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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. -- Fullback Bobby Humphries ran for touchdowns of 66 and 20 yards in the fourth quarter Saturday to lead Shepherd to a 35-27 win over Shippensburg in the Great Valley Classic. The Rams (1-0) racked up 532 yards of total offense as they won their sixth consecutive season opener against the Red Raiders. Kevin Clancy completed 18 of 30 passes for 220 yards and two touchdowns for Shepherd, while Nate Hoyte ran for a game-high 93 yards on 16 carries. Humphries chipped in 90 yards on only three rushes.

Sunday, March 27, 2011 COLLEGE BASEBALL WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. — Shepherd pounded out 19 hits, but Wheeling Jesuit rallied for a 14-13 win over the Rams in WVIAC action Sunday. Trailing 9-8, Shepherd (6-12, 2-9) scored four runs in the seventh inning to take a 12-9 lead. A two-run single by Jake Cook and an RBI single by Val Arduini keyed the rally. The Cardinals (7-7, 5-1) added a run in the seventh and took a 14-12 lead with four runs in the eighth. Corey Hull belted a two-run double to highlight the four-run rally.

Sunday, May 13, 2012   COLLEGE BASEBALL JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Ryan Messina belted a pair of two-run homers to lead Shepherd to a 10-5 victory over Alderson-Broaddus (29-24) in the championship game of the WVIAC Tournament on Sunday. Brandon Coffey hit a solo home run for the Rams (30-20), while Nathan Minnich had a two-run double, Nash Hutter added two RBIs in the victory. Starter Andrew Gallant (6-3) went five innings for the win for Shepherd, which earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 COLLEGE BASEBALL VIENNA, W.Va. — Shepherd plated five runs on four hits in the top of the first inning and held on for a 6-5 victory over Ohio Valley (11-15, 7-10) in the first game of a WVIAC doubleheader split Wednesday. A three-run double by Brandon Coffey highlighted the inning. Derek Gunsell, Nash Hutter and Morgan Lautz each had an RBI in the victory, Aaron Lee had a double and winning pitcher Paul Hvozdovic had six strikeouts.

De'Antwan Williams ran 30 times for 152 yards and the go-ahead touchdown as No. 11 Indiana (Pa.) knocked off No. 25 Shepherd 27-17 in the first round of the NCAA Division II playoffs on Saturday afternoon. The Crimson Hawks (11-1) ran for 203 yards, becoming the only team to rush for more than 110 yards against the Rams this season. Shepherd (8-3) took a 17-14 lead midway through the third quarter on a 42-yard field goal by Ryan Earls. But IUP ruled the rest of the game. Williams scored on a 5-yard run with 1:45 left in the third to give the Hawks a 21-17 lead.

The Shepherd University Department of Music Preparatory Division is now accepting registrations for the fall 2012 semester. Students of all ages interested in taking individual lessons in woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano, voice, guitar, bass guitar, strings (violin, viola, cello or double bass) theory or jazz improvisation, are eligible for lessons with faculty and student instructors. The registration fee for the preparatory division is $25 per semester. Preparatory instructors set their own weekly lesson rates, and teach half-hour and hour lessons depending upon student level.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Shepherd 69 , Salem International 60 SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. ? Krissy Grosselin scored 21 points and had five rebounds as Shepherd defeated Salem International (2-8, 1-2) in a West Virginia Conference contest. Katie Warehime added 17 points for the Rams (6-4, 3-1), while Laura Harkins had nine points. MEN'S BASKETBALL Shepherd 80, Salem International 59 SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. ? Jonathan Motichka scored 18 points, including five 3-pointers, to lead Shepherd to a West Virginia Conference win over Salem International.

The Shepherd University Common Reading Program will show the movie “Miss Evers' Boys” in the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies auditorium on Thursday at 7 p.m. An after-film discussion will be led by Kathy Corpus, assistant professor of family and consumer sciences. The movie is free and open to the public. The film tells the story of the Tuskegee Experiment, a secret medical experiment on poor African Americans from 1932 to 1972, designed to study the effects of untreated syphilis.

Shepherd to host business workshop SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - The Shepherd College Small Business Development Center will host a Home-Based Business workshop Monday, Oct. 21, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the James Rumsey Technical Institute in Hedgesville, W.Va. Issues discussed in this workshop will include insurance, taxes, pricing, developing an image, and marketing. The cost is $15. Prepaid registration is required by Wednesday. For more information or to register, call 1-304-260-4385.

Nathan James Arch of Hagerstown  was among 16 Shepherd University students named McMurran Scholars, the university's highest academic honor. An academic convocation was held April 19 to honor the new McMurran inductees. McMurran Scholars must complete a minimum of 92 semester hours, maintain at least a 3.8 grade-point average, complete two consecutive semesters of study at Shepherd and be nominated by at least three faculty members. Nominees must then be approved by the faculty at large.

Family and friends of Jose Luis Moreno, all from Massachusetts, took up nearly a whole row in the bleachers at Shepherd University's Butcher Center on Saturday as Moreno marched across the stage to receive his master's degree at the college's 140th commencement. “There are nine of us here,” said Sarah McAtee of Kearneysville, W.Va. She met Moreno when they were classmates at Framingham (Mass.) State University. “His parents are here, his brother, sister, brother-in-law, two nieces and his aunt.

Sunday, April 28, 2013 COLLEGE BASEBALL Pitt-Johnstown 6, Shepherd 5 JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - Pitt-Johnstown scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally for a win over Shepherd in WVIAC action Sunday. Shepherd (25-20, 21-10) jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first. Chad Murphy and Kyle Porter hit RBI singles and Bryan DiRosario hit a two-run triple. Shepherd increased its lead to 5-1 in the eighth on an RBI single by Jake Cook. The Mountain Cats (27-19, 15-15)

The Shepherd University Foundation officially launched its new initiative, Women for Shepherd University, on April 13 with a Women and Wellness workshop held at Shepherd's Wellness Center. The event was the first of a series of women-centered programs offering opportunities to learn about life issues facing women today. Women for Shepherd University plans to hold at least two events per year with a focus on matters pertaining to health, finance, technology and life change. The Women and Wellness workshop offered attendees the choice of three 40-minute sessions along five tracks.

Siriki Diabate left his four daughters, parents and three siblings behind in 2005 when he was forced to flee his native Ivory Coast after suffering a terrific beating by thugs who left him for dead. He was working for a local newspaper at the time, writing stories exposing the national government's practice of persecuting the Malinki tribal people in the country's northern region, he said. “I am a Malinki,” said Diabate, who was 32 at the time he was beaten. The men who beat him were unofficial paramilitary goons hired by the government to harass Malinki activists, Diabate said in a recent interview.

The Really Really Free Market, a public exchange of unwanted stuff, has occupied the wall in front of Shepherd University's McMurran Hall in downtown Shepherdstown one weekend a month for the last five summers. It was a popular greeting spot, a place where the discards of daily living are dropped off to be taken to another home to be reused, reread or reworn. It was all of those things and more until earlier this month, when Shepherd University officials told the free market organizers that they could no longer set it up on the wall.

A Jefferson County grand jury this week indicted a Shepherd University employee on multiple charges of fraudulent use of the college's purchase cards in a case involving nearly $86,000 from October 2010 to August 2012, according to court records. Elizabeth A. “Libby” Shanton, 48, of 328 N. Centre St. in Martinsburg, W.Va., was indicted on 53 counts of fraudulent or unauthorized use of a purchasing card and one count of fraudulent schemes. According to a memorandum to Shepherd employees this week from university President Suzanne Shipley, school officials became aware “of the appearance of improper expenditures by an employee,” and contacted the state auditor's office.

The second of three buildings forming Shepherd University's Center for Contemporary Arts, a “building designed from the inside out,” was dedicated Thursday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the West Campus. “That's what happens when the inside dictates what the outside of a building looks like,” said Dow Benedict, dean of the School of Arts and Humanities. The exterior of the 26,000-square-foot, three-story structure is clad in heavy copper shingles that time will darken with a patina.

When the robot R2-D2 showed up in the Star Wars movies, a lot of people probably thought it would be well in the future before something like that became reality. Well, that day is here. A robotics festival at Shepherd University this weekend featured robots that can find fire in rooms and a solar-powered balloon contraption that can be used to take photographs on a battlefield and pick up military intelligence. Robots are in use today, like those that look for explosives, said Seung-yun Kim, an assistant professor of computer information and science at Shepherd University who organized the third annual ShepRobo Fest at the Butcher Center.

McCrae Nicole Wright has been selected to represent the West Virginia Horticulture Society at the 86th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. Wright is a 2012 graduate of Martinsburg (W.Va.) High School, where she participated in Key Club and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She also was the historian of DECA and a cheerleader. Wright is a freshman majoring in general studies at Shepherd University. Wright was a princess at the 33rd Mountain State Apple Harvest Festival and has participated in dance since the age of 5. Wright is the daughter of Brenda and Brett Wright of Martinsburg and the granddaughter of Canna Crowell of Martinsburg and the late Robert Wright and Jean and John Phillips of Boonsboro.