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VOLLEYBALL OAK GLEN SPLITS AT A TRI MORGANTOWN — The Oak Glen volleyball team split a tri match on the road on Thursday at University, topping Parkersburg South 2-1 while falling 0-2 to the host Hawks. In a close first match, the Golden Bears won by scores of 25-12, 24-26, 17-15. Caetlyn Six had nine kills, Naomi Ayers and Mikalyn Balch had five kills each, Audrina May, Laikynn Eckleberry, and Mattie Carney had four kills each, Mikalyn Balch had 20 assists and Bryson Adams had 10 assists. Keira Vick had 18 digs and two assists and Kendall Six had eight digs. Against ...

Big Red bounces back, sweeps Edison

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RICHMOND — The Big Red volleyball team showed off a couple of the qualities it has been working on this season Thursday night at Edison — the ability to bounce back, and the ability to finish. Steubenville came out swinging, putting a tough five-set loss to Wheeling Central Tuesday in ...

JM, Wheeling Central take OVAC 5A and 3A golf titles

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WHEELING — John Marshall won their first OVAC golf title since 2017 on Thursday in climactic fashion. The Monarchs’ team total was tied with University at 329 after 18 holes at Speidel Golf Club's Jones Course at Oglebay, and the tiebreaker was decided by who had the lower-scoring fifth man on either squad— an advantage that went to John Marshall, and along with it, the OVAC 5A golf championship. John Marshall reached their team score behind efforts from Hayden Harvey (81), Brayden Kempkens (82), Rex Mallery (82) and Kamden Knapp (84). “It's a real team,” John Marshall head ...

Rodriguez gives updates on WVU football players' injuries, eligibility status

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football wide receiver Prince Strachan hasn’t seen the field yet for the Mountaineers, dealing with an injury. He’s a big 6-foot-5 receiver who had two successful years at Boise State before sustaining a season-ending injury at Southern California last year. In 2024, Strachan played in 14 games and started in five of them, including against Penn State in the College Football Playoff. He had four catches for 40 yards in that game. Strachan, along with Troy transfer D.J. Epps and LSU transfer TaRon Francis, was one of the bigger wide receiver additions ...

Big Red blanks St. C as Bowers hits milestone

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STEUBENVILLE — The Steubenville boys soccer team has had plenty of success so far this season scoring off set pieces, and Big Red continued to add to the list of such goals against a talented St. Clairsville team. Big Red delivered two goals in the first half and one more in the second — ...

Big Ten's top game has Michigan State's Pat Fitzgerald trying to deliver another upset at Notre Dame

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Longtime rivals Michigan State and No. 3 Notre Dame face off for the first time since 2017 in this week's most notable game featuring a Big Ten team. New Michigan State coach Pat Fitzgerald produced upset victories at Notre Dame as a Northwestern player in 1995 and as a Northwestern coach in 2014. Other interesting nonconference matchups featuring a Big Ten school against a Power Four opponent have Northwestern hosting Colorado and Maryland hosting Virginia Tech. UCLA's Bob Chesney coaches his first Big Ten game when the Bruins host Purdue. Things to watch this weekend in the Big ...