March Madness starts early in the Upper Ohio Valley ever since the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference opted to stop letting the standings select a champion and allowed its teams to earn conference titles on the court.
The question of whether the Union Local girls could answer the bell against a similarly talented team in a big game was answered Saturday with an emphatic yes.
LEDE News photographer Teran Malone captured the following images of the recent match-up involving the top two teams in W.Va. Class A boys basketball. Williamstown got the best of rival Wheeling Central Catholic Saturday evening in East Wheeling.
Bards will compose sonnets hailing his strength and mastery, and the people will keep coming in swarms to witness his grandiose feats of finesse and veracity.
Hey Coach Clifford, are you enjoying your “retirement” away from basketball?
I am. I really am.
What did you do Sunday?
Went by the school and watched...
Put yourself in Logan Routt's shoes.
(OK, they're size 15, but hang
with me on this ...)
A senior and the oldest player on the
14th-ranked West Virginia...
First off, kudos once again to the OVAC Wrestling Tournament poohbahs for pulling off another wonderful event. If you've never been to one, go next year and be there for the opening ceremonies when the teams come out one-by-one, Olympic-style. You can feel the pride and nervousness permeate and dominate Wheeling's Wesbanco Arena, as the athletes are getting primed to roll.
Seemingly every team has a story of one of its players whose season was cut short. Each tale is different. Sometimes they make a full recovery, and sometimes they retake the court only to find out their bodies aren’t able to function at quite the same capacity as before the injury.
