Day: July 13, 2024

Update from Blacksburg : Jabin Talley lives to play Tennis 🎾 another day.

Greg Talley checked in with an update from the first Tennis tournament our recent graduate 🎓 Jabin Talley is competing in this weekend.

The younger Tally is set to become the first former Cavalier to play at the collegiate level. Jabin split his opening day matches on Saturday thus earning the right to return on Sunday morning.

Opening match tomorrow is slated for 9:30 am !

Today I received The Call and now its Time to head to The Show tomorrow afternoon !

Forty plus years of holding a 🎤 has been such a blessing. From the early days of being a DJ to hosting three Podcasts a week and so many stops ✋ along the way. While everytime has a special meaning there are some opportunities that simply mean more.

The Lady 👩 that I call our Guardian Angle, goes by her actual name of Vickey Ritchie. Vickey takes care ❤ of the Carroll County Special Olympics and anytime I can be of assistance to her I consider it an absolute privilege.

Being talked with the challenge of adding to one of her special days is as uplifting as it gets!

Need to say Thank You to the Harris 👪 for helping me free up the afternoon plans by readjusting our plans.

Our Kevin Burress checks ✔ in from South Hill on Day 2 !

After not taking the field as originally planned on Friday evening, Carroll County made its debut at 3pm today.

Burress was busy live streaming the game for the folks back home so our updates were a little delayed but here is Kevin’s first take on the opening game.

” We lost game 1 to Powahatan 7 to 0. We gave up 5 in the first inning. I think the nerves really got to the girls. We settled in defensively after the first but we just kept hitting the ball straight to them for easy plays. I’m sorry for the lack of updates and pictures I’m having to use my phone to stream the game live. I’ll try to get pics from the parents and send them.”

Hopefully the team is finding away to relax off the field before taking the field again tomorrow.

” We play tomorrow at 1 pm. I’m not sure of our opponent yet.”

Thank You Kevin ! Anything else that makes its way back from South Hill will get added here later.

Once again we are so proud of these young Ladies and appreciate ❤ their Coaches !

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Casey Burcham checks ✔ in to inform us that we now know the opponent for tomorrow – Play Rustburg at 1 tomorrow.

Thank You Sir !

More Youth Baseball ⚾️ was played as well today…

14u took care of business in Charlotte Courthouse today !

The Canvas Company has produced the Famalies Fab Four Favorite photos 📷

The next step will be to make arrangements with each of the four families to get these gems 💎 delivered !

One more opportunity 🙏 to say Thank You to Mrs. Velvet Creed Leonard for her efforts with this project.

The goal with this project was to let Jabin Talley, Ashlyn Newman and Emma Leath stand in the spotlight alongside our Alyssa Ervin. Ervin broke her record in front of a packed Gymnasium while the other three accomplished their in the midst of an 11 team Spring season.

Like everything else we chase its about equality and inclusion.

While it might be a generation or two before another talented Student Athlete like Ervin roams The Hill, I feel pretty sure it might be a spell before we forget Talley, Newman and Leath!

On a personal note 📝 I throughly enjoyed getting to meet the Newman Family 👪 for the first time.