Month: May 2023

Good News, Bad News for Sydney Nester and Marshall Softball. Good News is that the Sun Belt Conference received a second bid but the Bad News is it went to Texas State.

Marshall fell short in the Sun Belt Softball Championship game 1-0 to Louisiana down in Lafayette on Saturday meaning that the team would need the NCAA tournament committee to offer a rare at-large bid to the Mid-Major conference on Sunday.

That prayer 🙏 was answered but instead of it going to the #2 seed and tournament runner-up Thundering Herd that rare bid went to fifth seeded Texas State.

45-10 was the final record for Marshall University but the strength of schedule was the reason pointed to be the culprit. A late season victory over Virginia Tech and a near miss vs Top Five Alabama was hoped to be helpful to the S.O.S rating but that sadly wasn’t the case for the Thundering Herd.

Final week of regular season play begins with four Monday contests

Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ heads up I-81 to face a tough Glenvar squad while Boys 👦 Tennis 🎾 will host an equally tough Highlanders team. Both teams came up just short the first time around against these squads.

@ Cavalier Park Varsity Softball will play a double header against Tazewell with the action getting underway at 5pm. Tennis starts at 430 while Soccer begins at 6pm

Go Cavaliers !

Back from the cusp of extinction – North Wilkesboro Race 🏁 Track about to host a week long party 🥳 (May 16-May 21)

Jeff Gordon won 🏆 a race at the birthplace of Nascar back in 1996 and then the doors were closed at the race track located roughly 1 hour from Carroll County.

Nascar was booming in a manner that few saw coming and the group of original tracks were in jeopardy of vanishing from the schedule, to be replaced by the likes of Kansas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Michigan and Las Vegas. There was simply too much money to be made from ticket sales and merchandise to keep true to the roots and history.

Darlington, South Carolina made the cut ✂️ by the slimmest of margins but Rockingham and North Wilkesboro weren’t as fortunate. Over the next three decades the folks in Wilkes County have tried to reopen the track for business but couldn’t get the traction (racing term) to bring the track back to the point of relavence.

The latest effort reached the Finish Line (racing term) and then some. Beginning this coming Tuesday and running through Sunday, North Wilkesboro will be open for business at the highest level!

The grand finally will be the Nascar All-Star race on Sunday but there will be plenty of action taking place all six days. The Truck series will take center stage on Saturday and Tuesday night will have Late Model events under the lights.

The saddest part of the tracks fall from grace was just how far down it slid over the years. This track is the true Ground Zero for the sport and should remain a proud part of its history forever.

Starting Tuesday it will be officially back on the Big Stage as it should be. How many signs are there in America where its being announced that this place is where someone famous was born ?

Yes, Nascar is all grown up now but they need to remember just where they came from.