The 2024 State Cross Country Championships were held this past Saturday at Cabell Midland High School in Ona, West Virginia. The day was beautiful with temperatures in the low 70’s and bright blue skies. Wetzel and Tyler Counties were well represented as both Magnolia and Tyler ...
Magnolia graduate Dave Tallman Jr., son of current Head Basketball Coach at Magnolia, Dave Tallman, has built an impressive resume during his years coaching basketball. Dave Jr. served as the Director of Athletics and Head Boys Basketball Coach at St Mary's Ryken in Leonardtown, Maryland from ...
The Pilots played host to Frontier on Friday night, October 24, in Hannibal and were looking for their fifth win on the season and a berth in the postseason. Frontier was also looking to keep their playoff hopes alive. With both teams fired up things looked to be going in River’s favor early ...
What has happened to our local sports teams? Wetzel and Tyler Counties used to be feared by other schools. They knew coming to our schools would be a challenge to leave with a win. This past week on Sunday I was in Preston County sightseeing with my wife, looking at the fall leaf colors, ...
Magnolia scored early and never let up on Friday night, October 25, in a 30-14 rout over winless Ravenswood. Claiming their second victory of the season despite a host of lingering injuries the Big Blue scored with 3:00 minutes to play in the first quarter when Quarterback Kingston Christen ...
With three games remaining on the season Paden City high school was forced to cancel the remainder of its 2024 season due to a lack of players. The season started out on the bright side as the team of 14 made the trip to Zanesville, Ohio and picked up a win over FoxFire high school, a school ...
The Lady Eagles celebrated senior night on Tuesday evening October 22,2024 as they welcomed the St. Marys Blue Devils to the high school gym. Senior Blue Eagles, Mallory McDiffitt, Sienna McKeever and Kaylee Williams were honored prior to the start of the match. Magnolia wasted no time in ...
The visiting Blue Devils of St. Marys had their way with the Blue Eagles on Friday night, October 18, in New Martinsville. Things got off to a bad start from the get-go for the home team as they gave up two scores in the first few minutes of the contest and never recovered. By halftime the ...
The Valley Lumberjacks played host to the Calhoun Redskins Friday evening October 18, 2024, at Tom West Field on Senior Night and blasted the Redskins 63-21. The Jacks improved to 6-1 on the season. The Lumberjacks honored seniors Gavin Derby, along with Landen Jerico, Joey Barr, Cameron ...
When my kids were growing up, soccer was big in youth sports in Michigan. We, of course, went to all those cold early morning games, but it was never my favorite. Mostly at that young age it’s just a bunch of kids in a huddle trying to kick the ball and their biggest concern is whose mom ...
