Buckhannon-Upshur finished eighth of nine at the Class AAAA South Regional Tournament with a team score of 288 as Hurricane won the title and Isaac Hayes and William Johnson tied for low medalist at 70.
Coby Smith scored four goals, including a penalty, to lift Buckhannon-Upshur to a 6-5 back-and-forth Big 10 Conference win over Lewis County, handing the Minutemen their fifth straight loss.
Buckhannon-Upshur split Big 10 Conference games, losing 6-1 to unbeaten East Fairmont despite Haley Triplett’s goal, then beating Lewis County 4-1 on Senior Night behind two Kallie Perry goals.
Buckhannon-Upshur’s junior varsity Buccaneers fell 52-20 to Fairmont Senior and will visit Lewis County Monday at 6 p.m.
Buckhannon-Upshur beat the University Hawks 2-0 behind first-half goals from Coby Smith and Zack Simmons, as well as a stout defense that limited the Hawks to two shots on goal.
Parkersburg defeated Buckhannon-Upshur 3-1, with Mallory Hughes scoring a late free-kick goal. The loss was the fifth of the season for the Lady Bucs.
Buckhannon-Upshur’s Lady Bucs edged Lincoln 45-46 to win the four-team Junior Nuzum Memorial Invitational as Gwendolyn Rogosky placed second in 20:36.2, supported by top-10 finisher Isabella Bowers.
Buckhannon-Upshur ran an incomplete four-person squad at the Junior Nuzum Memorial Invitational. Kenton Stump led the Bucs with a 19th-place finish in 18:57 as Doddridge County won the meet.
Local teams, including Buckhannon-Upshur and West Virginia Wesleyan, have a full week of scheduled football, soccer, volleyball, golf, cross country and swimming competitions Oct. 6–12.
Buckhannon-Upshur, coming off a bye and seeking to build on a record-setting passing performance, visits No. 4 Fairmont Senior Friday night in a Big 10 Conference clash after the Polar Bears’ first loss of the season.
