Such a peaceful drive 🚗 up to the Baseball ⚾️ office today, ahead of our double header in the Capitol City ! Day Long Blog….

The highlight of the drive was an exchange with Travis Osborne and now there is getting together tomorrow to look forward to!

Year 18 here at West Virginia Tech University Baseball is well underway and the team has won three of four heading into today.

By normal standards, the changes for today are minor in nature as the park remains the same and the opposition is the same. The lone difference being instead of playing one nine inning game we will play a pair of 7 inning affairs starting at 3pm.

What triggers a relationship / partnership that is closing in on two full decades ? An opportunity to work with someone who takes what they do every bit as serious as myself. Those things are truly hard to find.

Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball ⚾️ is about Family 👪 and the drive for the absolute best you can be in everything you do !

Today I will have the opportunity 🙏 to work with a young Man who has an interest in learning more about how to frame a ballgame with a 🎤🎙🎤 and Skipper will try and Win one or two on his side of the White Lines.

West Virginia Wesleyan is there to poke the Bear 🐻 and we are up to the challenge !!!

There are some ties 👔 between the Golden Bears 🐻 and the WV Hall of Fame !

First Pitch 3:01, Game Time temp 77°

Play ▶️ Ball !!!!

Championship Flags from my youth when the Tidewater Tides were my 🏡 team.

After 1st, Bobcats lead 3-1

Bottom 4th, we are down 4-2

2:27 minutes, Bobcats 5, Golden Bears 🐻 2

Top 3rd – Golden Bears 🐻 lead 6-1

81° First Pitch, 6 : 01 pm

Middle of the 4th, Golden Bears 🐻 6-1….

Night has fallen as the clock ⏰ ticks toward 8pm…..

Golden Bears 🐻 12, Bobcats 1, Bottom 5th

8:11 pm – Final out recorded in our 12-1 victory. Just over seven hours after we arrived we are finished playing !!!

Here is the Thing about the Spring : We have 15 teams that fall under the Umbrella 🌂so things can get pretty interesting at times !

12 High School teams in the Spring ➕ my responsibilities with West Virginia Tech University Baseball ⚾️ ➕ Dakota Walls Racing ➕ Vickey Ritchie and our Special Olympics Basketball program.

That makes it 15 before you add on anything else from the Area, the Duke Women have a minimum of 1 and a maximum of six games remaining and we have tickets 🎟 for each one.

Still hoping 🙏 that Alyssa Ervin and Furman University will have one more opportunity to lace up the sneakers 👟 this season but we won’t find out for another week yet.

Tonight wraps up the MACC competition and I’m looking forward to interacting with Kristy Jones one more time on that.

The three ways that I can make life better for someone is A. Using my space to help promote their efforts. B. Using my imagination to create a story for them C. Use my voice to announce an event.

I’ve come up short on the ultimate Goal of creating a safe space outside of Social Media where a person can click on and read only positive words about the subjects listed above. Didn’t get there but that doesn’t mean that you stop trying hard to support those who wish to be supported.

Tomorrow afternoon will be a great example for me to use as a fork in the road example – Coach Nester is hosting a scrimmage versus George Wythe at Cavalier Park. But its my understanding that you cannot announce during a scrimmage so does that mean going to Charleston, West Virginia Tomorrow for the Golden Bears double header make more sense ?

But its Charleston and not Beckley so its a 6 hour loop versus a four hour loop….

So just know that our goal remains to enjoy where we live, love thy neighbor and lend out the Skill set as often as possible.

If you like what you read here, tell a friend or two.. If not, then its easy enough to avoid.

Thanks for reading 📚 and Go Cavaliers, Go Golden Bears, Go Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 and Go Kira Lawson & Duke !

Clocks ⏰ turned forward Day and we have a variety of flavors in our Morning 🌄 Brew ! Racing, Travel Volleyball 🏐 and 2 Women’s College Basketball Championship games !!

School calendar is officially blank after a busy Saturday.

Dakota Walls ( Class of 2028 ) is set to make his season debut today down in Sophia, North Carolina !

While we were hoping that this one would include Alyssa Ervin and Furman University, we will still track the Championship game.

Both Marion Harris and Travis Osborne are over in Gatlinburg, Tennessee so we should have updates from our Travel Volleyball teams.

We wrap up our coverage of the five day event down in Duluth with the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship game as #1 faces #2

Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Basketball, Racing 🏎 and Volleyball 🏐 should make for an entertaining day !

Day 4 on The Road has quietly turned into Day 5 but the end is now in sight !

Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee were added to the Talley today. This brings the total for the trip up to 11 with a shot at it reaching 14.