Category: Page County

Alan F Knight Field was a place of Joy last night as Page County High School Softball holds off Stuarts Draft 3-1 for a 16th straight win. Lady Panthers to host Strasburg on Wednesday evening for a spot in the Class 2 State Tournament.

Shenandoah – The four top seeds in Region 2B Softball all took care of business Monday night, setting up a pair of showdowns for Wednesday. Page County(19-3) pushed its winning streak to 16 straight by holding off visiting Stuart Draft 3-1, setting up a third meeting of the season versus Strasburg on Wednesday.

The old saying that its difficult to beat the same team three times in the same season played out against the Cougars.  Page County had swept the regular season series by scores of 13-1 and 9-3 but Monday night 🌙 the knockout punch eluded the Lady Panthers.

This time around a good ole fashioned pitchers duel developed as Draft sent its Shenandoah District pitcher of the year to face PCHS. The Lady Panthers have plated 215 runs to this point (against 58 allowed) but three would prove to be enough to survive and advance, thanks to its own stellar pitching staff.

The semifinal contest with Strasburg will be another trilogy as the Rams 🐏 played PCHS tough twice during the regular season. The Lady Panthers prevailed 4-2 and 6-0 in the first two contests.

Suzanne Mathias and Alan Knight have been coaching against each other for decades now, in both Volleyball and Softball. When they get together Wednesday night at Alan F Knight Field there will be a little bit extra on the line as the winner 🏆 this time punches a ticket 🎟 to the State Tournament !

#2 Fort Defiance and #3 Central Woodstock will square up in the other semifinal contest.

Alan Knight, Chris Carter and Marion Harris .

Odds and ends on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Happy Senior Day Weekend to Miss Maddie Gordon (Page County High School) and her Penn State teammates ❤, Welcome 🙏 Home Bill Gallimore and some Love for the Shawn & Jon Show!

Maddie Gordon had a record setting four year career under Alan Knight at Page County High School Lady Panthers. It doesn’t seem possible that she is getting ready to graduate from Penn State University.

Nicknamed ” Big Country ” by her Nittany Lion teammates because the town of Shenandoah, Virginia doesn’t stretch much further than Laurel Fork.

The younger of the Gordon sisters has been an amazing ambassador for the game of Softball and in her representation of Page County, Virginia !

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Welcome 🙏 Home to Bill( and Linda) Gallimore! Bill has been on a month long Fishing 🎣 and Fellowship retreat with some near and dear friends but he’s back in town. Ready to return to cheering on the Cavaliers and also already looking forward to the trip next year.

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Coaches Shawn Montgomery and Jon Delp

   Gone but not forgotten could be the tag for the folks that coach up our Track and Field teams. While the bleacher project made the Soccer ⚽️ home schedules quite the challenge, it eliminated the opportunity for T & F to perform on their Home track 👣.

This creates a challenge for a Senior Day ceremony for the group but there’s hope they can sneak in with one of the other seven teams that will be holding one in the coming weeks.

We truly appreciate 🙏 the efforts of our duo. One teaches Social Studies and coaches three Cross Country teams while the other wears a badge to protect us in addition to keeping up with a household full of daughters.

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In closing, what does a hard working Lawn Boy 👦, a mechanically challenged Paper Boy and a sudden ⛈🌩⚡ storm equal =???

  The answer is getting to share a laugh with ones fellow Laurel Forkian ( I think I just made that word up) about two people not bright enough to come in out of the storm. The world 🌎 is a better place with Kris Richardson in it, even if its just long enough to laugh at each other.

Tuesday Night 🌙OneofUs.Care Scoreboard…

Carroll County Varsity Baseball ⚾️, we know them as the Burcham Bunch, traveled to the Highlands and defeated the Alleghany Cougars 5-0.

Carroll County Junior Varsity Baseball ⚾️ remained undefeated by defeating Alleghany on The Hill with the final score being 15-0.

Carroll County JV Boys Soccer ⚽️ hosted and defeated Alleghany 2-0.

Carroll County Varsity Boys Soccer ⚽️ defeated Alleghany 4-0 at Tommy Thompson Field.

Page County Varsity Softball improved to 13-3 with a 1-0 victory over District leading Central of Woodstock. The Lady Panthers are now tied with the Falcons.

Carroll County Varsity Softball traveled to Alleghany to play a pair of 5 inning contests. The opener when 7 innings, with the Cougars winning 4-3. Alleghany won the nightcap 4-1.

.The Junior Varsity Softball team hosted Alleghany at Cavalier Park, dropping both ends of the twin bill. Game 2 went to extra innings with Alleghany walking off with a 6-5 victory.

  Shawn Montgomery and Jon Delp took our Track 👣 and Field teams over to Floyd County. They came back with a fistful of 1st Place finishes !

Finally Boys 👦 Tennis 🎾 was supposed to play as well but I haven’t seen any results.

Both Girls Soccer ⚽️ teams and Girls Tennis 🎾 were the three teams not in action.

I have photos 📷 and stories about every venue and will get stories written sooner than later.

I will sign off with a Pic 6 from the Mom 👩 of the Nester Nine…

Softball updates from both Carroll County Middle School 🏫 and Page County High School..

Softball Updates

Travis Osborne checks in with results from today’s Middle School Softball game.

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Our CCMS Lady Cavaliers rolled into Blacksburg with their Bats Blazing, taking down the Bruins in a 15-4 Run Rule shortened game. These Ladies represented The Cav’s Nation Well!! 🥎🥎🔥🔥

PS – Deana also checked in with the great News !

Middle school softball won this evening 15-4 against Blacksburg 🥎❤️🥎

Congratulations 👏👏👏 and Thanks for checking in !

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Alan Knight and his Page County High Lady 👩 Panthers improved to 9-3 on the season after defeating Rappahannock County High School 15-0 in five innings

The Bull Run District is still in the mix for PCHS.

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Carroll County High Varsity Softball team will travel over to Galax on Wednesday evening while the Junior Varsity team hosts Tazewell High in a rescheduled double header.