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Faith Bush of Spring Mills and Holden Gurson of Berkeley Springs receive their scholarships and plaques on Friday from Kim Reid, a representative of the Eastern Panhandle Basketball Officials Association.
Faith Bush of Spring Mills and Holden Gurson of Berkeley Springs receive their scholarships and plaques on Friday from Kim Reid, a representative of the Eastern Panhandle Basketball Officials Association.
MARTINSBURG — Faith Bush enjoyed her senior season on the basketball court for Spring Mills even though the Cardinals didn’t produce the best of records.
For starters, the sixth player the year before from a team that went undefeated for the regular season, Bush was in the starting lineup each game.
“It was like the first season I got to play the whole game,” Bush said.
A whole gaggle of starters left Spring Mills after that season that ended in the state Class AAAA semifinals for the Cardinals. The coach departed, too.
It led pretty much to a new situation.
“I liked the girls (this year),” Bush said. “It was enjoyable compared how it was in our undefeated season.
“I still love and miss (the departed players).”
It was a great year all and all for Bush, who also ran both cross country and track and stood out as the school’s valedictorian after posting a 4.6 cumulative grade-point average.
She was on hand Friday at the Berkeley 2000 Rec Center to be awarded the annual $1,000 scholarship the Eastern Panhandle Basketball Officials Association presents to a boy and girl who play basketball locally.
Holden Gurson of Berkeley Springs was the male awardee. His GPA of 4.75 left him fourth in his senior class.
Bush will attend West Virginia University in the fall and study psychology.
She was particularly pleased by the scholarship from the EPBOA.
“I didn’t feel like I got anything for my grades,” she said. “It was worth the hard work.”
As for the sportsmanship part of the award, Bush said, “I’m usually pretty quiet.”
The Cardinals were 8-17 last season.
Berkeley Springs finished 6-17.
“It was a rough season,” Gurson said. “Still, I enjoyed it.
“We didn’t win as many as we would’ve liked to, but it’s still a fun year.”
He said meeting other players and “making new friends” were important to him.
Gurson, who also played football, is headed to Shepherd to major in environmental studies.
“I think it was mostly because of my dad,” Gurson said. “That’s what he went to school for.”
And his father is now a computer engineer.
The scholarship is welcome to Gurson.
“I was super surprised I won it,” he said. “I didn’t know it existed.
“I’m very gratified. It’ll definitely help me going toward school.”
Gurson plans to stay on campus, indicating that commuting back and forth on W.Va. 9 wouldn’t be the most fun — especially if it snows.
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