Boys Head Coach Christy Shupe and her Tennis 🎾 squad had a little breathing room in their match with the Maroon Tide, winning 7-2 over Galax on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Martin McKenzie and his Girls team was good to the last drop (shot) as they snuck past Galax 5-4.
The Boys flirted with sweeping the six singles matches as the top four cruised to victory.
From Christy: :
” Everybody played well across the board. Our 5 and 6 seed battled the whole time in tightly contested matches. Eli just came up a little short.”
The top two doubles teams added to the lead, ending the match at 7-2.
Boys 👦 Results
McKenzie and the Girls headed over to Galax for their match and this one came down to the wire.
Girls 👧 Results
” Galax has improved a great deal over the past month,” said McKenzie. ” The match came down to the final doubles match.”
Congratulations 👏 to both teams and Thank You to the Coaches for sharing their results !
Both squads will be back in action 🎬 today as we square off with Patrick County. Boys remain on The Hill and the Girls head to Stuart.
The Sheetz store on the corner of Electric Avenue and Apperson Drive was the 17th place I checked for a copy of the Wednesday Roanoke Times newspaper 📰.
They were down to just two copies so I now have one for the Easter Family 👪 and one for Coach Anthony Barnes. Once I got started at 10:30 pm, I just wouldn’t stop until I accomplished my mission.
I have stories for Martin McKenzie, Christy Shupe, Adrienne Harris and Brittany Kinney. I promise to produce them sooner than later, just need some sleep 💤…..
Personal note to the families involved, after the Soccer ⚽️ game I am driving to Roanoke to pick up my wife so if the Barnes or Easter Famalies would like a physical copy of the newspaper 📰, please reach out.
Adrienne Harris and Brittany Kinney are on a mission and have a few dozen highly enthusiastic Lady 👩 Cavaliers willing to follow their lead.
Tonight we celebrate the two teams playing at home for the first time this season. To add to the excitement, both the our Varsity Coach ( Harris) and JV Coach (Kinney) are making their coaching debut on the home pitch.
Harris is trying hard to hit the ground running 🏃♂️ and the fact that the Junior Varsity team was added in Year One is a testimony to her long-term goals for the program. It would have been easy to stick a pin 📌 in that thought process for a season and just focus on her Varsity team.
Kinney is a brave soul, one willing to jump into a situation where there is no real playing history. Her team is learning on the fly and she is as well. Building from scratch is hard, no matter the task.
When there are 12 teams vying for the attention of a fan base, its a great challenge to draw fans in. Tonight has hope because of the limited schedule.
Tomorrow Night 🌙 we will be doing the same thing for Jeremy Puckett and Forrest Johnson with their Boys teams but that challenge will be greater because all 12 teams will be in action 🎬. We lose the opportunity for other Student Athletes to join us Thursday.
The two Colleges that I do the most with are Appalachian State University and West Virginia Tech University. They are as opposite as day and night in regards to resources. People ask me what I do at WVU-T and the answer is what ever it takes to represent our School. When I show up at App State there are 15 people there to assist the effort on Game Day.
Come out to the Field tonight and watch some hard working 💪 young Ladies perform for their dedicated Coaches. They will appreciate it more than you know!
Our Kevin DeHaven is a hero in my World 🌎 and he falls into the One Man Band category that we have at Tech. The goal here is to test the waters 💧in regards to game sponsorship for Soccer ⚽️. If you own a business or run a company that might be interested in taking one of the other home games, take a look around tonight and give it some thought.
The biggest difference tonight is that I will be announcing the game so I won’t be making the same amount of noise because it will sound like self promotion. I don’t to use a local business name here because I am not trying to apply pressure on anyone so we will show the example using Outdoor Man Sporting Goods ( Tim Allen Fan).
Here’s what Outdoor Man would receive for sponsorship – their business being acknowledged throughout the script read by the PA. The ability to have a banner by the ticket gate ➕ a Photo with the teams ➕ presentation of the game ball to the officials ➕ taking the game ball home after the end of the matches.
There are so many tweaks that can be added, like the ability to pass out giveaways at the gate.
We have two programs that involve four Coaches who all want the same thing for their dedicated Student Athletes – to play in front of a gathering.
Both Adrienne and Forrest have asked for the same thing. I believe 🙏 in both of these young Adults and this is where we landed.
Six hours from now we will see if we made a dent in this. Speaking as someone who might be interested in sponsorship of a game, I would want to see that it worked – the question is how do you measure success tonight ? Is the answer 50, is it 100, is it 200 ?
A.S.P.N on The Hill 