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ALBRIGHT: W.Va. should still name high school hoops’ state champions

Parkersburg High’s girls basketball team largely rolled through its in-state regular-season schedule. University and Williamstown’s boys alongside North Marion’s and Huntington St. Joe’s girls then similarly followed suit. As a result, all performances earned these groups the No. 1 seed in their respective state tournaments from coaches ballots. They didn’t get to enjoy those privileges very long, though. COVID-19 appears to have wiped out everyone’s opportunity to enjoy three days of games on the Charleston Coliseum floor. It’s erased chances for teams to either ...

Historic time in sports

Not sure what the silver lining is just yet with this whole coronavirus COVID-19 ongoing situation, but perhaps at some point there will be one. I sure can’t come up with any off the top of my head though. It’s hard to fathom less than 48 hours ago as I type this I watched Parkersburg South win a regional co-final to advance to the state boys basketball tournament on Tuesday at Rod Oldham Athletic Center. Thursday afternoon I popped over just to see what was going on. First-year head coach Brett Rector basically had a light practice and just let his guys get shots up. Assistant ...

ALBRIGHT: Is Amos the greatest wrestler this state has seen?

Three years ago, West Virginia’s most recent and perhaps permanent face of high school wrestling walked onto the mat as a sophomore clad in a Parkersburg South uniform. He was fresh faced, eager and more than prepared. Awaiting him was 220-pound senior Dylan Miller from Wadsworth High School out of Ohio. Each man stood chiseled. They locked hands with scowls adorning their faces on a day two of the top wrestling programs in two states collided at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio. The hype for this match reached higher than any other. Braxton Amos’ ...

ALBRIGHT: Ravenswood’s Annie Hunt painted inspiring comeback picture

After spending last season on the bench away from the game she loved healing an ACL tear and heartache, believing Annie Hunt’s plans for 2019 was easy. She’d pulled herself back together after the horrible news. Information causing her mother MOV Hall of Famer Mary Beth Varney Hunt and her both pain after the fateful phone call. Annie also had waited too long. Shedding too many tears along the way and not just after learning the news. She’d done all the right things and experienced all the various pains from her injury. She’d watched herself on tape then worked, and worked ...

ALBRIGHT: Patriots’ Makenna Winans still has all-state first team credentials

Makenna Winans was always the key. There’s no getting around this in understating her importance on the hardwood for the Parkersburg South girls team this season. If you wanted to call her one of the most crucial players in the state, it wasn’t an outlandish statement, either. With a ...