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

Carpenter Crunch Time Week 8: “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal”

BUCKHANNON – I’ve done this a long time, coached youth soccer for a long time. One thing I always felt was that a team should never go through a winless season.

Unfortunately for our two local teams, Buckhannon-Upshur and West Virginia Wesleyan, they are both winless with their seasons starting to wind down. There is still hope as B-U has Grafton and Preston left while Wesleyan has winnable games with West Liberty and Concord coming up.

There are still 10 teams in high school ball in West Virginia that haven’t won a game yet. In Class AAA, Lincoln County and South Charleston join the Bucs as winless.

In NCAA Division II, there are still 11 teams without a win and two are in the Mountain East Conference in Wesleyan and Concord.

For comparison’s sake, there are still two winless teams left at the Division I level in Kent State and Kennesaw State.

It takes a mentally tough person to endure a winless season, and hopefully the Bucs and ‘Cats can change that before the year ends, but kudos to those that stay to the end. There will be better days ahead! As they say, “You learn more from losing, not matter how painful it might be, than winning. You learn how to keep going.”

Now onto the important stuff, the My Buckhannon standings, which look like this.

Name   Week   Overall
Brian      6-1       40-9
Duane   6-1        40-9
Katie      4-3       31-18
Monica 5-2       29-20

Brian and I continue to be tied as we both went 6-1 last week. I don’t think more than one game has separated all season. Katie, coming off her perfect 7-0 week last week, went 4-3 this week but still resides in third place. Monica went 5-2 but stayed in fourth place.

We had just one reader go a perfect 7-0 last week and that was Rob Kimble who won our $20 gift certificate. Rob has been on a roll winning back-to-back weeks. If you want to play this week, you still have time as we accept submissions until Friday night at 7 p.m. Click here for our games this week.

Now onto our games:

Oak Hill (5-1) at Buckhannon-Upshur (0-7)

A tough homecoming game for the Bucs with No. 6 Oak Hill. The schedule this season has just been brutal when everyone on it thus far has a .500 record or better.

Duane: Oak Hill; Brian: Oak Hill; Katie: Buckhannon-Upshur; Monica: Oak Hill

West Virginia Wesleyan (0-6) at West Liberty (1-5)

If the Bobcats are going to win a game, it will be within the next two weeks with 1-5 West Liberty on tap this Saturday and 0-6 Concord coming to Ross Field next weekend. West Liberty has won five straight in this series. Come on Wesleyan, let’s get a win!!

Duane: West Liberty; Brian: West Virginia Wesleyan; Katie: West Liberty; Monica: West Liberty

Kansas State (5-1) at West Virginia (3-3)

Hopefully WVU fans will have a good time regardless of a win or a loss. I’m not quite sure what Neal Brown was trying to say this week, but it came out all sorts of wrong, and it was something that just ramped up the WVU fanbase wanting him gone. Neal, be better with comments like that.

Duane: Kansas State; Brian: Kansas State; Katie: West Virginia; Monica: Kansas State

The Final Four:

North Marion (5-1) at Lewis County (3-3)

Duane: North Marion; Brian: North Marion; Katie: North Marion; Monica: Lewis County

Morgantown (4-3) at Parkersburg South (4-2)

Duane: Parkersburg South; Brian: Parkersburg South; Katie: Morgantown; Monica: Morgantown

Fairmont Senior (7-0) at Elkins (5-2)

Duane: Fairmont Senior; Brian: Fairmont Senior; Katie: Fairmont Senior; Monica: Elkins

Georgia (5-1) at Texas (6-0)

Duane: Texas; Brian: Texas; Katie: Georgia; Monica: Texas

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