Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Three fun years were spent down in Boone, North Carolina with Appalachian State University Field Hockey!

Having the opportunity to spend a few seasons announcing at a D1 school was simply too good of an opportunity to pass up. The fact that App State was exactly the same distance from Laurel Fork as Beckley, West Virginia, falls into the category of things you can not make up.

Getting to work with a staff  that numbered in double figures for every home game was exhilarating, to say the least. Plus, the atmosphere in Boone was as cool as it could get.

The third season involved the flooding that devastated Western North Carolina, causing us to have to borrow a home field for two of our matches…

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : The third and final story dump as  more nuggets make the cut ✂️

Today at Marshall University the Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball team will look to play THREE on Joe Goddard Day at Jack Cook Field

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Dedication Celebration: The Group Photo !!!

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Strasburg Express Night 2025 through the eyes 👀 of OneofUs.Care

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : How does one lead into a decade of non-stop FUN with Chris and Crystal Graham ? Maybe go with that day in Annapolis, Maryland, where freezing to death was in play.

   Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Introducing Travis Knight and, by extension, Chris Dodson.

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : In a word, Alan Knight is fanatical about the level of commitment involved with his Softball program.

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Panther Palooza 2011 – Got Fence ?

   Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Introducing Travis Knight and, by extension, Chris Dodson.

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend ;  Baseball ⚾️ is a business that requires way more money 💰 than one would think, and Gastonia is a great example…

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Our Night 🌙 at Cavalier Park the hard working duo of Carter & Nester (alphabetical) had themselves an outstanding 👏 evening ! Kevin Burress was Awesome and Macie Adkins made her debut, Paul Nester was celebrated and Velvet Creed Leonard captured images as did Donna Nester…

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend :  Long before Cavalier Park, even before Orcas Island 🏝, their was a little place called Shenandoah, Virginia and we spent a decade there. While it was great to be back for a visit with four of our nine grandchildren, I sure did miss Kevin Burress!

Allen Worrell takes his turn at Honoring the Late Mr Jeff Tobler. 💘

Trying hard to invision Carroll County Softball without Coach Tobler is hard to do as Jeff shined a very bright light on all of us each and every moment of each and every Day.

A Special Night 🌙 surrounded by Special people ! 2025 Hall of Fame Induction ceremony

Lady 👩 Cavaliers Softball team prepares for a season of L.O.L, beginning Wednesday afternoon at Bassett High School 🏫

Welcome 🙏 to Monday morning, a day that will begin in Beckley, West Virginia at Linda K Epling Stadium 🏟 and end at Cavalier Park on The Hill

Saturday will have a definite Softball theme and include a stop ✋ at Southwest Virginia Community College. RUNNING FOR THE DAY

Later today we plan to turn Cavalier Park into a Military Base as the Lady 👩 Cavaliers salute seven Veterans during a special edition of First Pitch !!!

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls 👧 Best Friend : The Lady Cavaliers were locked 🔒 in and could Dance 💃. Thank You Tammy Tobler!

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : When did the Lady Cavaliers and the Lady Panthers Softball teams first realize that they had a shot at winning it all ?

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : The Legend of Little Ricky…and the makeover of Big Rick.

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Welcome 🙏 to Rebel Park in New Market, Virginia – the Birthplace of the 💺seating area at our Cavalier Park !

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Welcome 🙏 to show, Hannah Dalton (Bourne) ! Head Coach Rick Nester knew he had one special young Lady from the Get-Go

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend :   Coach Alan Knight didn’t accumulate 1,100 wins by being warm and fuzzy, making today a true test of endurance !

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Greetings from Bridgewater College : Shenandoah District Softball Championship [2009]

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Bill Meade, John Galle & Rob Sisk were busy today, but McGill & Company went the extra mile.

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : Coaching in the Neighborhoods surrounding Page County High School 🏫 could fill a Book on its own. Alan Knight and his Lady Panthers Softball program have some Impressive lists of accomplishments by other locals…

https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2023/11/time-to-list-folks-that-we-believe-in.html

https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2008/09/vbl-update-we-need-lawrence-big-picture.html

https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2023/03/quite-night-in-big-city-with-our.html

https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2021/06/dynamic-coaching-duo-cross-paths-at.html

https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-just-in-jim-critzer-to-step-down.html

https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2009/02/all-in-days-work-name-gm-visit-little.html

https://aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com/2009/03/spending-some-time-with-luray-high.html

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend :    Let’s call 📞 this one about clutch Baseball ⚾️, Candy 🍬 and Big Brothers !

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : We did sneak in a little fun during our decade-long run with the folks at the Augusta Free Press !

More from the Desk of Shorty

The top one is the logo on a golf shirt, and the lower one is an oversized version of the artwork of Rebecca.

For one Atlantic Coast Conference football season, we combined the love for scripted wrestling that Chris Graham has with my desire to copy the writing style of Aaron Sorkin on any of his four television shows and rolled it into what the ACC season would look like if it was pre-scripted. We had a great deal of fun with it and carried it through the entire season !

There were a couple of times that we had guest stars make cameo appearances to add a twist. Naturally, Shorty and I had some fun with the logo, and we practiced merchandising. We created something out of thin air, and I feel pretty sure that it wasn’t done before or since.

Chris Graham is responsible for an online newspaper, which means he is obligated to report on death, political issues, and criminals. The dude has a serious job while I write a feel-good blog that is full of fluff and encouragement. We live in two completely different worlds, but back in the day, we were capable of meeting in the middle !