Sports

Lauren Burnett’s suicide prompted the softball world to take action on mental health

How the death of JMU catcher Lauren Burnet shook college softball and prompted action on mental health 24 hours before the start of her team’s biggest series of the season, Patty Gasso went into a quiet room in her house and clicked the zoom link. She wasn’t talking strategy to aides or watching opponents’ movies. […]

Baseball

Corbin’s female pro participant mary Weddle Hines dies at 87

CORBIN — Corbin’s own baseball/softball legend, Virgin Mary Weddle Hines, died at the age of eighty seven over the weekend. Hines was born on April twenty six, 1934 and grew up in Woodsfield, Ohio on a farm with eleven brothers and 4 sisters and a love for the sport of baseball. After taking part in […]