Morgantown Moves To Top Of MetroNews Power Index

MetroNews Sports
Morgantown

The fifth week of the 2004 METRONEWS weekly Power Index is out, there is a
new No. 1 in the state of West Virginia.

Click here for the complete METRONEWS Power Index from Week 5.

For the first time this season there is a change at the very top. MORGANTOWN,
with a perfect 15-0 mark, is the new number one team in West Virginia,
jumping up from three a week ago. SOUTH CHARLESTON remains number two while
MARTINSBURG, number one for the first four weeks of the PI, drops to three
with a loss South Hagerstown (Md.) and a close one-point win over Eastern
Panhandle foe HEDGESVILLE. Red-hot HUNTINGTON is four, while GEORGE
WASHINGTON rounds out the top five.

Class AA WESTSIDE is number six this week and is the highest ranked Class AA
team in the state. Class AA OAK GLEN, still perfect at 16-0, is seventh while
Beckley WOODROW WILSON is eight. The number nine team in West Virginia this
week is the defending Class AAA state champions PARKERSBURG SOUTH.
Clarksburg's ROBERT C. BYRD fills out the PI top 10.

The second 10 starts off with four Class AA teams in a row - number 11
MAGNOLIA, LOGAN at 12, POCA at 13 and number 14 WYOMING EAST. CAPITAL is
ranked 15 this week.

WHEELING PARK, standing in the path of MORGANTOWN on the way to Charleston,
is 16, while LINCOLN is 17. HEDGESVILLE, despite two losses to MARTINSBURG,
is still a top 20 club at number 18. BLUEFIELD is 19 this week, while JOHN
MARSHALL is 20.

CHARLESTON CATHOLIC, with a record of 14-2, is the top ranked Class A team in
the state.

Tom Yester, coach of top ranked MORGANTOWN, has been in the top spot of the
METRONEWS Power Index five different years but has never won a state
championship. The Mohigans have never won a basketball title in school
history; the closest being a tight second-place finish against EAST BANK in
1956. MORGANTOWN was led by WVU color commentator Jay Jacobs, and EAST BANK
had a fairly good player as well named Jerry West.

The METRONEWS Power Index rates all 132 West Virginia high school boys&Mac226;
basketball teams from one to 132. Using strength of schedule, success against
that schedule and results of inter-class play, the Power Index attempts to
gauge the relative strength of each West Virginia high school team.