Buckhannon Sports
Holgorsen throws 4 TDs in return from injury as Hawks top Bucs
MORGANTOWN – University quarterback Logan Holgorsen shook off two weeks of downtime due to a high-ankle sprain by tossing four touchdowns as the Hawks rolled to a 46-19 win over Buckhannon-Upshur High School on Friday. Holgorsen, the son of WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen, injured his ankle in a Sept. 28 game against St. Albans…
U.Va.-Wise defense smothers Wesleyan in 35-14 win
WISE, Va. – UVa-Wise held West Virginia Wesleyan to 20 yards rushing and 130 total offensive yards on its way to a 35-14 win on Saturday afternoon. The Cavaliers took a 14-0 lead into the halftime break and outscored the Bobcats 21-7 in the final stanza to earn their third win of the season. Kaian…
Bucs 6th, Lady Bucs 11th at Big 10 XC Championship
ELKINS — Samuel Walker finished in lucky number 13th at the Big 10 cross country championship Thursday to pace the Buckhannon-Upshur High School boys to a sixth-place overall finish. Walker finished the 5K course in 20:25. Julius Hobbs was the next Buccaneer runner across the line, with a time of 21:31, good for 37th place.…
Bucs win game after 11-day delay
PHILIPPI — A soccer game that started 11 days ago finally came to an end Saturday morning. The Oct. 2 boys soccer game between Philip Barbour and Buckhannon-Upshur was delayed in the 35th minute due to weather with the Bucs controlling a slim 3-2 margin thanks to a pair of goals by Ryan Hurst and…
Lady ‘Cats selected 11th in preseason poll
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – West Virginia Wesleyan Women’s Basketball has been selected 11th in the 2018-19 MEC Women’s Basketball Preseason Poll. Glenville State has been picked by the coaches to repeat as conference champions. The Pioneers finished atop the poll with 110 points and six first-place votes. Glenville State, led by third-year head coach Kim Stephens,…
Bucs end regular season in style with 4-1 win over Elkins
ELKINS, W.Va. — Lane Tenney and Dawson Carpenter connected for a pair of goals to give the Buckhannon-Upshur High School boys soccer team a lead they would not relinquish in their regular season finale at Elkins on Thursday. Carpenter notched both early goals — one on a through ball down the middle from Tenney, another…
Bobcats picked 10th in hoops poll
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Under the direction of second-year head coach Jack Meriwether, West Virginia Wesleyan was selected 10th in the Mountain East Conference Men’s Basketball Preseason Poll. West Liberty has been picked by the coaches to repeat as conference champions. The Hilltoppers, the preseason No. 1 team in the country according to Street & Smith’s,…
Lady Cats tie Charleston 0-0
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – One-hundred and 10 minutes of soccer was not enough to decide a winner in an intense Mountain East Conference battle between heavyweights West Virginia Wesleyan College and the University of Charleston on Wednesday. The Lady ‘Cats traveled to the state capitol after having previously beaten Charleston 2-0 in early September. This time, however,…
Bucs end game against Lewis County in thrilling fashion
TENNERTON – Which came first, the buzzer or the goal? Unlike the chicken-and-the-egg scenario, this question has a definite answer: the goal. The split-second difference between the ball crossing the line and the final buzzer gave the Buckhannon-Upshur High School boys soccer team an end to remember as the seniors trotted off the field of…
Wesleyan football looks to keep up momentum against U.Va.-Wise
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Week seven in the Mountain East Conference will take place entirely on Saturday for the first time this season with six games. Three games kick off at noon, including a key matchup between Fairmont State and Shepherd. The 17th-ranked Notre Dame Falcons welcome in-state rival Urbana and Findlay visits Charleston in a…
Wesleyan women’s golf fourth at MEC Tournament
DANIELS, W.Va. — Charleston held off Notre Dame on the final day of play to take the 2018 Mountain East Conference Women’s Golf Tournament title on Wednesday afternoon at the Cobb Course at Glade Springs. Charleston came into the final day with an 11-shot lead, and gave back just one stroke to the field on…
Tucker wins Player of the Week award for second time
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — West Virginia Wesleyan’s Makatlyn Tucker is the Mountain East Conference Offensive Player of the Week, while Notre Dame’s Kyra McDowell has been recognized as the Defensive Player of the Week. Tucker, a freshman from Salem, W.Va., helped the Bobcats to a pair of wins with seven points in two matches. She registered a…
Soccer Bucs fall 3-0 to University
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Buckhannon-Upshur High School boys soccer team dropped a 3-0 decision on the road at University on Saturday. The Bucs knew they would have their hands full with the Hawks, particularly forward Joseph Biafora, who has committed to play for WVU next fall. “We knew going in we’d have a tough task…
Lady Cats down Glenville State 11-0
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Wesleyan College women’s soccer team was back in action on Sunday to host the Glenville State Pioneers on homecoming weekend. The Lady ‘Cats easily defeated the first year-program, 11-0, to notch their ninth straight win. The LBC got on the board early when MaKatlyn Tucker played in a cross…
Bobcats Sweep Singles Titles in I-79 Event
FAIRMONT, W.Va. – A trio of Bobcats nabbed singles titles in Saturday in the final day of competition in the inaugural I-79 Challenger Tournament. Carlos Dodero (A Flight), Alexander Lyudinovskiy (B Flight) and Daniel Moreira De Lorenzo (C Flight) went unbeaten in four matches over the two-day event. Wesleyan joined Fairmont State, Salem University and…
