Marty O'Brien
Sports Reporter at Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
Sports writer covers high schools, auto racing, William & Mary, Hampton University and Christopher Newport University for the Daily Press and Virginian-Pilot
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3 days ago |
dailypress.com | Marty O'Brien
YORK COUNTY — The quality of pitching was so high in the Tabb at Grafton Class 3 Region A baseball tournament semifinal on Tuesday, it became increasingly likely one break could decide the outcome. Grafton got it and ran with it, literally, all the way to the Class 3 state tournament. The good fortune was a bad-hop base hit the Clippers’ Luke Wilz stretched into a double with his base-running hustle in the bottom of the fifth inning.
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3 days ago |
pilotonline.com | Marty O'Brien
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4 days ago |
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4 days ago |
dailypress.com | Marty O'Brien
HAMPTON — Hampton High’s most recent baseball state tournament trip came the year Crabbers coach Matt Mitchell was born, in 1990, with his late father, Danny Mitchell, then coach. It hardly looked like the drought would end going into the bottom of the sixth inning of the Class 4 Region A semifinals Tuesday at War Memorial Stadium, with the Crabbers trailing Jamestown by four runs. Matt Mitchell knew better.
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6 days ago |
dailypress.com | Marty O'Brien
A guy who calls Langley Speedway home won the ZMAX CARS Tour Visit Hampton 125 on Saturday in front of a nearly full grandstand. It wasn’t the former former track Late Model titlist and two-time defending national champion who won this race a year ago. Nor was it the former track champ who won the pole. The winner was, surprisingly, 20-year-old King William native Chase Burrow, who had won neither a Late Model race at Langley Speedway nor a CARS Tour race, despite many starts in both.
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