Taking the efforts back across  the Boulevard now that middle school 🏫 Softball has been pushed back. Soccer ⚽️ restart has been announced at 5:30 pm

Last night 🌙 at 7:18 p.m., we entered into a lightning 🌩 delay at Tommy Thompson Field as we were hosting Patrick County High School in a Boys soccer game.

Our Cavaliers are leading 1-0 on a goal by Aiden Puckett, and there is less than 20 minutes remaining in the first half.

We will pick things back up right at 5:30 and when I have more information about how the tickets 🎟 from last night will be handled, I will add that to this post 📫.

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The only thing better than a Buc-ees waffle 🧇 in the morning is receiving confirmation that Kevin Burress will be joining me tonight at Cavalier Park ! Now we can truly give our youngest ones the full treatment !!

Things that make you smile !

Coach Nick Cushman and Coach Deana Burcham are bringing their dedicated team of middle school 🏫 softball players over to the south side of The Boulevard for their home game tonight !

When this started out, I was just packing up my portable gear ⚙️ over to the middle school to announce their game. It would have been fun but limited to just the sound of my voice as you can not do a foul ball contest without a fence.

Moving the game over to Cavalier Park means that the equipment is in place and there is a place for folks to sit ➕️ it brings the Concession stand into play and our Foul Ball contest ! Not sure who moved it but kudos to him or her.

I believe that with every ounce of my being that for Carroll County to return to the glory days of the past, the movement starts with the Rec league and Middle School girls 👧. So my hope became that we could give our future players the Red Carpet treatment tonight.

With that said, there was still one BIG part of what we do that would be missing, and that was going to be my partner, Mr Kevin Burress ! In 48 years of holding a 🎤🎙🎤, I have never worked beside someone who was talented as my main man 👨.

What’s the secret to the chemistry ⚗️ between us ? Two grown-ups who care about the situation as a whole, from start to finish. We are trying hard to accomplish two things every time out with the first being, making our Lady Cavaliers feel as special as possible and do so without demeaning the visitors who are there to watch their daughters play as well.

I couldn’t be the one to ask Kevin to choose between which of his daughters he would watch play tonight, especially being Natalie ” Angel 😇 ” Burress is such a likable young Lady ( I think she gets that from Myranda ).

So, when Kevin shared the great news with me this morning 🌄, it has me wearing a silly grin 😁. He is even working up special music 🎶 for the younger ones !

Just like the song 🎵, Nobody does it better – thank you, Carly Simon.Nobody Does It Better
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I will be dependent upon our folks traveling to Stuart to keep updated on our progress over there tonight, and they are pretty good about that.

Forrest Johnson checks in with some photos from the tribute last night at Tommy Thompson Field

Forrest Johnson remains at a non-stop pace with all of the responsibilities that come with being a husband, Father of little ones, teacher of slightly older ones, and coach of young men.

It is remarkable that he remains upright with all of that every day but please know that his efforts last night were real and came from the heart ❤️.

Thank you, Sir, for all that you do !