The part of being connected with Lawrence Nesselrodt and WVU-T is, without a doubt, the circle 🔵 of top shelf people that are involved with his efforts.
Seeing 👀 this in one of our conversations this morning did two things. First, it made me feel really old ( which I am ), and second, it reminded me that Baseball existed for the Golden Bears 🐻 well before the two of us did.
Tomorrow afternoon, we host one of our neighbors from down the turnpike, and this offers one more opportunity to shout out the two greatest words in Sports : Play Ball !
Dakota and his race 🏁 team from Sophia, Jon Delp from Emory and Henry, Vickey Ritchie from Lexington and Kristy Jones from Virginia Beach ⛱️ ➕️ Lin and I from Sophia and mentally by way of Portsmouth, Ohio.
I’m not sure that any of us had the exact day that we had hoped for, yet each of us still had a story to tell.
We live in a society where many people are willing to judge the value of an experience by whether or not you won the prize. Nobody in this group won 🏆 a prize today but still had a story they wanted to tell.
While Adrienne Harris McGuire might not have had to drive back from out of town tonight but she still shared a story about her kiddos losing a match 1-0 on Friday night in a heartbreaking manor.
Everyone is interested in talking when they were on the winning side of the scoreboard, but not as much when it doesn’t.
Today, the college baseball ⚾️ team that I’m partly responsible for played a game that we lost 16-2 after the home team broke a 2-2 tie with 14 unanswered runs. Wow, would that have been an easy one to just glaze over.
West Virginia Tech University rallied in the top of the fifth inning this afternoon to tie Shawnee State at 2-2. Sadly for us, the momentum ended there as the home team got to our bullpen in the bottom of the inning.
We will head back out there tomorrow with our heads up !
Shawnee State is in the hunt for the top spot, while the Golden Bears 🐻 continue to chase an invite to the post-season tournament.
West Virginia Tech University will look to break a trend this weekend, and Portsmouth, Ohio, is as good of a place as any to build on the mid-week sweep of Davis and Elkins.
There is still plenty of time for WVU-T to climb up the ladder 🪜in the River States conference standings, but there is a sense of urgency to this weekend.
Four weekends remain in the regular season following this one, so it’s a great time to take care of business on the Diamond 💎.
