SHEPHERDSTOWN — If you were sitting in the sun-bleached stands at Spring Mills High, waiting for a Jefferson athlete or relay team to gain some needed points in the Class AAA, Region 2 track and field meet last Friday, you didn’t have to do much more than stare down at the all-weather track ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — After all the debris has fallen back to earth and the franchises have been winnowed away in professional baseball, it turns out that Morgantown is one of the partial survivors. What the Monongalia County people have left for 2021 is not professional baseball, per se, at their ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — If a coach is young and filled with ideas and energy in equal doses, he might prefer to surround himself with tender-aged athletes whose enthusiasm and work-all-day attitudes mirror his personality. If the track and field coach is a little long in the tooth and has heard his ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Triple Crown racing should bring a certain energy to any of its events. Not so much this year. The ingredients for bringing back excitement are right there on the manicured sandy surface of the track at Belmont Park. But something is missing. No thoroughbred won the first ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — When at Jefferson High School, Dylan McCartney was the perfect player to coach. His ego couldn’t even be found with a microscope. He just wanted to play wherever he was needed and to please everybody he saw. As a defensive catcher, he had few peers. His fundamentals were ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — When West Virginia hosted an NCAA Regional baseball tournament in 2019, it had freshman pitcher Ryan Bergert as one of its trusted pillars. And then there was the forgettable 2020 season, lost mostly to the worldwide virus. When the 2021 season made its debut, Bergert ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — When the spring days bring warmer weather, thoughts can turn to the few seconds that often determine the winners of sprints and relays . . . or the heights and distances soared to or jumped in the field events. The athletes are no longer huddled under blankets and bundled ...
