Buckhannon Sports

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Wesleyan College women’s soccer team was in action Sunday afternoon against the Wheeling Jesuit Cardinals. The Bobcats came into the game with six straight wins and an undefeated mark in MEC play and unleashed an offensive barrage to extend that streak with a 6-0 win. It would not take…

LORETTO, Pa. – West Virginia Wesleyan trailed 21-0 by the end of the first quarter and was unable to recover in a 59-3 setback against Saint Francis on Saturday evening. The Bobcats were held to 115 yards of total offense on the day; 52 on the ground and 63 in the air. The Red Flash…

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – West Virginia Wesleyan’s Natalie Prater is a repeat selection as the Mountain East Conference Offensive Player of the Week, while Fairmont State’s Ella Wilson has been recognized as the Defensive Player of the Week. Prater, a senior from Bridgeport, W.Va., led the Bobcats to a pair of wins with a goal and…

The Buckhannon-Upshur High School boys soccer team prevailed in a wild shootout on the road against Liberty on Saturday, beating the Mountaineers 6-4 in a game that was played at Lincoln High School due to wet field conditions. “Between the early start time, change of venue and change at goalkeeper because of injury, we had…

BRIDGEPORT – Mountain East Conference Commissioner Reid Amos was named the chairperson of the NCAA Division II Football Committee at the body’s annual meeting. Amos has served on the Football Committee since 2015 as co-chair of Super Region 1 following service on its Regional Advisory Committee. “It has been a pleasure serving with outstanding administrators…

BRIDGEPORT – Fairmont State’s Abigail Johnson is the Mountain East Conference Offensive Player of the Week, while West Liberty’s Lauren Hartnell is league’s Defensive Player of the Week. Johnson, a junior from Vienna, W.Va., had eight points in two matches as the Falcons went 2-0-0 and remained unbeaten in the MEC North. She had two…

BRIDGEPORT – Wheeling Jesuit’s Martin Minuzzi is the Mountain East Conference Offensive Player of the Week, while Urbana’s Jakob Henriksen is the conference’s Defensive Player of the Week. Minuzzi, a senior from Cardoba, Argentina, had six points in two matches last week. In a win over No. 13 Notre Dame, Minuzzi provided a goal and…

Wheeling Jesuit’s Cassie Meyer has been named the Mountain East Conference Player of the Week for the second-straight week after leading the Cardinals to a 2-0 week. Meyer, a sophomore from Jackson Center, Ohio, opened the week hitting .429 with 11 kills and eight digs as Wheeling Jesuit picked up a non-conference win over Indiana…

INSTITUTE – The West Virginia Wesleyan College women’s volleyball team hit the road on Friday evening to take on W.Va. State, which came into the game with an impressive 12-5 record. The Lady ‘Cats, meanwhile, were undefeated in conference play. Wesleyan took the first match 25-21, but  would drop the next two sets by narrow…

Click here for photos from the 2018 football season. TENNERTON – One play. One pass. One snap. One stop. One point. That was all that stood between the Buckhannon-Upshur High School Buccaneers and their first win over Bridgeport in two decades. But under the harsh glare of the Friday night lights, Jake Bowen plowed through…

SHEPHERDSTOWN — The West Virginia Wesleyan College soccer Bobcats recorded a big Mountain East Conference win by dismantling the Shepherd Rams on the road Thursday. In a dominant performance, Wesleyan outshot their opponents 29-3 and took 11 corner kicks en route to the 5-0 win at Shepherd. Liam Igoe was first on the board, scoring…

SHEPHERDSTOWN – Natalie Prater needed just 45 seconds to find the back of the net as the West Virginia Wesleyan College women’s soccer team sailed to a 2-0 win at Shepherd University on Wednesday afternoon. The victory was the sixth in a row for the Lady ‘Cats. Haelly Ramirez played the ball to Prater for…

Despite racing out to an early lead, the Buckhannon-Upshur High School soccer Buccaneers couldn’t hold on in a Big 10 clash with Robert C. Bryd Tuesday night, falling 2-1 on the road. B-U’s Ryan Hurst continued to light up the scoreboard with a quick strike in just the seventh minute, taking a Dawson Carpenter pass…

GLENVILLE, W.Va. — Bobcat Volleyball picked up a conference road win on Tuesday evening, beating the Glenville Pioneers 3-1 to improve to 3-0 in conference play. The match was extremely competitive with none of the sets being decided by more than five points. Glenville would take the first set 25-22 utilizing four straight points late…

TENNERTON — Ryan Hurst scored a hat trick to pace the B-UHS soccer Bucs past North Marion 6-1 on Monday. B-U’s Lane Tenney broke open the scoring deadlock in the 26th minute, finishing on a rebounded shot to open the floodgates. Hurst would score two minutes later on a breakaway, and Bryer Ketterman slipped a…