Day: April 5, 2025

Running Blog for Saturday : Getting to San Antonio by way of Virginia Milatary Institute ➕ keeping an eye on Beckley, West Virginia & Cedar Bluff, Virginia & checking in on yesterday’s Tennis 🎾 for Jabin Talley. Tammy Quesenberry ✔s in with Softball goodies too.

Vickey Ritchie received a special invitation from the folks running the event up in Lexington, Virginia and was honored to accept 🙏 on behalf of her Area 9 Special Olympics Basketball 🏀.

  Our final destination today is San Antonio, Texas for the Men’s Basketball Final Four but that can wait ✋just a bit.

  Lawrence Nesselrodt and our Golden Bears 🐻 are set to play a doubleheader in Beckley against Oakland City.

Macie Adkins and the Flying Eagles are set to host a doubleheader at Southwest Virginia Community College.

Jabin Talley competed for SWCC over in Bristol yesterday afternoon and we hope to track down those results soon.

Festivities get underway hetee at 11:45!

11:45 – Gillis Auditorium, let the event begin !
I am an Excellent coloring person !
The opening Torch 🔦 Ceremony !!!

Special Olympics began in 1968 – July 20th in Chicago, Illinois.

Currently 5,000,000 Athletes participate in 2025. 172 Countries… 100,000 events this year.

After the opening ceremony we marched across the historic campus to Cocke Hall and at 1pm our Area 9 Cavaliers took the court.

1:36 – Game #1 for the Cavaliers is in the books 📚 and they are now off until 3:50pm. Dr. David McPherson and D.J. Delp were the playing partners.

Hanging out in the rafters

1:50 – our next team is the Sure Shots and they are now on the court with Zeke Hicks and Keaton as playing partners.

Up in Beckley, Oakland City leads WVU-T 12-1 in the sixth inning.

SWCC will try again today !
Our Macie Adkins from Mrs Donna Nester

2:32 – Game 2 is in the Books 📚! Game Four at 3:50 will be Carroll County versus Carroll County.

Over in Beckley, we dropped Game #1

We know that Jabin played yesterday afternoon, just not sure of the results. Jabin battled all match, falling in straight sets.

Discussing the strategy ahead of Game #4.

Head Coach Vickey Ritchie led the Cavaliers to an exciting 28-22 victory in Game #4…

Everyone has left Lexington.

Rick & Donna Nester have more pictures 📷 from SWCC

Macie picked up a couple of base hits in Game 2

Next up – Tammy Quesenberry sends in a note 📝 and some Fun Photos 📷 :

Good day for team surge. Undefeated champs. Natalie’s team was runner ups…

1986 Duke University Graduate 🎓 Johnny Dawkins has his University of Central Florida set to play in the Championship game of the brand new CBC Tournament out in Las Vegas 👏

Golden Knights

8:43 – Florida defeats Auburn, 79-73.

Now its watch Duke and then drive 🚗 to the Charlotte Airport for a flight ✈️ to San Antonio. Hopefully, its to watch Florida – Duke on Monday night 🌙.

Fingers crossed 🤞🙏, 9:28 estimated Tip.

JV Baseball ⚾️

10:20 PM – Halftime score, Duke up by six, 34-28.