CHARLESTON — Elkins High School’s Landon Shreve has been named to the honorable-mention list on the Class AAA all-state team released today by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association. Shreve, a senior forward, led the Tigers in scoring and rebounding this season. Meanwhile, ...
MILL CREEK — The Mason Dixon all-conference boys team and the Potomac Valley Conference Division II girls squad have been released. Tygarts Valley placed two players on the Mason Dixon first team — Jacob Wamsley, who went over 1,000 career points this season, and Parker Bell. They ...
MILL CREEK — Tygarts Valley dropped a 4-3 decision to Bath County (Va.) on Wednesday. Cooper Markley was saddled with the loss for the Bulldogs. He went six innings, allowing four runs on five hits and striking out eight. Corban Oldaker struck out the side in one inning of relief. Dylan Hicklin earned the win, scattering one run on three hits over three innings of work. He fanned four. Nate Hunt was credited with the save. The Chargers took a 2-0 lead in the second on RBI single by Cade Perdue and Mark Durney’s RBI groundout. Markley’s double in the third scored ...
MORGANTOWN — It’s a list that includes former WVU men’s basketball coach Darian DeVries, who finished 18-14 in his first season at Indiana. Virginia Tech, Seton Hall, San Diego State, Cincinnati and Florida State added their names to the list, too. What’s the list? Schools who opted out of playing in a postseason hoops tournament after not getting an invite to the NCAA tournament this season. “I don’t feel that playing in another postseason event would benefit us,” San Diego State head coach Brian Dutcher said in a statement. And then there is the current bunch at ...
MORGANTOWN — At some point this spring, Rich Rodriguez wasn’t going to be happy with one of West Virginia football’s practices. There were a couple of times last summer when Rodriguez thought a practice didn’t meet his expectations, and he wasn’t afraid to share his thoughts with the media. The spring hasn’t been perfect so far, but Rodriguez seemed in a better mood. That changed after the sixth practice, which was WVU’s first scrimmage, and then the seventh practice on Monday. “Scrimmage was just OK,” Rodriguez said. “Offense moved the ball some and made some ...
BRIDGEPORT — The Elkins Middle School track teams opened the season this past Saturday in the Connect-Bridgeport Invitational. Clara Pyles won the 3,200 and set a new Elkins Middle School record with a time of 11:50.52. The other first-place finisher for the Lady Hornets, who tied East Fairmont and Ritchie County for second in the meet with 66 points, was Isabella Drain-White (discus, 73-11). She was also fourth in the shot put (28-10). The 4x200 relay of Everley Harper, Flora Perkins, Ruthie Capps and Lily Hayes placed second with a time of 2:06.39, Vivienne Shepherd was third in ...
