Category: Page County High School

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend :  Would it be possible to properly celebrate Kevin Burress Day without some Softball ? I think not, so stop #2 is the D3 World Series in Salem !

#8 seeded Rowan versus #1 seed and undefeated Virginia Wesleyan University in the opening game of a week long celebration of the sport of softball in the Roanoke Valley.

The Marlins have rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning but their rally comes up short at 1:18

Yes, the D1 College World Series is getting underway out in Oklahoma City, and eight teams are set to battle for the crown 👑 but we have eight teams doing the same right here in the Roanoke Valley.

$50.00 will get you a pass for the week, and the price drops to $30.00 if you are a senior citizen. A great deal of quality Softball for a fair asking price and parking is free of charge!

Game 1 is in the Books 📚 and the grounds crew is working hard to prepare the field for game #2, Redlands versus Linfield in the 4 versus 5 match-up.

The Marlins will have a long road back now, but the beauty of a double elimination event is that you get to keep playing after your first setback.

2:01 has been announced as the start time for game 2….

Options for the next stop ✋️ on Kevin Burress Day are

Magna Vista High School 🏫 (1:24)

Fort Defiance High School 🏫 (1:37)

Abingdon High School 🏫 (1:58)

Or stay seated and enjoy three more softball games…..

Tough call 📞 on this one….

M-V has Cavalier baseball ⚾️ and Boys Soccer ⚽️ 4:00 & 6:00

Fort Defiance is hosting Alan Knight and his Lady Panthers in a #4 – #5 match-up in Softball at 6pm.

Abingdon High is the site for the Lady Cavaliers Girls 👧 Soccer game at 7:30. #3 versus #6

Being that it’s Kevin Burress Day, the question is, what would Kevin do ?

84° at First Pitch….

Oregon vs. California here in the long way from home 🏡 pairing.

We are just moments away from the two greatest words in all of Sports – Play Ball !
First Pitch at 2:03 pm

Linfield dents the scoreboard in the bottom of the first with an RBI double. Now its 2-0…

Stolen base leads to a sound bite 🫦 ” Life in the Fast Lane ” – clever !!!

Centerfielder throws out the runner at first to end the rally. Great heads up play to save a third run from scoring. 25 minutes to play the first inning.

Redlands win game 2, 9-7…

Kevin Burress is a mountain of a man that I have crossed paths with because of Cavalier Park, and the relationship is one that I will never forget. The world is a better place because of the Burress family !

It’s raining 🌧 here in Fayetteville, so it’s a good time for some updates… it must be raining 🌧 in the Shenandoah Valley too.

Page  County High School Junior Varsity Softball team captured the Bull Run District regular season crown 👑 and was set to play Central – Woodstock in hopes of adding a tournament title to the trophy 🏆 case. But for the third straight day, the game has been washed out.

Today is the final day for any JV competition, so the younger Lady Panthers will have to settle for just one title this season.

In regards to the varsity tournament in the Bull Run, they have made the decision to eliminate the semi-final round and hopefully play the championship game next Tuesday.

Region play starts Thursday, so Tuesday is the last chance for the Central  versus Page County tilt to be played.

Strasburg is the tough luck team in this equation because the Rams 🐏 were right on the heels of the top two.

To show how tight things are in the Bull Run, Strasburg is on pace to receive a better seed in the Region.

There’s a fine line between Karma and Faith, so let’s call 📞 this one : Vickey Ritchie, Stephen Puckett, and their effects on Softball!

Every morning 🌄, when I wake ⏰️ up, the first thing I ask myself is, what are my choices today ?

  Door 🚪#1 today was head over to Durham, where Duke University Softball needed to beat the University of Arizona, not once but twice to earn a trip to the Super Regional next week in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Door 🚪 # 2 – Dennis  ” Preacherman ” Zimmerman was going to be in the pulpit this morning at his church ⛪️ up in Shenandoah, Virginia. The service was set for 9:30 am, and being that Dennis is the backup Pastor, there was no telling when the next sermon would take place.

Up and back in the same day would be quite the long day, and staying overnight wouldn’t work because our Junior Varsity Softball team are set to play their final stand-alone game at Cavalier Park on Monday evening.

Door 🚪 # 3 – stay home in Laurel Fork, attend the Church ⛪️ service of Pastor Stephen Puckett, then change clothes and drive 🚗 over to Hillsville Elementary School in support of Coach Vickey Ritchie and our Special Olympics Basketball program..

When one is having a conversation with another about what guides the decision-making process, if the second person is one of Faith, there’s no need to mence words. Otherwise, you can swap Faith for Karma.

Stephen Puckett and I have a rather unique relationship, to say the least, due to the fact that we deal with the same people but from different angles. His Church ⛪️ sits on the corner of US-58 and Stone Mountain Road out here in uptown Laurel Fork. If I am in town on a Sunday morning, you can find me in his sanctuary listening to his message.

  The other half of the Carroll County Sunday 1-2 punch 👊 is Vickey Ritchie. Anyone who reads my work on even a semi – regular basis knows that I have a soft spot for the efforts of our local Angel 😇 on Earth 🌎. Anything that I can do to make her life easier is worth doing, blindly !

Spend an hour with your Pastor, then two ➕️ hours with an Angel 😇 and how could you go wrong ?

There was never a doubt about the fact that our friend Dennis would be able to deliver the Lord’s message once again. The answered prayer came in the young ladies’ standing next to Dennis and Big Daddy are members of the Page County Lady Panthers Softball program !

One down, one to go ! Duke was losing to Arizona in game one, but we were busy having too much fun at basketball practice to worry about that much.

Duke found away to rally back against the Wildcats and force a winner to take all Regional finale !

During the drive back to Laurel Fork, I was listening to the game on ESPN+. Then there is the right turn at the Church and finally back at our place.

Duke held off Arizona to once again win their Regional tournament.

To recap , three softball teams were involved, and each had themselves a good day !

Carroll County High School JV Softball will have themselves a day on Monday.

Page County High School Softball team made their way to Church ⛪️ in support of one of their own.

Duke University Softball team is now going to pack up and fly out to Arkansas in hopes of getting another trip out to Oklahoma City for the College World Series.

Stephen Puckett is a good friend and a pastor, while Vickey Ritchie is an Angel 😇. Call it Karma or call it Faith, but results are hard to argue with !

P.S – bonus to cross paths with Principal Amy Nester at the practice. Just another hard working Administrator here on The Hill. The Shark 🦈 was just the latest prop  in the endless toolbox 🧰…

Fayetteville next weekend sounds fun until other options present themselves.