This week in MOV athletics

January 22, 2018

Two things before I get started with the sports goings-on in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Our sports crew needs a new sports writer/paginator (page layout). Qualifications include sports and page layout knowledge. If you know anyone who is interested or yourself are interested, please stop by and drop off a resume to Christina Myer. One shoutout and then to the sports, I would like to send a word of congratulations to the Parkersburg South wrestling team on their fifth straight Ohio Valley Athletic Conference 5A title. Shaun Smith’s Patriots smashed Beaver Local and the rest of the ...

Big 12 in for a wild ending

January 18, 2018

A lot of early-season success has many Big 12 men’s basketball teams sitting in pretty positions as we enter the crunch period before conference tournament time. Every squad in the conference has a winning record. Four teams are ranked in the Associated Press Top 10 (WVU, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas Tech), with one more (TCU) also in the Top 25. Not to mention, if the season ended today six teams would hear their names called out on Selection Sunday. Yet, all the good feelings are unlikely to last. Oh sure ... Six teams may still make the NCAA tournament, but there is ...

This week in MOV athletics

January 15, 2018

In loving memory of sports broadcaster Keith Jackson ... Woah Nelly! A Blasting of Ice and Snow (sorry, I am reading George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series right now) swept through the Mid-Ohio Valley last weekend and put a freeze on a really good sports weekend. Fortunately, most of the games on the menu are being rescheduled for a later date. Another positive sees plenty of great matchups on the slate again this week. Fans of Parkersburg High School girls’ basketball team won’t have to wait long to see their team in action against Class AA No. 1 and ...

Looking back at football

January 13, 2018

Sadly, it appears Mother Nature is going to win out this weekend when it comes to the prep sports scene. As of press time Friday, there were still several events fans can take in throughout today, including a still currently scheduled Class A boys basketball showdown featuring Notre Dame at Ravenswood tonight. Although all of the basketball games at Parkersburg South’s Rod Oldham Athletic Center are off today, the annual Parkersburg Penguin swimming invitational is still set to take place. The start time has been moved to 12:30 p.m. at the YMCA. Wrestling fans can opt to take in ...

Gordon feeling hopeful

January 12, 2018

While it is true the fires of competition rage through Parkersburg South's Rod Oldham Athletic Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, another flame takes center stage. Writers refer to this light as the human races' simultaneous source of our greatest strength and our greatest weakness. But come Saturday, there will be nothing weak about this force. It will be so strong, filling, and so overpowering toward the positive spectrum inside the ROAC it easily could break the building apart. Every person gathered brings their own small measure to add to the collective energy. What is this prodigious ...

This week in MOV athletics

January 8, 2018

Wow! There is a lot of action slated for this week on the Mid-Ohio Valley High School sports scene. If we are going to get to all of the big matchups, we had better jump right in. Local businesses should prepare for a quiet night Tuesday as the PHS Memorial Fieldhouse is the place to be for the second matchup between the Parkersburg South and Parkersburg High’s boys basketball teams at 7:30 p.m. Mike Fallon’s Patriots (5-1) lead the season series 1-0 after a close 51-46 win over Jeff Mennillo’s Big Reds (3-4) back on Dec. 22. Neither team shot the ball well, with the final ...