Rick Elmore

Elmore's picks this week are Old Dominion to defeat Marshall despite Joan C. Edwards Stadium being a place where the Thundering Herd typically wins. With WVU off, Ohio State-Illinois is the other pick in the column this week.

Chapmanville's Justus Mann led the Tigers to the Class AAA, Region 4 golf championship on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025 at Big Bend Golf Course in Tornado. Winfield finished as region runner-up but both teams qualified for the state tournament at Oglebay Resort.

After a season-opening loss to Independence, Herbert Hoover's football team has won four in a row and looks to make it five straight when they play host to South Charleston on Friday in Elkview.

It’s rebound day for both Marshall and West Virginia.

Janessa Bailes is settling in for her first season as the head volleyball coach at Buffalo while Missy Smith, the former head coach at George Washington, has her Herbert Hoover Huskies off to a 7-1-1 start.

With three days left before the noon Friday deadline, more than 720 runners from 20 states had signed up for the 52nd Charleston Distance Run set for Saturday at 7:30 a.m.

Jarrod West had nine points and five assists on Monday to help Best Virginia defeat Shell Shock, 74-61, on Monday at the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center in the quarterfinals of The Basketball Tournament.

The Riverside duo of Cianna Groom and Jada Ward were the only athletes from the Kanawha Valley who competed at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals event in Philadelphia. Herbert Hoover's Maysen Fletcher and Charleston Catholic's Bella Boggs competed in running events during the four-day event.

Prep notebook highlights accomplishments of Riverside discus thrower Cianna Groom who has the state's farthest throw this season at the Capitol City Classic. She followed that with a win on Saturday at the Tudor's Biscuit World Charleston Relays.

Winfield isn't the only team in Putnam County off to a hot start in softball. Buffalo and Hurricane along with the Generals have but a handful of defeats through the season's first three weeks.