Buckhannon-Upshur finished eighth in the final regular-season WVSACA Class AAAA coaches’ poll after a 1-1 week, falling by one to No. 2 Morgantown before beating rival Lewis County. The Bucs are 14-8 and open South Regional Tournament play Friday.
Frostburg State’s Trey Simmons was voted MEC Player of the Year after leading the league at 23.9 points per game, while Concord’s Boubacar Djigo earned Defensive Player of the Year.
Wesleyan softball opened its Space Coast Tournament spring break trip by splitting four games in Melbourne, Fla., beating Walsh and Roosevelt while falling to Tiffin and Jamestown.
West Virginia Wesleyan earned its first win with a 5–2 road victory over Greensboro, powered by Nyah Elmer’s hat trick and Wiktoria Walska’s two goals. Ella Gomez made eight saves as the Lady Bobcats forced 37 turnovers and held Greensboro to one goal through three quarters.
West Virginia Wesleyan tennis opened spring break with three matches in three days against Belmont Abbey, Catawba and Francis Marion. The Bobcat men edged two 4-3 wins around a road loss, while the women fell 1-6 in all three contests.
Concord’s Abbie Smith earned MEC Player of the Year, while Wheeling’s Kenzie Dalton repeated as Defensive Player of the Year and West Virginia Wesleyan’s Kilah Dandridge took Freshman of the Year.
West Virginia Wesleyan went 1-3 at the Tobs Classic, ending the four-game weekend with a gritty 3-2 win over Georgian Court. The Bobcats dropped two to Clarion and were outslugged by St. Thomas Aquinas, despite big bats from Drew Jrolf and Dylan Neach.
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Jerin Westfall and Brody McDaniels powered Buckhannon-Upshur past rival Lewis County 59-54 in the regular-season finale, despite leading for just 52 seconds through three quarters. Westfall posted 26 points and 14 rebounds as the Bucs’ 9-0 fourth-quarter run sealed it.
Buckhannon-Upshur was surprisingly voted the No. 8 seed in the Class AAAA South Region and will host No. 9 Parkersburg in Friday’s 7 p.m. play-in game. The winner advances to face top-seeded, state No.
