PARKERSBURG — With all this snow on the ground, no better time than to start thinking baseball and those interested in becoming an umpire for high schools in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Rex Foster, director of officials and special projects for the WVSSAC, is on the recruiting trail to find ...
BOYS BASKETBALL AVERAGE 24.8 – Harry Silvis (South) 23.6 - Kingston Christen (Magnolia) 22.4 – Isaac Hodges (Ritchie) 20.7 – Seth Cronin (Ritchie) 19.9 – Dylan Schott (Caldwell) 19.3 - Kolten Holbert (Gilmer) 19.1 - Braylan Dawson (Wirt) 19.0 – Malik Currie (Belpre) 17.4 ...
As basketball season heats up, the temperature gets colder and the snow gets heavier. A weekend winter storm has put a halt to the local high school hoops slate this week with Monday and Tuesday’s games getting wiped out. The Marietta girls, who dropped a 39-23 decision to New Lexington ...
GIRLS Williamstown 50, Wheeling Central 36 WHEELING — At the beginning of the week, Class AA No. 3 Williamstown was staring straight into a gauntlet. After impressive wins over Doddridge County and St. Marys, the Yellowjackets put an exclamation point on the week with a 50-36 victory over No. 2 Wheeling Central on Saturday. Williamstown (12-2) held the Maroon Knights (10-4) to just four points in the second quarter to create separation. The Yellowjackets never looked back. “I told the girls earlier in the week that if we could get out of this week 2-1, I’d be happy,” ...
MORGANTOWN — Somewhere between Brayden Burries’ relentlessness and his teammates’ ability to rebound and move the ball, West Virginia’s chance of pulling off a major upset Saturday was quickly extinguished. Burries, a freshman from San Bernardino, Calif., finished with 22 points and ...
MORGANTOWN — Maybe the quickest eight-point burst of the season gave the West Virginia women’s basketball team a cushion on Saturday night. Sydney Woodley and WVU’s defense made it stick against BYU. No. 22 WVU improved to 6-0 on the season in true road games following a 91-77 victory against BYU inside the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah. The Mountaineers (17-4, 7-2 Big 12) have now won four of their last five games and are within a half-game of both TCU and Baylor for first place in the Big 12 standings at the halfway mark of the conference’s regular season. Both Baylor and ...
