You might have heard that Cranberry received national recognition in a mascot tournament called The64 in May, finishing in the top eight nationally and the top four in its region. The Super Berry eventually lost out to the Hampton, Va., High School Crabbers.

And to think that back in the 1970s, there were some who wanted Cranberry's nickname changed to the Cougars. (Zzzzz). Wisely, the student body voted it down.

A few things:

• Cranberry became the Berries in the first place because of an abundance of wild cranberries growing on township lands in the 1700s and early 1800s. But by the late 1800s farming and droughts caused their demise. The "Berries" lived on, though...

• Cranberry is not the only school with "Berries" as a nickname. Loganport, Ind., is also the Berries because there's an expression in Indiana "That's the Berries!" And the former football field was called The Berry Patch.

• There was a Cranberry High School in North Carolina from 1925-68, but it closed when Avery County consolidated its high schools. There's still a Cranberry Middle School. The Wildcats.

• Berries is one of the top 10 nicknames in Pennsylvania, per Sports Illustrated. Others on SI's list: the Benjamin Franklin Electrons, the Boiling Springs Bubblers and the Canon MacMillan Big Macs.

• The Crabbers reached the finals of the The64, but then lost out to the Auburndale Bloodhounds.