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With Michael Betteridge 2024-2025 Season Highlights This is the time of year when things slow down a bit. Typically, every July, we take a quick look back at the season highlights from September to June. Next month, we’ll begin the exciting journey in this column into the new high school sports 2025-26 season. 2024-25 Season…
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With Michael Betteridge Two New Theorems for May Curiously, it seems like we just started spring sports. Already, we are winding down the high school spring sports season and heading into the playoffs this month. After a comprehensive study of the schedule, I realized that the fall, winter, and spring high school sports seasons are…
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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,…
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with Michael Betteridge Catoctin High School spring sports began with some pretty big news. With the retirement of Athletic Director Keith Bruck, who moved up north to take over at Fairfield, Catoctin began the search process for a new athletic director. Since WTHU arrived on the sports scene in 2008, Catoctin High School has had…
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with Michael Betteridge Memo to Catoctin Athletics: Do NOT schedule any baseball or softball games at Boonsboro next year! Last year, two remarkable Catoctin teams—baseball and softball—rode the bus all the way down to the tiny little town founded by Daniel Boone’s cousin, William Boone. That little Washington County town of Boonsboro was the scene…
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with Michael Betteridge What Are They Putting In the Food at Catoctin High School? Whatever they are feeding those kids up in Thurmont, it’s working. Two out of the four spring sports teams at Catoctin (baseball, softball, lacrosse, and tennis) are in first place, and the third team of the four, boy’s lacrosse, is in…
Catoctin Athletes Take the Next Step
BLAIR GARRETT Nine Catoctin High School (CHS) seniors officially signed on to further their education while playing sports at the next level. All nine athletes excelled in their sports, helping to propel each of their teams and teammates to be better every day. CHS held a signing day ceremony to let the head coaches share…
Sports Previews for Spring
Blair Garrett As temperatures rise, the snow begins to melt, and February comes to a close, high school spring sports will be kicking into high gear. A cast of new athletes are coming in to provide Catoctin High athletics spring sports teams with the energy, drive, and dedication to be successful on and off the…
Signing Ceremony at Catoctin High School
Theresa Dardanell Catoctin High School (CHS) athletes who signed up to attend colleges and universities in the fall. Football: Will Bingman, Clarion University; Joey Fogle, Gettysburg College. Soccer: Noah Olson, Frederick Community College. Baseball: Ryan Fisher, Mount St. Mary’s University; Dylan Reid, Hagerstown Community College; Nick Ford, Frederick Community College; Brett Weatherly,…
