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Mountaineers beat Stanford in Crown tourney

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MORGANTOWN — Honor Huff, with the help of the free-throw line, refused to let West Virginia get crowned on Thursday. The Mountaineers also flashed some defense down the stretch against Stanford star freshman Ebuka Okorie. It all led to WVU’s 82-77 overtime victory against Stanford inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, in the opening round of the College Basketball Crown tournament. The Mountaineers (19-14) now advance to Saturday’s semifinals against either Rutgers or Creighton. The semifinal matchup tips off at 4 p.m., at the T-Mobile Arena. WVU was 3.5 seconds ...

Spring Sports Stars (4/2)

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BASEBALL *Easton Walker was 3 for 3 with a double and a run-batted-in while Carson Fluty added two hits and two RBIs in Parkersburg South’s 10-0 win over South Charleston. Ben Howell pitched five shutout innings with three strikeouts. SOFTBALL *Payten Mackey homered and drove in two runs while Annie Shelton struck out 17 batters over six shutout innings in Parkersburg South’s 8-0 win over Spring Valley. Shelton added a triple at the plate while Allison Curfman was 3 for 3 with a double. *Katelyn Valandingham and Maddie Hansell each drove in runs in Waterford’s 13-2 loss to Eastern.

South boys duo named first team all-state

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CHARLESTON — George Washington couldn’t take on Spring Mills in the Class AAAA boys basketball state tournament championship game with Noah Lewis alone. Someone else had to step up and have a big game also, and the Patriots got that from Dominic Sprouse. GW's super sophomore scored 28 ...

WVU set for pitching duel vs. UCF

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MORGANTOWN — No. 13 West Virginia baseball starts its three-game series with No. 23 UCF on Friday, April 3, with the first pitch at 6:30 p.m., which is the second-straight weekend the Mountaineers are facing a ranked opponent. The Knights are the top team in the Big 12 at 8-1, which is a game ahead of WVU, and have an 18-8 record overall. Last week's series against Arizona State was nothing but fireworks. The Sun Devils have one of the best offenses in the Big 12 and by far the best hitter, Landon Hairston. Hairston went off and had a homer in all three games, but WVU's offense ...

Boulware brings experience to WVU staff

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football’s new running backs coach, Jay Boulware, has been around football for a long time, coaching at multiple different stops and positions. He played offensive line in college, and after he was injured, he moved on to coaching. That was in the 90s. Boulware has coached the offensive line with Dan Roushar, who is the line coach with the Chicago Bears. Locally, coached under Mike Tomlin with the Pittsburgh Steelers, working with running backs. Guz Malzahn and Lincoln Riley are two others he named in his first press conference for WVU that he's been on ...

PHS tennis wins rain-shortened duel with South

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PARKERSBURG — One day after the state tennis polls were released, the Parkersburg boys and girls tennis teams continued trending in the right direction. Before a quick deluge of rain arrived at the tennis facility on Thursday afternoon, PHS swept all four singles matches from Parkersburg ...