Day: April 25, 2026
Story #7 of 9 involves Alan Knight and his Lady Panthers Softball program facing the defending Class 2 Champs in a doubleheader at their place
Earlier this season, Page County High School Softball team was in need of a postponement of a home game against Central – Woodstock due to a number of players battling illnesses.
Sadly, the only agreement that could be reached was to move the game to Central High School and play it as part of a doubleheader.
Thursday afternoon, long-time friend and even longer time Coach, Alan spent some time with me and both my brother Wayne and son, Chris in New Market.
When the conversation turned to Softball for a few minutes, we addressed the pending matchup with the Falcons.
PCHS started out 0-3 for the first time since indoor plumbing, but it’s worth noting that two of the three losses were to the Class 3 defending State Champs, Broadway.
The team returned to healthy and managed to string together six straight victories heading into last night.
” I don’t have enough pitching left to play them twice, not after the game against Clarke County two days ago,” was the line from Coach.
When Dennis Z reached out with the two final scores, I had to laugh to myself. After almost half a century of coaching, it shouldn’t have surprised me one bit that Alan knows his roster inside and out.
The Lady Panthers went toe 2 toe in the opening game before falling 4-3 in a back and forth affair. Game 2 went to the homestanding Falcons by a score of 8-0.
Page County now sits at 6-5 with four if the setbacks coming at the hands ✋️of teams with Championship rings 💍 from last year. The team will get back at it next week.
Story #6 out of 9 is brought to you with some assistance from the Smith Family ! Carroll County JV Softball held their own against an undefeated James River nine, eventually falling
Obviously, one can only see 👀 one thing live at a time, so to provide coverage for as many Cavalier activities as possible, we rely upon friends of our efforts.
Last night was a great example, Tammy Quesenberry was at Varsity Softball, Marion Harris at Varsity Girls Soccer, Forrest Johnson provided the information on his two games. Both baseball ⚾️ coaches submit recaps and hard-working 💪 Kevin DeHaven shares as much information about things as possible !
Last night, our JV Softball team faced its biggest challenge of the season, and for the first half of the contest, this group more than held its own!!
By the end of the game, the Knights pulled away with a big inning to give a slightly misleading 10-0 final score.
“They held their own for a long time, and I believe the other team wasn’t expecting it.”
Love ❤️ the help. I love ❤️ the quote, and thank you for your assistance in getting this out there !
Story 5A & 5B of Nine brings tremendous news about the two teams that stayed home and defended The Hill !
Last night 🌙 six of our eight Cavalier teams made the long trek up I-81 to James River, but Jeremy Puckett and Forrest Johnson remained in town to host the Knights at Tommy Thompson Field.
Coach Johnson took the time to share the night 🌙 with our readers !
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James River at home recap:
-Jv picks up a 2-0 win! Goal #1 came from a Diego Banegas corner that was fumbled into the goal by the keeper. Goal #2 was scored on a corner by Carlos Avila-Rosales and assisted by Diego Banegas!
-Varsity won 3-1 in an exciting match. 2 goals were scored by Hez Mejia and both were assisted by Aiden Puckett. 1 Goal was scored by Hector Castro flying up the middle to slide it past the keeper!
Great games from our boys tonight. We hope to continue it away at Patrick County on Monday! ⚽️
Congratulations to both teams, and being that the Lady Cavaliers play at home three times next week, our Boys 👦 will once again become road warriors.
Story # 4 of 9 is about Brittany Kinney, Karmen Smith, and young Lady Cavaliers rising to a challenge !
Brittany Kinney is a neat Lady and has a very challenging job at Carroll County High School. Our Junior Varsity Girls 👧 Soccer ⚽️ team didn’t exist two years ago and Middle School Girls Soccer existed in the form of co-ed only.
This leaves Coach Kinney in a unique position, trying hard to search The Hill far and wide for young students who might be willing to add Athlete to the student part. Folks who, more often than not, have no experience with the sport.
Last night, while I was announcing a college baseball game, Mr. DeHaven was up in Buchanan with six of our teams, and he was feeding me live updates.
JV baseball beat James River 6-0
JV softball lost 10-0
JV girls’ soccer is losing 5-0 at half
Don’t have a JV boys score for soccer
That message above made my heart sink just a bit. The kicking Kinney’s were down five, and it was only halftime.
Fast forward to later in the night, and I received the following message from Coach Kinney :
JV Score against James River 5-0.
We really struggled the first half. We are down to 12 due to injuries and absences.
However, at half time, Coach Karmen Smith helped our defense get readjusted. I told the girls to hold them at 5.
We came back out and had an excellent second half. We held James River to 0-0 during that 30 minutes.
I’m definitely proud of them for that.
So thankful for Karmen. She really helped a lot tonight.
Once again, my heart ❤️ is right !!!
Message #2 :
We’ve got three home games this week- not sure what your schedule is like but —-
4/27- JV and V play Patrick at home
4/28- JV only against Abingdon at home
4/29- JV and V play Galax at home
Brittany Kinney is the real deal and the perfect complement to high octane Adrienne Harris McGuire.
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