MORGANTOWN -- On third and 9 with two minutes left, West Virginia quarterback Nicco Marchiol dropped back and found tight end Grayson Barnes over the middle of the field for 34 yards, putting the Mountaineers into Pitt territory. A couple of plays later, with 11 seconds left, Marchiol hit ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia defensive coordinator Zac Alley told safety Darrian Lewis to watch Pitt’s motion down in the red zone. The Panthers, sure enough, motioned the receiver, and Lewis followed. Pitt quarterback Eli Holstein received the snap and fired behind the motion man, where ...
MORGANTOWN -- There were 11 seconds left on the clock. It was second down from the 2-yard line. West Virginia was down 24-17 to rival Pitt in the Backyard Brawl. Quarterback Nicco Marchiol snapped the ball and instantly had defenders in his face. Quickly, Marchiol tossed it to tight end ...
MORGANTOWN -- There were literally dozens of storylines that came out of West Virginia’s 31-24 overtime victory Saturday against the hated Panthers of Pitt. Only one statement, though: This WVU running game ain’t dead yet. It would have been easy for me, you, your neighbor and your ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia came all the way back to win in overtime over Pitt in the 108th Backyard Brawl. On the heroics of quarterback Nicco Marchiol, the Mountaineers rallied to win in overtime 31-24 over the Panthers, after trailing by seven with 5:03 left in the ...
WHEELING – All hail Henry, Freddie, Mousey and Fish. “I look at that doggone thing every day and I still laugh,” Ed Gorczyca said Friday morning. “After all these years.” At 88, Gorczyca still isn’t the oldest member of the Polish American Patriot Club in Wheeling – ...
