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House of Delegates passes bill repealing high school sports transfer rule

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CHARLESTON — A majority of the West Virginia House of Delegates voted Tuesday to put high school sports transfer decisions back into the hands of sports regulators, but not without opposition. House Bill 4425 passed Tuesday afternoon, repealing the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility, in a 78-19 vote with two absent or not voting. The bill now heads to the Senate. HB 4425 would repeal a section of state code requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to allow multiple transfers. Upon repeal, the ...

Hoops roundup: South holds on to beat Wheeling Park in regular-season finale

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WHEELING — JD Williams’ 3-pointer attempt rimmed out at the buzzer, giving Parkersburg South a 64-62 win over Wheeling Park Tuesday in a regular-season finale. PSHS, which improved to 17-5, jumped out to an early 18-2 lead but watched WPHS cut it to 20-17 by the end of the first. South led 31-28 at halftime and 50-49 after three. Williams led all scorers with 22 points while teammate Jordan Beck-James chipped in 21. Josh Huffman added nine for Park. Cam Fallon led the visiting Patriots with 12 points on four 3-pointers. Harry Silvis finished with 11 points and two assists for ...

Radford on horizon, WVU baseball keeps rolling

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia baseball is off to a hot start this season after winning its third-straight series, picking up the first two games against Kennesaw State. The Mountaineers are 8-2 on the season and are ranked in the top 25. WVU has only lost two games, and it wasn’t like they were blowouts. The Mountaineers had a chance to sweep Liberty in the final game, with runners in position in the ninth, and lost to the Owls on an eighth-inning homer. Ohio State transfer Matthew Graveline also had a double to start the ninth, so the tying run was there. It’s just the last two ...

Off shooting night haunts Waterford in loss to Peebles

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WAVERLY - The No.8 seeded Waterford Wildcats t ook care of the basketball and rebounded well enough Monday evening to hang with top-seeded Peebles in their Division VI District Semi-Final at Waverly Downtown Arena but the Wildcats simply didn't make enough shots to get over the jump. The ...

Upset alert: Mountaineers upend No. 19 BYU, 79-71

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MORGANTOWN — The play of WVU forward Brenen Lorient on Saturday was maybe the best example of why the plus-minus statistic in basketball is the most worthless figure in sports. In what ended up being a moment to celebrate, and Lorient and his teammates did just that with a victory lap around the Hope Coliseum floor handing out hi-fives to the fans, the Mountaineers upended No. 19 BYU with a 79-71 victory. In the middle of one of West Virginia’s biggest wins of the season was the 6-foot-9 Lorient, who may have come away with his best game of the season. “B-Lo was really ...