Long before Cavalier Park, even before Orcas Island 🏝, their was a little place called Shenandoah, Virginia and we spent a decade there. While it was great to be back for a visit with four of our nine grandchildren, I sure did miss Kevin Burress!

When we left the PT appointment on The Hill Wednesday morning, for the first time in a crazy, crazy Spring of trying to help 12 Carroll County High School sports teams, it felt like we had a big enough window to get Lin some quality time with our Grandchildren in Page County.

It happened to be that our long time friend, Alan Knight was hosting a Regional tournament semifinal game in a place where I called games for roughly a decade. It didn’t take any arm twisting when Lori Mongold asked me if I would be up to announcing the game for the Lady Panthers.

It was a fun, fun night and the Lady Panthers won 2-1 to advance to the State Tournament next week. But at the end of the night 🌙 one thing was very obvious to me – I truly missed having Kevin Burress in the chair 💺 next to me.

  Every sport is so very different in the approach to holding a 🎤🎙🎤 and Softball is one that is best done with a wing man 👨. I have been blessed with sharing the Press Box with Burress the past couple of years and I didn’t realize just how much until last night. I have to add that Tammy Tobler and when she’s in town, Macie Adkins add something special to the mix.

Friday morning 🌄 will be spent down (from here) at Liberty University alongside Corrie Delp and Brenden Fariss. In between now and then, Page County will host a Regional Championship game at Alan F Knight Field at 6pm.

Not sure if the stars will line up for that one or not, but if it does, I will be there without Mr Burress and that makes it a bit different.

Next stop ✋, Track 👣 and Field….