Look who we found! BlueGoldNews.com, formerly under the Scout.com umbrella, which no longer exists, is off on its own.

To refresh, CBS, which owns the 247Sports network, bought Scout.com in February. On Monday, the 247Sports vertical MountaineersDaily.com appeared where you were used to finding BlueGoldNews.com. In short, 247Sports now runs that corner of the web, but Scout.com never owned the name BlueGoldNews.com, which means CBS/247Sports doesn’t own it now.

The BGN folks were free to find a new platform, which they have for print and online content.

A memo from a head honcho, BlueGoldNews.com publisher Kevin Kinder:

The Blue & Gold News and BlueGoldNews.com are undergoing a change, as we join forces with NCWV Media, which is the parent company that operates the Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram and a number of other publications in the area. We’ve utilized the Exponent-Telegram to print the Blue & Gold News for the past several years, and have developed a very good relationship with NCWV Media president Brian Jarvis and publisher Andy Kniceley. Now we’re going to take that relationship a step further.

Before anyone panics over the future of the magazine and the website, most of our current writers will still be with us. The look of the magazine and website will be changing a bit in the future, but the stories and information our readers have enjoyed for three decades will remain the same and hopefully even improve, as we can concentrate our efforts on content instead of splitting our attention with the million other things that go along with running small businesses on our own. Now NCWV Media will oversee the subscriptions, renewals, advertising, bookkeeping and all those time-consuming tasks, while we will be able to focus on better stories, photos, videos, etc., for the magazine and website.

The change of the print side of the Blue & Gold News shouldn’t be too difficult for any of us. NCWV Media will provide its marketing expertise to improve the ad and subscription sales so the publication remains strong. The layout will also be updated in the future, but the content will still be produced by the same people who have been doing it for years.

The website is also getting an updated look , but the basics will remain the same. Those who use the message boards will have to re-register, but that will take just a minute, and after that, you’ll be up and running just as you were before. I like the initial look of the new website, and I’m sure it will be just as popular as the version Kevin has been hosting for nearly 20 years. It will remain a site providing quality Mountaineer news for Mountaineer fans.

All new subscriptions, renewals and address changes will be handled by NCWV Media out of Clarksburg from here on through, so any future renewal notices you receive will come from there. But for the most part, just sit back and enjoy. The print portion of the magazine will get in updated look in the future, and the email edition of that publication, which we have sent out as a pdf file, will still be available, though there will be some changes to that in the coming months to make it even easier for all our subscribers to access.

This is good news, even if only because people didn’t lose their jobs or access to that which they love to do. And on your side of the screen/page, you didn’t lose avenues to West Virginia coverage, which, in this case, covers separate publications. I’ll get the ticker tape for a print publication surviving a scare, if that’s all right with you.

The beat goes on, and last night, the crew was at Monongalia County Ballpark as West Virginia won again and shut out Pitt, 2-0.

A mid-week shutout, especially for a team with WVU’s arm woes, is mighty impressive. It’s sort of necessary, too. Maybe not shutouts, but standouts, for sure. WVU has won four in a row and five out of eight. There’s a 15-5 outlier in there against Gardner-Webb Saturday, but in the other seven games, the Mountaineers didn’t score more than six runs. In the eight, WVU hasn’t allowed more than five.

For all this stuff about pitching staff problems, the arms are picking up the bats.

Isaiah Kerns, who suffered an oblique injury April 25 and returned May 9, started and allowed three hits in 5 2/3 innings. WVU will need him in postseason play. Rubber-armed reliever Jackson Sigman made his school-record 31st appearance — 31 in 51 games, the fourth-most appearances in the country — and threw 10 first-pitch strikes on the way to retiring all 10 batters he faced in 3 1/3 spotless innings of relief. He was in a bad spot not too long ago, but he’s been much sharper lately, and WVU will need a sidearmer with a ton of movement in the postseason.

WVU did its damage in the fifth inning with a walk, a triple and a single in succession against a reliever, and that was that. Something to track: Slugger first baseman Jackson Cramer’s batting average dipped below .260 over the weekend, but he’s 5-for-9 since then with some noisy outs and has the average up to .275. That’s a stick the Mountaineers need in the middle of the lineup.

WVU is up to No. 19 in the RPI. Let’s keep an eye on the top 16. It’s not what the selection committee uses to hand out regional assignments, but obviously the higher the Mountaineers go during the three-game series at Texas and then next week’s Big 12 tournament, the easier it is to explain giving them a regional.