” Great night offensively for us tonight. Hit the ball hard all the way through the line up. Pitching was great throughout, great team win for us tonight.”
Thank You Coach Burcham 🙏 and congratulations 👏 on improving your record to 11-1 !
Peyton Spencer went 2 for 2 with four RBIS, one run scored and even took a turn on the pitching mound.
Two of the three teams shown above will claim the final two spots in the RSC post season Baseball ⚾️ tournament.
Brescia University and Midway play a Saturday doubleheader and then a single game on Sunday.
WVU-T closes out the year with a twin bill versus #2 seed Indiana University – SE here in Beckley. Our Golden Bears 🐻 stayed alive with a thrilling 10th inning walkoff 7-6 victory on Friday that took six hours to play after a lengthy weather delay.
We hold the tiebreaker with Brescia but do not with Midway so we are BIG Midway fans this weekend !
10 young Men will play their final game at Tech tomorrow unless we can work some more magic !
Carroll County Varsity Baseball 12, Radford 2
Carroll County JV Baseball 18, Radford 4
Carroll County JV Softball 15, Radford 5 (3 innings)
Carroll County Varsity Softball 17, Radford 1 (5 innings)
West Virginia Tech Golden Bears 🐻 7, Indiana University – Southeast 6 (10 innings)
CCHS Boys 👦 Tennis 🎾 was trying to play Grayson County on The Hill but don’t know how far they got before the rain ?
Stories about these things to follow later, assuming the drive 🚗 eventually ends.
30 minutes from first pitch, skies look menacing but we have astroturf so we have a fighting chance to get our doubleheader in today !
Meanwhile back 🏡 on The Hill, Kevin DeHaven is monitoring the radar in regards to the scheduled Softball doubleheader at Cavalier Park.
Huge weekend for us here in Beckley and hopefully some Softball back home.
Stay tuned….
12:59 – 70° @ 1st Pitch
Golden Bears 🐻 up 3-0, Top 2nd!!!
Robert Kelley is dealing, perfect thru three innings !
End 3rd, 3-0 @ 1:43
Mid 4th – 3-2 Golden Bears 🐻 1:53
Bottom 4th – we get one back !
Mid 5th – up 4-3
Cavalier Park – 5:01, 68° First Pitch
After a two hour rain 🌧 shower, Golden Bears 🐻 are playing again !
Carroll County Varsity BB won 12-2
JV Softball wins 15-5
First Pitch – 7:02 / 63° Rain 🌧
JV Baseball ⚾️ wins 18-4 over Radford
Lady 👩 Cavaliers 10-1, Bottom 2nd
Varsity Softball final, won 17-1
Time to head back to WV
While there have been a number of partnerships that I had hoped to build in Carroll County that simply didn’t materialize, I could not be happier than my dealings with my fellow Homer, Allen Worrell!
The goal is to try and equally spread the joy across 12 Spring teams ( 8 Varsity and 4 Junior Varsity). Allen has free pickings to run any of our stories each week but just like every other resident of Carroll County, I have no idea what will end up in print until my newspaper gets delivered on Thursday.
The photo above is from yesterday and the front page of the Sports section includes four of our stories and it includes eight of the 12 teams!
Another reason why I am smiling 😃 is that the Artwork (Photos 📷) come from two folks that I think the World 🌎 of. Velvet Creed Leonard captured the Softball pic and Craig Worrell did the same with the Baseball ⚾️ one.
Page two includes coverage of the four remaining teams! It’s an uphill battle in the season I call The Wild Wild West because we have a dozen teams competing and the goal is always inclusion. For me, that has to be the four JV teams as well.
Kevin DeHaven is the Sherrif in this made for TV 📺 movie 🎥. Casey Burcham is the slick rancher – Ben Cartwright of Bonanza. Rick Nester is the wise ole Banker and Adam Nester is Little Joe. Martin McKenzie is the one that always looks like he knows something we don’t.
The Ladies include Adrienne Harris, Brittany Kinney, Alexis Dalton and Christy Shupe.
Forrest Johnson is Adam Cartwright, quiet and determined and Jeremy Puckett runs the Saloon.
Off in the shadows, homeless for this Spring is Batman and Robin but Robin carries a gun 🔫
There are plenty of leading Men and Women out there doing a job and at the very end of the credits, the ones that roll after you have left the theater, they list two unscripted ranch hands ✋. Allen Worrell and the old guy.
This all happened during a stretch where we were both facing serious health issues. Ranchers on a Dude Ranch but it’s still fun to acknowledge when we get one spot on right / write ✍.
It might not happen this picture perfect again so, Allen Worrell, take a bow !!!
A.S.P.N on The Hill 