Alright, straight up, figured I’d get the latest scores for the WVSSAC boys basketball tournament today. Wanted to see how my nephew’s team was doing up in Cameron, heard they were pushing hard.
Started simple, went straight to the obvious place. Pulled up the WVSSAC site. Spent a good 5 minutes clicking around – all I saw were schedules and results posted days after the fact. Nothing live. Seriously, how’s the championship tournament page still look like it’s stuck in the 90s? Big goose egg on live updates there.
Scrambled for Plan B. Grabbed my phone. Checked local news apps – The Register-Herald, Charleston Gazette-Mail. Sports sections were plastered with NCAA stuff, maybe one article about regional qualifiers from last week. Dang. Felt like high school ball was invisible today.
Went social. Hopped on Twitter. Searched for “#WVSSAC” and “#wvbb“. Saw some chatter about Elk Mound vs. Amery heating up, mentions of Cameron Cumberland (#6 vs. #2). People were hyped! But actual scores? Nada. Mostly folks asking the same question I was: “Anyone got scores?!” Found a few local radio handles claiming they were broadcasting. Tried streaming one link they posted – buffered forever, then died. Absolute waste of 10 minutes.
Got desperate. Remembered that one sketchy statewide sports forum buried on page 3 of Google. Dug it up. Layout was a mess, ads popping up everywhere. Threads about the tournament were chaotic – score guesses, rumors about Northwestern vs. Amery (#3 vs. #5), someone claiming Cameron was down 4 at halftime. Who knows if any of it was real? Couldn’t trust it.
Finally caught a break, kinda. Stumbled back onto Twitter around 8 PM CST. Saw someone retweeted a score update bot account I never followed. It fired out:
- Final: Sectional Final #1 Elk Mound over #5 Amery
- Regional Final: #2 Cumberland edges #6 Cameron
- #3 Northwestern falls to #5 Amery in Semifinal
Dry, cold numbers. No details, no drama. Just the facts. Too late for the Cameron game tension, but at least I knew the outcome. Closed everything feeling kinda grumpy. All that hassle for like 3 lines of text? Had to piece it together like a jigsaw puzzle from half a dozen busted sources.
Honest take? Tracking down these live high school scores today felt harder than it needed to be. Shouldn’t take detective work just to find out if your team won. Next year? Maybe I’m just gonna buy an actual radio.