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Tucker boys place sixth in Class A state meet

CHARLESTON — The Tucker County boys placed sixth in the Class A portion of the state meet completed Saturday at Laidley Field. The Mountain Lions tallied 46 points. Wahama took the boys title with 123.50 points. The 4x400-meter relay unit of Nate Ricottilli, Keeyln Eichelberger, Lucas Barb and Reid Kisamore placed second on Saturday in a time of 3:33.33. The same group placed eighth in the 4x200 relay (1:37.50). Ricottilli was also third in the 400 (51.86) and Kisamore fifth in the 100 (11.64). Barb won the state title in the high jump on Friday’s first day of the meet with ...

State meet off and running

CHARLESTON — The Elkins High School 4x800-meter relay teams captured Class AAA titles on the opening day of the state meet Friday at Laidley Field, while Tucker County’s Lucas Barb claimed the Class A high jump title. Bobby Valentine, Josh Bodkins, Dylan Fortney and Trevor George ...

Baker expects WVU to have ‘best fundraising year ever’

MORGANTOWN — The current state of college athletics has turned into an “arms race,” as West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker called it in April. It’s become who can generate the most money to pay the best players to compete for championships. And it’s happening in all sports. Now, as college football legend Nick Saban said, it depends on where you spend the money, but as Rich Rodriguez recently said in an interview with ESPN’s Pete Thamel, it gets to a point where you can’t miss. “When rosters get up to $50 million, $60 million, $70 million, they’d have to be ...

Elkins High School Hosts Signing Day

State track & field meet begins today

CHARLESTON — Several area athletes will take part in the two-day state track & field meet set to get underway this afternoon at Laidley Field and concluding on Saturday evening. The following is a list of qualifiers for area schools (some event qualifiers were still pending at press time and subject to change): Elkins High School (Class AAA) Jaden Hatfield (100-meter dash, 200, 4x100 relay, 4x200); Randal Marks (100, 4x100, 4x200, shuttle hurdle relay); Bobby Valentine (800, 1600, 4x400, 4x800); Trevor George (800, 1600, 3,200, 4x800); Dylan Fortney (800, 4x800, 4x400); Josh ...

Wren Baker provides updates on West Tower Project for WVU’s Milan Puskar Stadium

MORGANTOWN — It’s been over six months since West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker presented the West Tower Project at Milan Puskar Stadium to the WVU Board of Governors. During that meeting, Baker talked about how it’d drive more premium seating, which WVU lacked, showed renderings and presented an estimated cost for the project of $156 million. At the end of Baker's pitch, the board approved the early steps for Baker to find an engineering firm, a sales representative and an owner representative. Since the meeting, WVU has partnered with Barton Malow and March-Westin to ...