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Already a six-time West Virginia Open winner, Bakerton’s David Bradshaw is back in the state to defend another championship that he won last year. This year’s tournament is being staged at the Edgewood Country Club in Sissonville in Kanawha County. Bradshaw, a Shepherd University graduate, first won the Open in 2004 when he was still [...]
Continue reading …The Marshall University Athletic Hall of Fame has inducted nine more former Thundering Herd student-athletes. This year’s group includes William King (football), Tamar Slay (basketball), Greg Kappas (baseball), Charlie Kautz (football), Jill Mussman-O’Brien (volleyball), Jim Sheridan (swimming), Arlene Stooke (women’s track and field), Jermaine Swafford (football), and Richard Watts (men’s cross country). King was Marshall’s [...]
Continue reading …Former Boston College guard Matt Humphrey has transferred to WVU and will be eligible to play in the upcoming basketball season. Humphrey averaged just over 10 points a game for the Eagles in the 2011-12 season. Because he has already graduated with a bachelor’s degree, Humphrey will be immediately eligible and have one season left [...]
Continue reading …The Class A first-team, all-state baseball team included pitchers Kiefer Hovorka (Charleston Catholic), Karl Bennington (Gilmer County), and Jamie Miller (East Hardy). The catcher was Zack Romine (Parkersburg Catholic). Infielders chosen were Mitch Davis (Parkersburg Catholic), Chris Petrucci (Notre Dame), Jordan Simpson (Man), and Mitchel French (Cameron). The outfielders selected were Mic Keys (Wheeling Central), [...]
Continue reading …The Class AA all-state baseball team as selected by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association had 16 players named to the first-team. Those 16 players included Ryder Bolin (Ritchie County), Steven Barr (Oak Glen), Eric Roberts (Point Pleasant), Kyle Elliott (Magnolia of New Martinsville), and Corey Bird (Herbert Hoover). Also named were Jordan Banks (Chapmanville), [...]
Continue reading …Fishing through history at Ferry Hill, Pack Horse Ford, and long-gone Bridgeport
June 20, 2012 No Comment
The stone piers stand like ghosts. Ghosts keeping watch over the mostly unplanned history that literally flooded the Potomac River at Shepherdstown. Ghosts of Native Americans that once built a fishing weir at what is now known as Pack Horse Ford or Boteler’s Ford, less than a mile or so east of the town limits. [...]
Continue reading …The annual Little League all-star tournaments begin this Friday (June 22) with the 9-10-year-old, District 6, Area 1 event to be staged in Morgan County. All-Star teams from Jefferson County, Charles Town-Ranson, South Berkeley, Martinsburg, Hedgesville, and Morgan County will compete in the first level of play. Jefferson County will play Charles Town-Ranson this Friday [...]
Continue reading …Two Jefferson County 2012 senior basketball players were on the North squad that dropped a 114-101 verdict to the South team in West Virginia’s annual North-South high school game played in South Charleston. Jefferson High’s all-time leading scorer, Garrett Grantham, and Washington High’s all-time leading scorer, Tyrek Collier, were the Jefferson County players in this [...]
Continue reading …The Ladies of Sleepy Hollow Golf had glorious weather on June 14 for completing the Jake Pugh Memorial Tournament. Debbie DeLeonardo captured the win with a 71 and Lynne Wiseman took second place with a 77. The daily tournament was “Best Front or Back” minus 50% handicap. Lynne Wiseman earned first place with a 33 [...]
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Jefferson High senior outfielder/pitcher Shannon Lyons was selected by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association to the Class AAA first-team All-State softball team. Lyons batted .406 and had 16 doubles for the Lady Cougars in 2012. Jefferson pitcher Alexandra Witt drew special honorable mention from the writer’s group. Gaining honorable mention were Washington High’s Devin [...]
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