Watauga High School senior baseball player Will Dicus passed away on Monday following a five-year bout with cancer. Dicus was 18 years of age.Will threw a no-hitter as a JV pitcher against Freedom, and played the final two years of his varsity high school career as a Pioneer, pitching five innings in a game against West Wilkes his junior season for a victory, despite imminent danger if he were to be struck by a baseball.
Steve Behr, the sports editor at our fellow Jones Media newspaper Watauga Democrat wrote a column on Dicus and his love for life and baseball. You can read that piece by clicking here
