Goins & Washenitz share Mary Ostrowski Award By
Marley Washenitz (left) & Baylee Goins share state player of the year honors.
(Story by Chris Johnson for the WVSWA)
The path to success doesn’t always have to be a solo mission.
Amongst a crowded field of talented high school girls basketball players, two players in particular stood out to a point where they were considered equal in the eyes of the West Virginia Sports Writers Association which announced on Friday that Nitro senior Baylee Goins and Fairmont Senior junior Marley Washenitz are the co-recipients of the Mary Ostrowski Award.
The Mary Ostrowski Award, named after the legendary Parkersburg Catholic standout, is given annually to the state’s best high school girls basketball player. After a tie in votes and proceeding tiebreakers, the support for Goins and Washenitz remained equally deadlocked.
The Lenoir-Rhyne Women’s Basketball Team beat Lincoln Memorial 63-54 on Saturday afternoon in Shuford Gym. The win was the first victory for the Bears under new head coach Grahm Smith. Emily Harman finished with 20 points and 7 rebounds while Hanna McClung iced the game by hitting 7-of-9 from the free throw line. McClung finished with 15 points, five rebounds, five assists while playing all 40 minutes for the Bears.
In the first quarter the Bears shot 46.7% while Lincoln Memorial struggled from the floor and only shot 28.6% helping the Bears to a seven-point lead. In the second quarter, the Bears only shot 29.7% while Lincoln Memorial shot 44.4% to help Lincoln Memorial tie the game. However, the Bears grabbed the last four points of the half to take a 27-23 lead into halftime.
When Anna McClung, a rice researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), first advised Glenn Roberts to move his farms along the Carolina coast inland, Roberts took it as a casual suggestion and did nothing. That was in 2012, and within two years, saltwater was seeping into his fields. Today, much of his land has been contaminated by saltwater, turning many acres unfarmable.
“I got beat back so hard,” recalls Roberts, who operates hundreds of acres of rice fields across the country, from Texas to Maine. “The bottom line is if it is on the coast, it’s salted.”
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