MORGANTOWN — West Virginia quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr. had a lot of fans at the TCU game. Hawkins is from Dallas, which isn’t too far from Fort Worth, so he had a big ensemble cheering him on. “Aunties, uncles, cousins, friends, it was a lot of people,” Hawkins said. It was a ...
LOST CREEK - The inaugural season for cross country at Tygarts Valley High School came to a close on Saturday as three individual runners competed in the Class A, Region II meet. Tarren Bennett, Holden Sharp and Blake Channell, wrapped up their freshmen campaigns for the Bulldogs at the ...
FLEMINGTON — Elkins High School’s cross country teams made a clean sweep of the top awards at Saturday’s Class, AAA North Regional meet. Individually, Julia Biola and Trevor George captured their third consecutive wins this season to pace their respective Tiger squads to team ...
GLENVILLE — West Virginia’s pace of play is now taking turns at alarming rates. That became official Friday night inside the Waco Center, as the Mountaineers knocked off Glenville State, 103-66. Through two exhibition games, WVU is averaging 92 points and putting up about 68 shots per game, a night-and-day difference from the slow-and-steady pace under Ross Hodge last season, in which WVU averaged 55 shots per game. Yes, they are just exhibition games and Friday’s result came against an outmatched Division II school, but even WVU forward Brenen Lorient admits there is a ...
MORGANTOWN — Running back Cam Cook was brought to the podium this week for West Virginia football’s weekly media. Like quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr., Cook usually does media just after games, but this week, he did media because this was a special week for him. This was the first time Cook returned to TCU since transferring. Cook was immediately asked if this game had extra motivation because he was clearly unhappy with his two years with the Horned Frogs, transferring down to Jacksonville State. But Cook shrugged it off and said it was “just another game.” Cook played ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football headed to Fort Worth and picked up the win over TCU, 24-20, on a last-minute defensive stand. The win handed the Mountaineers back-to-back wins, moving them to 5-3, heading into the long-awaited bye. WVU is one of the few remaining teams in college football who haven’t had an open date. “Played with a little bit of grit,” Rich Rodriguez said. “I was concerned that we were a little tired from the eight-straight weeks.” Rodriguez had to play around the fatigue of playing eight straight games and a lot of competitive matchups. The ...
