MORGANTOWN — Former West Virginia baseball player and current St. Louis Cardinals rookie J.J. Wetherholt played in his first MLB game locally against the Pittsburgh Pirates Monday night. Head coach Steve Sabins and some of the coaching staff made the trip up to PNC Park to watch the former ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL Parkersburg 7, Riverside 3 P 011 010 4 — 7 7 0 R 000 003 0 — 3 8 3 WP: N. Holland 5 IP, 3 BB, 6 SO C. Elkins 2 IP, 0 BB, 0 SO LP: J. Sparkman .2 IP, 0 BB, 1 SO T. Eggleton 6.1 IP, 3 BB, 11 SO Parkersburg (10-9) hitting: C. Elkins 1-4, 3B, 3 RBIs; C. Elam 1-3, 2 RBIs; G. Fling 3-4, 2 Rs; P. Woods 3-4, 2 Rs Ripley 8, Nitro 7 RHS 300 400 1 - 8 7 1 NHS 101 110 3 - 7 7 1 WP: Parker Keller 4.1IP, 2BB, 0SO Jace Goode .2IP, 0BB, 0SO Brady McVay 1IP, 2BB, 0SO Kyler Doss 1IP, 2BB, 0 SO LP: N. Ross 3IP, 4BB, 6SO L. Marie ...
BASEBALL *Connor Elkins tripled and drove in three runs in Parkersburg’s 7-3 win over Riverside. Gavin Fling and Parker Woods both went 3 for 4 with two runs scored apiece. *Parker Keller worked 4 1-3 innings and drove in a run during Ripley's 8-7 win at Nitro. Eli Phalen scored twice and stole a pair of bases for the Vikings, who also got a double and two runs-batted-in by Cooper Bentley. *Casey Burkhammer went 2 for 2 at the plate and struck out 12 batters in six innings on the mound in St. Marys’ 4-3 win over Wirt County. Luke Hickman was 2 for 3 with a double and an RBI for ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football went this year's NFL Draft without a player from the 2025 team selected by a team in the league. There were former players selected, like Akheem Mesidor, who was picked in the first round by the Los Angeles Chargers. The Mountaineers ended their streak of having players drafted, but they weren't the only Power Four team to not have a player selected in one of the seven rounds. WVU was one of 10 schools, which included Colorado and Oklahoma State from the Big 12, and local schools Virginia and Virginia Tech, to not have a draft pick. But there ...
It was an unorthodox weekend for No. 12 West Virginia baseball in its three-game series heading to Cincinnati. The Mountaineers played an extra-inning game, had a game postponed, making for a doubleheader on Saturday, and did all of it without their top pitcher, Maxx Yehl. In Game 3 of the series Sunday afternoon, in a rubber match, WVU blew a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning, losing 7-5 to Cincinnati, falling in its second series of the season. WVU needed a big bounce-back series this weekend, after being blasted in the Backyard Brawl on Tuesday by Pitt. The tide looked turned after ...
