Shady Spring is enjoying a nice season, and hopes to keep it running on its home course. Read more

Independence’s Atticus Goodson, the area’s first legitimate Kennedy Award candidate since Bluefield’s Mookie Collier, isn’t necessarily a reluctant superstar. Read more

Get ready for another quiet Friday night. Read more

Marshall’s defense was very good in the Thundering Herd’s first two games of the season, but the third game — last week’s 42-38 loss to visiting East Carolina — was by far its worst performance of the season. Read more

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Here are the candidates for the latest Register-Herald Prep Athlete of the Week (in alphabetical order): Read more

The biggest play for Atticus Goodson during his career-high 318-yard rushing performance Saturday might be one he didn’t make. Read more

Atticus Goodson showed up for his postgame interviews wearing a pair of prized cowboy boots. Read more

OAK HILL — Lincoln County head coach Bradley Likens wasn't necessarily expecting a track meet when his team faced Oak Hill Friday night. Read more

Ryan Simms ran for three touchdowns and Liberty defeated Logan 20-14, handing the Class AA No. 10 Wildcats their first loss. Read more

FAIRLEA — Monquelle Davis completed all 10 of his pass attempts for 111 yards and two touchdowns as Class AAA No. 13 Greenbrier East defeated Buckhannon-Upshur 56-14. Read more

It’s been a long wait for Independence’s highly touted football team, sitting out the Covid restrictions that have kept it from playing since the opener at Liberty Aug. 27. Read more

Woodrow Wilson boys soccer coach Steve Laraba said Carson Eckley has the type of skill set that makes him a dangerous player. Read more

Woodrow Wilson’s football game at Bluefield scheduled for Friday has been canceled after the Mercer County Board of Education announced all schools will go to remote learning for two weeks. Read more

When Jenna Fisher was coming up through the Greater Beckley Christian volleyball program, she got to watch setter Reagan Hogan, who went on to set the high school team's record for career assists. Read more

SSAC Ratings Read more

It seemed only a matter of time, but Covid-19 took a big toll on the area's high school sports landscape last week. Read more

CHARMCO – Chase McClung was moving into a more comfortable position with his new sport, the season just beginning to get started in Week 2 when the first-year senior was dealt a cruel blow. Read more

PARKERSBURG – Nate Tanner wasn’t pleased with his team’s second-half performance against University after last Friday. So, Parkersburg South’s head coach made his group run in practice all week leading up to Friday night’s Woodrow Wilson game. Read more

HICO — A more precise Midland Trail offense can be a dangerous one. Read more

PRINCETON — The Oak Hill Red Devils were expecting Princeton to run the ball on Friday. Read more

CHARMCO – Perhaps there is no better place than Greenbrier West for former WVU fullback Owen Schmitt to begin his coaching career. Read more

FAIRLEA — Jeremiah King ran for 325 yards and three touchdowns as Robert C. Byrd handed Greenbrier East its first loss, 31-16 Friday night. Read more

Hayden Johnson had a hat trick and Carson Eckley scored two goals as Woodrow Wilson defeated Princeton 5-1 Thursday at the YMCA Paul Cline Memorial Youth Sports Complex. Read more

Following his team’s loss to Clay County in the season opener, Midland Trail coach Frank Isaacs said there was a silver lining. Read more

Nicholas County running back Kaleb Clark remembers the moment well. Read more

Nicholas County’s Natalie Barr and Richwood’s Trey Stanley were the front-runners in the high school division of Tuesday’s Oak Hill Invitational cross-country meet. Read more

Kerri-Anne Cook fired a 5-over 77 and placed fifth at the fourth annual West Virginia Girls Golf Invitational Tuesday at Mingo Bottom Golf Course in Elizabeth. Read more

One of the area’s most anticipated prep football games will not be played. Read more

A staple of the local distance running scene will return on Tuesday. Read more

The area prep football schedule has seen a few more Covid-related changes. Read more

Here are this week's candidates for The Register-Herald Prep Athlete of the Week (in alphabetical order): Read more

In a game of big plays and highlight stats, including four fourth-down conversions, one a touchdown, and a running back logging 39 carries, it was a special teams play that was the key. Read more

Braxton County 38, Lewis County 22 Read more

HINTON — Ty Nickell ran for 121 yards on 14 carries and Greenbrier West bounced back from Week 1 loss to defeat Summers County 20-8 Friday night. Read more

HICO — Senior Ayden Simms provided three touchdowns — two through the air and one via the ground — to help propel the Midland Trail Patriots to a 34-20 conquest of Tolsia Friday. Read more

After it looked like Nicholas County was literally going to run away with the game, Shady Spring got back in it in about as exciting a way as possible. Read more

Greenbrier East sophomore Ian Cline has a ritual to ready himself for games that he swears his well-intentioned teammates try to break. Read more

Not that he doesn’t have faith in his defense, but Greenbrier East coach Ray Lee said he might turn to a higher power when his team takes on Woodrow Wilson and playmakers like quarterback Maddex McMillen and receivers Keynan Cook and Elijah Redfern. Read more

Greenbrier East running back Ian Cline has no shortage of role models from which to choose. Read more

Shirley Brown Invitational Read more

As a two-sport fall athlete, Charlotte McGinnis is being tested both physically and mentally. Read more

The personnel loss from last year’s state tournament team is significant, but Woodrow Wilson volleyball coach Bre Rhodes doesn’t think anyone will be able to tell. Not with all the talent that is stepping up. Read more

OAK HILL — The rain and subsequent effect on the field affected both teams' play, but favored neither. Read more