lady Cougars advanced to the Class A Region II Section 2 championship on Tuesday against
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The Cougars frolicked in the mud and pounced with an uncharacteristic ground attack to devour South Harrison 44-7 in Lost Creek last Friday. East Hardy trudged through the muddy terrain carrying the ball for 272 yards for an effective ground game plan, since the aerial assault wasn’t working with two errant
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The bridge to Short Gap was surrounded by the Lady Falcons swooping down inundating Moorefield with attacks as Frankfort unleashed a three straight set match victory during senior night last Tuesday: 25-11, 25-10 and 25-9. “Obviously we didn’t play well at all tonight. We didn’t move and we can’t continuously bump
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East Hardy Early Middle School tackled its first Potomac Valley League Football Championship in program history with a 26-8 victory over the Pioneers last Wednesday in Baker. Having been the runner-up the last three seasons, the Cougars could taste the victory this time facing Romney Middle School. “It is a great feeling,
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Moorefield Middle School mastered the fundamentals and came together as a team to secure the Potomac Valley League 8th grade Volleyball Championship defeating Pendleton County Middle School by straight sets 25-12 and 25-16 in Baker last Thursday. “All season our goal was to build team unity and strength and overall self-confidence.
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The constant rain created miry conditions as the Wildcats wreak havoc ending Moorefield’s season with a 30-7 victory during senior night last Friday in Franklin. “I was proud of their effort. I thought we fixed some mistakes from last week on the defensive line and in coverage. Give Pendleton County credit,
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By Jean A. Flanagan Moorefield Examiner The statistics are staggering: • every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school • 75 percent of prison inmates are high school dropouts • Dropouts cost the US $329 million every year in lost economic opportunity and social services • 80 percent of high school dropouts end up
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By Hannah Heishman Moorefield Examiner Moorefield has a problem. The town center is no longer the intersection of Main Street and Winchester Avenue; it's the intersection of Main Street and Corridor H. The only traffic that regularly comes downtown is what's headed for Pilgrims. Most of it goes no further than Walmart
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The Cougars had the passion and desire to battle for their first victory of the season, so the taste of defeat was swallowed in the bite taken out of the Hive during the 40th Hardy Bowl as East Hardy crushed the homecoming swagger in Moorefield by a score of 20-7
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East Hardy Volleyball got tangled up in the net as the Lady Yellow Jackets swarmed the courts for a three-set match victory last Thursday in the Hive: 25-5, 25-23, 25-13. “The first game they came out and it’s their homecoming week, so you worry about all the distractions going on. They
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By Jean A. Flanagan Moorefield Examiner For the past four years Judy Hahn has been begging the Wardensville Council to fix Maple Lane. The unprecedented wet summer has exacerbated the problem and Hahn has had enough. Hahn spoke to the Wardensville Council at the meeting held Tuesday, Oct. 9. “My garage has flooded,” Hahn
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East Hardy Volleyball survived a rally in the first set before making adjustments on a straight set match victory over the Lady Wildcats in Franklin last Thursday: 26-24, 25-13, 25-16. “We are really proud of their effort. We have been working on playing a really good 25 points, rather than playing
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The Cougars pounced to the lead on the opening drive and managed to keep Tucker County in check for most of the game before blunders were amplified in the muddy conditions late in the game enabling the Mountain Lions to claw out a 21-12 victory in Parsons last Friday. “We played
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“Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.” - Professional Golfer Arnold Palmer The Yellow Jackets entered the WVSSAC State Golf Tournament in Wheeling as the Region II champions, but the challenges of Oglebay Resort’s Speidel Golf Club Jones Course proved its might testing Moorefield on every hole resulting
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