Fairmont fishing club expands world of high school sports

FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) — When it comes to high school sports, East Fairmont's Lane Flint is most widely recognized for grappling with wrestlers on the mat. Similarly, the Bees' Garrett Wilkerson would most commonly be linked with zinging a fielded grounder from second to first or hurling a pitch from the mound. Ditto for Fairmont Senior pitcher Ethan Hager.

But as the temperature heats up with a shift toward summer, or as the week winds down with Sunday lingering, Flint battles not other wrestlers assigned to his mat, but bass hitched to his hook. Wilkerson and Hager stop tossing baseballs and start casting lines.