WVU has a respectable NFL contingent, but its pipeline still trails college football’s elite—a telling sign of the Mountaineers’ talent gap. Week Nine also brings fresh picks and a tightening Crunch leaderboard.
Eight West Virginia projects will use federal grants for pawpaw products, herb-growing classes, a commercial kitchen, crop-disease research and other specialty crop work.
Rylen Carlyle and Kadeen Edwards are this week’s Hank Ellis All-Stars. Carlyle tallied four goals and two assists in B-U’s soccer win, while Edwards rushed for 123 yards and scored twice in the Buccaneers’ football victory.
The WVU Eye Institute received more than $2 million to expand rural eye screenings through a statewide teleophthalmology network, four regional testing centers and eight trained technicians.
Buckhannon-Upshur hosts Lincoln Friday at 7 p.m. with playoff positioning and a third straight win on the line for the Bucs. The battle-tested Cougars arrive at 4-3, fresh off an upset of Robert C. Byrd and a bye week.
Buckhannon-Upshur’s cross country teams seek a return to state at Saturday’s Class AAAA South Regional in St. Albans. The girls look poised to contend, while the boys face a tougher path to a top-six qualifying finish.
