Month: April 2025

Words to Live by, the Special Olympics motto! Making the most of the coloring paper available at Virginia Military Institute on Saturday

” Let me Win, but if I cannot win, Let me be Brave in my attempt.”

Late last night 🌙, shortly after the Florida Gators completed their Season of Comebacks by defeating Houston for the National Championship, the camera 📷 picked up on Gator players trying to console the Cougar players that were on the floor.

It was a Moment that gave me hope, even if it was just for a moment or two. I live on the outskirts of the Town called Winning is Everything. It’s a small community of people that believe that it still matters how you represent oneself.

The past few days have been filled with many a contest that has not gone in the direction of the team that we choose to support but it doesn’t change the level that we support them, not even a little.

Last night, Adrienne Harris and her Girls Soccer ⚽️ team ran into a buzz saw that is Glenvar.

Lady 👩 Cavaliers

West Virginia Tech University dropped two out of three and the two setbacks were by a wide margin.

Coach Nester and Donna spent Saturday afternoon with Macie Adkins and her teammates at Southwest Virginia Community College. The home team was swept in a double header that day, without scoring a run. I’m sure they all enjoyed each others company just the same.

Jabin Talley was surrounded by Family 👪 on Friday afternoon when he dropped his latest Tennis 🎾 match.

Thursday night, the Carroll County Softball team fell 6-5 at Tazewell High. The walkoff victory for the Bulldogs was the second consecutive setback for the Lady Cavaliers. Not the norm for the program. The JV team lost 9-8 in a game where time was called, ending it early.

My Wife’s College Basketball 🏀 team suffered a loss on Saturday night 🌙 that will be talked about for quite sometime now. Note 📝, my Duke Women’s team gave up a fourth quarter lead in their bid to get to Tampa (Final Four).

We can’t all be like the Nester Nine, now can we ? Head Coach Adam Nester sits at 6-0 heading into their game tonight on The Hill. Five of the six wins have been by shutout. Promo here as the JV Baseball ⚾️ team has The Hill to itself tonight. [Boys 👦 Tennis 🎾 also Home]

Getting back to my framed work of Art and the Special Olympics motto, sportsmanship is or should be the focus each and every time that folks compete with one another. Carroll County earned one victory in a total of four games on Saturday but our Athletes left Lexington knowing that they gave their best efforts.

VMI

Sports has always been designed to be an outlet for people. Both the participants and the people that support them, could get away from the real world 🌎 and all of its challenges.

Teams are going to win some, lose some and in some sports, tie 👔 some. Remember to take the time to enjoy the couple of hours that we get to take a break from reality and enjoy the ball game(s).

Especially the parents who are watching their Kiddos compete, there will come a time when they won’t be playing the games they love any longer. Enjoy the opportunity to watch them play while you can and consider it a bonus when the are victorious.

If you see them ask like a Florida Gator did last night, stand up and applaud 👏.

Wasps Women’s LaCrosse

We will end the post 📫 on a happy note 📝 by adding that Natalie Harris and E & H win a game 20-5 on Sunday, a few days after losing one 22-3. My guess is that Marion and Shelia were equally proud after both contests.

What would today’s Cavalier calendar 📅 look like with graphics ? South Alabama lends one example as Carroll County versus Glenvar kicks into full gear ⚙

This week on The Hill ??

Tennis 🎾 x 2 get added to the list, bringing the total to seven today versus the Highlanders and one with Fort Chiswell. Glenvar took a 1-0 lead last night 🌙 as their Girls 👧 Soccer team defeated the Lady Cavaliers.

App State style…

Please note 📝 that the JV Softball game is at Fort Chiswell, not Glenvar.

Carroll County High Girls Soccer ⚽️ falls short at Glenvar Monday night 🌙 as the two time State defending Champs get off to a red hot start.

Carroll County opened the season with four consecutive shutout victories in the debut season for Head Coach Adrienne Harris but Monday night 🌙 they fell short against a Highlanders squad that is searching for a 3-peat in both the Three Rivers District and Class 2.

The hope of slowing down Glenvar at the start of the game didn’t work out the way Carroll County had hoped as the home team scored two quick goals in the opening minutes. The score at the half was 5-0 and the final 8-0.

CCHS had an opportunity to trim the lead to 2-1 as Callie Harris worked herself free midway through the opening half but was turned away. Glenvar responded with its third goal shortly after and then continued to pull away.

Due to upgrades taking place at Tommy Thompson Field this spring, the team has yet to play a home game thus far. Sitting at 4-1 without playing in front of home fans is an encouraging start to the season and the next match will be a great opportunity for a bounce back tilt.

The Lady 👩 Cavaliers will return to the Pitch Friday night in Buchanan when they take on James River High School 🏫.

ACC Karma is a real thing, just as the Houston Cougars as Florida cuts down the nets for a third time in San Antonio !

Houston pulled off an All-Time comeback in the second National Semi-final, handing a loss to Duke University that the Blue Devils will wear for a long, long time.

The Cougars Head Coach felt a need to rub salt 🧂into the open wound by taking two shots at Duke, one at Coach, one at team and then a third shot at the Atlantic Coast Conference. No hiding from the breakdown from Duke but it seemed odd to me that Sampson chose to call the ACC the Toy Poodle League.

Coach

Fast Forward 48 hours and we find Houston with a 12 point second half lead(16:24) against the Florida Gators. Duke’s lead was 14 against Houston so the numbers were comparable. Houston had plenty of time at the end of game to either go for tie or the win but somehow managed to never get a shot off.

Enter Coach Golden holding the 🎤🎙🎤 as Sampson had done 48 hours earlier and the 39 year old quickly praised the effort of his team, without taking a shot at Houston.

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to the S.E.C  and to the Florida Gators. The final two possessions for the Cougars ended without a shot being taken. Kudos to the winners 🏆and something to think about for Houston.

Gators get #3
Huskies get #12

The last time that this level of Karma from the ACC was on display took place last fall. Florida State University decided to sue their way out of the league but they failed and then proceeded to post a 2-10 mark in Football 🏈🏈🏈. The victories came against Cal and Charleston Southern .

While our beloved league has taken it on the chin here as of late, there’s still some spunk left in the old gal. If you question that at all, just ask Kelvin Sampson or Seminole Football.

Almost felt sad for the 69 year old Sampson last night 🌙 as he stood there with a frozen look on his face as his team could not get a shot off in its final three possessions. Almost, but no, not really.

The moral of the story is this, when with grace and dignity. Own your loses and handle them with Class. Then don’t forget that the ACC, while its wounded, still has Karma on its side.

Chris Graham has an interesting article about Kyle Guy not staying on with the new staff at UVA. Let’s not forget that Guy was the last ACC player to hold the National Championship trophy 🏆back in 2019. Maybe Odom should take note of Karma.

https://augustafreepress.com/news/odoms-first-flub-as-the-uva-basketball-coach-not-retaining-kyle-guy/