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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Gazette Sports

HUNTINGTON — Billy Donovan was a fashionable 53 minutes late to a press briefing Wednesday before his Big Green Scholarship Foundation dinner appearance, but he didn’t keep the traveling Kentucky media hanging much longer.
Florida coach Billy Donovan speaks at a press conference during his visit to Marshall University for a speaking engagement with the Big Green Scholarship Foundation.

Photo by Chris Dorst


WVU
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan desperately wanted to hire John Beilein and was willing to make him the highest-paid basketball coach in school history.

A basketball coach’s departure always brings out the unknown and there’s plenty of it at West Virginia with John Beilein’s move to Michigan, starting with the list of possible replacements.

MORGANTOWN — At about the midpoint of his post-practice session with the media Wednesday afternoon, West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez began to tire of hearing his offensive linemen in the background going through an extra session.

MORGANTOWN — Forget about all of the rumors and the speculation and the buzz on Internet message boards. Ditto the radio talk shows from West Virginia to Kansas.

Lots of questions surround Beilein’s departure to Michigan
MORGANTOWN — John Beilein’s official announcement of his departure from West Virginia Tuesday raises far more questions than it answers.

Marshall
HUNTINGTON — The swirling winds at Joan C. Edwards Stadium may have foretold of strange events at Marshall’s special-teams scrimmage Wednesday afternoon.

Wilson, El-Amin adjusting to move from defensive end to tackle
HUNTINGTON — When Ryland Wilson came to Marshall a year ago, he went through much the same shock as any mid-year junior-college signee, getting used to the pace of practice and the speed of major-college football.

Mitch Vingle
THE BROKEN rubber band remains a bookmark to this day.

Dave Hickman
MORGANTOWN — John Beilein’s vanishing act seems to have rekindled a groundswell of support among West Virginia fans for something that simply makes little sense to me.

Prep Sports
Huntington’s Patrick Patterson was selected the Gatorade state boys high school basketball player of the year for the second straight year Wednesday.

Canterbury leads SC past Capital 12-2
Nick Canterbury allowed one earned run and scattered six hits in his first start of the season as host South Charleston downed Capital 12-2 in a six-inning, mercy-rule win in high school baseball Wednesday.


Hurricane 8-0 after 10-3 win over East Chester
Justin Henry went 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs as host Hurricane defeated East Chester (N.Y.) 10-3 Tuesday in high school baseball.



St. Albans didn’t waste too much time feeling sorry for itself. Tommy Mallory made sure of that.

Other Sports
Bartrum to receive alumni honor from Marshall
Former Marshall University football standout Mike Bartrum will receive the school’s distinguished alumni award at the 70th annual Alumni Awards Banquet on April 21 in Huntington.

On Monday, after arriving in Charleston from spring training, West Virginia Power left-hander Brae Wright made a quick visit to Appalachian Power Park, where he and his teammates will spend the summer.

Michael Brantley smacked a home run and drove in five runs to lead the West Virginia Power to a 12-1 exhibition victory over West Virginia University Tech Tuesday night at Appalachian Power Park.

The Stan Smith/Sam LeRose Invitational high school track meet will take place Thursday at Laidley Field.

Logjam in system keeps Brantley, Ryan with Charleston Power
Down here in Class A baseball, a subtle, never-wavering goal lingers in the minds of all players.

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