SPORTS TALK
with Michael Betteridge High school sports fans, now that the high school sports season has ended, let’s put a ribbon on the 2023-24 high school sports season with a few highlights, our local athletes of the year, and a personal July reflection. 2023-24 Season Highlights Football Best Cougars football game of the year: September 22,…
SPORTSTALK
with Michael Betteridge Summer Is Here… Let’s Celebrate Most of us have seen the silly antics of NFL football players doing their handshakes, dances, and performances in the end zone after a touchdown. It’s not sports, it’s performance art at its finest. It started out with the “spike” years ago; at first, the officials threw…
Catoctin Sports Back in Full Swing
Blair Garrett After nearly two years without a consistent schedule, high school sports are officially back on track. Catoctin High School athletes have had to navigate abridged seasons and restrictions, cutting down opportunities for student athletes to compete since the spring season of 2020. Some students have missed out on half of their high school…
It’s Now Or Never for Mount Basketball
Blair Garrett This Mount team has been through rough stretches before. Head Coach Dan Engelstad preaches a defense-first game to his Mount St. Mary’s men’s basketball team. The defense feeds the offense, and for large portions of the season, the Mount has thrived on that mentality. For as solid as the defense has been, the…
Catoctin Boys Hoops Best Smithsburg then Williamsport
Blair Garrett Basketball is a game of momentum. After dominating the majority of the game and a last-minute comeback, Catoctin Boys Hoops steadied the ship to edge out Smithsburg, 67-63, on January 14. The team then kept pace with the region, taking out Clear Spring and Williamsport consecutively. The Smithsburg win was hard-fought with a…
Sara Wastler Inducted into the Hood College Athletics Hall of Fame
Sara Wastler Lambert (pictured right) was inducted into the Hood College Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 28, 2019. She is a 2005 graduate of Catoctin High School and a 2009 graduate of Hood College. Sara was a two-sport athlete for all four of her Hood years, as a member of the softball and…
March Madness Bracket Challenge
Blair Garrett The Madness is underway, and while some of our brackets were devastated from day one, there are still a few of us who keep marching on. As upsets mount and top-seeded teams fall left and right, let’s take a look at the updated bracket after last week’s round one chaos. The chances of…
