Published: July 04, 2009 11:25 pm      

Local Roundup

Openings remain for MSU basketball camp, grades 8-9

Mountain State University will have a basketball camp Monday through Friday for boys and girls going into grades 8 and 9.

The camp, which stresses fundamentals geared for this age group, will be under the direction of MSU head basketball coach Bob Bolen and assistant basketball coaches Dave Barksdale, Artis Maddox, Mersad Terzic and A.J. Jackson.

Hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The camp costs $150.

Each camper will receive lunch each day, courtesy of Wendy’s, a drink with lunch, T-shirt, trophy and instruction.

If you have not pre-registered, you can still attend by coming to the J.R. Van Meter Gymnasium on the MSU campus Monday between 8 and 9 a.m.

For more information, call 304-763-5885.



Yost dominant in Florida league

Jordon Yost is playing as if he didn’t take a season off.

Yost, a Beckley native, is having a dominant season for the Sanford River Rats of the Florida Collegiate Summer League. Through Friday night, Yost was fifth in the league in hitting with a .310 average, tied for first in hits (26), third in runs scored (17), first in runs batted in (25), tied for first in doubles (7), first in home runs (5) and first in total bases (48).

The 2005 Woodrow Wilson graduate also had a relief appearance, working two scoreless innings with a pair of strikeouts.

Yost has twice been named the league’s player of the week. He already has Sanford’s record for RBIs in a season and is pursuing the career record with 16 games remaining in his first year.

The league took Saturday off in honor of Independence Day.

The 6-foot-5, 245-pound first baseman sat out this spring in what would have been his junior season at West Virginia.



Marshall ‘Choose a Seat’ Day scheduled for Saturday

HUNTINGTON — The Marshall University Ticket Office is hosting its second “Choose a Seat” day this Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. Available seat locations will be marked and on sale to the general public.

Anyone who signs up as a first-time season ticket holder, or current season ticket holders who purchase additional seats, will receive a free Red Dawson autographed DVD of the movie “We Are Marshall.” These collector items will be available only while supplies last.  

The 2009 schedule features six Saturday home games, including a homecoming showdown with Conference USA rival East Carolina. Also, an old Mid-American Conference rival comes to town Sept. 19 when Bowling Green takes on the Thundering Herd.

A variety of ticket options are available and season ticket prices start as low as $88 (33 percent savings) and range up to $579. Anyone who purchases season tickets for the 2009 season will have the opportunity to renew those exact same seats for the 2010 season when West Virginia comes back to Huntington for the second time in four seasons.

For more information contact the MU Ticket Office at 1-800-THE-HERD or 304-696-HERD.