Ben Tickle being presented with the Kevin Burress Humanitarian Award in 2024.
Dr Ben Tickle is headed to Florida to live in a couple of weeks and my Wife and I were looking for a way to show our appreciation for his time at Carroll County High School 🏫.
We landed on throwing him a Going Away party 🥳 with the Girls 👧 Soccer program.
The schedule 📅 that day will be flipped in order for Varsity Head Coach Adrienne Harris to make it to the Kindergarten Graduation 🎓. The Junior Varsity team will close out the night 🌙 by hosting the second match.
We will take advantage of the breaks in between to shower Love and Appreciation on our soon to be departing Friend and Teacher !
The Carroll News is our host for Senior Day Friday match for the Girls and we are proud to announce that Ches Helmick will be our host for a Soccer Bash next Wednesday when our Varsity programs share the Pitch for the first time in a Hot Minute.
Both of these events are exciting and we are considering hosting a Giant Sponge event for Friday morning as all we need now is a somewhat dry Tommy Thompson Field !
Thank You to the Carroll News and to Ches Helmick & Edward Jones 🙏
Spread the word and give that sponge 🧽 thing some thought !!
Martin McKenzie and his Ladies will look to sneak in a match both today and tomorrow.
On top of everything else taking place in regards to trying hard to cram games into calendar spots, we have 8 teams trying to improve their Regional tournament seedings.
The decision has been made that there will not be any postseason for the four Junior Varsity teams. The Nester Nine JV Baseball team is on the cusp of capturing a SIXTH straight Three Rivers District crown 👑.
The two Track 👣 and Field teams have a straight forward path in regards to their postseason. They will compete on May 22nd at Floyd County in the District meet and then the following week its off to Christiansburg (May 31st) for the Regional meet and finally to Lynchburg for the State Meet on June 6th.
Tennis 🎾 has Regionals next week on May 22nd and 23rd. We will know shortly if any of out players qualify in Singles or Doubles.
That leaves four teams trying to move up the Food Chain over the coming days.
Baseball, Softball and both Soccer teams are looking to improve their spots in the 10 team fields. Normally, tracking this might be considered a task but for Kevin DeHaven this week, its a perk to have something other than weather radar to think about.
Baseball is in an ideal spot and Softball is currently sitting one spot out of an invitation. The good news for the Lady Cavaliers is that they are 2-2 versus their four remaining opponents, giving them an opportunity to move up.
Our two Soccer teams are looking to land either a seven or eight seed which would allow them to host a opening round game ( 7 vs 10 or 8 vs 9). Soccer in our area is a great deal like Tennis in regards to the level of talent that we are competing against.
The matches tonight for the Boys teams are important to both Forrest Johnson and Jeremy Puckett. Johnson is trying to improve his seed while Puckett is trying to get in any games they can get played.
In closing, 17 was a big number yesterday afternoon in Abingdon. Corrie Delp set a PR by jumping 17 feet and the Track 👣 and Field teams set 17 total PR’s!
Senior Day on Friday@ Patrick County High School tonight, fingers crossed 🤞
A.S.P.N on The Hill 