WHEELING — The Wheeling Park Patriots (4-2) return home this Friday after taking a tough loss to Morgantown, the top team in W.Va. Class AAAA for many weeks running now. The Patriots, ranked as the No. 4 team in Class AAAA in the latest WVSSAC Computer Ratings, will have another high-quality opponent up next in Fairmont Senior (4-1), themselves the No. 4 team in Class AAA in those same ratings.

“It’s been a good week,” Daugherty said in a Wednesday interview. “A lot of rain yesterday, obviously, but still had a good practice and, you know, coming off of Morgantown, we gave up, really, three explosive plays, otherwise that’s a 7-7 game. Really played good defense, minus three football plays. You can only be upset for so long.

“I mean, they’re a good football team. And again, it was probab

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