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Head Coach Greg Talley was playing a match for the first time in his two years without his #1 seed and Son, Jabin Talley. The younger Talley is fighting a sizable blister on his hand ✋and hopefully will be able to return to action 🎬 next week.

When a tennis 🎾 team is forced to play without its number one seed it forces each player ranked below to move up one spot. It also breaks up the normal doubles teams.

Here is the recap from Mr. T

Tough loss today at Radford 2-7 . Jabin missed his first match in over 3 years today with the nagging
Injury to his hand and Everybody had to play out of
Order in singles and with different partners in doubles .

Ethan played a 2 hour marathon at no. 1 . Came back from 3-6 to win 9-7 .
Paul lost at no. 2 1-8
Phoenix held on at no. 3 for a 9-7 win
Garrison lost at no. 4 1-8
Louis came close at no. 5 before falling 6-8
Ian playing his first match lost 0-8

Ethan and Paul lost at no. 1 doubles 3-8
Phoenix and Louis lost at no. 2 2-8
Garrison and Ian lost at no. 3 2-8

Proud of the guys for hanging in there and playing
Up from their usual seed . Back to full strength
Hopefully next Wednesday at Pulaski .

This morning 🌄 pushed the current run 🏃‍♂️ of consecutive days of posting at least one positive story to 250 Days.

8+ months non-stop of trying to make people smile 😃. The previous streak was 140 days.

In the past 48 hours we have witnessed some remarkable efforts from some of our Student Athletes and the Video from last night 🌙 of Carlie Beamer extending our game at Radford was a instant classic moment.

Beamer not only kept the inning alive and the game as well, it allowed Radford to bat two more times which Emma Leath finished up a career best 18 Strikeout performance.

Back on The Hill, Ashlyn Newman found the back of the net for the 66th time, one night after finding it for a career best six times.

Newman (66) is chasing Adrienne Harris (71) for the All-Time scoring mark while Leath (620) is chasing Sydney Nester (694) for the All-Time Strike Out record at the same time. Class chasing Class in both situations

They don’t give out assists in Strike Outs but if they did, Carlie Beamer would have picked up a few last night after extending the game against the Lady Bobcats. Needing three outs to close out the game with the tying run 🏃‍♂️ on second base, Leath ended the game by recording #16,#17 & #18.

So if our Emma Leath records #695 before the end of the season, we can all remember the night 🌙 that Carlie Beamer gave her six more outs!

Jv played hard and tied 1-1. They had chances to win but just couldn’t quite get over the hump. Goal was scored by Judah Collins assisted by Sam McGrady

Varsity came out hot and score in the first five minutes in but last nights game vs Galax had us tired and we just couldn’t hang on at the end and lost 3-1. Overall we are very proud of the effort of all the boys and we are excited to rest this weekend to get ready for Monday senior night vs Alleghany.

   Remember that all spectators arriving during the Junior Varsity game will enter Tommy Thompson Field at no cost on Monday night.

I am super proud of the ladies. We held perennial power Radford to a 1-1 tie at the end of regulation. Unfortunately, near the end of the 2nd half we lost our starting left fullback, Bre Shumate, who dislocated her shoulder as the result of an illegal tackle. At that point, our girls were not worried about the game as much as their teammate. Radford snuck one in for the 2-1 win. We played with great character tonight!