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BHS Alum Ben McDougal Takes Baseball Talent from Potomac State to West Virginia University, the Big 12

By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on July 12, 2024

FROM WVMETRONEWS.COM
By Greg Carey
 
Ben McDougal always dreamed of getting to this point.
 
Yet even McDougal, a Bridgeport native who recently joined the baseball program at West Virginia University, wasn’t sure it would come.
 
“Out of high school, I had an offer to (Division II) Alderson Broaddus and my only other offer was from Potomac State,” McDougal recalled. “I knew I had aspirations to play at the highest level and felt the best way to do that would be to play at Potomac State.”
 
Had McDougal accepted the other offer, he would’ve been forced to move on anyhow after one season as a result of AB since closing in August 2023 due to financial difficulties.
 
Instead, he competed — and largely excelled — over two years with the Catamounts of the National Junior College Athletic Association. As a result, McDougal was presented with an opportunity to join the Mountaineers, which he opted to do in favor of several other Division I offers that had eluded the left-handed pitcher in high school.
 
“I’d talked to a few schools from the Big Ten, one from the Sun Belt and a couple other mid-majors, but I knew WVU was where I wanted to be,” McDougal said.
 
Click HERE for the rest of the story.
 
Editor's Note: Photo courtesy of Potomac State.

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