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Bentley, Nandua swim coach, has spent a life at the pool

BY ADOLPHUS AMES, Eastern Shore Post The Nandua Warriors girls varsity swim team had its most successful season last year. The team won the Region 2A Championship and finished in fourth place at the 2022 Class 2A State Championship. Prior to last season, the team had not finished higher than 17th...
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Marcus Riley brought his championship ways back to the Shore

BY ADOLPHUS AMES, Eastern Shore Post The Nandua Warriors boys varsity basketball team became the first basketball team on the Eastern Shore to win a state championship in 2002, defeating Altavista High School, 65-49.  Marcus Riley, who played power forward and center for the Warriors during this time, remembers the state...
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Northampton’s Devin Allen shows you can indeed go home again

BY ADOLPHUS AMES, Eastern Shore Post The 1999-2000 sports season was a big one for Devin Allen. It was her senior year at Northampton High School and she was named Eastern Shore District Player of the Year in volleyball, basketball, and softball.  She also became the first female basketball player to...
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Nandua swimmers split with Maryland squad

BY ADOLPHUS AMES, Eastern Shore Post The Nandua girls and boys swim teams traveled to Cambridge, Md., to compete against Cambridge-South Dorchester on Tuesday, Dec. 13.  The Warriors split the meet — the girls swim team won, 88-18, and the boys team lost, 65-55. The win improved the season record of the Warriors’...
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B.A. Walker’s memorable basketball journey has deep Shore roots

BY ADOLPHUS AMES, Eastern Shore Post The Nandua Warriors boys varsity basketball team reached the state semifinals during the 2000-2001 season and lost, 70-47, to Council High School.  B.A. Walker, who played point guard for the Warriors during this time, used the loss as motivation to return to the final four...
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Chincoteague boys pick up first basketball wins of season

BY ADOLPHUS AMES, Eastern Shore Post The Chincoteague Ponies boys varsity basketball team picked up its first win of the season Friday, Dec. 9, on the Ponies’ home court by defeating the Broadwater Vikings, 63-32.  The Ponies built a 28-17 lead in the first half. In the third quarter, the Ponies’ offense...
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State champ Casey Paglia, a student of wrestling, becomes a teacher of it

By Adolphus Ames When former Northampton Yellow Jacket Casey Paglia won his second state wrestling title in 2012, it was a special moment. That year the state tournament featured three returning state champions and six returning state place winners. “It was also the same year my mother was diagnosed with brain...
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Eyeing specks and puppy drum — and awaiting rocks

By Bill Hall — Productive flounder fishing can still be found inside Chincoteague Bay and over the inshore ocean wrecks, while southern Shore anglers have turned their attention to speckled trout and puppy drum.  Look for an influx of small rockfish into the Chesapeake Bay within the next few weeks. Chincoteague Recent flounder...
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Killmon returns to Nandua High after pitching for UMES

By Adolphus Ames — When University of Maryland Eastern Shore graduate John Mark Killmon returns in the spring to Nandua High School’s baseball field, it will be as an assistant coach. “It’s very exciting to assist the coaches and team I used to play for,” he said. Since he last played for...
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Fishing Report

Late-summer red drum run has begun in lower bay

By Bill Hall — The calendar may still say summer, but the movements of the fish populations are more consistent with the beginning of the autumn season. Cobia and spadefish numbers continue to decline inside the Chesapeake Bay, with the fish beginning to stage at the mouth of the bay and...
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