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Derek Hovermale (103), Tyson Bennett (160) and Cody Reed (189) brought home top honors from the Class AA-A Region II wrestling tournament held in Grafton on Friday, February 16 and Saturday, February 17. The trio will be joined by Josh Connor and Brad Reed, who placed second in the 112 and 119 pound weight classes, respectively, along with Jake Stotler who finished third in the 285 pound class.

"I thought our kids did a good job," said Berkeley Springs coach Darrell Bennett. "We brought eight kids to the regional and five made it to the finals. Even though I'm pleased, it could have been even better because we lost a close match in the semifinal and had a good opportunity to claim two more individual titles."

For the second time in less than a year, former Berkeley Springs High School standout Tone Belt has been named the Big East's Most Outstanding Male Field Performer at the conference track and field meet.

Belt led the Cardinals to a second place finish with victories in both the long jump and high jump. He also competed in the Triple Jump and earned a third place finish, to score 26 points at the Big East Conference Track and Field Championships held in Akron, Ohio on Saturday, February 17 and Sunday, February 18.

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.