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Rodriguez’s brace marked her first profession two-goal efficiency, as she now leads the staff with 5 objectives on the yr. She grew to become West Virginia’s second two-goal scorer this season, in addition to the squad’s 128th in program historical past.

West Virginia now returns to Morgantown to wrap up regular-season play, welcoming Kansas State to Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 27. The match is slated for 7 p.m. ET, and is Senior Night, because the Mountaineers rejoice the careers of 5 senior members of the squad.

This Week in Women’s Soccer: West Virginia returns to Morgantown to wrap up regular-season play, welcoming Kansas State to Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 27 … the match is slated for 7 p.m. ET … it’s Senior Night, because the Mountaineers rejoice the careers of 5 senior members of the squad.

Last Week in Women’s Soccer: WVU went 1-0-1 on its closing highway journey of the common season, tallying a 1-1 tie at Oklahoma State on Oct. 20, earlier than incomes a come-from-behind, 3-2 win at Oklahoma on Oct. 23 … a late equalizer from senior defender Gabrielle Robinson helped WVU earn a 1-1 draw with Oklahoma State … West Virginia trailed with lower than 10 minutes remaining within the recreation, however Robinson scored within the 84th minute to assist the Mountaineers draw even … the help was credited to senior ahead/defender Julianne Vallerand, her second of the marketing campaign and fifth of her profession … the ultimate field rating confirmed West Virginia outshooting Oklahoma State, 18-9, whereas the Mountaineers positioned seven photographs on objective and held the Cowgirls to simply three photographs on body … the Mountaineers accomplished the weekend with a 3-2 win at Oklahoma … WVU fell behind early, however was capable of struggle again with three unanswered objectives for the comeback highway win … junior midfielder AJ Rodriguez scored a pair of objectives to tie the competition, earlier than sophomore ahead Dilary Heredia-Beltran netted the game-winning objective within the 79th minute … the Mountaineers led the Sooners, 17-9, in photographs, whereas they only edged OU in photographs on objective, 9-7 … WVU took eight nook kicks, together with 5 within the first half, in comparison with simply 4 for Oklahoma.

Notes: Robinson’s objective at OSU was her first of the season and simply the second of her profession … Rodriguez secured the primary brace of her profession at OU and moved her season whole to a team-leading 5 objectives, together with eight for her profession … the Austin, Texas, native’s brace was the second two-goal efficiency for a Mountaineer this season, after fifth-year senior ahead Lauren Segalla tallied a pair of scores in a 2-0 win at Iowa State on Sept. 25 … it additionally marked the 128th two-goal scorer for WVU in program historical past … Heredia-Beltran’s objective was her second of the yr, in addition to the third recreation winner of her Mountaineer profession … fifth-year senior defender Jordan Brewster made her ninety fifth profession begin on Sunday, tying this system file, which was set by Sh’Nia Gordon in 2015-18 … senior goalkeeper Kayza Massey ranks first within the Big 12 Conference in goalie minutes performed (1530.0) and third within the league with six shutouts on the yr … Heredia-Beltran is fourth within the convention in whole assists (6) and third in assists per recreation (0.38).

This Week in Men’s Soccer: The Mountaineers conclude the 2022 common season with a visit to Georgia Southern for a Sun Belt Conference matchup on Friday, Oct. 28 … kickoff at Eagle Field – Erk Park in Statesboro, Georgia, is ready for 7 p.m. ET.

Last Week in Men’s Soccer: West Virginia (5-6-4, 2-1-4 Sun Belt) earned a win and a attract two matches performed … on Oct. 19, WVU performed James Madison to a 1-1 draw at Sentara Park in Harrisonburg, Virginia … junior midfielder Ryan Crooks scored within the thirty fifth minute to offer the Mountaineers the lead, however JMU answered with a objective within the 73rd … from there, WVU earned a 3-2 victory over Georgia State on Oct. 23, at residence … Crooks, senior midfielder Luke McCormick and freshman ahead Marcus Caldeira all discovered the again of the web within the Senior Day matchup … West Virginia completed with a season-high 21 photographs within the win.

Notes: Following final week’s outcomes, WVU improved to 3-1 all-time towards Georgia State and 3-6-1 towards James Madison … West Virginia completed 4-1-3 at residence within the common season, marking its fifteenth successful season in Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium’s 19 years of existence … the Mountaineers are unbeaten in 20 of its final 21 residence matches, courting again to March 24, 2021 … total, West Virginia is unbeaten in its final six contests (3-0-3) … WVU is 1-0 all-time towards Georgia Southern … within the two colleges’ solely different assembly, WVU earned 5-0 win over the Eagles on Oct. 31, 2021, on the highway … WVU has scored at the least three objectives in 4 of its final 5 matches … final week, redshirt senior midfielder/defender Dyon Dromers was named the Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Week.

This Week in Volleyball: West Virginia welcomes Iowa State to the WVU Coliseum on Wednesday, Oct. 26 … first serve is scheduled for five p.m. ET, on ESPNU … the Mountaineers conclude play for the week once they journey to Waco, Texas, to tackle No. 14 Baylor on Sunday, Oct. 30 … first serve in Waco is scheduled for 1 p.m. on ESPN2.

Last Week in Volleyball: WVU (7-14, 0-8 Big 12) continued its Big 12 Conference marketing campaign when it took on Kansas on Wednesday, Oct. 19 on the WVU Coliseum … the Mountaineers took the primary set however fell to the Jayhawks in set 4 … fifth-year senior exterior hitter Adrian Ell earned her third triple-double of the yr, tallying 18 kills, 19 assists and 14 digs … freshman exterior hitter Bailey Miller tallied 11 kills … junior libero Skye Stokes notched 15 digs … the Mountaineers then traveled to Austin, Texas, to take Texas … West Virginia fell in three units, as Miller led the squad with 11 kills.

Notes: With 10.79 opponent assists per set, the Mountaineers rank second within the Big 12 … West Virginia additionally ranks second within the Big 12 in opponent kills per set (11.51) … by means of 21 matches, junior libero Skye Stokes is fifth within the Big 12 with 3.97 digs per set … fifth-year senior exterior hitter Adrian Ell ranks ninth within the Big 12 in factors per set (3.56) and kills per set (2.97) … redshirt freshman Kamiah Gibson ranks eighth within the Big 12 in assists per set with 6.77.

This Week in Tennis: West Virginia is off this week … the Mountaineers return to motion on Nov. 4-6 as they give the impression of being to shut their fall slate on the 2022 Fall Big 12 Individual Championships. in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Last Week in Tennis: WVU traveled to Blacksburg, Virginia, for the 2022 Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s (ITA) Women’s Atlantic Regional Tournament on Oct. 20-23 … the squad despatched seven gamers to compete over the weekend, together with senior Ting-Pei Chang, junior Momoko Nagato and sophomores Camilla Bossi, Kendall Kovick, Michaela Kucharova and Tatiana Lipatova … the primary day of competitors, Oct. 20, began in singles qualifying rounds … No. 7-seed Kovick, No. 11-seed Chang and No. 14-seed Nagato all superior to the singles predominant draw spherical of 64, whereas No. 6-seed Lipatova fell within the first spherical of qualifying singles … Kovick went on to advance to the spherical of 16, however finally fell in two units to Maryland’s Francesca Feodorov, 6-4, 6-3 … Nagato, Bossi and Chang all competed in the primary draw of 64, however fell within the first spherical … Oct. 21 kicked off with doubles play spherical of 64, the place the Mountaineers had two pairs competing (No. 9-seed Bossi/Chang and Nagato/Kucharova) … Nagato and Kucharova topped Radford’s Abrams and Brandow, 8-4, to advance to spherical of 32, alongside Bossi and Chang … the No. 9-seed duo topped St. Joseph’s Wijnesma and Kordonowy, 8-1 … Nagato and Kucharova made a run all the way in which to the quarterfinals, whereas Bossi and Chang fell within the spherical of 16 … within the quarterfinal spherical, Nagato and Kucharova fell, 8-6, to Penn State’s No. 16-seed Chekhlystova and Dorner.

Notes: Bossi and Chang’s debuted tied for No. 37 on the ITA’s Preseason Doubles Rankings … duo Nagato and Kucharova at present lead the Mountaineers in doubles with an 8-0 file, whereas Kucharova is at present undefeated in doubles play (9-0) … Chang leads the staff in singles (8-1) and total file (15-4), whereas Nagato is an in depth second with 12-6.

This Week in Swimming & Diving: WVU is off this week.

Last Week in Swimming & Diving: The Mountaineers secured their first dual-meet victory of the season after a, 416-284, win over soon-to-be Big 12 member Univeristy of Cincinnati, on Oct. 21-22, in Morgantown … on day one, WVU gained momentum early and by no means seemed again … the ladies’s squad held a convincing lead over UC, 106-58, whereas the lads held the sting, 88-79 … in the course of the first particular person occasions, the Mountaineers swept the highest 5 spots within the ladies’s 500 freestyle, earlier than junior william Mullen secured the lads’s occasion (4:32.19) … junior Abby Reardon led the way in which for WVU within the ladies’s 500 (4:58.42), adopted by freshmen Olivia Burch (2nd – 5:02.95), Gabriela Martin (third – 5:05.34) and Alyssa Heffelfinger (4th – 5:05.86) and sophomore Miranda Kirtley (fifth – 5:05.98) … WVU tallied six extra particular person victories on evening one, together with seniors Harna Minezawa (ladies’s 100 butterfly – 56.71) and David Snider (males’s 100 fly – 49.13), freshman Ada Szwabinska (ladies’s 100 free – 51.53), sophomore Conner McBeth (males’s 100 free – 45.24), freshmen Mia Cheatwood (ladies’s 100 breaststroke – 1:03.22), sophomore Morgan Burton (ladies’s 400 IM – 4:28.02) … on day two, sophomore Miranda Kirtley introduced residence the primary particular person victory within the 1000 free (10:26.61), earlier than junior William Mullen had a dominating swim within the males’s occasion … the Fairfax Station, Virginia, native recorded a 9:21.53, good for first and a 9 second hole earlier than Cincinnati took second … following Kirtley’s win, the Mountaineer ladies went on to safe 5 of six particular person victories … McBeth was the lone Mountaineer to safe a person victory on the lads’s facet … the New Castle, Pennsylvania, native took first within the 50 free with a time of 20.79 … WVU swept all eight relays towards UC over the weekend … within the diving properly, senior Owen Johns swept each males’s occasions, the lads’s 1-meter with a 309.68 and males’s 3-meter with 321.98, each good for NCAA Zone A Qualifying Cuts … whereas sophomore Sara Krusinski received the ladies’s 3-meter (254.10), and senior Marian Tiemeier received the ladies’s 1-meter … Tiemeier’s rating of 266.25 was good for a Zones Qualifying rating.

Notes: The males’s staff holds an 9-0 all-time file over UC, whereas the ladies advance their file to 8-1 … WVU now has three divers which have certified for NCAA Zones, together with Johns (1-meter, 3-meter), Tiemeier (1-meter) and sophomore Glenn Eloriaga (platform) … Mullen, Cheatwood and Krusinski have been all earned Big 12 weekly honors on Wednesday, Oct. 19, following their respective performances on the 2022 West Virginia State Games … following the matchup towards Penn State, the Mountaineers journey to State College, Pennsylvania for the second twin meet towards Penn State, on Nov. 4-6.

This Week in Rifle: West Virginia is off this week … the Mountaineers return to the vary from Nov. 5-6, as they play host to Alaska-Fairbanks, TCU and Kentucky for the inaugural WVU Fall Classic … the occasion will probably be held on the Bill McKenzie Rifle vary contained in the WVU Shell Building, in Morgantown.

Last Week in Rifle: The Mountaineers have been off final week.

Notes: WVU at present ranks No. 3 nationally in mixture common (4716.00) … moreover, the Mountaineers are No. 2 within the nation in air rifle common (2380.25) and are No. 4 in smallbore common (2335.75) … senior Mary Tucker continues to steer the squad in mixture common (1188.5), smallbore common (590.5) and air rifle common (598) … the Sarasota, Florida, native ranks No. 4 nationally in mixture rating, No. 5 in air rifle rating and No. 7 in smallbore rating … within the worldwide circuit, junior Tal Engler, sophomore Natalie Perrin and Tucker wrapped up competitors on the 2022 International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Championships in Cairo, Egypt, over the weekend … Tucker earned a pair of medals at this yr’s championships; successful a silver on Oct. 16, within the ladies’s staff air rifle occasion and a bronze within the ladies’s 50-meter rifle susceptible occasion on Oct. 17.

This Week in Cross Country: West Virginia travels to Lubbock, Texas, for the Big 12 Championship … the ladies’s 6k is on Friday, Oct. 28 at 10 a.m. ET… the meet takes place at Chaparral Ridge Cross Country Course.

Last Week in Cross Country: WVU took eighth on the Go Fast River Run at Lock Haven University’s West Branch XC Course in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania … redshirt sophomore Abbey Yuhasz led the way in which for the Mountaineers, ending third in a time of 21:48.3 … fellow redshirt sophomore Megan Weaver adopted Yuhasz, ending twentieth with a time of twenty-two:49.1 … moreover, redshirt freshman Zara Zervos completed third for West Virginia, ending forty fourth of 164 runners with a time of 23:42.7 … freshman Grace Wu earned forty seventh with a time of 23:51.2 … redshirt freshman Kase Torchia rounded out the top-five for WVU, ending with a time of 25:05.0. … West Virginia was considered one of 16 groups racing within the ladies’s 6k.

Notes: Friday’s race was compromised of the developmental squad for WVU … the staff will ship their championship qualifying squad to the Big 12 Conference Championship.

This Week in Golf: The Mountaineers are competing on the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational in Windemere, Florida, by means of Tuesday … this event will conclude WVU’s fall season.

Last Week in Golf: The Mountaineers competed within the Big 12 Match Play Championship at The Clubs at Houston Oaks in Hockley, Texas … the staff picked up three victories to tie No. 12-ranked Oklahoma State … senior Trent Tipton defeated Hazen Newman, 4&3, whereas junior Jackson Davenport defeated John Wild, 4&3 … sophomore Max Green downed Jones Baumgartner, 2UP … towards Oklahoma, sophomore Todd Duncan defeated Oklahoma’s Jake Holbrook, 3&1, to steer the Mountaineers towards No. 11 Oklahoma … towards Baylor, Tipton defeated Luke Dossey, 3&2, and Davenport downed Jonas Appel, 3&2 … Green tied Johnny Keefer … the Mountaineers misplaced an in depth 3-2-1 match to the Bears … within the championship spherical towards Iowa State later, the Mountaineers fell to the Cyclones, 3-2-1 … junior Will Stakel recorded a 2&1 victory over Jake Slocum, whereas sophomore Todd Duncan a 2&1 victory over Luke Gutschewski … Davenport tied his match towards Nate Vance.

This Week in Women’s Basketball: West Virginia unofficially opens the season towards on Sunday, Oct. 30, because the Moutaineers get set for an exhibition contest towards Fairmont State … Sunday is WVU’s annual “Haunted Hoops” occasion, with tipoff towards the Falcons set for two p.m. ET … previous to tipoff, followers are invited to “Trunk-or-Treat” across the WVU Coliseum Complex, starting at 12 p.m.

Last Season in Women’s Basketball: The Mountaineers completed the 2021-22 season with a file of 15-15, together with a 7-11 mark within the Big 12 Conference … WVU completed seventh within the league standings a yr in the past … West Virginia performed 11 ranked opponents final season and completed the yr with a NET Ranking of No. 62 … WVU swept three Big 12 opponents in 2021-22 – Oklahoma State, TCU and Texas Tech … 5 student-athletes have been named to the 2022 All-Big 12 Teams, together with freshman guard JJ Quinerly, who was a unanimous choice to the Big 12’s All-Freshman Team … senior guard Madisen Smith additionally made an look on final yr’s All-Big 12 squad, incomes honorable point out standing … following the season, coach Mike Carey introduced his retirement after 21 seasons main the WVU ladies’s basketball program … Carey completed his profession because the all-time winningest coach in WVU ladies’s basketball historical past with a 447-239 file (.652) and compiled an total file of 735-341 (.683) in 34 seasons as a head coach … West Virginia employed coach Dawn Plitzuweit as the college’s sixth ladies’s basketball coach on March 31 … Plitzuweit got here to Morgantown after spending the final six seasons at South Dakota, the place she amassed a file of 158-36 and received six Summit League Championships.

Notes: West Virginia returns seven gamers from final yr’s squad, together with Smith, who’s in her fifth season with the Mountaineers … moreover, six newcomers be part of the staff this yr to make up WVU’s 13-woman squad … Smith and Quinerly have been honorable point out choices on this yr’s Preseason All-Big 12 Team … a local of Greenville, South Carolina, Smith has performed in 112 video games, together with a team-best 107 begins, in her profession … throughout her first 4 seasons at WVU, she has amassed 885 factors, 429 assists, 255 rebounds and 125 steals … she additionally has completed in double figures 37 occasions in 4 years … in all-time program historical past, Smith is No. 10 in assists and is tied for No. 10 in begins … she additionally ranks within the prime 15 in program historical past in minutes performed and is the one Mountaineer with a number of 50-minute video games of their profession … a local of Norfolk, Virginia, Quinerly averaged 8.8 factors, 2.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists and a couple of.3 steals per recreation in 2021-22 … she was considered one of 4 Mountaineers to play in all 30 video games, incomes 12 begins, a yr in the past … she additionally racked up a team-high 68 steals a season in the past, essentially the most by a Mountaineer freshman since Maria Tchobanova tallied 74 in the course of the 1995-96 season.