PARKERSBURG – When Parkersburg South assistant football coach John Price saw Kooper Jackson’s name still on the draft board for his No. 3 overall pick for Wednesday’s Iron Man, it was a no-brainer which team would land the Patriot senior. In addition to claiming the Parkersburg ...
DANIELS — A pair of former Division I golfers from the Mountain State shared the lead at 4-under par following the completion of Wednesday's first round of the 93rd West Virginia Open contested at Glade Springs Resort. Ex-West Virginia University golfer Chris Williams and Marshall University graduate Pat Carter, who is a 13-time W.Va. Amateur champion, paced the field by two strokes. In all, only nine golfers finished in the red as the competitors played on either the Cobb Course or Stonehaven with the top 60 players and ties making the cut on Thursday to Friday's final round. A ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Chris Schmitt’s tenure as Waterford’s varsity baseball coach may be over, but the veteran skipper isn’t going far. Schmitt has been named the new head baseball coach at Williamstown, where he’s been an assistant coach in the football program for six years. He replaces ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football changed the date of the home matchup against Ohio, which moved up the start of the 2027 season. The Mountaineers' game against the Bobcats will be played on Aug. 28, 2027, instead of the originally slated Sept. 18, 2027, game, per release. It'll now be the home and season-opener for the 2027 season. The season was supposed to start the following week against Southern Mississippi on Sept. 4. This is the second game of a three-game contract WVU signed with Ohio in 2021. The first game of the series was in 2025, when the Mountaineers lost to the ...
BECKLEY – Defensive miscues came back to haunt Parkersburg Post 15 and possibly extend the West Virginia American Legion State Tournament to a winner-take-all matchup between Parkersburg and Wheeling Post 1. Monday afternoon at Linda K. Erling Stadium, Wheeling took advantage of four Parkersburg errors, including three in one inning, and captured its third straight state tournament title with an 11-8 win. Wheeling, which went through the double-elimination bracket unscathed, advances to the Mid-Atlantic Region in Cherryville, N.C. and meets the state champion from North Carolina ...
