Emily Cook and Rick Nester discussing strategy during the Conference 24 Championship game in 2015.

The landscape has changed over the past decade in regards to post season Softball in the Virginia High School League. The biggest difference being the elimination of most District / Conference tournaments ahead of Regional play. While Page County participated in one in 2025, Carroll County hasn’t played in one for a few years now as the Three Rivers District doesn’t hold them.

  The significance of this is the 27 games played and 26 victories collected have a legitimate chance at standing as CCHS school records for a really long time.

This season the number of regular season games allowed was bumped up from 20 to 21. This creates an opportunity to play in 27 games, 28 if you advance from a Regional tournament play-in game (7/10, 8/9).

There is no doubt about the fact that the Lady Cavaliers of 2015 captured the initial State Championship in school history. But at 26 wins, did the also set a school record for wins in a season ? Chances are that they did just that.

Carroll County allowed just five runs across the eight game post season, for an average of 0.625 runs per game. Even in the lone setback versus Woodgrove it was by a 2-0 margin.

Pitching and defense wins ball games and the Lady Cavaliers proved that in spades ♠️. We will take a look at each post season game in the magical run, not just the 1-0 Championship game. [Scoring 64 runs doesn’t hurt].

Another mark that might stand forever is the number of players on one team that would move on to play in College. Having three from the same team end up at one school (Ferrum College) might stand for quite some time as well.

  Thank you 🙏 to Craig Worrell for another capture from 2015 and to Donna Nester for finding the print out of the post season games.