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 ?

1. VMI Men (D1) hosting on Tuesday night.
2. Bridgewater Women (D3) hosted the early game on Wednesday.
3. University of Virginia Women Women (D1) hosted the night 🌙 cap on Wednesday.
4. Shepherd University Women (D2) hosted on Thursday.
5. Shenandoah University Men (D3) hosted on Friday night 🌙.
6. Christendom College Women (USCAA-D2) hosted on Saturday afternoon in Front Royal.
7. Eastern Mennonite University (D3) hosting Saturday afternoon.
8. Bridgewater Men (D3) will host a game tonight.
9. 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….