RIPLEY - The Ripley High softball team have proven to be a quite obstinate lot. The squad has fought through injuries, inexperience and one tough pitching duel after another. After the smoke has cleared, coach Swisher's crew finds themselves within striking distance of their second Class AAA State Championship in four years as they...

RIPLEY – The last time Ripley reached the West Virginia Girls State High School Softball Tournament it turned out to be historic. The Lady Vikings captured the 2009 Class AAA state championship, marking the first-ever for Ripley High in a girls varsity sport.The title was the third team championship for the school...

CHARLESTON – "In the money"When it comes to horse racing terms that means a top three finish. On the day of the Preakness – the second leg of horse racing's triple crown – Ravenswood High's Hailey Miller was indeed "In the money." In what was the 39th edition of the West Virginia...

CHARLESTON – With a still growing track and field program, Jason Ward was certainly happy with the eight points his Ripley Vikings put on the board over the weekend at the 99th Annual West Virginia Boys State Track and Field Meet inside UC Stadium.Those points were produced both on the track and in the field.

RAVENSWOOD - The 2013 Ravenswood Red Devil baseball team took tremendous strides. In fact, no other team in the state of West Virginia in any class can boast the turnaround of the Red Devils. In 20012, the Ravenswood posted a (3-22) record and were "mercy ruled" 18 times. This season, first year head coach Wes Swain led the red...

RIPLEY - After losing eight seniors last season and returning three seniors this year, only one of which was a returning starter, it was evident that Ripley High's baseball team would be a little inexperienced around the edges this season.Last year's squad finished (14-18) and was knocked out in sectional play to Parkersburg High...

2013 STATE RUNNERS-UP – Ravenswood seniors Taylor Youell (left) and Alex McNabb display their Class AA-A State Tennis No. 1 Doubles Runner-Up plaques at Schoenbaum Tennis Center in Kanawha City lastSaturday.

RIPLEY - It's not that Chelsey Hager needed much run support on this night, but her teammates had her back. Big time.Once again, Hager was sensational on the mound. The junior allowed just three hits in disposing of Shady Spring in a 8-0, Region 3 championship game.The "mercy rule" shortened contest went six innings...

CHARLESTON - It isn't everyday an individual gets a shot at making history.Ripley High sophomore Arin Shatto did just that on Saturday in Charleston at the West Virginia High School State Tennis Tournament.Shatto became the first player in the school's tennis program (girls or boys) to compete for a state title.

KANAWHA CITY - Ravenswood seniors Taylor Youell and Alex McNabb and junior Bess McNabb saved the best for last this tennis season, making a three-girl run to a West Virginia State AA-A Girls' Tennis Tournament Team Runner-Up finish Saturday at Schoenbaum Tennis Center.The trio gift-wrapped the state runner-up trophy as a...

Seniors Taylor Youell and Alex McNabb advanced to the 2013 West Virginia State AA-A Tennis championship finals Friday in dramatic fashion.

Ravenswood's Tennis Trio of Taylor Youell, Bess McNabb and Alex McNabb rolled into Day 2 of the West Virginia State Class AA-A Tennis Tournament with impressive, and, in two of three cases, heart-palpitating wins.

SOUTH CHARLESTON - Chelsey Hager shot down more birds than Ted Nugent on a hunting trip.In the Region 3 semifinals on Thursday night, the junior hurler whiffed 22 Lady Black Eagles en-route to an 11 inning, 4-1 victory which catapults the Lady Vikings into the Region 3 Championship May 16 at 6 p.m.

RIPLEY - Can you imagine turning 15-years old and on the very next day hurling a one hitter in a sectional game that your team needs very badly?Ripley freshman hurler Logan McCoy pitched a masterful one-hitter for Ripley High versus Capital on Wednesday in the Region 3 Section 4 opener. The Vikings won in convincing...

Ravenswood City Council Meeting is tonight (Tuesday, May 7) the following is the agenda for the meeting.

RAVENSWOOD – Ripley High plated five runs in the first inning giving Nathan Tucker all the support he would need on the mound as the Vikings cruised to a 7-3 victory at Wright Field.Ravenswood (18-14, LKC 9-6) threw Jesse Brown against the Vikings. Brown has had a fine year including a "No No" he notched against Tyler...

ELLENBORO – A pair of second place finishes, turned in by Hailey Miller and Taylor Treadway, highlighted Ravenswood High's appearance in the Little Kanawha Conference Championship Meet Friday night inside Chuck Schofield Stadium on the Ritchie High School campus.The Devilettes of head coach Renee Swisher placed sixth...

CHARLESTON – Jason Ward was longing for something big from his Ripley Viking track and field team on Friday evening at UC Stadium in the annual Mountain State Athletic Conference Championship Meet. He got it from Ryan Gregory. The versatile Gregory won the long jump with a leap of 20-05.50.

CHARLESTON – The Ripley softball team has logged more miles this week than a Willie Nelson tour. The Ladies in blue had to take three swings at Riverside to  knock them out of Region 4 Section 3 play on Saturday, 3-2 in eight innings in the Class AAA Region 3 Section 4 softball tournament.Uncharacteristically,...

CHARLESTON - "I'm on cloud nine."The speaker was Greg Varney. The topic was his Ripley Lady Viking tennis team.The veteran coach has every right to be. Ripley is sending its most competitors ever, boys or girls, to the State Tournament this week in Charleston. The Lady Vikings are heading...

RIPLEY - On Thursday, the Jackson County Board of Education confirmed that David Tennant was hired as the new Ripley High football coach, effective immediately. "We voted unanimously to accept the recommendation for Mr. David Tennant for the position," said Jackson County Schools Superintendant Blaine Hess.

RIPLEY – The 2013 season has been one of strides for the Ripley High baseball team. The squad began the season with a youthful roster high on enthusiasm but short on experience.As the regular season winds down, the Vikings of Coach Shane Casto have posted their eighth victory with a 12-3...

 CHARLESTON – The Ripley High softball team is beginning to stretch their muscles. The squad eliminated Capital High from Region 3 Section 4 play earlier in the week and took the first of a three game playoff series from Riverside, 4-0 last night (Thursday) that will decide the Section...

RIPLEY – After a decade long run as the head coach of the Ripley High School Viking football team, after much speculation, Jimmy Frashier officially stepped down in mid-March to accept an administrative position at Ravenswood High School.For two weeks, Ripley Principal Will Hosaflook as toiled...

RAVENSWOOD  - The Ravenswood baseball team swept a double header from the visiting Sherman Tide on Saturday at Wright Field. The Devils took game one in a mercy rule induced five inning affair, 19-4 and squeezed out an 11-10 victory with some seventh inning magic in game two.The Tide rolled into town boasting one of...

RAVENSWOOD – Ravenswood Tennis split a dula match with visiting Ritchie County last week witht eh boys' nipping the Rebels 4-3 and the girls' being edged 4-3.In boys' singles play, Ethan Cross beat Noah Laugh, 8-1; Sean Matics lost 8-2 to Zach Bishop 8-2; Michael Danishanko nipped Hunter Bishop 9-8 (7-3); and Logna...

RAVNSWOOD – For 36 years, Doug Parrish served Ravenswood High School as the skipper of the Red Devil baseball team. He stepped down after last season and gave the reigns to his understudy Wes Swain, a former player of the elder coach and a passionate baseball man who will guide the program into the future.On Saturday,...

RAVENSWOOD - The Devils beat visiting Parkersburg Catholic last week, 8-4, behind Devon Crews' power hitting.Crews went 3-for-4 with a homer, double and three RBIs to key the Swainmen. Logan Jarrett was 2-for-3 with an RBI.Isaac Crow got the pitching win, fanning...

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RIPLEY – Who says the number 13 is unlucky? It certainly isn't for the Ripley girls tennis team. Greg Varney's Lady Vikings moved to a perfect 13-0 on the season Monday evening with a 7-0 shutout of Oak Hill at the Ripley City Park Courts.In singles play, No. 1 seed Emily Munson defeated Mary...

RIPLEY - Coming off a tournament at Moorefield where Ripley went 3-2 over the two day span, Chelsey Hager once again flirted with a no hitter on Monday evening as Ripley's eighth ranked softball team defeated George Washington, 8-0 in a mercy rule shortened game.Hager hurled four scoreless innings and gave up just one hit.

ST. MARYS – Ravenswood Boys' Tennis doubles teams pulled off stunning upsets for the top Class AA/A Region I teams from St. Marys Monday on the road and the Ravenswood girls continued their surge with a 7-0 win over the Blue Devils.At No. 1 Doubles, Ravenswood's Ethan Cross and Sean Matics knocked off the top team of Sam...

KIDWELL – Ravenswood southpaw Jesse Brown twirled a no-hitter missing a perfect game by just one walk, and Coach Wes Swain's Red Devils swept a road doubleheader Saturday at Tyler Consolidated.Ravenswood won the first game of the twinbill, 11-0, behind 14 strikeouts by Brown and a single walk. Brown allowed no Silver...

RIPLEY – Ripley High senior Preston Baldwin mashed a double down the line in left field in the bottom of the sixth to plate XX and XX as the Vikings rolled to a 3-1 victory over Riverside in front of a large crowd at Ray Swisher Field at Viking Park Monday night. The two out hit helped to end a losing streak that has haunted the...

RIPLEY – It was a chilly, wet night in Sissonville as the Ripley High sluggers (4-16) took on the AA Sissonville Indians, a team they defeated 3-1 on March 23. Jared Bumpus was the star on that night, mowing down the Indians as they beat his curve ball into the ground for easy outs.Isaac Koontz, Ripley's sophomore...

BUFFALO - Ravenswood's Red Devils, now 10-10, continued their win streak (six games) with two more wins last week, beating Buffalo (7-3) on the road Thursday and nipping Sissonville, 3-2, with two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning Wednesday at Wright Field.At Buffalo, the Red Devils led 3-0 after three innings before...

EASTWOOD - Devilette sophomore ace Savana Casto came one walk short of pitching a "perfect" game Wednesday at Eastwood, fanning 15 Calhoun County batters in a 8-0, five-inning shutout.Casto’s lone hiccup came in the seven inning as she walked a batter before recovering to fan the final three batters in...