The West Virginia Mountaineers have received an impressive infusion of offensive talent over the past few days. Running back Jock Sanders, from St. Petersburg Catholic, in Florida, teammate Andrew Harris, a wide receiver, and Kyrus Lanxter, from Alcoa Tennessee, have pledged red hot Mountaineers.

Andrew Harris is a big wide-out who measure up at 6-3, 190 pounda sna hs bee timed at 4.68 seconds in the forty-yard dash. He picked the Mountaineers over Iowa State, N.C. State and South Florida.

Harris is very athletic with a thirty-inch vertical jump and a 4.41 second short shuttle time.

Last season he caught 42 passes for 676 yards and eight touchdowns, an average of 16.1 yards per catch.

Harris is a clutch receiver who isn't afraid to go over middle to snare a needed receiver. He sees and reads the field well, runs good patterns and has the aggressive needed to succeed in the clutch.

Running back Jock Sanders has drawn the attention of West Virginia, Bowling Gree, Central Flroida, Clemson, Florida, Miami of Florida, Pittsburgh and South Florida.

Sanders isn't the biggest back at 5-6 and 170 pounds, but he is one of the most productive. A true "athlete" Sanders has bee timed at 4.66 seconds in the forty-yard dash, has a thirty-inch vertical jump, bench- presses 285 pounds and has a 4.37 short shuttle time. He has a 2.6 grade point average.

His stats are impressive. He carried the ball 133 times for 1,400 yards, a 10.5 yards per carry average and eleven touchdowns. He threw for 591 yards, nine touchdonws and one interception, an impressive nine to one touchdowns to interceptions ratio. He also cauht 22 passs for 316 yards and three touchdowns, averaging 13.4yards per catch.

Kyrus Lanxter is the third athlete. Lanxter is an athletic receiver with good size. He is 6-2, weighs 175 pounds and, reportedly, has been timed at better than 4.6 seconds in the forty-yard dash.

Lanxter caught 20 passes for 413 yards and seven touchdowns, averaging 20.65 yards per catch as a sophomore. Better as a junior, he totalled 513 yards and six touchdowns.

Lanxter has also played on defense, totalling ten solo tackles and thirteen assisted tackles as s sophomore.Most expect him to play wide receiver at West Virginia.

West Virginia now has fifteen commitments, twelve (!) for offense, a pair for defense and one "athlete."

The defensive players are tackle Junius aLewis and ed Julian MIller. The athlete is Brandom Hogan a super-swiftskill player from Virginia.

On offense, quarterbacks Charlie Russell and Bradley Starks lead running backs Victor Anderson, Terrence Kerns and Jock Sanders, wide receivers Andrew Harris, Kyrus Lanxter, and P.J. Shirdan and offensive linemen Donny Barclay, Gino Gradkowski, Rodney Hudson and Chad Snodgrass to a bright future.

Judging from past success, this is a solid class that the Mountaineer staff shouc turn into a Big East powerhouse.