ELKINS — Elkins opened the home season with an 8-5 win over North Marion Tuesday in Big 10 Conference play at EHS Field. The Tigers, who played their home games at Robin Harvey Memorial Field last season due to wind damage to the visiting team’s dugout at EHS, used three RBIs from ...
ELKINS — North Marion plated a run in the top of the seventh inning to edge Elkins, 7-6, Tuesday in Big 10 Conference action at Betty Heckel Field. Kinlee Hess opened the inning by drawing a walk and later scored on a passed ball for the eventual game-winning run. The Lady Tigers had ...
MORGANTOWN — You may have heard this college basketball season was packed with talented freshmen. Between BYU’s A.J. Dybantsa and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, West Virginia has already scouted and performed against the two projected top picks in the 2026 NBA Draft. Duke’s Cameron Boozer was just four-tenths of a second of leading the Blue Devils to the Final Four and is still the odds-on favorite to be named the national player of the year. Of the top 10 scorers in the nation this season, four of them are freshmen. Stanford guard Ebuka Okorie is the one you don’t ...
Tug Valley point guard Braydun Ferris has had one of the most illustrious careers of anyone to don the silver and black in Naugatuck. Ferris added another accolade to his long list of accomplishments on Tuesday as he was named the captain of the Class A All-State boys basketball team by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association. “I’m really blessed to be a two-time all-state captain,” Ferris said. “Not many people even get one all-state selection, and I’ve been the captain twice. So I’m just really blessed for that.” It is the second straight year that Ferris has ...
Sometimes the difference is just one swing. Sean Smith was that one swing for West Virginia baseball Sunday night in Arizona. After five innings of a pitching master class from Arizona State’s Kole Klecker, he worked his way into a jam, loading the bases with one out. Smith took the plate. With a 2-2 count, Smith took Klecker’s next pitch for a ride to right center. It looked like it’d at least be a gapper, but it lifted over the fence to clear the bases, finally getting WVU on the board, and its first lead 4-1. With the help of Smith’s homer, No. 17 WVU took Game 3, 9-5, and ...
MORGANTOWN — Around this time last year, Rich Rodriguez discussed a couple of positions in his offense and how important their roles are. One of them was tight end. Rodriguez talked about how, other than quarterback, tight end is the hardest position at West Virginia to play and ...
