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My name is Josh Hughes, and I am the newest sports reporter here at The News and Sentinel. I grew up around the area, and I can鈥檛 wait to become more involved in the community. I graduated from Parkersburg High School in 2013 with my sights set on a career in covering sports. I always imagined having a job like this, and it is now a dream come true. After I graduated high school, I took those aspirations one step further. I enrolled at Marshall University in August 2013. I knew I wanted to pursue a job like this, but I also wanted to try my hand at broadcasting. I quickly became ...

ALBRIGHT: Top 5 MOV sports moments of 2018

One of the best parts of covering high school sports in the Mid-Ohio Valley every season is the abundance of great athletic feats within the News and Sentinel's coverage area. An actual cornucopia of success annually spreads joy around the area from January to December because of the extraordinary abilities of student-athletes and coaches from our 24 schools. State championships, new state records, one amazing run for a Doddridge County football player, the possible birth of two dynasties, a gone-viral trick play, a Big Red continuing his path to pro football as well as many others ...

ALBRIGHT: Parkersburg Catholic鈥坓irls’ basketball team responds well to success

While Parkersburg Catholic girls鈥� basketball team鈥檚 recent win over reigning Class A state champion Wheeling Central two Saturdays ago was impressive, it was not the main game of Marty Vierheller鈥檚 squad I eyed during the past nine days. Interest turned immediately to the follow-up home contests against undefeated Notre Dame (Thursday) and a 2017 state-tournament qualifying Trinity squad (Saturday) featuring a five senior lineup. Two teams, like Central, who were not intimidated by the Crusaderettes鈥� nine state title banners. How would Coach V鈥檚 squad handle the 65-60 ...

Winter tab publishes Thursday

颅-Mountain State online message boards overflowing with reasons (some irrational) why the West Virginia Sports Writers Association screwed up the all-state football teams means only one thing: Winter sports season is underway. Debates raging on throughout December and shifting toward the gridiron award winners until the days following the release of the 2018 Kennedy Award recipient statewide Dec. 23. News flash ... I believe the writers selected the most deserving candidate on the gridiron. Deserving well describes our selections gracing the cover of the Winter Sports Tab, which ...

ALBRIGHT: Young Yellowjackets grew up

If Terry Smith鈥檚 annual review of his Williamstown football team isn鈥檛 a positive one, something is wrong. Every year, Smith sits down and asks if his team got better and it did. Pay no mind to Wheeling Central鈥檚 second handling of the Yellowjackets in 2018. Creating ideal competitive conditions with a team featuring four returning starters on each side of the ball depending on youth against a veteran Central squad proving a tall assignment. A fact not helped when as many as six Maroon Knights honored on the Class A all-state first team appears a distinct ...

Another year of picking

As hard as it is to believe, some 鈥渨inter鈥� sports are already underway. Despite the calendar saying it truly is still fall, it sure hasn鈥檛 felt like it outside the past couple of days. Nonetheless, we continue to push on here in the sports department and we are down to our final two editions of pigskin picks. In week 13, the Stanford at California game was postponed, which we will add in following its completion this week. While the standings show what appears to be a comfortable 13-game lead for myself heading into the final 44 picks 鈥� everyone on staff picked Stanford ...