Diamonds πŸ’Ž are a Girls Best Friend : When your Faith and Baseball ⚾️ cross paths… Following Timmy Tebow in his pursuit of playing Major League Baseball for the New York Mets.

Scoreboard in Rochester, New York during Timmy’s year of AAA Baseball.

  Everything that I am trying hard to accomplish is a very scaled down version of what I watch Tim Tebow do with his foundation. We are proud to be small part of the Tim Tebow Foundation and I could not make my way to Columbia, South Carolina fast enough to watch Tebow play a game for the Fire Flies.

The next time our paths crossed again was in Lexington, Kentucky when they were playing against the Lexington Legends. Anytime we were in a park at the same time as Tebow, there was such an energy in the air !

Page County Softball Complex

The Rumble Ponies were the AA stop βœ‹ for Tebow and his jersey from there is one of my prized  possessions, in regards to clothing.

Tebow had his best season at AA and was on his way to getting a September call πŸ“ž up before an injury to his hand derailed his season.

The following year Tebow headed up to Syracuse and we found him on the road in Rochester. Syracuse would prove to be the final stop on the journey and the highlight of the night πŸŒ™ was seeing Timmy remove my Strasburg Express hat off my Grandson’s head

Retracing the steps πŸšΆβ€β™‚οΈduring this process πŸ™ will bring back such fond memories!

Diamonds πŸ’Ž are a Girls Best Friend : Welcome πŸ™ to show, Hannah Dalton (Bourne) ! Head Coach Rick Nester knew he had one special young Lady from the Get-Go

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Everyone who was in Lynchburg on June 13th, 2015 knows that it was Hannah Dalton (Bourne) that was instructed by Coach Rick Nester to wonder off the base to create a rundown. A rundown that would lead to the only run in the Lady Cavaliers 1-0 victory over Woodgrove.

Β  Coach Nester was quick to talk about his initial reaction to meeting Dalton, a sophomore at the time who was hoping to make Varsity in 2013. The meeting took place during the off-season workouts ahead of Coach’s rookie season and Dalton had Nester at Hello πŸ‘‹!

” Hannah is top class young Lady, one that makes everyone around her better,” said Nester. ” She is the type of person that you want on your team, a Coach is fortunate to have players of her caliber from time to time. Hannah made me a better coach.”

My first conversation with Hannah took place earlier tonight and trust me when I say that it came at a great time. We are looking forward to seeing which part of the 2015 journey means the most to her and after the endorsement from Nester, I am already looking forward to the next time we connect.

One of the four Seniors who led the way back in 2015, we are thrilled to welcome πŸ™ Hannah Dalton Bourne to our story !

Diamonds πŸ’Ž are a Girls Best Friend : In regards to playing at Fluvana, the 3rd time was the charm for Rick Nester and his Lady Cavaliers !

Every season of High School Softball has a game that is the Win and you’re In contest in regards to the State Tournament. The game takes place in the Regional Semi-finals and in 2015 for Carroll County, it had the Lady Cavaliers trying hard to make their way up to Fluvana County.

The record book πŸ“– shows us that Carroll County prevailed by a final score of 3-0 after the team scored one run for every day that they tried to play the game. It would be awkward enough to need three tries to get to play a regular season game, let alone the contest that would send the team on to the State Tournament.

There was a Community send-off on Day 1 and then another one on Day 2 before the weather forecast triggered a postponement. Finally, on the third attempt, the team made it up to Fluvana and history shows us that Sydney Nester pitched a shutout, the defense sparkled and there was enough timely hitting to carry the Lady Cavaliers onto the Final Four !

Modern day, that victory translates to the Elite Eight of State but back in the day it landed a team in the Final Four.

The twice delayed game pushed Carroll County High School into the need to head up to Woodgrove for the Regional Championship from Fluvana. The team jumped back on the Bus 🚌 and drove another 120 miles North.

  Third time was the Charm will be the subtitle for the game versus Fluvana and the first game against Woodgrove will be labeled – The Bait and Switch….