MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football’s secondary was hit the hardest this offseason with graduations and transfers. Do-it-all defensive back Fred Perry ran out of eligibility, and so did corner Michael Coats Jr., who, for part of the regular season, was one of the higher-rated ...
ELKINS — Gabby Mahanes had three hits, including a solo homer, and Braelynn Washington and Zeya Price three RBIs each as Elkins celebrated Senior Day with a 15-0 win over Pocahontas County Saturday at Betty Heckel Field. Mahanes also cracked a triple and double on the day. She finished ...
ELKINS — Robert C. Byrd plated two runs in the fourth inning to hold off Elkins, 5-4, Saturday in Big 10 Conference action. The Tigers (4-7) had taken a 3-2 lead in the third inning as Blayne Thompson and Owen Stanley delivered RBI singles and Trent Stone cracked an RBI double. Jaxson Maglowski earned the win for the Flying Eagles, going the distance and allowing just one earned run on seven hits, striking out six and walking one. Dyer Barger took the loss in a complete-game outing, scattering eight hits and fanning 10. Stanley finished with two RBIs in the loss. Elkins ...
MORGANTOWN — Good things came in threes for Elkins High School’s track teams on Saturday in the Morgantown Invitational at Mylan Park. For the third meet in a row, Marissa Brenwalt pulled off a “hat trick” with triple wins in the 100-meter hurdles (15.51), 300 hurdles (48.34) and ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Busch ended an 0-for-30 slide with a tying, two-run single in the eighth inning and Carson Kelly had a winning single in the ninth as the Chicago Cubs overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6 on Sunday. Brandon Lowe hit a grand slam and a solo homer off Jameson Taillon, and Oneil Cruz homered leading off the game for Pittsburgh, which led 5-0 before third-inning solo homers by Dansby Swanson and Moises Ballesteros against Bubba Chandler. Lowe’s fifth-inning homer boosted Pittsburgh’s lead to 6-2 but Chicago closed on Alex Bregman’s ...
MORGANTOWN — After losing a tough series to UCF, No. 17 West Virginia baseball bounced back to beat Texas Tech in a three-game series by winning the rubber match on Sunday in Lubbock. The Mountaineers starter Chansen Cole allowed just two runs and pitched into the ninth inning to secure the third game of the series, 10-2, over the Red Raiders. WVU has won its ninth series on the year with the win. The Mountaineers are now 24-8 on the year and 10-5 in the Big 12. The Red Raiders fell to 20-15 and 6-9 in the conference, but did secure Game 2 over the top 25 squad on Saturday. In ...
