The Yellow Jacket guards dished out a whopping 26 assists and five players scored in double-figures in a 107-76 road win over Salem Monday night.

      Senior Darren Jones topped his own team season high with 13 assists while Josh Miller added eight and Bo King five.

       It was the most assists for the squad since they had 29 in a 111-80 win over West Virginia Wesleyan back on November 24th.

        Next up the men host Glenville State Thursday evening at 7:30.

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     The WVSU women's basketball team rolled to a 76-47 win at Salem International Monday night.

      Danielle Davis and Keirah Hicks had 15 points apiece and Avery Hale added 14 for the Jackets (13-8, 9-7 in WVIAC) who now host WVIAC leading Glenville Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

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      The Yellow Jacket men defeated host Seton Hill 88-85 Sunday afternoon behind a balanced attack.

      In all five Jackets hit double figures.

      Fred Harris had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Josh Miller 21 points, Darren Jones 15, Jason Emerson 12, and Bo King 10.

       WVSU trailed 79-70 with 4:37 to play before finishing the game on an 18-6 run.

       Miller had four points and three assists during that run with Harris scoring six points including a pair of dunks.

        Emerson hit back-to-back 3-pointers with less than two minutes to play with the second proving to be the game winner.

        Jones provided an insurance bucket with 23 seconds to play.

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       The Yellow Jackets spent an extra day in Pennsylvania waiting to play Sunday and then ran into a Seton Hill team that shot a torrid 55 percent and out-rebounded them 41-27 as WVSU fell 77-73.

       Senior Alixandria Barnette paced the Jackets with 19 points while Tonesha Members added 16 and Melissa Ford 11.

       WVSU is now 12-8 overall and 8-7 in WVIAC play. Seton Hill improved to 14-6 and 10-5.

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     The Yellow Jacket softball team split a pair of Sunday games in the UNC Pembroke tournament.

      The Jackets dropped a 10-2 decision to Kutztown after leading 2-1 going into the bottom of the fifth.

      WVSU recovered to defeat St. Andrews 9-1 later in the day.

      Charli Small, Bobbi Harper, and Margaret Osborne each had a double and Brittany Hyatt had a pair as the Jackets rolled to the win to finish the weekend 3-1.

      Harper and Osborne each drove in two runs in the win while freshman pitcher Kelsey Lorraine allowed just three hits in six innings to improve to 2-0 in her collegiate career.

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     The Yellow Jacket softball squad is off to a fast start winning twice in cold weather at the UNC Pembroke tournament in North Carolina Saturday.

      WVSU defeated Pfeiffer 9-4 in game one as freshman pitcher Kelsey Lorraine picked up her first collegiate win and freshman Sara Pelegreen pitched 4.2 strong innings of relief.

        Last season's WVIAC Freshman of the Year Brittany Hyatt went 3-3 with a home run and double while freshman catcher Poppy Ramey also had a strong college debut going 2-3 at the plate with a triple and two RBI.

         Junior Margaret Osborne went the distance in game two as the Jackets defeated St. Andrews 4-2.

          Bobbi Harper doubled to drive in the tying run at 2-2 and freshman Alex Macri, who finished the game 2-2, drove in what proved to be the game winner.

         The Yellow Jackets are scheduled to play two more games Sunday before returning home.

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      Cal Bailey's perennial powerhouse baseball program is the pre-season pick to win the WVIAC Southern Division according the conference coach's poll released Friday.

       League coaches picked Shepherd to win the conference overall with WVSU their second pick.

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       The Yellow Jacket men's basketball team fell behind by 19 points at halftime and could not recover in falling 100-85 at Fairmont State Thursday night.

        Josh Miller scored 38 points and senior Darren Jones added 19.

        The Falcons hit a torrid 57 percent from floor and held a 43-32 rebounding advantage in improving to 15-3 overall and 10-3 in the WVIAC.

        WVSU is now 15-3 overall and 11-2 in the WVIAC tied for second with Alderson-Broaddus.

      The WVSU women's basketball team picked up a big road win Thursday night defeating Fairmont State 84-76 for a sixth straight victory.

       Junior Melissa Ford put up a double-double with 20 points and 12 rebounds with senior Alixandria Barnette adding 24 points and nine rebounds to lead the way.

        Senior Danielle Davis contributed 14 points while Tonesha Members finished with 11 and four assists.

         The Yellow Jackets improve to 12-7 overall and 8-6 in WVIAC play while the Falcons fall to 12-6, 9-4.

       The WVSU softball team has been picked to finish second in this season's conference race according to a poll of coaches.

        Defending champion West Virginia Wesleyan was chosen to repeat with the Yellow Jackets easily taking second in the voting.

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        The Yellow Jackets came back from a 15-point halftime deficit to defeat visiting Concord 75-69 in men's basketball action Monday night in Fleming Hall.

         Jason Emerson (left) had a big night hitting 7-of-15 shots from 3-point range and finishing with a game high 25 points to lead WVSU.

         Will Collins (#21 at right) added 15 points and seven rebounds, Darren Jones 15 points, six rebounds, and seven assists and Fred Lyles pulled down nine rebounds to aid in the effort.

          West Virginia State stays atop the WVIAC race with an 11-1 conference mark and move to 15-2 overall.

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      The West Virginia State baseball squad was ranked 5th in the NCAA DII Atlantic Region pre-season poll released Monday.

        The Yellow Jackets lead four WVIAC teams in the rankings.

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     The West Virginia State men's and women's basketball games that had been scheduled for Saturday, January 30th, at Salem have been rescheduled for Monday, February 8th.

       The women's game will start at 5:30 p.m. followed by the men's game at 7:30.

       The Yellow Jacket men host Concord at 7:30 p.m. Monday, February 1st, in a make-up of a previously snowed out contest.

        Both the men and women then travel to Fairmont State Thursday for games.