ELKINS — Zeya Price’s cracked a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning as Elkins rallied for a 7-6 win over Tygarts Valley Monday night at Betty Heckel Field. The Lady Tigers trailed 6-4 entering the frame before mounting a comeback. Meria Tarley and Addison Carr ...
TENNERTON — Buckhannon-Upshur scored six runs over the first two innings en route to a 9-2 victory over Big 10 Conference rival Elkins Monday night at William E. Phillips Memorial Field. Brody McDaniels’ bases-clearing double highlighted a four-run second inning. He also had an RBI single in the first. Jaxon Spratt tallied run-producing doubles in each of the first and second innings as well as the Bucs built a 6-0 lead for starter Jerin Westfall, who scattered one hit and fanned eight in pitching four scoreless innings. Trent Stone had a two-run homer with Braden Cooper ...
TENNERTON — Buckhannon-Upshur improved to 20-6 with an 11-0 win over Preston Monday in Big 10 action. Kynnedy Marple pitched a five-inning, two-hit gem for the Lady Bucs, striking out nine and not issuing a walk. Maddie Tucker, Becca Pastorius and Leah Bryant had two RBIs each for B-U. Tucker had a two-run homer as part of a nine-run fourth inning. The Bucs will visit Cabell Midland on Thursday night.
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football went this year’s NFL Draft without a player from the 2025 team selected by a team in the league. There were former players selected, like Akheem Mesidor, who was picked in the first round by the Los Angeles Chargers. The Mountaineers ended their streak of having players drafted, but they weren’t the only Power Four team to not have a player selected in one of the seven rounds. WVU was one of 10 schools, which included Colorado and Oklahoma State from the Big 12, and local schools Virginia and Virginia Tech, to not have a draft pick. But ...
WEST UNION—Elkins High School’s track stars continued their assault on meet and school records Friday night at Doddridge’s 44th annual Cline Stansberry Invitational. For the Tigers, Donovan Howes’ discus toss of 153-3 broke a 57-year old school record. Larry Spears established ...
It was an unorthodox weekend for No. 12 West Virginia baseball in its three-game series heading to Cincinnati. The Mountaineers played an extra-inning game, had a game postponed, making for a doubleheader on Saturday, and did all of it without their top pitcher, Maxx Yehl. In Game 3 of the series Sunday afternoon, in a rubber match, WVU blew a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning, losing 7-5 to Cincinnati, falling in its second series of the season. WVU needed a big bounce-back series this weekend, after being blasted in the Backyard Brawl on Tuesday by Pitt. The tide looked turned after ...
