After this week, Waterford High senior Kenzie Dietz is expected to exchange her basketball shoes for a pair of golf ones. Y’see, the 18-year Dietz is a pretty fair country golfer and a member of three state tournament Wildcat teams in the fall. Add that to her four consecutive state ...
Any person who was around Parkersburg Catholic No. 1 singles’ tennis player Nash Morris after his Class AA/A state finals matchup against Ravenswood’s Maximus Hilton could see the jubilation on his face. Charleston Catholic’s Andrew Jones wasn’t going to take anything away from Nash this time around after he dashed his dreams two seasons in a row. The Crusader junior finally captured his desired state title after a three-set, 2:30-hour marathon with Hilton. Morris still had to earn the title however and he fell behind early. Ravenswood’s top player came out aggressive ...
Expectation-changing freshmen classes don’t come along very often for high school sports programs. Talented incoming groups can be broken up before they collectively step foot on campus by a number of factors from transfers, injuries or sometimes parents. Parkersburg High School girls’ basketball team was lucky enough to welcome one of these talented classes completely intact two years ago. A trio of young ladies in particular, Madi Mace, Breaunna Wilson, and Aleea Crites, had the Big Reds planning the hanging of one or more state championship banners inside PHS Memorial ...
Sports teams are a lot like sports cars. Each requires a number of pieces working in combination with each other to work toward one goal .... Moving. However, if you don’t have a strong engine you aren’t going anywhere. Parkersburg Catholic’s girls’ basketball team has about as strong an engine as you can get. In fact, they have a supercharged version in the form of 5-foot-1 point guard Madeline Huffman. “I think you are spot on,” said Parkersburg Catholic head coach Marty Vierheller when posed the question. “In terms of point guards, Madeline is clearly one of the ...
Wirt County captured the first Class A state wrestling championship last winter. This past weekend, the Tigers finished as the state runner-up to Madonna, but head coach Danny Life watched 170-pound senior Hunter Moore capture a thrilling 3-2 triple-overtime decision against Nitro’s Vinny Devaney, which gave the orange and black mat boss his first state champion. Moore, who finished 35-5 at 145 as a junior and placed third, tried to make a run to last year’s state championship, but got derailed in the semifinals by Berkeley Springs’ Davy Mundey. Mundey, this year’s 152-pound ...
Williamstown girls’ basketball coach Fred Sauro knew last spring he was only going to have one senior on the 2017-18 version of his Yellowjackets team. Bethany Wager was going to be asked to do a lot to help a young team trying to find its way after losing six seniors from last year’s Class A state runner-up, so Sauro set her down for a discussion on leadership and what Wager thought the coaching staff and her could do to be a better team. “She really took her time and had all these great things,” said the 33rd-year head man. “Some of the things she said she wanted to see ...
