All schools in Upshur County will close at 1 p.m. today. All B-UHS sporting events today are canceled.

Soccer Lady Bucs fall to unbeaten Wheeling Park, 5-0

Unbeaten Wheeling Park defeated Buckhannon-Upshur 5-0, powered by Julie Dunaway’s hat trick, improving to 10-0 while the Lady Bucs fell to 4-4.
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WHEELING – The Buckhannon-Upshur soccer Lady Bucs didn’t have any answers in a road battle with one of the best teams in Class AAAA in the Wheeling Park Patriots Saturday afternoon in a non-conference outing. The unbeaten Patriots downed the […]

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