Just Wren baby! by Jim Buzzerd Last Wednesday Wren Baker was named West Virginia University’s next vice president and director of Intercollegiate Athletics. Baker comes to Morgantown from the University of North Texas, where he has been the vice president and athletics director since 2016. With previous stops at Missouri,[Read More…]
Sports
Lady Indians drop first two games of season
by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs Lady Indians opened up their 2022-2023 season with a road contest at East Hardy and a home contest with sectional rival Frankfort. On Tuesday, November 29 the Lady Indians traveled to Hardy County for a contest at East Hardy. The first quarter saw Berkeley[Read More…]
Harris & Zombro place in Top 3 of Washington Elite Opener
by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs Indians wrestling team kicked off their 2022-2023 season by traveling to Washington High School in Charles Town, W.Va., on Saturday, December 3, for the tough Elite Opener. The Elite Opener featured 12 teams from Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia and the teams were some[Read More…]
Chip Shots – Messy Forecast
Messy forecast by Jim Buzzerd It’s been an interesting few weeks for those who watch the comings and goings of West Virginia University athletics. Two weeks ago, WVU athletic director Shane Lyons was fired by WVU president E. Gordon Gee amid growing frustration surrounding the football program and specifically, the[Read More…]
Indians Basketball gearing up for 2022-2023 season
by Jamie Harris For the first time in seven years there will not be a Barkley in the line-up for head coach Chad Brinegar’ s Berkeley Springs Indians basketball team. All-state and 1432 point score Gavin Barkley has graduated and took his talents to Potomac State. Before Gavin, older brother[Read More…]
Chip Shots – Limbo
Limbo by Jim Buzzerd It’s early Tuesday morning and West Virginia University has yet to announce the hiring of a new athletic director to replace Shane Lyons who departed a week ago amid building turmoil surrounding head football coach Neal Brown. As the football team struggled this fall at times[Read More…]
Seniors Gabriel Clark & Isaac Harris ready to lead Indians Wrestling in 2022-2023 season
Last high school wrestling season, the Berkeley Springs Indians qualified seven wrestlers to the Class A/AA State Wrestling Championships in Huntington. Four of those seven earned all-state honors and three of the four return back to the Indians line up this winter. Berkeley Springs enters the 2022-2023 wrestling season with[Read More…]
Buck season opens Monday, Nov. 21
West Virginia’s buck firearms season open this coming Monday, November 21 and remains open through December 4. During the season, hunters may take one antlered deer per day, and a maximum of three antlered deer during the season in conjunction with the appropriate licenses. Any deer kill must be registered[Read More…]
Chip Shots – Some fire after all
Some fire after all by Jim Buzzerd For several weeks there has been ongoing speculation about Neal Brown’s future as head football coach at West Virginia University. While there was widespread support to end Brown’s tenure at West Virginia as his team was 3-6 last week except for one gigantic[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors: Slow down to “woods time”
Slow down to “woods time” It was West Virginia “Buck Season” — 1986. I didn’t know it, but I was about to learn a valuable lesson. I was sitting on steeply-leaning tree, which jutted out from an even steeper hillside, simply straddling the tree, as if riding a horse. A[Read More…]
