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    Gladiators Edge Staunton on Senior Night

    Senior pitcher Brody Phillips was one of four players playing their final home regular season tonight at Riverheads, and he delivered with a complete-game 4-2 win over a much-improved Staunton Storm team. His fellow graduates (Chase Donathan, Holden Fitzgerald, and Ethan Mulcahy) all contributed...
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    Alleghany Cougars Even Score (Exactly as a Matter of Fact) Against Riverheads

    Usually in sports, one team is simply better than another and proves it in whatever games they play against each other. But Riverheads and Alleghany must have missed that memo, because the homestanding Cougars shut out the Big Red tonight 10-0, but obviously neither team was the same as they...
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    Gladiators Subdue Rockbridge 6-3

    Playing in temperatures closer to football if not basketball weather, things were looking promising for the Big Red to send the shivering crowd to their cars in a little bit over 90 minutes. But then things got a little frisky in each team's final at-bat, which dragged things out for another...
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    Gladiators "Bro-Berk" Fort Defiance 10-4

    Tonight's Riverheads win was of course a team effort, as every victory is, but two players in particular had their best games of the season, or maybe even of their careers. So hats off to senior shortstop Brody Phillips and freshman pitcher Jackson Berkstresser. Berkstresser started the game...
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    Riverheads Run Rules Stonewall

    The Gladiators made the most of their trip up to Rebel Park this evening as they scored in four of their five required at-bats and routed the home team 12-0. The game was an easier win for the Big Red than the 6-1 victory in their earlier meeting. Brody Phillips walked on four pitches to open...
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    Wilson Closes in on Shenandoah Title With Shutout at Riverheads

    So another year of action between these two rivals is in the books. Next up will be their September meeting on the football field, which should be another classic. Meanwhile best of luck to both in the baseball playoffs. Maybe they can repeat that year (I believe it was 2018) when they each won...
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    Wilson Closes in on Shenandoah Title With Shutout at Riverheads

    Although there are still a few games left for every team in the district, the Wilson Green Hornets certainly appear to be headed for the Shenandoah District baseball title after today's 4-0 win over Riverheads on the Gladiator diamond. With the win, the Green Team holds a three-game lead in the...
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    Gladiators Outslug Bison 10-6

    County rivals Riverheads and Buffalo Gap muddled through a 2-0 game for the first four innings and then turned on the heavy artillery over the final three frames as the visiting Big Red held off their hosts 10-6. The win completed a season sweep as RHS had won the first time 12-2. Brody...
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    Cougars "Broganize" Riverheads 8-7

    Don't be surprised if a new statue is erected somewhere in Stuarts Draft in the next few days. If so, it will honor Brogan Fitzgerald, who led his Cougar team tonight to a miraculous eight-inning comeback win over the rival Gladiators. The win evened the series between the two at one win apiece...
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    Gladiators Rally Past James River

    You don't see this very often but both teams this afternoon stuck with their starting pitchers for the entire game as Riverheads squeezed out a 4-1 victory over visiting James River. To show you the amazing effort put forth by the two juniors (Asher Falls for Riverheads and Camden Saunders for...
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    Gladiators Ease Past Waynesboro in Late Innings

    Riverheads posted a third straight shut-out win this afternoon but it certainly was not as easy as the two preceding it. The Waynesboro Little Giants not only put up a good fight, but at times actually looked like the better team before RHS posted a single run in the fifth and then added three...
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    Riverheads Rocks Staunton in 5

    The Gladiators played one of their most fundamentally-sound games of the season tonight as they blanked The Staunton Storm 13-0 in a five-inning run rule decision. Freshman pitcher Cason Croft went the distance and earned the victory, tossing just 73 pitches to handcuff the frustrated Storm...
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    Gladiators Crush Cougars With 5th Inning Explosion

    Sometimes in sports you have a game in which fans on both sides walk away saying "What just happened here?" Such was the case in Greenville tonight when the Alleghany Cougars paid Riverheads a visit. Each team came into the game with only one loss, that being to Wilson, and the winner would be...
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    Gladiators Come Alive in Middle Innings to Rally Past Rockbridge

    I have now been told that the final was 9-5. I guess that means that when I was starting my post, they must have been very early in the 7th as opposed to wrapping up.
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    Gladiators Come Alive in Middle Innings to Rally Past Rockbridge

    I did not attend today so I can only report what I saw on GameChanger. I am not even sure the game is over yet, but by the time I finish this post, it should be. The visiting Gladiators got off to a rough start and trailed 2-0 early. But they exploded for eight runs in the middle three innings...
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