May 2024 is officially 🙏 underway ! We have Track 👣 and Field up in Giles and Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ on The Hill and a drive 🚗 to Ohio at some point.

Track Coach Shawn Montgomery emailed me the Middle School results right around Midnight last night after the meet had a lengthy weather delay yesterday. This morning 🌄 Coach is preparing to take his Boys 👦 and Girls 👧 on the Varsity level up Highway 100 to compete at Giles High School 🏫. Talk about short turnaround times……

The Battling Ben Tickles are playing at Tommy Thompson Field beginning at 6pm tonight. This match will be #6 of 8 on the The Hill as the team has to make up matches with both Glenvar and Alleghany still yet.

BBT’s are a fun bunch to watch play the game and the number of opportunities to do so is running out.

The third and final part of Welcome to May is the pending drive 🚗 up to Chillicothe, Ohio. Our West Virginia Tech University Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball ⚾️ Program is set to play a game at 9am on Thursday.

The River States Conference tournament is a double elimination event with the top two teams moving on to the NAIA World Series

Oh to be young again !

The fact that the Lady 👩 Cavaliers softball team regained their footing last night 🌙 just in time to avoid being closed out by a run rule might be overlooked by some but it was a proud moment for me.

Trailing 11-2, dodging rain drops and facing a 99 mile drive home, the team kept at it. Recording those final four outs to extend the game was noteworthy.

Getting to spend a few minutes with Coach Steve Combs and his Assistant Adam Nester yesterday afternoon was quite enjoyable. The duo has their team humming like a finely tuned 🏁 🏎!