Four games of Women’s Basketball being played within 11 miles of each other today !Softball 🏡Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :
Psalm 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Coach Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day will appear here shortly…
We will be heading out to Durham and Chapel Hill shortly to take in the quadruple header of Women’s College Basketball 🏀 but we are looking forward to seeing how much coverage we can produce for our 8 High School teams as the day plays out.
Eight of the 12 teams are set to be in action 🎬 tonight, following our two Track and Field teams competing yesterday. Only Adrienne Harris McGuire and Brittany Kinney with our Girls Soccer ⚽️ teams will be idle.
CCHS calendar is BlankTwo races 🏁 this Spring and both ended in Top 3 finishes !!!
Later today we look to find out two things – which three teams are being sent to Duke University for the NCAA and did Alyssa Ervin and Furman University do enough to earn an invite to the smaller of the Dances 💃. They will play on Thursday if they make the guest list!
We have played five games across three days this week and divided time in between Charleston and Beckley but now its time for our Golden Bears 🐻 to hit the road. First stop ✋ on the drive back will be at Hillsville Elementary School to work with Vickey Ritchie and our Special Olympics Basketball program.
I haven’t heard anything officially but maybe Callie Harris will lace up her sneakers one more time and play in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ✝️ Basketball All – Star game here in the near future.
Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :
Matthew 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Down 3 and coming to bat for the final time in the 7 inning nightcap, our never say die Golden Bears 🐻 rallied to tie the game at 8 – 8 and force extra innings for the second time on the day.
Both defenses stiffened in the eighth inning before the Bearcats plated to go ahead run in the top of the ninth. Once again, down to our final at bat, we loaded the bases with nobody out ! Brescia kept the score at 9-8 by recording the first out of the inning on a force out at home.
Carson Crigger came to the plate for the sixth time in the contest and everyone who had been watching baseball ⚾️ for just over eight hours knew that a base hit would earn the home team a much needed split of the River States Conference league game.
Crigger turned on a pitch and sent a line shot down the third place line. The pitch was headed down the left field line and I was ready to start my game winning call!! Houston Flynn was playing the Hot Corner all weekend for Brescia and he made a nice attempt to snag the ball.
In one blink of the eye, Flynn found the ball in his glove and the glove on top of the bag for a game ending double play. Eighteen years together and close to 100 years combined around the game, I am not sure that one play will stand out more than this one.
In the opener, we entered the bottom of the ninth trailing 13 – 8. No problem, Tyler Mackey delivered a pinch hit two run single to make it 13 – 13 before Brescia recorded the 27th out. In this one what followed was one scoreless inning before the Bearcats plated one in the top of the 11th.
First Pitch took place at 12 :03 and the last pitch, incredibly hard hit last pitch took place at 8:13. 490 minutes of Baseball ⚾️ that included 44 runs 🏃♂️ and was an eyelash from being 46 runs.
The scorebook will show that we ended the day 0-2 and those are the facts. But our Student Athletes went hard for all 490 minutes and their announcer left it all on the field as well. As tough for it was for me to witness the ending from the Press Box, Skipper had to absorb it from five feet away.
The upside is that we will live to fight another day….
