Game 8 of 9 will include the Out of Town Scoreboard and wrap the Night

Bridgewater College Eagles just tipped off with the Southern Virginia University Knights in the third and final Live game on Saturday. By the time that this one wraps up we will include some other Out of Town scores that might be of interest to some folks.

6:15 was the Jump Ball time here on the Campus of Bridgewater.

SVU is a D3 School 🏫 and they compete in the

The host Eagles are proud members of the ODAC.

SVU leads 8-5 @ 14:16, leading BC to call 📞 a TO…

Media TO – 13:00, Knights 11-5

Clemson (8-2) handed the Pitt Panthers (7-3) a third straight loss after a 7-0 start when the scored on a 50 yard TD run with just over 1 minute remaining for a 24-20 victory.

TO – 10:54, SVU 13-10

Syracuse (7-3) 33 @ Cal (5-5) 25 just went Final out in Berkeley.

Media TO – 6:55, BC 17-15

Stanford just pulled within 7 versus Louisville with 6+ left to play

Boston College within 3 versus SMU with 6+ to play.

All 3 were hard fought but Christiansburg swept Alleghany 3-0 to advance to the Class 3 Semi-finals.

Hidden Valley needed five to book another match with the Blue Demons!

6:54 – Half-time, SVU 31-23…

Final minute – Stanford 35 All versus Louisville !

UVA (5-5) scored two late TD’s after falling behind Notre Dame 35-0, final score 35-14.

SMU (9-1) ices 🧊 their win over Boston College (5-5) with a final minute TD, 38-28.

Stanford (3-7) shocks Louisville (6-4) 38-35 on a late Field Goal….

Back here in the Gym – Media TO at 17:22, SVU 39-29.

Wake at UNC 8pm kickoff

7:21 – 16,430 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️ so still need 3,570 to keep 20K streak alive !

10:00 left, SVU 55-44

Game is lacking a bit of flow due to the number of fouls.

TO – 6:12, SVU 66-48…

3:00 – SVU 70-57, BC run 🏃‍♂️ 9-4

1:06 – TO, SVU 72-63, now a 15-6 run for the Eagles….

7:58 pm

11:08 pm – just cleared 23,000!!!

Wake and UNC locked 🔒 up in a great battle. Heels 👠 leading 24-17 with 3+ minutes remaining and they are in the Red Zone…

Alyssa Ervin picked up 2 points and 1 rebound in 10 minutes of action 🎬 tonight as Elon University 👏 improved to 3-1

Katie Lam finished with 11 points and 3 rebounds as Roanoke College improved to 1-1 on the season !

Elijah Cox and Randolph is off until next Saturday…

North Carolina (6-4) 31, Wake (4-6) 24 inside of the final minute.

Final Update for Saturday night 🌙

James River advanced to the Class 2 Final Four while Radford fell on the road. The Knights will look to continue their March next week.

Saturday night 🌙 is coming to an end. Thanks for coming along for part of the journey 🙏

Game 7/9 on Day 5/9 has us watching 👀 the Men of Eastern Mennonite University host the Greensboro College Pride…

Old Friend Steve Cox is doing the announcing for this one. Cox and I spent many a Moon 🌙 working on things regarding the Valley Baseball ⚾️ League.

The definition of a True Fan in my eyes 👀 is someone that will watch any two teams play on any given day. College Basketball 🏀 is the Sport that I consider myself a True Fan of, Men and Women – any level of the Sport, and I’m game for the watching.

When I realized that I would be spending nine days in the area around Massanutten I challenged myself to try and take in nine games. Obvious Math says that’s an average of 1.0 per day. As Barney would say on the sitcom ” How I Met Your Mother 👩”, challenged Accepted !

Challenging oneself is a tremendous 👏 tool 🔧as it builds skills on so many levels. Once you have the initial setup in place the natural thing to do is up the degree of difficulty. First item – no duplicate Home Teams and second item – how many different levels of competition can be included ?

Let’s see how we are doing so far ?

VMI Men (D1) hosting on Tuesday night.
Bridgewater Women (D3) hosted the early game on Wednesday.
University of Virginia Women Women (D1) hosted the night 🌙 cap on Wednesday.
Shepherd University Women (D2) hosted on Thursday.
Shenandoah University Men (D3) hosted on Friday night 🌙.
Christendom College Women (USCAA-D2) hosted on Saturday afternoon in Front Royal.
Eastern Mennonite University (D3) hosting Saturday afternoon.
Bridgewater Men (D3) will host a game tonight.
James Madison University Dukes (D1) will host Sunday afternoon at 2pm….

Ran the gauntlet for sure ! Ladies will prevail 5-4 and all three levels will have been covered. Fun stuff on its own but then add in the Guest List of 4/9 Grandkids ➕ Coach Alan Knight up to this point = Bonus.

There are 10+ Schools 🏫 of Higher Education here in the Valley. Mary Baldwin down in Staunton hasn’t made the list yet but they are home on Tuesday night ???? 💘 the Squirrels.

This game has been very entertaining up to this point. Greensboro leads 33-28 with just over 3:00 left in the first half. Lots of 3 point shots have been launched and plenty of hustle on display 👏.

4:40 pm – Half-time, Greensboro 35, EMU 33 – 15:00 on the Clock ⏰…

Steve Cox..

Other Schools 🏫 in the area include Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista and Washington & Lee in Lexington.

2nd Half underway now… EMU 39-38 at 15:47

10:00 Remains – EMU 44-43, setting up nicely for a great finish !

👔 at 51 – 6:16 remains….4:00 remains, still 51 All….3:38, EMU 2

TO – 3:14 (2), Greensboro down 53-51

2:26 – still 53-51, both D’s tightening

TO – 1:54…. score is 2-0 since 6:16

1:09 – same, 1:01 – EMU scores on another follow-up and calls 📞 a quick TO, leading 55-51.

0:34 – Foul, FT’s – Yes + Yes, TO for EMU, now leading by 6. Greensboro hasn’t scored in a long, long time.

Another Pride turnover at 0:23, more FT’s coming….Yes ➕ Yes, 59-51..

Great Game, despite the fact that Greensboro did not score over the final 6 plus minutes.

5:42 PM – Saturday….

Game #6 on Day #5 is about God and our Oldest of 9 Grandchildren…

Front Royal, Virginia – The Campus of Christendom College for a 1pm Tip…

Noah is now 13 years old and in the 8th grade. He has lived in Front Royal his entire life and plays Basketball 🏀 for both his School 🏫 and in Rec league. Adventurous is the word for Noah and Thanks to spellchecker I was able to type it out !

The College is part of the USCAA, United States College Athletic Association. They have a banner hanging here in the Gym that reads USCAA Small College National Champions – Women’s Basketball DII 2024.

Today’s opponent is Bucks County Community College ofNewtown, Pennsylvania…

GameTime….

Noah is going to join the Jump Ball challenge today….

Here’s my effort…

Now, from Noah..

1st TO – Crusaders 11-4 (4:59)

Now 22-6, 11-2 run

1:25 pm – End of 1st, Crusaders up 25-11….

Christendom only has seven players, making it difficult to send in the second or third teams. Now, 37-17.

Down in Durham – Duke 69, Wofford 20.

Time Out – Crusaders up 45-17…

Half-time….

These young Ladies would make Kris Richardson proud !

71-24…

79-26, end of 3rd…

94-44, Final minute

96-44 is your Final at 2:36 pm

Heavy Hitters are set to meet up in Regional 3 State Volleyball 🏐 Quarterfinals today at 2pm. Combined record of 116-10 with one of the 10 L coming at the hands of the Lady 👩 Cavaliers….

At 2pm today the two representatives from our Region (Christiansburg & Hidden Valley) ➕ one from our District (Alleghany) will gather in hopes of making the State Semi-final round.

Christiansburg (22-3) will host Alleghany (24-4) while Hidden Valley (26-2) travels over to Liberty Christian ✝️ (24-1).

Alleghany took 2 of the 3 matches against CCHS while Christiansburg is the team that ended the season for Head Coach Cindy Edwards and our Cavaliers. Both matches should be highly entertaining and full of powerful swings.

The State Tournament concludes next Saturday for Class 3 at the Salem Civic Center.

Here’s the other side of the Elite Eight

In Class 2 – Both James River and Radford are in the Elite Eight as is Marion. These three Schools 🏫 account for five of the setbacks for CCHS this season and when you add in the two from Alleghany ➕ Christiansburg it equals 8 of the loses for the 13-11 Lady 👩 Cavaliers Volleyball 🏐 program.

The fact that each of these teams is chasing a Class 2 or 3 State Championship shouts out just how tough of a schedule that CCHS faced this season.