Welcome to the 2024 Potomac State Baseball player diary homepage. This season, Sophomores Ben McDougal (Bridgeport High School / Bridgeport, WV), and Kris Sutton (Cobb County High School / Calhoun, GA) will take the lead on the Potomac State Baseball Player Diary.

Welcome back Catamount faithful and as always, thank you for tuning into this week’s Player Diary. This week started with an off day that sparked a great idea for a few members on the team. Kris Sutton, Bryce Suters, Maddox Brooks, and Sammy Bradfield decided to take advantage of West Virginia’s beautiful outdoors and went on a fishing trip to Barnum, WV. The boys made a day trip out of it, leaving straight after class in hopes of reeling in some great catches. Resultantly, not much was biting that day, but Kris still managed to walk away with a beautiful rainbow trout and the guys all agreed that it was an experience they will never take for granted.

Then, to our surprise, the weather cleared up enough to have the first outside practice of the year. Coach Little informed us that it was the first time in as long as he can remember that we were able to practice outside this early. Every chance to practice outside we get is one more notch in our belt before the season approaches and with not knowing when the next day of good weather will be, the coaches took it as an opportunity to get the team as many fielding reps as possible. Sprinkled in between practice times, a few of us decided to add another clubhouse game to the arsenal: Hacky Sack. As athletes, we are always looking for some sort of competition and without baseball games to be played, we often resort to smaller scaled games that can be played, Hacky Sack now being one of them. If you decide to watch the video version of the diary, you will see that we are not exactly the best at the game, but we still enjoy it, nonetheless. Lastly, we finished up the week with our first live at bats of the year. The pitchers are not ramped up to 100% yet, but it is still great to see pitches from a pitcher’s hand before real games get underway. If we truly practice like we play, it should spell nothing but good this season for the Catamounts.

As for this week’s “Day in the Life”, Dylan Bell and Caden Johnson took the helm for this week. The duo was paired together because they are both from the same city of Hurricane, WV. The two of them played for Hurricane High School under Coach Brian Sutphin.

Their day starts as normally as any other college student with getting ready for classes. Dylan and Caden share a similar class, taught by none other than Professor John Stone, one of our favorite educators on campus. Professor Stone teaches a multitude of classes at Potomac State including accounting, economics, and other business math courses. All of which he has been teaching for 52 years.  Think about that.  52 years!  He has taught three generations of students.  He is prepared, knowledgeable and a true gentleman.  Any Catamount over the years lucky enough to be in one of his classes, knows what we mean.  While Stone is the elder statesman at Potomac State, it is an obvious fact that all the faculty at PSC care about their students.  They deliver a quality education for every student on campus daily.  They care and it shows.  So, hats off to them all.  This week some of the guys give their vote for favorite professor on campus.

After classes, the guys grab some food to eat and head off to their second life as college baseball players with bullpens and a workout following that. The great thing about these two is that Dylan being a pitcher and Caden being a catcher, they make perfect battery mates for each other. After the gym, the pair find themselves doing some homework and finally winding down to play a few video games before bed. All to repeat the whole process the coming morning.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to catch up with us on this week’s Player Diary and

make sure to check out the video this week as well.