The Daktronics All-Atlantic Region team was announced today at West Virginia State players make up two-fifths of the first team.

       The dynamic guard duo of senior Darren Jones and junior Josh Miller have been selected to the first team.

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       Coming on the heels of their exciting win in the WVIAC tournament championship game Saturday night the Yellow Jackets' men's basketball team has moved up to #12 in the nation.

      WVSU was ranked 18th a week ago and #21 the previous week in the National Association of Basketball Coaches poll.

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      The WVIAC tournament champion Yellow Jackets will be traveling to Indiana University-Pa. to play East Stroudsburg in the NCAA Atlantic Regional Saturday.

       WVSU is seeded fourth of the eight teams and is led by senior Darren Jones who scored the game-winning basket (right) against West Liberty on the WVIAC tournament title game.

       The region is divided into two sites this season with WVSU, No. 5 East Stroudsburg, and No. 8 Fairmont State at top-ranked host IUP.

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        West Liberty is hosting the second site which includes Alderson-Broaddus, Kutztown, and St. Augustine's along with the Hilltoppers.

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    The WVSU men's and women's tennis teams opened their spring seasons Sunday.

    The Yellow Jacket men dropped a 7-2 decision to visiting Bluefield State while the women fell 6-1 to visiting West Virginia University.

     Jason Thaxton in singles and Thaxton and Brian Wooten picked up wins for the men while Eben Russell won in singles for the women.

      In a trio of non-conference, non-regional games Sunday the WVSU softball team took one game from visiting Hillsdale by a 9-1 score but dropped two other by counts of 7-6 and 6-1.

      The Yellow Jackets are now 6-4 overall and 2-0 in the WVIAC.

The Jackets completed a four game weekend sweep of Salem today at Winfield High School.

In game one, Garret Kiser was 2-3 with a double and an RBI in support of starting pitcher John Gale. Gale pitched four shutout innings in his Yellow Jackets debut and picked up the win. Bo Darby retired the game's final two batters to earn his first save of the season. The final score was 2-1.

The Jackets took game two by a score of 10-1. Franklin Lee led the way offensively, going 2-3 with a homer and 3 RBI. Kyle Rucker pitched three strong innings to get his first Yellow Jacket victory.

      Senior Darren Jones hot a driving bucket with 3.6 seconds remaining to give the Yellow Jackets a hard fought 108-107 win over West Liberty in the WVIAC tournament championship game Saturday night.

      It is the third tournament crown in the last five years for WVSU.

       Jones and Josh Miller finished with 29 points each.

       Jones, Miller, and Jason Emerson were named to the All-Tournament team and Miller was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.

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   The Yellow Jackets took game one of the doubleheader by a score of 3-0. Ryne Holstine homered and pitched five shutout innings to pick up the win. Evan Kendall pitched the final two frames and earned the save.

    In game two, Steve Hughes tossed four strong innings and picked up the victory. Justin Henry picked up the save with three innings of relief work. Garrett Kiser went deep for the Jackets. The final score was 11-1.

    The Jackets play Salem again tomorrow in a 12:00 doubleheader at Winfield High School.

       The WVSU softball team swept visiting Concord 6-3 and 8-0 Saturday in the conference opener for each.

     Freshman Kelsey Lorraine picked up the win in the opener. Mallory Hilton led the attack with three hits in as many plate appearances while Brittany Hyatt, Kayla Sturms, and Margaret Osborne each contributed a pair of hits.

     In the nightcap freshman hurler Sara Pelegreen tossed a one-hitter as the Yellow Jackets (5-1) won in six innings.

     Hyatt and Sturms each had two hits again as did freshman catcher Poppy Ramey and Alex Macri.

       The Yellow Jackets trailed for a total of 65 seconds in the first half Friday night before a 13-0 run midway through period moved them in front for good as WVSU cruised to a 90-65 win over Alderson-Broaddus.

       Darren Jones (right) led the Jackets with 26 points while Jason Emerson added 18, Josh Miller 17 and Will Collins 15.

         WVSU shot a torrid 59 percent from the floor including 52 percent from 3-point range in advancing to the WVIAC tournament championship game Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. at the Charleston Civic Center.

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     Down by 15 points in the second half the Yellow Jackets turned up the defensive pressure and rallied for an 86-74 win in a quarterfinal game in the WVIAC tournament.

     Josh Miller paced the attack with 26 points while Darren Jones added 19.

    "There is never a time when this team thinks they are too far behind," said WVSU Coach Bryan Poore. "To turn it around on a team like this says something about these young men."

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      Bo King added 13 points and Justin Banks 11 while Fred Harris pulled down 10 rebounds.

      The Yellow Jackets now face Alderson-Broaddus at 6:30 p.m. Friday night in a tournament semifinal game at the Charleston Civic Center.

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