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By Kyle Lutz, Sports Editor The West Liberty baseball team split a double-header on Saturday against their rival Wheeling Jesuit. The Hilltoppers won the first game by a score of 2-1 allowing the Cardinals only four hits. Freshman pitcher Mark Smyth got the win for West Liberty. He pitched the entire game striking out four [...]
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Burkle set on getting team to Beckley
Posted by aviola on April 17th, 2013
By Tony Viola, Sports Editor West Liberty baseball coach Eric Burkle will be the first to admit he’s only really worried about one number: how many miles it takes to get to Beckley. “I’m not a big stat guy,” he said. “We are just trying to stay in the top four and get to the [...]
Sports in Brief
Posted by admin on March 27th, 2013
The West Liberty University baseball team has used an impressive 9-0 mark in West Virginia Conference play to collect an overall record of 11-7, matching the same amount of wins from just a season ago. First-year Head Coach Eric Burkle already has two WVC Player of the Week members on his squad as Taylor Snare [...]
Hilltoppers welcome new baseball coach
Posted by klutz on March 20th, 2013
By Kyle Lutz, Staff Writer For the first time in 30 years, the West Liberty baseball team has a new head coach. Former coach Bo McConnaughy announced his retirement last summer after having nearly 600 career victories including a 1996 Coach of the Year award and five conference titles. Taking over for McConnaughy is Eric [...]
Anything goes: Sports Column
Posted by klutz on April 15th, 2012
By Kyle Lutz, Sports Editor It’s the beginning of April and the only thing that comes to the mind of sports fans is the fact that baseball season is here. Baseball has not been one of my favorite sports, but that would never stop me from going to a professional baseball game. Actually, that is [...]
Hilltopper baseball goes 2-3 during week
Posted by klutz on April 8th, 2012
By Kyle Lutz, Sports Editor West Liberty 2 Davis & Elkins 1 (Game 1) The Hilltoppers began their double header against the Senators with a 2-1 win at home Wednesday, April 4. Kyle Barton pitched all seven innings only letting up four hits and striking out seven batters. Barton lost the shutout when the Senators [...]
Baseball team begins with win
Posted by klutz on March 8th, 2012
By Kyle Lutz, Sports Editor Even though it was only February, baseball has started on the hilltop. The West Liberty baseball team traveled to CONSOL Energy Park to take on California, Pa. for their first game this year. In a nine inning game, the Hilltoppers managed to come from behind and defeat the Vulcans by [...]
Baseball looks forward to the rest of the season
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2011
By Sammie Valentine, Contributing Writer The Hilltopper baseball team faced five away games this past week. They played a doubleheader against West Virginia Wesleyan on Thursday and a doubleheader against Fairmont State University on Friday, followed by another game at Fairmont on Sunday. Against Wesleyan, the men had a split doubleheader by losing their first [...]
WL Baseball goes .500 for the week
Posted by admin on April 15th, 2011
By Sammie Valentine, Contributing Writer The Hilltopper baseball team faced two doubleheaders and a single nine-inning game this past week. The first doubleheader of the week was Wednesday at home against West Virginia State, the WVIAC Southern Division leader. In the first game of the afternoon, State sent the game into extra innings by getting [...]
Hilltopper Baseball wins two
Posted by admin on April 7th, 2011
By Tony Viola, Contributing Writer The West Liberty baseball team hosted WVIAC opponent Pitt-Johnstown in a single game on Saturday and a double-header on Sunday. The Hilltoppers fell 8-5 to UPJ on Saturday while beating the Mountain Cats 15-5 in game one and winning by a 8-6 decision in game two on Sunday. In Saturday’s [...]
