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St. Marys wrestling runner-up at Par Mar Stores Alumni Tournament

ST. MARYS — Here Saturday at the 13th annual Par Mar Stores Alumni Tournament host St. Marys had to settle for a runner-up finish to University, 198.5-170.5, while Doddridge County (149), Logan (138) and Roane County (132.5) rounded out the top five team scores. The Blue Devils’ first ...

Marietta boys charge past Fort Frye, 67-39

BEVERLY — Playing in the unfriendly confines of Dan Liedtke Court at Fort Frye High School, it was important for the Marietta Tigers to get off to a good start to quiet the large crowd on hand for the first match-up of the season between them and the Cadets. The athletic Tigers actually ...

Wheeling Central overpowers Williamstown, 90-49

WHEELING — The last time that the Wheeling Central Maroon Knights and Williamstown Yellowjackets boys basketball teams met, it was in the WVSSAC Class AA state championship. Friday on Coach Skip Prosser Court, it was two different iterations of the two teams, and it was once again the ...

Wildcats rally in 4th to beat Golden Eagles, 52-46

WATERFORD — Behind a strong backing from its community filling the stands inside its home gym and staying the course down the stretch, the Waterford boys basketball team laid to rest a six-game losing streak which lasted nearly four weeks. Behind 20 points from Reese Lang and another 19 ...

Column: Jaguars have a Strange feeling heading into playoffs

Could a local kid make an impact in the NFL postseason this year? Stranger things have happened. At 1 p.m. Sunday in Jacksonville, Fla., Jaguars tight end and Parkersburg High graduate Brenton Strange will make his NFL playoff debut. The Jags last made the postseason in 2022, when Strange was a redshirt junior at Penn State. Jacksonville selected Strange in the second round of the NFL draft in 2023, and the former PHS star athlete has played a pivotal role in the changing of culture for the 2025 AFC South champions. Strange, in his third professional season, put up career-highs ...

Cadets too much for Tigers, 56-28

BEVERLY — Junior Ella Dowler tossed in 24 points Thursday night to lead the Fort Frye Cadets to a dominating 56-28 win over the Marietta Tigers at Dan Liedtke Court to sweep the season series between the two Washington County Schools. Dowler scored the first eight points of the game as ...