The community of South Boston (Halifax County) is the latest local town to see the end of the Road. Having spent 47 years and counting in the Newspaper 📰 business, it pains me everytime I see one of our “Family 👪 ” have to close its doors.
Funny thing is that I once filled in for these folks back in the day for an one and done cover of Men’s Va Tech at Virginia (JPJ).
Every week that my partners in Homer’s R US (Allen and David) get to keep printing we consider it a Victory!
The action 🎬 is set to get underway at 5pm tomorrow evening and we will provide any and all coverage made available !
Ron Cochran at Omega did our Softball program proud with the final prize in the Omega / OneofUs.Care Foul Ball prize package 📦 for the 2023-2024 season. We had four out of town winners 🏆 this year and in the case of the Radford game, the lucky Bobcats fan gets a shirt 👕 with their new logo on it.
We had a great deal of Fun with the contest and was excited to double the number of prizes from 1 to 2. The ultimate compliment was paid by the Radford coach when he said they were hoping to add a similar contest to their game day routine next year !
Best of Luck Jabin !
New Girls Soccer ⚽️ Head Coach Adrienne Harris alongside 2023-2024 Head Coach Ben Tickle.
Fresh off his whirlwind tour of Europe 🇪🇺 with his beautiful Bride 👰, Ben Tickle showed no signs of jetlag Wednesday night when he hosted the teams annual post season banquet.
Tickle was his elegant self from start to finish over the 60 minutes, taking the time to make sure that everyone that was able to attend left the room knowing just how important they were to the team that finished up 12-4.
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Tickle took the time to walk the team through the storyline that led him to accept the title of Head Coach for one season in hopes of assisting in handing the program over to Adrienne Harris for the 2024-2025 season.
I connected the dots roughly six months ago and felt the level of unselfishness being displayed was incredible 👏. This led to helping Coach provide his team with new shirts, providing all of the coverage possible, attaching a cool nickname to the group and finally announcing each of his home matches.
I think the line came from Jerry McGuire – “You had me at hello.” Just agreeing to take the position in hopes that one of the All-Time greats of the program could return home a year later had me sold. Tickle could have easily taken what the Cool Kids call a Lame Duck mentality but not our Super Hero.
Coach took a number of very young players, some that were brand new to the game, and molded them into a team. Coach gave them confidence and he surrounded himself with Top Shelf people every chance that he could.
It helped a great deal that Coach had some serious Senior Class leadership in both Ashlyn Newman and Sarah Alderman. One leader has played the game her entire life and one that was new to the game but both game their teammates someone to look up to from start to finish.
Newman managed to put the biscuit in the basket 🧺 39 times this past season to end her career with a School 🏫 record of 86 goals. The twelve victories tied the Carroll County High School record that was set when their new Coach was a Junior.
In my search for people that do amazing things for the betterment of others, sometimes when you find one that jumps off the page. We don’t know what the future holds for the program but its now being guided by a young Lady that I deemed “Our Future” after my initial conversation with her a few years back.
Last night 🌙 I watched the final chapter of another Ben Tickle act of kindness 🙏. I was so moved by the idea 💡 that I just wanted to assist him in any manner I could. The story is of a high enough quality that it might be time to make a Hallmark After School Movie 🎥 about him.
It makes me proud to have honored such an Amazing individual at our last banquet. You have to be pretty special to be named the Kevin Burress Humanitarian of the Year !
Thank You Ben Tickle 🙏 for everything you do for our community!
