Alumni Day Softball : Divide and conquer is our theme, and here’s what is at stake for the seven inning Winner 🏆 Take All showdown !

Veteran Head Coach Rick Nester has some work to do in regards to our 2026 – 2027 roster after six Lady Cavaliers graduated 🎓 , meaning there are numerous roster spots up for grabs.

After the Ceremonial portion of the Day is over, Coach Nester wants to create a ” Real Game Feel ” for the seven inning contest. Coach is looking to see 👀 how some of his younger players can handle the moment of playing on a Big Stage ???

The first base dugout will be the place for the ” older ” side of the showdown, and for this side, I will use the term ” We”.

The alumni are older than the current players, so when we divide ➗️ things up…

I’m older than my counterpart, Kevin Burress, and Trenton Newman is older than Dakota Walls ( our race 🏁 car drivers / CCHS students ). Those two were easy enough, meaning that both myself and the Team Newman family will side up with the Alumni team.

The Burress and Walls Family will be focused on the 3rd base side or the home dugout. The next step is how to divide our two Varsity coaches. This one is not as easy as old versus young because Rick Nester and Travis Leath are both old, really old.

Rock 🪨, paper 📃 scissors ✂️ was best 3 out of 5, which led to Nester to the ” Young ” team and Leath to the ” Old” Team.

Nester wants his team to feel they are in a live game, and we will do our very best to accommodate him, we’ll for no other reason, he’s the Boss !

Travis Leath, myself, and Kristi Jones ( Trenton’s Mom ) and our star 🌟 studed roster of 14 are ready to rumble !

Now, Coach Nester will be responsible for his lineup card and batting order. Our 14 are ready to go, so Nester has his work cut out for him.

We know that he has a trio of seniors in Addie Greene, Laynie-Jo Leonard, and Natalie Burress. Raylee Goins is in her junior year, and after that……

While we are ALL Cavaliers at the end of the day, that doesn’t change, but Nester wants to create a game day feel so for the ninety minutes or so of the actual game, we want people to ” Bring It ” and that includes the fans.

How does one find a way to make this feel real to the families of the two race car drivers ? Easy – The car 🚗 connected to the winning team will walk away with the funds for a small logo for our softball program to appear on their car for the 2027 calendar 📅 year !

If you notice that Coach Nester has his game face on for this one, you aren’t imagining it…..