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BY COLE MCCLANAHAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR West Virginia announced the signing of two men’s basketball players on Wednesday afternoon, beginning the day with Sean McNeil and finishing with Tajzmel Sherman. McNeil and Sherman both come from the junior college ranks and are 6-foot-4 guards looking to score and fill out the Mountaineers’ wing positions. “Sean gives us another physical guard who is a tremendous threepoint shooter,” WVU head coach Bob Huggins said. “He brings a physical mentality to the guard position, while also giving us an outstanding rebounder in the backcourt.” McNeil played his freshman season at Sinclair Community College, and was named to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division II First Team All-America last season. The Union, Kentucky, native averaged a nation-leading 29.7 points per game and 4.3 three-pointers per game, en route to also earning Ohio Community College Athletic Conference Player and Freshman of the Year. The high scoring outputs from McNeil included a 55-point game and six scoring performances of 40 points or more, while also shooting 49.5% from the field, 43.1% from three-point range and 87.6% from the free throw line. Joining McNeil is Sherman, a sophomore from Collin College in McKinney, Texas, who will have two years of eligibility remaining once he enrolls at WVU. Sherman averaged 25.9 points per game his sophomore season at
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West Virginia coach Bob Huggins gestures during the first half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State. Collin College; he shot 87.5% from the line in 2018-19. “Taz [Sherman] adds tremendous athleticism to the guard position,” Huggins said. “He is very fast with the ball. His quickness and length will be welcomed as we reintroduce Press Virginia.” The Missouri City, Texas, native was named to the National Junior College Division I Second Team All-America last season — a season that included three 40-point games and a 39.9 three-point percentage from Sherman. The duo looks to aid the WVU rotation from last season, which ranked last in the Big 12 Conference in both field goal and three-point percentage and finished in the bottom half of the league in free throw percentage.
They will also help round out the Mountaineer roster, which lost six players from last season, including veterans Beetle Bolden and Lamont West as transfers, with Sagaba Konate still on the team but having declared for the NBA Draft. McNeil and Sherman join Oscar Tshiebwe and Miles “Deuce” McBride as part of WVU’s 2019 recruiting class after Tshiebwe and McBride both signed with the Mountaineers in December. West Virginia now has two open scholarships to fill for next season, but that number gets pushed to three if Konate does not return to WVU for his senior season.
Maryanne Reed, dean of the WVU Reed College of Media, will become the University’s next vice president for academic affairs and provost starting July 1, according to a release from WVU Today. Reed will follow Joyce McConnell, who will be leaving WVU in the summer to become the president of Colorado State University. Reed is a native of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. “I am thrilled to be asked to serve as provost,” Reed said in the release. “In my 15 years as dean, I’ve had the good fortune of working with several excellent provosts who have been leadership role models, including Joyce McConnell. I have a lot to live up to, but I’m up for the challenge.” After becoming head of the P.I. Reed Journalism School (no relation) in 2004, she later worked toward centralizing the journalism, public relations, advertising and general communications programs and created the Reed College of Media in 2014. WVU opened the Media Innovation Center in the Evansdale Crossing in 2016 as part of that move, according to the release. She also helped create the nation’s first online Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program. Reed has been part of the WVU faculty since 1993. Before she arrived on campus, she worked as a broadcast reporter and producer. In a radio interview with WAJR Wednesday, Reed said she had to sit on her decision to leave her long-time post.
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WVU Republicans join other GOP groups in questioning Justice’s leadership BY JOE SEVERINO
Gov. Jim Justice is already taking on a large field of challengers to his reelection bid for 2020.
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The WVU College Republicans are standing with a rising number of GOP organizations in expressing no confidence in Gov. Jim Justice’s leadership. In the past two weeks, the Kanawha Republican Executive Committee and Harrison County Republican Executive Committee have passed no-confidence resolutions on Justice, and on Saturday the West Virginia Federation of College Republicans voted to pass a similar resolution. The Federation is made up of students from all College Republican chapters in West Virginia, who serve in a delegate-like role. The incoming chair of the Federation is Jessica Dobrinsky, a WVU student. Riley Keaton, president of the WVU College Republicans, said the University’s chapter has very similar requests of Justice before the organization will support him for his possible reelection in 2020. The Federation’s resolution asks that the governor move to the right on education reform, West Virginia’s right-to-work law, secondary road repair and taxes. Keaton said “significant improvements” on these issues from Justice could likely get the organization’s members back on board. “I think that would be sufficient for a majority of delegates at the convention, and I know our WVU guys, to say, ‘We’re okay with four more years,’” he said. “Those are
Ten active candidates, including Justice, have filed pre-candidacy forms with the Secretary of State’s office to run for governor in 2020.
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Gov. Jim Justice at an event in Morgantown last year. issues that we either want addressed, or we won’t have confidence in the governor whenever it comes time to decide what we’re doing with the primary election.” Keaton said Justice has the opportunity to prove himself on education reform in the near future during an upcoming special legislative session devoted to education. The state Legislature failed to pass both a Senate and House of Delegates version of an omnibus education bill, which among other things, allowed for the creation of public charter schools in the state, where it is currently illegal. Keaton said school choice and educational freedom in West Virginia is a main priority for the WVU College Republicans.
Republicans have also blamed Justice for working to slow GOP momentum on those education bills. “There’s a line there between being against something and then working against it,” Keaton said. Right-to-work laws, in short, do not require workers to join a union or pay union dues, even if an employer chooses to have a union represent them. West Virginia passed its right-towork law in 2016. But in Februar y, a Kanawha County Circuit Court judge struck down significant wording in the law, making the future of it uncertain. Judge Jennifer Bailey said the law was unconstitutional because it allows workers to not pay union dues, but the union is still re-
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quired to represent that employee by federal law. “To us, right-to-work is the most significant pro-growth legislative victories maybe ever, but definitely in decades, and the governor has sort of abandoned us on that issue,” Keaton said. He added Justice can align himself with the Republican party on right-to-work easily by asking state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey to defend it in the state Supreme Court. “And all that takes is one call to the attorney general to fix, that he can call and say, ‘Patrick go ahead and defend right-to-work in court,’” Keaton said. The Federation’s resolution on Justice was also drafted before the U.S. Department of Justice Public Integrity Office issued a subpoena to the state Department of Commerce requesting records about a wide number of companies and charities Justice owns, including The Greenbrier and
its annual golf tournament. It asked Justice to provide his communications with people acting on behalf of the resort, the golf tournament or the charity, according to WV MetroNews, who obtained the subpoena through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Brian Abraham, general counsel for the Governor’s office, told MetroNews that “[f ]rom 2016 on, which would have been the year [Justice] was running for governor, no monies from the state of West Virginia were paid to the golf tournament or the charity or The Greenbrier.” As for supporting a primary challenger to Justice, Keaton said it will depend on what Justice does in regards to the issues outlined in the Federation’s resolution, the outcome of a possible federal investigation and what the GOP field for 2020 looks like.
GOP field: • Gov. Jim Justice • Mike Folk • Rebecca Mareta Henderson • Charles R. Sheedy Sr. • Woody H. Thrasher Democratic field: • Jody Murphy • Edwin Ray Vanover Other: • David Sartin, Independent • Quintin Gerard Caldwell, Independent • Larry Trent, Constitution Stephen Smith, a community organizer in Charleston, announced his intentions to run for governor in November as a Democrat, but has not filed paperwork with the Secretary of State’s office as of Wednesday. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told POLITICO in an interview April 5 that he is “thinking about” running for governor in 2020, a job he held from 2005 to 2010. Manchin would still be a senator if he lost, and if he won, he could appoint his successor to hold that position until 2022.
WVU grad and New York Times writer points to country’s history of political parties in new book BY IRELEND VISCOUNT STAFF WRITER
Morgantown native, WVU alumnus and political columnist Michael Tomasky came back home to the University on Monday to answer questions about his new book “If We Can Keep it: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved.” The book looks at the history of American politics and how the country has always had two major political parties who stand opposed to each other. Tomasky went over a few passages about overlooked
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Writer Michael Tomasky. points in American history that have shaped today’s political climate. “Martin Van Buren is a lot more important than you think,” he said.
Tomasky talked about how we just know Van Buren as the president who was somewhere before Lincoln and was a one-term president. “Other than his presidency, he was an extremely important and influential figure in American politics,” Tomasky said. “He really is the person who created the Democratic party.” “The Democratic party’s dinners today are called Jefferson-Jackson dinners; they really should be called Van Buren dinners,” he said. “I don’t understand why they’re not.” The annual Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinners are
held by the Democratic party in honor of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, who the party says are their founders. He said Americans today tend to think more about status, and we would rather spend more money on an expensive item. He said this is due to Americans watching celebrities closely. In his book, Tomasky talks about how back in the day, it was all men who served in Congress and fought in wars. All political parties, though, fought in the war. “But conservatives and liberals, they all still fought in open arms,” Tomasky said. “I
quote another book within my book saying, ‘When you’ve done that, you have a pretty good sense of what an enemy is.’” Tomasky also spoke about the rationing of goods during the war and the different products that were scarce to Americans to meet basic needs. “All of this sacrifice, this shared sacrifice, brought the country together,” Tomasky said. Tomasky is a special correspondent for The Daily Beast, the editor of “Democracy: A Journal of Ideas,” a quarterly journal of progressive and liberal politics, and is a contrib-
uting opinion writer for The New York Times. He was born and raised in Morgantown, attended WVU as an undergraduate, later earning a graduate degree from New York University. He was a columnist and writer for New York Magazine and served as the first editor of Guardian America. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Harper’s Weekly, The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Review of Books, Dissent, Lingua Franca, George and GQ.
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WVU’s 2019 Fulbright Scholars front row from left: Constantia Rhinehart and Jana El-Khatib. Back row from left: Kaley Hensley, Karen Laska and Jordan Miller. The scholars were photographed at the Wise Library on the downtown campus.
Five West Virginia natives named Fulbright scholars STAFF REPORTS Five WVU women have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to teach English abroad next year. The Fulbright Program is a U.S. government international ex-
change program where recipients are given a stipend to study, teach or conduct research while increasing mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries, according to WVUToday. WVU now has 64 Fulbright scholars throughout
the school’s history. All the winners are West Virginia natives. The 201920 scholars are: • Jana El-Khatib from Hurricane; will teach in Malaysia • Kaley Hensley from Chapmanville; will teach in Latvia
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PRT change not all that concerning for WVU students BY CODY NESPOR AND PARIS RUSSELL CULTURE EDITOR AND STAFF WRITER
Just this Monday, WVU made a change to the PRT that affects everyone that rides it. For most of this year, to get on the PRT, all students and other PRT riders needed to do was select their destination prior to going through the turnstile. Now hopeful riders will have to either swipe their WVU ID or pay 50 cents to get on the PRT. This was how the PRT used to be before this year. Now this rule is back in place with only a few weeks left in the academic year. These extra steps might seem like an inconvenience to students, but some students riding the PRT Wednesday did not seem to mind.
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“Honestly, I don’t care about the new rule because I have my card on me anyway. I’ll just swipe it. I think they used to have that as a rule anyway and I didn’t even notice they stopped doing it.”
“Honestly, the 50 cents is a little much, but I can sort of understand it when parents come to visit, and of course the University wants money. I think the swiping the card is a good idea based on just random people getting on the PRT just whenever they want, and that sort of presents a safety risk.”
The top movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe BY SEAN TANSKI STAFF WRITER
“Avengers Endgame” comes out in two weeks, bringing the Marvel Cinematic Universe full circle. After 11 years and the establishment of a cinematic universe, Marvel is on top of the world. With 11 years’ worth of Marvel movie watching experience, here are my top five MCU films you should watch. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” The second film in many trilogy’s usually is a disappointment compared to its predecessor, but there are exceptions like “Terminator 2” and “The Empire Strikes Back,” and, in this instance, “The Winter Soldier.” This was the film that established Captain America as an awesome character in the MCU. It’s him vs. the world as he has to take
down the evil organization Hydra that has infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and plans to wipe out everyone who is a threat to them. This is peak comic book noir mixed with real life problems. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” If you’re anything like me, you love Spider-Man. One of Marvel’s most iconic heroes finally joined the MCU and got his own standalone film. This time, Marvel understood it wasn’t time for ANOTHER Peter Parker origin story, instead making a film that has an established web-head swinging around. Tom Holland is the most accurate comic book Spider-Man we have ever had, and that, along with a great performance of an iconic character, is why you should watch this film. “Guardians of the
Galaxy” This quite frankly is a comic book property that shouldn’t have been as successful as it has proven to be. The Guardians are some of Marvel’s least known superheroes; however, with an all-star cast headlined by Chris Pratt and excellent directing by James Gunn, “Guardians of the Galaxy” is a blast to watch. It’s a hilarious journey set in space with an amazing soundtrack. What more could you ask for? “Avengers: Infinity War” The film that shocked the world last year deserves a spot on this list. The film that brought every movie property in the MCU together is filled with humor, action, and an ending that will leave you a crying mess. “Infinity War” has it all. It also has a cool name, so bonus points.
“Thor: Ragnarok” The first two “Thor” films were underwhelming. They were dark and tried bringing those themes to the character Thor, and if you watched “Avengers” you know Thor is MUCH better in lighthearted scenarios. In “Thor: Ragnarok,” Taika Waititi, a filmmaker, understood this and made this a hilarious trip for the entire film. Throw in the use of “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin and you have my attention. Waititi also made the best decision in the MCU, which was having Jeff Goldblum in this film, which is an automatic win no matter what.
Controversial candy: Will peeps be in your Easter basket this year? BY OLIVIA GIANETTINO STAFF WRITER
This weekend is Easter, and a classic holiday candy has people divided: Peeps. The sugar-coated marshmallow treat holds about the same amount of controversy as its sugary Halloween counterpart candy corn. People either wait all year to enjoy the candies or shame their existence. Freshman history student Karley Morris likes her fix of Peeps during the holiday season. “I like them in small quantities – like a row,” Morris said. NPR says in the springtime, Peeps will outsell jelly beans. In 2013, Just Born, which makes Peeps as well as other candies, prepped to produce more than 1 billion chicks and bunnies in light of Easter, breaking the record for the previous year, according to Kelton, a research agency. Not everyone is finding joy
in Peeps, though. Kelton said a survey conducted by RetailMeNot in 2017 showed people’s interest in Peeps as an Easter candy staple much lower than expected. In comparison to three other candies – Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Eggs, chocolate bunnies and jelly beans — only 34% of Americans prioritized Peeps. The survey suggested that people are turning to peanut butter and chocolate treats to fill their baskets and satisfy their Easter sweet tooth. Regardless, Peeps continue to be the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. According to Tanya Pai of Vox, the “sugar-coated marshmallows with eyes” were created in the early ‘50s and originally came in only one shape: the chick. Now, high demand has turned them into a yearround snack, as they come in hearts for Valentine’s Day, ghosts for Halloween and even specialty characters like Minions.
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Transfer quarterback likely to lead WVU once again BY COLE MCCLANAHAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL West Virginia is exiting spring without a clear decision on who will start at quarterback, but its recent trend of having a transfer behind center is likely to continue. WVU has three quarterbacks on scholarship entering the fall, but two — Jack Allison and Austin Kendall — are former transfers and have separated themselves for the starting job. “Going out there every day and just trying to compete, that’s my biggest thing,” Kendall said. “Throughout these last competitions that I’ve had at Oklahoma, my kind of thing is that I just go in every day just looking to compete.” Kendall sat behind two Heisman Trophy winners at Oklahoma in Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray, and they transferred to WVU in January after former Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts announced he would be transferring to OU. Allison, like Kendall, was
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Austin Kendall lined up and ready to take the snap from the center. backup to a Heisman hopeful in Will Grier, but it wasn’t until Allison became a Mountaineer that he had to sit behind a future NFL player. The 6-foot-6 signal caller began his career at Miami, but transferred after redshirt-
ing his freshman season and played in seven games for the Mountaineers in 2017, culminating in his first career start with WVU in the Camping World Bowl. “That was such a huge learning experience for me,” Alli-
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Jack Allison making a run for the first down. son said of starting in WVU’s bowl game. “I’m so grateful for that opportunity, just learning what it’s like to really be out there in the first quarter. I got in a few times during the season, but it was more towards the end of the game where the
game was dead. Just to get in there and see live bullets from the first to the fourth quarter, it was such a great experience for me, and I’m so grateful.” Both quarterbacks have seldom played early in their careers, but they finally have the
opportunity to in 2019 with a clean slate and a new coaching staff. Improvements were made this spring among the two, and they will have to continue into this summer and fall for either to be named the starting quarterback. The decision from WVU head coach Neal Brown, however, is far from over, and both know they must progress to win the job. “I feel like I need to make more plays and lead the offense down the field and score each drive,” Kendall said. “We just really have to come together this fall, and I think we’ll be pretty good from there.” Neither quarterback candidate aims to lose the competition and be relegated to the sideline once again, knowing a lack of playing time was what led them to West Virginia in the first place. “That’s probably the biggest reason why I’m here right now,” Kendall said of playing behind OU’s Mayfield and Murray. “I don’t have a lot of playing time, but I’m here to prove people wrong. I’m excited to get my chance, and I’m ready to go.”
New leadership transforms dynamic of offensive line BY JARED SERRE
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
FOOTBALL In his first season at the helm of the offensive line of the West Virginia football team, Matt Moore has his work cut out for him. Like head coach Neal Brown, Moore comes to WVU from Troy University, where he coached the offensive line since 2016. Despite losing three starters from last season, Moore will work to retain the progress of an offensive line that helped to lead the Mountaineers to the second-ranked offense in the Big 12 Conference last season. “We’ve gotten better up front. We’ve come together,” Moore said following Saturday’s Gold-Blue Game. The current struggles of the unit primarily lie within making the most out
of the personnel available. Moore and the rest of the offensive staff will have to find replacements for the entire left side of last season’s offensive line, including likely NFL Draft pick Yodny Cajuste. Along with center Matt Jones, who transferred away from the program, the Mountaineers have gone through spring practice without four members from last season’s team. For one, former starting right tackle Colton McKivitz has shifted over to the left tackle spot. However, that creates a new slot to be filled. Paving the way to see playing time include tackle Tyler Thurmond, who started for the Gold team during the spring game, and guards Zach Davis and James Gmiter, who started for Blue. However, some members of the team feel as if the struggles will benefit from a shift in mindset due to the new coaching staff.
“Overall coachability, really,” McKivitz said when asked about the biggest growing point of the offensive line. “I think guys are taking to coach Moore’s coaching and how he presents himself and how the room is being led. I think that’s a big part of it — guys are wanting to be coached, and they’re getting better.” Moore replaced former offensive line coach Joe Wickline, who had been with the team since 2016. “Both guys coach different — Wick is an oldschool guy, and some guys take that coaching great. Some people don’t,” McKivitz said. “Coach Moore has definitely brought a lot of positivity to the room, and I think that’s helping with some of the younger guys.”
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Mountaineers tossing their way to best start since 1982 BY QUINN BURKITT STAFF WRITER
BASEBALL Following an impressive series victory over then-15thranked Texas Tech, the West Virginia baseball team earned a spot as the 20th-ranked team in the D1 Baseball power rankings on Monday. The feat marks the first time West Virginia has been ranked this season and the highest the Mountaineers have ranked since 1982. Almost all of the Mountaineers’ success can be credited to their dominant pitching and defensive play through the opening 35 ball games this spring. West Virginia (22-13, 6-6 Big 12) ranks first in the conference with 338 punch outs this season, to go along with a conference-leading 9.92 strikeouts per nine innings. Right-handed ace Alek Manoah holds a 2.08 ERA and 5-2 mark through nine starts this season, which leads all other pitchers on the staff with at least nine starts. Manoah’s top gem of the season so far came in his last outing against Texas Tech on April 12, in which the junior struck out 15 Red Raiders and only allowed four hits for the 2-0 West Virginia triumph.
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B.J. Myers pitching for WVU at PNC Park in 2017-18. “The way Manoah pitched tonight, I don’t know how he could’ve done better. There’s nothing he did that you look back at that game and say, ‘I wish he’d have done that or that.’ He was just on point with every single thing he was doing,� said West Virginia head coach Randy Mazey following Sunday’s win over Texas Tech. The Miami, Florida, native ranks first in the Big 12 with 11.87 strikeouts per game and second in the conference with an opposing .182 batting average. Mazey’s Sunday starter Kade
Strowd doesn’t fall far behind with his performance so far this season as the junior righthander has racked up a 4-3 record and 3.61 ERA through nine starts. Although the native of Fort Worth, Texas, has run into a few shaky performances on the mound, Strowd was the reason the Mountaineers were able to
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knock off then-third-ranked Oregon State, 2-0. In the matchup, Strowd tossed 6.1 innings of one hit and no earned run work, which made a name for himself against such a dangerous Beaver lineup. Tied for most wins (five) on West Virginia’s pitching staff with Manoah is Nick Snyder,
who Mazey tends to give the ball to in mid-week matchups including a three hit, one earned run performance over Maryland last Wednesday in which the West Virginia bats propelled the Mountaineers to an 8-1 victory. “It makes you feel good as a coach, you’ve got a team that doesn’t feel sorry for themselves and doesn’t get down on themselves,� Mazey said following a 12-4 victory over Oklahoma on March 30. The left-hander Snyder has impressed this season with a 5-1 mark and a 1.76 ERA through seven starts this season. The junior has only given up more than one run in one start against Morehead State on March 12, in which the fastball slinger tossed six innings of four hit, two earned run baseball. Along with a trio of topnotch starting arms that Mazey can usually turn to for solid outings, the back end of the bullpen also provides a sigh of relief for Mountaineer fans in nail-biter games. Junior right-hander Sam Kessler has served mainly as Mazey’s closer in the ninth in-
ning and has done so in fashion so far. Through 15 appearances and 18.2 innings pitched out of the bullpen this season, Kessler has registered a 3.86 ERA and six saves. The right-hander hadn’t allowed more than a single run in any appearance until an April 6 matchup at Oklahoma State saw Kessler serve up three hits and five runs en route to only recording two outs in relief. Whether it be the first seven innings of a ballgame or coming on for the save, Mazey and the rest of the Mountaineers are lucky to have such strong pitching arms in a hitting frenzy conference. The abundance of West Virginia arms hope to spark a surge when June rolls around for a program that hasn’t been playing this good of baseball since the 1980s. After a mid-week cancellation against Penn State, the Mountaineers will return to Big 12 play with a three-game series with Kansas at Monongalia County Ballpark. The first game will get underway on Friday at 6:30 p.m.
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