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BOYS SOCCER EDISON TOPS CREEK RICHMOND — The Edison boys soccer team secured a 5-1 victory over rival Indian Creek on Thursday at home at the Edison Unified Sports Complex. The victory was the first of the season for Edison, now 1-2-1. Creek is now 0-2. The Wildcats visit Catholic Central on Tuesday, while the Redskins travel to Harrison Central the same night. BROOKE, CENTRAL TIE STEUBENVILLE — The Brooke and Catholic Central boys soccer teams battled to a 0-0 tie on Thursday at the Tony Rencinella Soccer Field. Brooke's Bronson Pack made 12 saves. The Bruins ...

Bills rally past Steelers 28-27 in preseason finale

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Ian Wheeler scored on a 2-yard run with 1:06 left, Steve Buechele completed an off-balance pass to Dante Pettis for a 2-point conversion and the Buffalo Bills beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-27 in the preseason finale for each team Thursday night. The Steelers' ...

WVU finalizing who is ready in last practices before Week 1

MORGANTOWN — It’s crunch time for Rich Rodriguez and West Virginia football. In under two weeks, the Mountaineers will run out to the field to face Coastal Carolina in the first game of the season on Sept. 5. In these last couple of days leading up to the first game, it’s a lot of ticking off the final unknowns. The biggest unknown is finalizing who is ready to play. Who is ready to take on an FBS school in under two weeks. “I think we’ve gotten to the point where we identified most the guys that are ready to play,” Rodriguez said. “There’s still a few more that we got ...

Gabriel, Green make cases for 3rd QB spot in Browns’ win over Patriots

CLEVELAND (AP) — Dillon Gabriel threw three touchdown passes — two to Luke Floriea — and Taylen Green directed a 98-yard touchdown drive to help the Cleveland Browns beat the New England Patriots 37-13 on Thursday night in the final preseason game for both teams. Gabriel and Green got ...

No. 7 WVU women’s soccer looking to carry momentum onto the road

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia women’s soccer is 3-0 on the season for the first time in two decades. 2006 was the last time the Mountaineers started the season 3-0, when it beat Richmond, James Madison and Western Michigan to start the year on a seven-game win streak. It's been so long because head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown doesn’t ease the team into the year ever. The Mountaineers face ranked opponents, mostly in the top 10, and one of them is usually rival Penn State. The Mountaineers finally beat the Nittany Lions, 2-1, securing their first win over them since 2017. With the 3-0 ...

West Liberty can’t complete comeback in opener

WEST LIBERTY – The Chad Salisbury Era at West Liberty started off on the wrong note as the Hilltoppers dug themselves an early hole Thursday night that proved too big to climb out of in dropping a 30-27 decision to visiting Walsh at a jam-packed West Family Stadium. West Liberty trailed ...