Track and Field Coaches Shawn Montgomery and Jon Delp will lead our Cavaliers teams into action 🎬 today down at Glade Spring High School 🏫.

Casey Burcham and Varsity Baseball ⚾️ will welcome Alleghany to The Hill for a 6:00pm First Pitch while the Nester Nine will put its 5-0 mark on the line up in The Highlands against the always tough Cougars at 5:30 pm.

7:00 pm is the start time down in Tampa as South Carolina faces Texas then Geno and Paige lead the UCONN Huskies against the U.C.L.A Bruins.

Here in Beckley, our Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball team has quite the challenge as league leading Oakland City (10-1) comes to town to open a three game set. First Pitch is set for 2pm today.

Have yourself a Blessed Friday !

Tazewell – Veteran Head Coach Rick Nester entered the season aware of the fact that his 2024-2025 Lady Cavaliers would a much smaller margin for error and the 6-5 setback Thursday night in Tazewell will be one that got away.

Trailing 3-1 entering the top of the sixth inning, Carroll County (3-3) finally broke through with a much needed rally that netted four runs. Raylee Goins and Laynie-Jo Leonard led off and both reached base on hard hit ground balls. Nester went to his bench and pinch hitter Carlie Beamer laid down a great sacrifice bunt to move two runners into scoring position.

Pitcher Emma Harman helped her own cause with a RBI single to score Goins and aggressively took second on the throw. Laiken Burnett produced her third straight productive at bat with a RBI ground out to tie the score. Addie Greene followed by lacing a RBI double and Bayleigh Allen hit a sharp single to plate Greene, making the score 5-3.

Harman went back out to the mound in need of six final outs but unfortunately for Carroll County, the sixth one never happened.

” Emma (Harman) did a great job pitching for us tonight, she did everything that we needed her to do,” said Nester. ” We just cannot afford to give a team extra outs and expect to win ball games. Tonight we gave them six extra outs and it cost us.”

Tazewell trimmed the lead to 5-4 in the bottom of the 6th inning after an error but Harman stranded the tying run on second base. The Cavaliers were retired in order in the seventh inning to set up the dramatic conclusion.

The Bulldogs put the leadoff batter on base with an error but Greene recorded an unassisted force out at second base for the first out. Tazewell followed up with a single and then a double to tie 👔 the game at 5-5, then walked it off with a RBI sacrifice fly.

” We are going to practice tomorrow after school and I’m thinking we will be working on defense from start to finish,” added Nester. ” We did somethings well tonight but struggled with our fielding.”

Harman singled and stole second base in the top of the first inning and came around to score when Burnett hit a rope to the fence in right centerfield. Burnett singled again in the fourth inning but the team remained at one run and three base hits until the big rally.

Carroll County returns to action 🎬 Tuesday night, beginning Three Rivers District play at Glenvar and returns home on Friday afternoon to host James River.

CCHS JV rallied back from an 8-0 deficit to tie Tazewell before falling 9-8 in a contest shortened to five innings. The game was originally designed to be a doubleheader at Cavalier Park but turned into a single road game.

Arizona Thompson and Aspen Aldred both went 2 for 2 in the extended fourth inning rally.

Boys Soccer ⚽️ was scheduled to play a double header at Alleghany Thursday night but the JV game was scratched as the Cougars are battling illness. The Varsity Cavaliers worked hard from start to finish before falling 2-1.

When the day started on Thursday, JV Head Coach Alexis Dalton was planning to host a double header versus Tazewell High School at Cavalier Park. When teams play Softball twin bills both games are set for five innings so Dalton would have plenty of time to coach up her younger than young team and be home in time for a late dinner.

The first snag to the day occurred when THS notified Carroll County that they would be late arriving due to waiting on a school bus 🚌 to take their team down to The Hill.

  Crunching the numbers on when they would arrive, the decision was made to have the JV Lady Cavaliers join the Varsity team on the Bus 🚌 and head to Tazewell and play a single 7 inning game after the Varsity game was final.

6:56 pm (& 81 Degrees) was Time and Temperature 🌡for the first pitch of the Junior Varsity game. It wasn’t until the game was underway that the discussion began about how long it would last. Having to make decisions on the fly can get tricky but it was talked about being five innings and then turned into 90 minutes.

  Tazewell scored five runs 🏃‍♂️ in the bottom of the first inning and added three more in the bottom of the third to make the score 8-0. At this time, Addisyn Lineberry had the only base hit for Carroll County.

Arizona Thompson led off the top of the 4th inning with an infield single and Aspen Aldred followed with a single. That duo each picked up a second base hit in the same inning as CCHS sent 12 batters to the plate in the frame. In the middle of the prolonged rally, the game was delayed just over 10 minutes by a seizure suffered by a Bulldogs fielder.

  Thankfully she was all right and play finally resumed. When the dust settled, the score was knotted up at 8-8. Besides Thompson and Aldred going 2 for 2 in the rally, Kyra Moser lined a single and pinch hitter Ailey Cochran singled, drove in a run and scored one of the eight runs.

In the bottom of the 4th inning, Tazwell scratched out a go-ahead run but Ava Beamer stranded a runner at third base to keep it 9-8. Ava Beamer pitched in relief of starter Aleigha Beamer.

  Ten minutes was added back to the clock ⏰ for the delay and the Lady 👩 Cavaliers hurried up to the plate. With two outs, Moser legged out an infield single and raced over to third base on a throwing error. The tying run remained at third base and the game was called after the third out.

Carroll County JV…..000 80 – 8

Tazwell High JV……..503 1X – 9

After a brief team meeting the players gathered their gear ⚙ and headed to the Bus 🚌 where Mr. Quesenberry was waiting to take them back to The Hill.

  I chased the Bus as far as I-77 when I headed North and Dave went South. My best guess is that they made it back around 10:15 pm, if they didn’t stop for food or at the Rest Area.

Add in the time needed to get home 🏡 and you have an eventful 16 hour day. On a day that a whole bunch of life took place and our team somehow managed to be unaffected by it all.

  In all of the challenges faced by Dalton and her team, you can see 👀 the note 📝 from Alexis.

” If the game had went seven innings, its ours.”

Dalton did play under Coach Rick Nester during her time as a Lady Cavalier and its easy to see the Apple 🍎 didn’t fall far from the Tree.

  Back to Young, I believe that 8 of these young Ladies are still in Middle School. If you are one of their teachers tomorrow and they appear tired, there’s 😴 a good reason!

Varsity Softball falls 6-5 on a walkoff Sacrifice Fly.

Junior Varsity Softball falls 9-8 in a shortened game.

Full stories about both later on.

If anyone knows the Boys 👦 Soccer ⚽️ score, Please let me know 🙏