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BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. — Mario Pender (Glenville State), Marquis Hamilton (UVa-Wise) and Carl Gorman (WVSU) have earned Mountain East Conference Player of the Week honors for their play in the sixth week of the season. Pender, a sophomore from Cape Coral, Fla., is the Offensive Player of the Week after helping the Pioneers to a 41-35 win over…

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – Lewis County has reclaimed the pick. The Minutemen picked up a tight 14-6 win in a low-scoring game in Weston on Friday. Marshall Hobbs rolled to more than 100 yards on the ground and scored both touchdowns for Lewis County, which won  despite compiling just 136 yards in total offense. Turnovers were…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University will tip off the 2018-19 men’s basketball season with the Gold-Blue Debut presented by Coca-Cola on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., at the WVU Coliseum. Admission to the event is free with gates opening at 6 p.m. A 40-minute officiated game between the Gold and Blue teams highlight…

West Virginia Wesleyan 27, Charleston 26 | Final Stats See photos from the game by clicking here. BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Jujuan Linzy’s 10-yard touchdown reception with 1:29 left in the fourth quarter lifted West Virginia Wesleyan to its first win of the season with a 27-26 victory over Charleston on Saturday afternoon at Cebe Ross…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Two first-half goals gave Bridgeport a lead they would not relinquish in a Big 10 soccer clash Thursday. At the final whistle, the Indians came away with a 4-1 win over the Buckhannon-Upshur High School soccer Buccaneers. “This is one of those games where the final score doesn’t really show the flow…

WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The West Virginia Wesleyan College Lady Bobcats won their eighth straight game in decisive fashion Thursday, beating West Liberty 3-0. Wesleyan drew first blood in the 14th minute when Chrystal Posada ran onto a crisp cross from Natalie Prater inside the six and one-timed into the left lower corner of the…

WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. – The West Liberty University men’s soccer team scored two goals within a 16-second span early in the first half and never looked back in rolling to a rain-shortened 4-1 victory against West Virginia Wesleyan College Thursday afternoon at the West Liberty Soccer Complex. A heavy thunderstorm forced a stoppage in play…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – The Mountain East Conference, BSN SPORTS, and Under Armour today announced that they have entered an agreement designating Under Armour as the exclusive apparel and footwear brand of the MEC. The partnership will be facilitated through the nationwide reach of the BSN SPORTS’ Collegiate Select program, which aims to make BSN SPORTS a one-stop…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – West Virginia Wesleyan College will hope a favorable crowd will help propel them to their first win of the season when they host 4-1 Charleston for their Homecoming game on Saturday. Here’s the MEC report on this week’s game: Charleston (4-1, 4-1) at W.Va. Wesleyan (0-5, 0-4) | Saturday at Noon |…

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – The Buckhannon-Upshur High School Lady Buccaneers picked up a hard-fought non-conference victory Saturday, beating Greenbrier East 2-1 in a game that was moved to the turf due after Friday’s rains left the grass field unplayable. The Lady Bucs outshot Greenbrier East 16-3 and got goals by Leigh Ann Bennett and Madi Ware…

SUTTON, W.Va. – Tiffany Williams cracked the top 10 to pace her cross country Lady Buccaneers to a third-place finish at the Braxton Invitational at Holly Grove Park on Saturday. Williams finished in 26:02 to finish 9th overall. Lexi Morici of Elkins easily won the meet with a time of 23:22, more than have a minute…

SUTTON, W.Va – Samuel Walker and Julius Hobbs finished third and fourth to lead the Buckhannon-Upshur High School cross country team to a second-place overall finish at the Braxton Invitational on Saturday. Walker and Hobbs both broke the 20-minute mark on the 5K course at Holly Grove Park, with Walker clocking a 19:42 and Hobbs…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Shepherd’s Peyton Lindblad has been named the Mountain East Conference Player of the Week after helping the Rams to three conference wins last week. Lindblad, a junior from Spotsylvania, Va., helped the Rams by averaging 20 kills in each of Shepherd’s three wins last week. In a win over Fairmont State, she…

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — West Virginia Wesleyan’s women tennis team came from behind twice against host Bluefield State to capture a thrilling 4-3 win Saturday. The Lady Bobcats got clutch play from Julia Yanes and Sai Sakamoto to turn a 3-2 deficit into a win. Yanes held on to win in three close sets, 3-6, 6-4,…

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – A goal in the 62nd-minute by Wheeling Jesuit senior Martin Minuzzi was the difference in the Cardinals 1-0 win over West Virginia Wesleyan College in a Mountain East Conference match Saturday evening. The win improves the Wheeling Jesuit University men’s soccer team to 5-2 in league play, 6-2-2 overall. Meanwhile, the Bobcats…