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.

First Pitch in Fayetteville at 11:05 CST, 67° and a drizzle… Game 1 of the Super Regional is underway between the Razorbacks and the Lady Blue Devils !

Miss Vega hit a solo Home Run in the top of the first inning to give Duke an early 1-0 lead.

Duke has made it to Oklahoma City for the College World Series once in their brief history of nine years, and the Hogs have never reached the Promise Land. One of these two teams will end the weekend very, very happy, and the other will be thinking woulda, coulda, shoulda.

Softball at the highest level is a fun watch anyway, but when you are surrounded by folks wearing red and making pig like sounds, it takes things to another level !

11:51 – we have our first weather delay in the top of the second inning, Duke leading 3-2.

1:45 update
Tomorrow has issues as well !
Oklahoma – Mississippi State as a break filler. Delay has reached two hours now.

2:24 CT – tarp still on the field

Four hour + rain 🌧 delay

Our Morning 🌄 Brew is lite on content but heavy with 🙏 for Graduation Saturday

The Day Before !
Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

Colossians 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget for the Day :

Praying 🙏 for two things – Kevin Burress and his family after suffering two losses to family members and that everything goes as smoothly as possible concerning the graduation ceremony !

Have a Blessed Day 🙌

Odds and ends from the Night 🌙 at Dickey – Stephens Park !

We have reached the bottom of the 8th inning of the baseball ⚾️ game, and I have switched over to a new post 📫. The hope is not to water down the previous one that was created for Joi Ogle.

It’s been a hot minute since I have still been at a game of baseball this long that I wasn’t announcing. It’s a nice park, and let’s start with it being very clean and well planned out.

Any Park that allows you to circle 🔵 around it is a good place to be !

Add reasonably priced to the list !

Arkansas just missed out on tying the game in the bottom of the eighth inning when a shot to straight away center was tracked down on the warning track. Any place else and the ball would have cleared the wall 🧱.

If you find yourself in Little Rock, Arkansas, and in search of a ballgame, consider this a great opportunity !

Mixing watching 👀 with writing ✍️ a story is, of course, optional. Unless you are also wired a little differently than others.

Off to the bottom of the ninth we go….

The Rally Mallard is hard at work !

Let’s see 👀 if it works…..

Ground Out 5-3 on a bang bang play

Ground out 4-3 on another solid play.

#4 is the last chance….. and the night 🌙 ends at 9:05 on a deep fly ball to right field.

That’s a wrap….

Sitting at a Bostons Pizza takes me back to the days in Vancouver, British Columbia !