Upon Further Review

Thanks to Derek McDaniel, baseball fans at Wilson Memorial should have themselves a new calling card, a slogan if you will — Respect the Hornet

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If his players don’t want to represent the school, and the team, the way he — a Wilson graduate and former star under Bo Bowers — wants them to, then it’s pretty simple, they just won’t play. (Good on McDaniel, good on him.)

This thing could really catch on, right? I mean, if they really wanted to make money, someone in Fishersville would be pressing out “Respect the Hornet” T-shirts and selling them for 10 bucks a pop at home games. (Heck, you could use the money for something in the athletic department, I’m sure.)

Want to know why good things are going to happen at Wilson Memorial when it comes to baseball? Sure you do.

Two words.

Derek McDaniel.

Need more proof than that? Then go ahead and read how McDaniel’s biggest struggle this season is getting players to respect the school name on the uniform they wear on the field. Go ahead, read it, soak it in then come back. We’ll leave the light on for you.
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Call Fort Defiance’s Derek Uhler athletic. That was pretty evident Thursday as the Indian goalkeeper made some great diving stops at Stuarts Draft.

Call him one heck of a goalkeeper, which he obviously is.

Actually, you can go ahead and call him whatever the heck you want to be honest (you know, given that whole “free speech” thing and such). But there’s one thing you don’t want to call Uhler — scared.
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Don’t look now, but the Waynesboro baseball team has a freshman that can pitch.

His name? Drew DeMoss.

The result? A 10-5 win over Wilson Memorial in his first career start Wednesday at the KC.
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Josh Podgorski wasn’t kidding when he told us on Monday that the key to Tuesday’s baseball game between his Stuarts Draft Cougars and Waynesboro would be two-out hits.

He said it. He knew. Then he watched it happen at the KC during his team’s 8-3 loss to the Little Giants. The problem was those two-out hits didn’t come from his Cougars.
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