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Mountain Lions rally for victory over Tigers

HAMBLETON —Class A, No. 6 Tucker County rallied in the fourth quarter to hand Elkins a 47-43 setback on Monday night. The Tigers held a 36-27 lead heading into the final frame, before being outscored, 20-7 in the fourth by the Mountain Lions as Carson Dearborn scored all six of his points on the night in the period, hitting 4-for-4 from the free-throw line. Isaiah Nutter bucketed 16 points and Landon Shreve added 14 to lead Elkins, which jumped out to a 16-7 lead after one quarter and carried a 28-14 advantage into halftime. Mikey Mitchell and Sam Marks had 11 points apiece for ...

WVU cagers visit Arizona State tonight

MORGANTOWN — The trip will cover around 2,000 miles — give or take — and when the WVU men’s basketball team arrives in Tempe, Ariz. for today’s 9 p.m. matchup against Arizona State, the weather will be about 30 degrees warmer than it is in Morgantown. It’s still up in the air whether that’s good or bad news for the Mountaineers, who are still searching for their first victory of the season away from Hope Coliseum. “What (WVU head coach Ross Hodge) left us with right now, before we kind of all brought it in, he was like, ‘Let’s take it on the road,’ ” WVU ...

WVU women can’t overlook Arizona State

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia women’s basketball’s bounce-back win over Cincinnati and one-point loss to TCU launched it back into the AP Top 25. The Mountaineers are now ranked No. 22 in the newest AP Poll, marking the second time they’ve been ranked this season. The Mountaineers are off to a hot start in Big 12 play and have just two losses and five wins, making for a 15-4 record overall. The wins should only grow over the next couple of games if WVU takes care of business. After the close loss to the Horned Frogs, the Mountaineers started a stretch of games against ...

Cignetti reaches pinnacle of college football

MORGANTOWN — “Tentacles” Sounds like a title for a horror movie, right? Truth is, there once was one in 1977, an Italian-American horror film about a killer octopus occupying a seaside town, starring a rather strong, all-star cast — Henry Fonda, John Huston, Shelly Winters — for this genre of movie that was little more than a ripoff of the hit movie “Jaws” from a year earlier. In a way it would be the perfect title for the movie that is sure to come out of Indiana’s stunningly rapid climb to the top of the college football world, for seldom has such a national ...

Rodriguez reloads the trenches to restore WVU’s ‘hard edge’

MORGANTOWN — The hard edge is the foundation on which Rich Rodriguez wants to build his second stint as coach at West Virginia. Over the course of the season, it was talked about ad nauseam, and the basis of it was moving bodies, being physical, and most importantly, not loafing. There were cases where the Mountaineers showed a hard edge. The comeback win in the Backyard Brawl, where Tye Edwards plowed his way into the endzone with the extra lineman package. There was also the end of the Houston game, where WVU marched down the field to run out the clock. But, most of the time, ...

Arizona fullback transfers to play for Mountaineers

MORGANTOWN — The fullback is back at West Virginia. Arizona fullback Kayden Luke announced on social media that he’s changing Big 12 teams, transferring to the Mountaineers. Luke will be the first fullback listed on WVU’s roster. There have been multiple great fullbacks in the long history of the Mountaineers, but they have slowly been phased out in modern-day football, especially in college. However, Rodriguez and staff talked about bringing it back in 2026. “It was funny, when I first got here, the meeting rooms out there are labeled,” tight end coach Michael Nysewander ...