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Coach said that each of his Seniors played a role in the Three Rivers District victory over the Bobcats !

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to both the Seniors and the underclassmen on the “W”

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First Pitch 4:58, 77° is your Game Time tempature here in Radford, Virginia.

The Junior Varsity Baseball ⚾️ team is trying to make it across the Finish Line in the number one spot in the Three Rivers District.

Carroll County has come out the gates firing on all cylinders, leading 3-0 with two runners 🏃‍♂️ in scoring position

I will do my best to match names with numbers shortly !

Cavaliers now lead 5-0 and have batted around here in the top of the first.

Cavs lead 5-0, Bottom 1st!

Running 🏃‍♂️ Blog for the game.

Score remains 5-0, bottom 2nd

Another 3 up, 3 down for the Cavs defense. Off to the top of the 3rd, still 5-0.

Cavs plate another run 🏃‍♂️ to make it 6-0 and force a pitching change.

Bottom of the 3rd (5:51) is over after Blake Reed makes the ever so rare 4-unassisted ground out on a tweener.

Bryce Cochran, Dane Leonard and Grady Quesenberry each scored in the top of the 4th inning, making the score now 9-0 (6:04).

Colby Goad pitches another 1,2,3 inning, picking up his 4th and 5th Strikeouts.

6:47 – Final, 11-0 !!!

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Carroll County pitchers combined for a one hitter and faced just two over the minimum !

Mount Rushmore is set in the hills of South Dakota but five days from now it is our Hope to create our Cavalier version of the famed landmark !

For the first time in my five generations of being around High School 🏫 sports we have four members of the same Senior Class that are set to graduate 🎓 in possession of a Big Time School record.

Alyssa Ervin is the All-Time Scoring leader in Basketball 🏀, Ashlyn Newman is the leading goal scorer in Soccer ⚽️, Jabin Talley is the career wins leader in Tennis 🎾 and Emma Leath is the same in wins on the Softball diamond 💎. Leath is now just 11 strikeouts removed from adding a second mark as the School leader in K’s.

The goal is to get the four of them, their parents along with Principal Thompson and Athletic Director Mathews together pre-game Tuesday and have the Fab Four toss out a Ceremonial First Pitch together and pose for a few Keepsake photos together.

We needed to catch a few breaks along the way to pull this off. The only thing we didn’t have to worry about was getting Leath to Cavalier Park for the event as she will be throwing out the actual first pitch moments later.

We needed the Boys 👦 Tennis 🎾 team to not be playing a match that day in order to get Jabin to the pitcher’s circle and somehow we were fortunate enough to have that.

The next thing we needed was for Track 👣 and Field to be off that day so we would have access to Alyssa Ervin and now that they are closing in on their post season we appear safe!

The final obstacle was for the Battling Ben Tickles ( Girls Soccer) to not have a make up game added to the 14th. Both Alleghany and Glenvar had their visits to Tommy Thompson Field postponed earlier this spring and might want to make the trek down. The thought process was that Alleghany would pass on the long bus 🚌 ride but that the Highlanders would jump at the opportunity to get their match in.

That is exactly how it played out so at 6pm next Tuesday night the Soccer ⚽️ game is set to start. Forty minutes later they will have their 10 minute halftime break which might just create the five minutes needed to still accomplish this….

Fingers crossed 🤞🙏 that all of the Stars 🌟 can line up and we have 14 folks out at the Circle 🔵 and we can celebrate the Senior Class of 2023-2024!!!

Even if one of them has to be Golf Carted back across the street for the second half of her Soccer ⚽️ game.