Trio of Bucs make Class AAA All-State Baseball Team

Posted: Tuesday, Jun 18th, 2013
CHARLESTON -- The Buckhannon-Upshur Buccaneers' top hitter, top fielder and best overall player during the 2013 season all represented their team on the Class AAA All-State Baseball Team, selected by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.
Major contributions at the plate and on the mound landed B-U senior Dalton Westfall on the All-State Team for the second straight year, as the ...more

Post 7 splits in season debut at Parkersburg

Posted: Thursday, Jun 13th, 2013
PARKERSBURG -- Buckhannon Post 7 opened their 2013 American Legion baseball season in a doubleheader Saturday with a pair of results on both extremes of the spectrum.
Post 7 jumped out to an 8-2 lead and won their season opener against the host Parkersburg Post 15 squad in a high-scoring affair, 14-13. But in the finale, they surrendered six runs in ...more

Sectional banner capped baseball Bucs’ 2013 season

Posted: Tuesday, Jun 11th, 2013
TENNERTON -- The Buckhannon-Upshur Buccaneers punctuated their second straight winning baseball season by returning to another plateau in head coach Adam Squires' fifth season as head coach.
By sweeping a best-of-three series against the Lewis County Minutemen in their revamped sectional tournament bracket, the Bucs won their first sectional title in program history since 2008. B-U finished the season 15-13 overall, ...more

Wesleyan alum to lead MEC women’s basketball refs

Posted: Tuesday, Jun 11th, 2013
WHEELING, Veteran women's basketball official Brad McMillion has been hired by the Mountain East Conference to serve as the MEC's first Supervisor of Women's Basketball Officials.
A resident of Bluefield, Va., McMillion will be responsible for the selection, evaluation and assignment of all women's basketball officials for every game hosted by a MEC member school. McMillion will begin his ...more

Post 7 opens new season tonight

Posted: Tuesday, Jun 11th, 2013
TENNERTON -- Players from Upshur and Lewis Counties will join forces on the baseball diamond for the second straight year as the Buckhannon Post 7 American Legion baseball team embarks on their 2013 season.
With 21 players on his preseason roster and a plethora of experienced pitching arms, Post 7 manager Steve Gandee expects steady pitching and defense to form the ...more

All-state seniors led lacrosse Lady Bucs in 2013

Posted: Tuesday, Jun 11th, 2013
TENNERTON -- A pair of all-state seniors led the Buckhannon-Upshur Lady Buccaneers in scoring during the 2013 lacrosse season, helping the B-U girls finish the year with a 3-8 overall ledger.
B-U senior midfielder Sarah Gillespie paced the B-U offense with 37 points, racking up 29 goals and eight assists. Fellow B-U senior Haley Ware also starred in the Lady Bucs' ...more

Four Lady Bucs named to all-state softball team

Posted: Thursday, Jun 6th, 2013
TENNERTON -- Four Buckhannon-Upshur Lady Bucs earned berths on the 2013 Class AAA West Virginia High School softball team.
Senior shortstop Brooklyn Waddell was named to the second team, senior pitcher Megan Williams was a special honorable mention selection and senior designated player Claire Davis and junior first baseman Julie Tenney were honorable mention choices.
Waddell led coach Tom Hasbrouck's ...more

Wesleyan wins Commissioner’s Cup for sixth consecutive year

Posted: Thursday, Jun 6th, 2013
BUCKHANNON -- West Virginia Wesleyan has claimed a sixth straight West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Commissioner's Cup.
But Seton Hill won its first President's Cup to halt Wesleyan's streak at five for that honor.
Wesleyan was runner-up in women's soccer and men's cross country, and finished third in men's and women's track and field, men's soccer and women's cross country.
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