Buchanan – Its just a few minutes past 3pm up here on Highway 🛣 43 and borrowing a page from the MLB Network I will do my best to keep up with 5 ball games ⚾️ – 1 College Baseball game, 1 Varsity HS game, 1 Junior Varsity Baseball, 1 Varsity Softball and 1 Junior Varsity Softball game.
Being that I should actually be over in Bluefield today I will include the Golden Bears 🐻 in my coverage.
Here’s the Lineup :
3pm – West Virginia Tech @ Bluefield University
5pm – CCHS Varsity Baseball @ James River HS
5pm – CCHS Varsity Softball @ James River HS
5pm – James River JV Baseball @ Carroll County HS
7pm – CCHS JV Softball @ James River HS
Field Prep is well underway here at the Baseball diamond 💎 !
Two innings in the books over in Bluefield with the Rams 🐏 1, Golden Bears 🐻 0
Wind is blowing hard here, switching between left to right to Straight out the Baseball field.
Golden Bears 🐻 first two reach base in the top of the 3rd but come up empty. After 2 & 1/2, still 0-1.
JR players have made the short walk over from school 🏫.
Bluefield with 2-out rally in the 3rd, now 4-0.
401pm – Still waiting on a CCHS Bus 🚌
Lead-off single by Francisco Calderon goes by the boards in a scoreless Top of the 4th…
Knights are now in the batting cages.
Flag in Centerfield blowing straight out now.
412pm – Still looking for Bus
5-0 Rams 🐏 after 4 innings in Bluefield
424pm – We have a Carroll County Bus 🚌 sighting!
4:26 – Second CCHS Bus 🚌 !
Flag now blowing straight out ! Advantage offense.
Both Varsity games will start after 5pm
The never say die Golden Bears 🐻 have pulled within 6-4 in Bluefield !
5:19 – Lady 👩 Cavaliers now taking in & out
5:35 – Softball 1st Pitch
Sadly right after cutting the lead to 6-4 over in Bluefield the Rams 🐏 hung an eight spot to close out the Golden Bears 🐻 14-4.
Softball – Cavaliers 1-0 Middle 1st, Middle 2nd
Softball – 1/0 Top 4th, Baseball down 4-1
Softball 1-0, Bottom 5th
Softball 1-0, Middle 6th (6:42)
James River pushes across a run in the bottom of the sixth to tie the game.
1-1 Top 7th
Lady Cavaliers plate 2 runs in the Top of the 7th, lead 3-1 !!!!!!
Softball wins a thrilling game, 3-1
Back to Baseball where we trail 6-1
If you see any of the Nice Folks back home they have a Game recap to share with you !
7:39 – Baseball Varsity over, 6-2 James River
5 Softball Coaches in One Shot !
Baseball played to the Final swing !
JV Softball started as Varsity Baseball ended.
Hoping that Coach DeHaven can get us a JV Baseball Final once he’s back home.
JV Softball bats around in the Top of the Second and take a 5-0 lead.
It’s been reported that the JV Baseball team won by Mercy rule back home. We will look for confirmation on the Final.
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Middle of the 3rd – CCHS 8-0 !
Night has fallen….
8:26pm – Top 4th, 8-0
I am sitting amongst some dedicated CCHS parents!
13-0, Top 4th
People that are ready to start the drive 🚗 back to the Hill !!!
15-0 and we are playing the Top of the 5th ?
Just before the stroke of 9pm – 17 -0 (F)
Time to sign off from Buchanan…. School Bus 🚌 out at 9:10, shortly before me. Godspeed to All heading 🙏 back down I-81 & Highway 🛣 100
Unofficial #ers – 3 Cavalier Wins, 1 Cavalier Loss, 1 Golden Bears 🐻 Loss.
Coach DeHaven :
Lost 6-2 today. Britt Berrier had two hits. Maddox Lyons threw two and a third innings and struck out three.
JVS won 17-1 in 5 innings. Jacky Turman pitched three innings for the win and Slade Quesenberry pitched the last two in relief. Six different batters had hits and they walked a total of 9 times. James river’s team had 9 errors.
The road less traveled ! 