A good guy stepped down as Herbert Hoover’s football coach last week. And he had a very good reason for it.
The 2019 high school football season at the Class AA level was crowded with record-setting performances on both sides of the ball.
Quaysean Sutton and Harold Pannell each scored 13 points to lead a balanced attack Wednesday as South Charleston earned a 58-32 boys basketball victory against visiting Ripley.
The Mountain State Athletic Conference is held in pretty high regard around the state when it comes to boys basketball. Five of the 11 MSAC teams are found in the top 10 of the preseason Class AAA AP poll. Three more are among the other teams receiving votes.
Rodney Toler led three St. Albans players in double figures with 22 points as the Red Dragons opened their season with a 72-33 boys basketball win over Sissonville Tuesday in St. Albans.
The switches weren’t as dire or drastic as some might have initially imagined, but there were some interesting results Tuesday when the Secondary School Activities Commission released the divisions for its new four-class system in boys and girls basketball.
WEST UNION — For most of the latter part of the 2019 season, Doddridge County held the No. 1 rating in Class A football.
Coming off a winless season two years ago, Capital girl’s basketball coach Michael Cunningham took a long-term, grand-scheme look ahead in an effort to rebuild the program brick by brick.
Allison Dunbar had a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds in leading Herbert Hoover to a 45-34 home victory over Logan in girls prep basketball Monday.
The George Washington boys basketball team enters the season ranked third in Class AAA in the Associated Press boys basketball poll, released Monday. The Patriots sit behind defending state champion University, the unanimous No.1, and No. 2 Martinsburg. Capital enters the season ranked No. 7…
WHEELING — To simply call Jacob Rine a game manager is perhaps a disservice to his skills. Because the smallish senior managed to save the biggest game of his career for the biggest stage.
WHEELING — With less than five minutes to go in the second quarter, Cabell Midland had visions of pulling an upset against a Martinsburg team that has dominated Class AAA for years.
There is a lot to read between the lines of Winfield’s season-opening wins over Hurricane and St. Albans, and most of it is positive.
Prep football, Super Six notebook: Martinsburg's Malakai Brown gets championship feeling in Wheeling
WHEELING — Following his transfer, Malakai Brown went from one of the state’s most recognizable players to playing a reduced role. But he wouldn’t have it any other way.
Senior quarterback J.J. Roberts was selected as the player of the year and Luke Salmons the coach of the year as Cabell Midland swept the top two individual honors on the All-Mountain State Athletic Conference football team.
Gracie Brumfield tossed in 22 points as Chapmanville earned a 74-57 girls prep basketball win over Tolsia Saturday in Fort Gay.
WHEELING — Cabell Midland was able to survive one of Martinsburg’s patented barrages on Saturday, but the second one did in the Knights for good.
There was a time early in the season when Cabell Midland coach Luke Salmons wondered if he had enough healthy backs to finish the game.
WHEELING — In the latest installment of the tortoise versus the hare, consider a good portion of the state shell-shocked.
When it comes to this year’s Class A championship game, it’s a prototypical case of a have versus a have-not.
Buffalo led by 18 points after the first quarter and had good balance in earning a 61-34 home victory over Wirt County in girls prep basketball Friday night.
WINFIELD — Thursday marked the girls basketball coaching debut of Shayna Gore at St. Albans and the first showing of her up-tempo, pressuring defensive style for the Red Dragons.
Bridgeport has been tinkering with its offensive staple, the stick-I formation, in recent years and even deep into this season, the Indians continue to dabble with their traditional run-based attack.