Basketball Bucs let one get away from them in 43-38 loss to Ripley

INSTITUTE – This is going to go down as one of those games that Buckhannon-Upshur head coach Jason Westfall will look back on and think they should have gotten the win when his Bucs squared off against Ripley in the UTZ Snacks Shootout at West Virginia State University Thursday in a 43-38 loss. The Bucs…

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