Sports

The Berkeley Springs boys basketball team shook off the "snow rust," and avenged an earlier loss by beating Musselman, 63-45, on Friday, February 16, in Berkeley Springs.

When the longtime rivals first played on January 30, Berkeley Springs had one of its worst shooting nights of the season, making only eight of 41 shots,

A new recruit

Last May this space talked about a high school football star from Maryland who got himself into some serious hot water because of a foolish prank. The reason that tidbit made its way into this space is because Pat Lazear, the star athlete, was being heavily recruited by West Virginia University to play football.

Mountaineers reel in a Top 25 recruiting class

West Virginia University signed 26 football recruits to national letters of intent on Wednesday, February 20. The 26 member class, ranked 25th nationally by Scout.com, features three junior college players and 23 former prep stars.

It may have been the most exciting game of the year Saturday when the Terps and Tarheels went head to head to see who would remain the only undefeated team in the league.

At the half the Tarheels were winning but the Terps were not ready to go home yet.

Berkeley Springs completed its regular season last Friday, February 9, splitting matches with Clarke County and Martinsburg.

The Indians defeated Clarke County 54-24, before losing to Martinsburg, by a single point, 39-38.

University of Louisville sophomore Tone Belt, won his fourth consecutive long jump competition of the indoor season last week at the Tyson Invitational at the University of Arkansas on Friday, February 9. His winning leap of 25 feet 10.75 inches not only broke the University of Louisville record he set earlier in the year, it was also the best in nation in 2007.

"With 14 of the nation's top 20 teams and many of the nation's very best collegiate athletes competing at this meet, this type of performance says a lot about Tone's competitiveness," said U of L head coach Ron Mann.

Warm Springs girls basketball team defeated Romney Middle School 38-30 on Friday, February 9, to finish the regular season with a 14-3 record, lifting them to first place in the Mountain State Athletic Conference.

The win gave the Wolves home court advantage throughout the league playoffs which began on Monday, February 12. If Warm Springs defeated Shepherdstown on Monday, they will play either Musselman or Romney for the league title tonight, February 14, at Warm Springs Middle School. In case of inclement weather, the game will be played on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, depending on the weather.

After suffering a disappointing 2-point home loss, 50-48, to Frankfort on Tuesday, February 6, Berkeley Springs bounced back with a relatively easy 63-42 road victory over East Hardy on Friday, February 9.

Foster Sirbaugh poured in a game-high 24 points, 18 in the second half, to carry the Indians to the 21-point victory.

Mountaineers still impressive

If I had told you, say about 18 months ago, that John Beilein's West Virginia University Mountaineer Basketball Team would beat UCLA in successive seasons, would you have thought me crazy?

Berkeley Springs lost two tough game last week. First, after fighting their way back, they lost to Martrinsburg 59-57 on Monday, February 5 and then led East Hardy for most of the night on Thursday, February 8 in Baker, before falling 47-42 in overtime.

"Sure it is disappointing," Berkeley Springs coach Dale McCumbee said of the two loses. Those were both games we could have won. It is always tough to lose games like that. We were right there, had our chances but couldn't quite close the door."