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 !

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.

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.

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

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 👏

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.

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

Head Coach Shawn Montgomery ✔s in with ALL of his results from the Boys and Girls Track and Field meet !

Congratulations to all of our competitors !

Head Coach Casey Burcham ✔s in with thoughts on his latest victory and a reminder that tomorrows Baseball ⚾️ Camp has been postponed.

We won tonight 3-2 against Alleghany. Cody Reece threw 5 and 2/3 innings, giving up 5 hits and earned runs.

Peyton Spencer closed it out for us pitching an inning and a 1/3 striking out 3.

Cody Reece Homered tonight for his second one of the year, and Ben Phillips had an RBI single.

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Cody Reece pitches and sluggs, same as Babe Ruth !

Once again, tomorrows camp will be rescheduled.

Congratulations 👏👏👏 to the Cavaliers!

Friday Night 🌙 Scoreboard was full of twists and turns but everyone was able to compete ! Saturday’s Baseball ⚾️ Camp has been postponed.

West Virginia Tech University Baseball ⚾️ was forced to relocate our game by 50 miles and we managed to pull off a shocking 3-2 victory over league leading Oakland City.

Adam Nester and the Nester Nine improved to 6-0, and it was their five shutout, 6-0 at Alleghany High School.

Casey Burcham and Company defended The Hill, holding Alleghany High at bay. Cody Reece hit a solo Home Run to help build a 3-0 lead and the Cavaliers held on to post another victory.

Down in Tampa, South Carolina is leading Texas 52-41, Midway through the 3rd period. Connecticut versus UCLA is the other National Semi-final.

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Both of our Track and Field teams competed today at Glade Springs and here is a snapshot from their meet.

Nathanael Dalton -2nd place- long jump 20’ 9.5”. Ranked in Top 50 in the state

Corrie Delp-4th place-long jump- 16’ 0”

Corrie Delp-5th place – 100 meter das 13.65

Brendan Farris-8th- high jump. 5’ 4”

Lots of other PRs.

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The Baseball ⚾️ Camp scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed and will be held later this year. Stay tuned…..

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We fully expect to hear from Coaches with more details on their contests and we will make them stand alone stories.

Thank You to Rick Nester, Kevin DeHaven and Donna Nester for their assistance throughout the Day !

Connecticut 23-13 after 2st quarter (10pm). Now 42-22, versus the #1 team in the Country…(10:27)

South Carolina rolled 74-57 over Texas

Friday will be busy with Cavaliers, Golden Bears 🐻 and the Women’s Final Four down in Tampa – remember that Varsity Baseball ⚾️ is now at 6pm

Track and Field Coaches Shawn Montgomery and Jon Delp will lead our Cavaliers teams into action 🎬 today down at Glade Spring High School 🏫.

Casey Burcham and Varsity Baseball ⚾️ will welcome Alleghany to The Hill for a 6:00pm First Pitch while the Nester Nine will put its 5-0 mark on the line up in The Highlands against the always tough Cougars at 5:30 pm.

7:00 pm is the start time down in Tampa as South Carolina faces Texas then Geno and Paige lead the UCONN Huskies against the U.C.L.A Bruins.

Here in Beckley, our Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball team has quite the challenge as league leading Oakland City (10-1) comes to town to open a three game set. First Pitch is set for 2pm today.

Have yourself a Blessed Friday !