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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
MORGANTOWN — Matt Ineich stepped up to the plate for the fifth time in West Virginia baseball’s last game against Georgia Southern. On the 2-1 pitch, Ineich roped a double. This was his third hit of the game, finishing the day 3-for-3. Ineich had the first RBI, which helped the Mountaineers win the game 5-2, sweeping the Eagles. “[Ineich] is an animal,” head coach Steve Sabins said. WVU had high expectations coming into the season after a super regional finish last year. The Mountaineers lost a couple of key players, so Sabins rebuilt the roster through transfers, and ...
