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Late scoring burst lifts WVU women by UCF

MORGANTOWN — The scoring burst came later than expected, but it eventually happened. The end result was the 17th-ranked WVU women’s basketball team walked out of Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Fla. on Wednesday with one collective “whew.” Behind a dominating third-quarter performance that saw the Mountaineers shoot nearly 77% from the field, WVU avoided what would have been a major upset with a 74-62 victory against struggling UCF. Gia Cooke scored 19 points and Jordan Harrison added 16 points and seven assists, as WVU (23-6, 13-4 Big 12) won its eighth true road ...

Injuries continue to mount across the Big 12

MORGANTOWN — He should have been jumping up and down with joy. After all, Parsa Fallah had just slam dunked the final two points down that had given Oklahoma State a 91-84 overtime victory over West Virginia to end the Cowboys five-game losing streak. But instead of celebratory shouts ...

Skenes loses 4 strikes to challenges in Cy Young winner’s spring debut

NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — National League Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes lost four strikes to challenges in his first spring training start. Skenes struck out four and walked four over 2 1/3 innings for Pittsburgh on Wednesday against the Atlanta Braves, who were 4 for 4 against the right-hander on challenges to get called strikes overturned to balls — one of them by the slimmest of margins. The 53-pitch outing is expected to be the only one Skenes has for Pittsburgh before he joins the U.S. for the World Baseball Classic. He allowed one hit and one run while facing 12 batters. He ...

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby placed on IR

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins will have to start their playoff push without Sidney Crosby. The club placed its longtime captain on injured reserve on Wednesday. The move comes after Crosby sustained a lower-body injury during the Olympic hockey tournament at the Milan Cortina Games. The 38-year-old three-time Stanley Cup winner went down in the second period of Canada’s quarterfinal win over Czechia. The Canadians held out hope Crosby would be able to return, but he sat out a semifinal win over Finland and a loss to the United States in the gold medal game. Crosby, ...

Girls regional action set to begin Thursday

ELKINS — With postseason action for girls basketball set to get underway around the state, the WVSACA released its final regular-season poll on Tuesday. Philip Barbour is seventh in Class AA. The Lady Colts are the second seed in the Region II tourney and hosts No. 7 Berkeley Springs ...

Down The Stretch

MORGANTOWN — The West Virginia women’s basketball team may be sore, bruised and a little rough around the edges heading into its final two games of the regular season. That notion was tossed at WVU head coach Mark Kellogg. Sitting right next to him at the time was junior guard Gia ...