Thursday, December 11, 2014
Cabell Midland wrestling competes, Page 6 50 Cents Volume 116 Issue 49
The Cabell Midland boys team will look to seniors Mark Wilcox and Coy Pettit to lead the team in the 2014-15 season.
The Lady Knights will look to senior guard Haley Haggerty to lead the team. Haggerty averaged double figures last season.
Midland boys look to rebound Girls look to grow this season By Zach Cumberland zach@theputnamstandard.com The Cabell Midland boys’ basketball program is in the midst of change. First-year head coach Steve Hibberd plans to lead the program in a new direction. “Our expectations are to improve and be more competitive in every game,” Hibberd said. “We’re going to improve every day and we’re going to be competitive in every drill and every game. We’re going to try to win possessions, one possession at a time, one quarter at a time and those things
will translate into us being successful.” Hibberd said he will look to lean on three seniors who return from a 5-19 campaign a year ago - Caleb Koerner, Mark Wilcox and Coy Pettit. Also, sophomore Kirk Jennings and junior Cole Tilley will add to the mix, while junior Austin Martin is really coming on strong in practice. Those six players are a good starting point for Hibberd. “Austin has done everything we’ve asked him to do,” Hibberd said. “He’s our biggest kid… about 6-foot-5 and he does See Boys, Page 12
By Zach Cumberland zach@theputnamstandard.com Last season the Cabell Midland girls’ basketball program finished 20-6 and made an appearance in the state tournament for the first time since the school opened in 1994. “It was a team effort,” said Cabell Midland coach Matt Adkins, who is in his 14th season with the program. “My players, my assistants ... it all meshed and we played well.” Adkins will begin his seventh season as the head coach. The previous seven years
were spent as an assistant. Even though the Knights eventually fell to Greenbrier East in the opening round of the state class AAA tournament, last year was certainly a season to remember. “Last year was great,” Adkins said. “We lost some seniors from a year ago. You always say you can never replace them, but you can’t replace them as people. They were just good kids, but we have a couple girls that got significant varsity minutes last year, so we’re going to lean on them.” The Knights will run more of a guard oriented offense to open the season this See Girls, Page 12
Festival of lights comes to Barboursville Middle schools share
By Amanda Smythers amanda@theputnamstandard.com
The Village of Barboursville is combining old traditions with the new in order to create the first Barboursville Festival of Lights Tour. The tour will take place Friday, Dec. 12 and Saturday, Dec. 13. Combining with the annual live nativity at the Barboursville Senior Center, the tour will showcase historical Barboursville as well as the Christmas light competition winners. “I think it’s going to be really nice to see some of the historical homes in the village lit up and looking nice for the holiday season,” said Barboursville Convention and Visitors Director Brandi Beasley,
who is spearheading the project. “I think it’s a great chance for us to unite the community and give them something they can be proud of and show off and something that can grow in the future.” Beasley said the event will start at her building at 7 p.m. It is free to the public. “We have two small 15-passenger buses that we are going to take folks around in,” she said. “We have a historical tour guide for each of the buses. It’s pretty much all of down town Barboursville. We’re going to try to hit up all the main places down town.” Beasley said the buses will also stop by the senior center so participants can enjoy the live nativity, which is in its ninth year. See Festival, Page 2
project learning ideas By Amanda Smythers
In their mandated annual
amanda@theputnamstandard.com meeting joined by Huntington
Barboursville and Milton Middle Schools are invested in project learning, examples of which were shared in their annual Local School Improvement Council (LSIC) meeting with the Cabell County Board of Education.
and Huntington East Middle Schools, Barboursville and Milton swapped ideas and shared successes with board leaders and each other. While last year each school was subject to a state determined ranking system, this year each See Schools, Page 3