Carolyn Wimmer traveled from New Tazewell down to The Hill to watch her daughter play a Junior Varsity Softball game.
Aubrey Wimmer wore #7 and hit clean-up for the Bulldogs in both games of the double header against Carroll County and Mom 👩 was holding a ticket 🎟 with the #9 written on the back of it.
That turned out to be the winning ticket in the Omega – Oneofus.Care Foul Ball contest! The winner 🏆 gets a T-shirt 👕 from Ron’s shop and a Frisbee from us.
Fast Forward to today when Debbie Odum, or as we know her at Cavalier Park, DJ Debbie, was heading out to Tazewell. She offered to hand deliver our prizes if we had them ready when she left town.
Ron had to special order the T-Shirt 👕 so it would be Kelly Green, the color of Tazewell. Ron had to flag down the delivery driver in order to get the shirt 👕 with enough time to customize it for Mrs. Wimmer.
The shirt was finished roughly 3 minutes before Debbie arrived on her way out of town, shortly after I left Ron’s shop.
The Photo 📷 above is our own Bayliegh Allen presenting the gifts 🎁.
I can only imagine what Carolyn was thinking when her prizes were hand delivered to her door 🚪 by a smiling teenager !
It only took six people to make it happen and each one that helped would give you a different reason for the extra effort. Pretty sure it has something to do with Kindness !!
It’s a little after 2pm on Thursday, meaning that if our Bus 🚌 departed The Hill on-time its about halfway to reaching its destination of Alleghany High School 🏫 for a pair of matches against the Cougars.
Everyone else in the Land of Cavaliers has already begun their Easter Break so we will spend the rest of the day showering 💘 in their direction.
Allen Worrell is currently hard at work on a game story from their recent home 🏡 match versus Pulaski County. We hope to add 🙏 some of that before the day is complete and possibly Marion Harris will send in a thought or two???
Above is the roster for our Junior Varsity team and below is the roster for the Varsity squad.
We can tell you that Coach Johnson and his staff are working 💪 pretty much year around, trying hard to build a pipeline for future players to join the High School 🏫 teams ready to play competitive games once they reach the highest level.
Jeremy Puckett (JV Head Coach) and Zeb Hicks both have bought into the vision of Coach Johnson and work toward the common goal of getting players interested in the game at a younger age.
Coach Puckett understands that his role as the JV Coach is very much about the development of the players as they prepare to have their shot to wear the colors at the Varsity level.
Mr. Corey Williams and Coach Reitzel also are vital cogs in the process as they work with the players at the Middle School 🏫 level.
Photo 📷 of Wrestling Coach West Long and Corey Williams at a recent Special Olympics function.
The Varsity team this season has a solid mix across all three classes, with 8 Seniors, 7 Juniors and 6 Sophomores.
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The progress that has been made was easily measured by the number of players that were attending the off season workouts. Come rain 🌧 or shine, the teams came out in full force.
Another area where Coach Johnson continues to build on his foundation is through youth camps. Johnson held a number of these in the past year at a minimum cost to the families in hopes of encouraging people to come out and try the game.
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Marion Harris has checked in with a trip down memory lane in regards to the number of current Varsity players that played for him over the years. The list is lengthy and includes the current Varsity Head Coach, Forrest Johnson.
I will be able to share all of that once I finish transcribing the notes 📝.
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Recap from tonight: both teams pick up wins!
Jv wins 8-0! Goals scored by: Judah Collins with 3 Hez Mejia with 1 Luis Silva with 2 Alex silva with 1 Christian Cruz with 1
Assists by: Judah collins 1 Bradsel Martinez 1 Andrew Taylor 1 Alex Silva 1
Varsity wins 5-2 in a very physical game.
Goals by: Yahir Ruiz with 4 goals Landon Puckett with 1 goal
Let’s start out with Baseball ⚾️, they moved up their contests with the Cougars one day to get them played.
Tennis 🎾 matches have been pushed back, bringing the has to be a School Record 🏫 fifth consecutive time that the teams haven’t been able to play a match.
It would appear that the Boys 👦 JV Soccer ⚽️ and Varsity Soccer will make the trek up to the Highlands this afternoon to play ▶️ games!
That leaves us 👧 Soccer ⚽️ which was set for The Hill tonight but it has also been pushed back.
Best of Luck to Coach Puckett and Coach Johnson tonight !
Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in Ron’s shop on Main Street in the Big City when he showed me an email 📧 that he received after a story that I had written about him and his family 👪 appeared in The Carroll News.
The email was offering him a plaque with the story on it for $199.00 ➕.
Apparently this is happening more and more these days, where a company is scanning the local newspaper📰s for feature stories that someone might want to keep.
The Carroll News can’t run a story saying that they have nothing to do with this process so I figured I would do it for them. Especially after the Banquet yesterday for The Best of The Best.
Purchase one, don’t purchase one, just know that its not our local newspaper trying to profit of their stories.
Nice story about the three generations of Cochrans used as the example 😀
A.S.P.N on The Hill 