So you want to play baseball ⚾️ in Mid February in the Mountains of West Virginia ???

The first thing you have to do is break up the ice 🧊 in the dugouts.

We are roughly 90 minutes from the scheduled first pitch and the only thing that we have going for us is its a turf field at this amazing facility.

My favorite part of the Stadium 🏟 here is that Mr. Epling filled the outer wall with Bible versus, something that can only happen when a structure is privately financed.

Our Golden Bears 🐻 compete in the NAIA, which exists in addition to the NCAA. Lawrence Nesselrodt and I have been at it since our days with the Waynesboro Generals of the Valley Baseball League ⚾️ and its an adventure at every stop ✋ along the way.

This weekend is a perfect example of “Let’s get the Games Played”. This set was originally a four game series scheduled for Friday & Saturday in Beckley. We have tweaked and twisted to the point where today is the last day we can try and get the games played. West Virginia Tech leads the series 1-0 after a walk off win on Sunday. The Sunday game was played up in Charleston at the Go Mart Stadium.

Here is an example of the typical group message to the team :

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Game 1 @ EPLING Stadium Gold Jersey/Grey Pants Tech (RHP)@ Upper Deck 9:30. Active Warmup 9:45-10:20. Tech BP10:25-11. Marian BP11:15. Tech In/Out11:30. Marian In/Out11:45. Coach/Ump Meet11:55. Intro/Anthem 12noon. First Pitch. (1×7) Game 2: 30 minutes after (1×9). Tech. (LHP)

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Plenty of work to be done before I can say those two great words – Play Ball !