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New scoreboards installed at Mingo Central baseball, softball fields
NEWTOWN – Over the last few years the new Mingo Central High School baseball and softball fields have been a work in progress with continued upgrades and additions to the two facilities. The two on-campus fields atop Miner Mountain have both received further improvements with the installation of new...
Week 1 Grid Spotlight:
WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m. WHERE: Buck Harless Stadium, Mingo Central High School, Newtown, W.Va. Editor's note: This is Part One of an 11-part feature highlighting the week-by-week opponents this fall for the Mingo Central and Tug Valley high school football teams. The Mingo Central and Tug Valley high...
New postseason basketball change creates 'Super Regionals’
The upcoming 2024-25 high school basketball season was already going to be a season of change for prep roundball in West Virginia with the WVSSAC's realignment and the implementation of some new sectionals across the state. For Mingo Central High School, the change would have been stark as the Miners'...
Lady Miners' Hammond hit .540 this season
NEWTOWN – The Mingo Central High School Lady Miners' softball season didn't go as well as hoped record-wise, nor in their difficult Class AA sectional tourney. The Lady Miners closed out the season at 7-13 and an 0-2 showing in sectional play. Mingo Central was eventually ousted on Wednesday,...
Mingo Central’s Slone, Thomason ink with UPike
NEWTOWN – The biggest thrill for an educator or a coach is to see his or her athletes move on to the next level to further their education and athletic playing career. That day came into fruition on Monday, May 13, as two more Mingo Central High School athletes signed national letters of intents.
Bradshaw to Host Second Mud Event
MCDOWELL COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – What started in 2023 at “Hometown Trail Days” is now “Mountain Mud”, an event guaranteed to entertain McDowell County residents, friends, and visitors beginning on Friday, May 17th, in Bradshaw, WV. Mountain Mud’s events will include: ATV/SXS/Dirt Bike grudge matches & drag races ATV/SXS Mud Obstacle Course Human Mud Obstacle […]
Mingo Central closes out softball season at 7-13, 0-2 in sectionals
WAYNE – All didn't end well for the Mingo Central High School softball team, nor of its senior class, in last week's Class AA Region 4 Section 2 tournament. The Lady Miners closed out the season at 7-13 and an 0-2 showing in sectional play. Mingo Central was eventually...
Miners close out spring, to hit the gridiron again in June
NEWTOWN – The Mingo Central High School football team closed out a successful spring with last week's inaugural Blue-White scrimmage at Buck Harless Stadium,. “The scrimmage went better than what we all thought it would go,” Mingo Central Coach David Jones said. “It was a first-time doing something like that. We didn’t have all of our players. Some are playing other sports but it went really well. As coaches, we were very pleased. Of course we’re having a quarterback battle right now and both did fairly OK. They have a lot to work on and that’s the main position that we are focusing on.”
Waine’s world: MCHS lineman inks with Tusculum University
NEWTOWN – If you know Chaz Waine he's the quintessential “nice guy” and often is soft spoken. But on the football field he's a beast. Waine, the anchor of Mingo Central's offensive line in his four-year career with the Miners at center and a two-time Class AA All-State selection, made it official on Tuesday afternoon as he signed a national letter-of-intent to play collegiate football at Tusculum University, a Division II school located in Tusculum, Tenn.
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