Day: April 23, 2024

Such a Crazy 8 Days, even by my standards and today was only Day 2 but it was memorable for sure!

Thank You Glenn Burnett 🙏 for capturing this post game photo 📷 of Macie Adkins and I wearing our matching SWCC gear !

Monday night 🌙 was sponsorship night 🌙 of the Boys 👦 Soccer ⚽️ twin bill, the only night where speaking wasn’t involved.

Tuesday night 🌙 meant crossing back to our side of the Boulevard for a Varsity double header with Alleghany High School 🏫. The added bonus this time was instead of speaking about who was tossing out the ceremonial First Pitch, Linda and I were doing the tossing

Linda was pitching to Carlie Beamer while I had the honor 🎖 of tossing to Natalie Burress. Lin’s goal was to pitch a strike while I wanted to see how high I could get the ball in the air and it still cross home plate.

Young Miss Burress was kind enough to say she would have swung at it despite the fact she had to reach across home plate a bit to catch it.

Quickly back to the press box to announce the starting lineup for both teams, or as quickly as a 60 year old can climb up a flight of stairs.

The games on Monday and then two more on Tuesday are the prelude to an evening of assisting Track and Field Coach Shawn Montgomery with his Boys and Girls Senior Day meet on Wednesday. Technically it will only count as one meet, just a longer day.

On Thursday afternoon it’s back to Tommy Thompson Field for the next Home 🏡 Girls Soccer ⚽️ game. This game will be the first one played since Ashlyn Newman became the CCHS All-Time scoring leader so I’m thinking that the leader of the Battling Ben Tickles might have a little something planned to acknowledge the moment.

Friday its off to Beckley, West Virginia for a Best 2 of 3 playoff series for our Golden Bears 🐻. Friday becomes Saturday when we finish the Series and hopefully advance to Chillicothe, Ohio for the next round.

Sunday is Virginia High School League Hall of Fame Day up in Charlottesville as our long time friend and Coach Alan Knight is part of the Class entering the Hall.

Monday is get back to 🏡 day by 6pm to announce the next game home Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ game.

All of the stories have been written for the night 🌙 except the actual Game story on the Varsity double header. Better get started on that one here shortly but the last piece of business is to say Thank You to all that had a role in making tonight happen, it created a memory, which is what I try to do for others every opportunity that I can.

By the end of the JV Softball double header we had 3 Mom’s sending us updates ! Thank You Mrs. Leonard, Mrs. Goins and DJ Debbie

Initial photo 📷 credit to Velvet Leonard !

The long and winding road to the Highlands was on the calender for Alexis Dalton and Company. The Lady Cavaliers were surrounded by loved ones, per the norm.

Game #1 was a battle with the Cavs falling behind 5-1 before rallying back.

“Final of first game 6 to 4 Allegheny! Bailey hit a HomeRun!” Thank You Mrs. Goins

Photo 📷 credits here to one Proud Mama…..

Game 2 wasn’t as kind to the Lady Cavaliers 👩 as they fell short by a wider margin but there was one more bright spot as Miss Allen went yard for a second time on the day !

Photo 📷 #2 comes with Popcorn 🍿

Thank You to all 3 Mother’s for pitching in to keep us in the know.

Congratulations Bayliegh Allen !!

Diamond 💎 notes 📝 ahead of the six game set with the Cougars – Alleghany is a tough out, all across the board.

On the Baseball ⚾️ side of things, both Kevin DeHaven and Steve Combs will be taking a second crack at the Cougars. Both coaches came up short the first time around with the JV team having a chance at the end.

Varsity Baseball and JV Softball will be the ones loading up the 🚌 to make the trek with DeHaven playing a single game while Head Coach Alexis Dalton will be leading her team in a pair of five inning double header games.

Back here on The Hill, JV Baseball will host AHS in a single game while Coach Nester and his Lady 👩 Cavaliers will host two five inning affairs at Cavalier Park.

All four of our opponents tonight have talented teams and if you find yourself at one of these four ballparks tonight, bring on the Cheer as our Student Athletes will need to hear you!

All first games begin at 5pm with the pair of Game 2’s set to start shortly after the conclusion of Game 1…