The Thunderbirds have a rather noticeable height advantage in this one.
Back home 🏡 we have three Basketball 🏀 games to keep an eye on. Both Boys 👦 are hosting Fort Chiswell while the Girls 👧Varsity team is set to play its third game in three days up at The Fort.
Park University – Gilbert is a N.A.I.A school located in Gilbert, Arizona. They are playing just their game this season and won’t play again until next Friday.
The first quarter is winding down with SUU leading 22-12 (2:19)
The combination of Winter Break for the Students and 2pm Tip on a work day has limited the crowd considerably.
SUU is making full line changes, bringing in five new players at a time. The lead is now 38-15, halfway through the 2nd quarter.
The Bucs have made a trio of 3-pointers to raise their spirits a bit. 12 of the 14 SUU players dressed have seen action 🎬.
Headed to the break at – SUU 45, Park U 26… oops foul called at 0:00….0:00.8 added back ➕ FT’S 0+1 = 46/26, 15:00 break…
Old Friend Steve Cox is doing the announcing for this one. Cox and I spent many a Moon 🌙 working on things regarding the Valley Baseball ⚾️ League.
The definition of a True Fan in my eyes 👀 is someone that will watch any two teams play on any given day. College Basketball 🏀 is the Sport that I consider myself a True Fan of, Men and Women – any level of the Sport, and I’m game for the watching.
When I realized that I would be spending nine days in the area around Massanutten I challenged myself to try and take in nine games. Obvious Math says that’s an average of 1.0 per day. As Barney would say on the sitcom ” How I Met Your Mother 👩”, challenged Accepted !
Challenging oneself is a tremendous 👏 tool 🔧as it builds skills on so many levels. Once you have the initial setup in place the natural thing to do is up the degree of difficulty. First item – no duplicate Home Teams and second item – how many different levels of competition can be included ?
Let’s see how we are doing so far ?
VMI Men (D1) hosting on Tuesday night.
Bridgewater Women (D3) hosted the early game on Wednesday.
University of Virginia Women Women (D1) hosted the night 🌙 cap on Wednesday.
Shepherd University Women (D2) hosted on Thursday.
Shenandoah University Men (D3) hosted on Friday night 🌙.
Christendom College Women (USCAA-D2) hosted on Saturday afternoon in Front Royal.
Eastern Mennonite University (D3) hosting Saturday afternoon.
Bridgewater Men (D3) will host a game tonight.
James Madison University Dukes (D1) will host Sunday afternoon at 2pm….
Ran the gauntlet for sure ! Ladies will prevail 5-4 and all three levels will have been covered. Fun stuff on its own but then add in the Guest List of 4/9 Grandkids ➕ Coach Alan Knight up to this point = Bonus.
There are 10+ Schools 🏫 of Higher Education here in the Valley. Mary Baldwin down in Staunton hasn’t made the list yet but they are home on Tuesday night ???? 💘 the Squirrels.
This game has been very entertaining up to this point. Greensboro leads 33-28 with just over 3:00 left in the first half. Lots of 3 point shots have been launched and plenty of hustle on display 👏.
4:40 pm – Half-time, Greensboro 35, EMU 33 – 15:00 on the Clock ⏰…
Steve Cox..
Other Schools 🏫 in the area include Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista and Washington & Lee in Lexington.
2nd Half underway now… EMU 39-38 at 15:47
10:00 Remains – EMU 44-43, setting up nicely for a great finish !
👔 at 51 – 6:16 remains….4:00 remains, still 51 All….3:38, EMU 2
TO – 3:14 (2), Greensboro down 53-51
2:26 – still 53-51, both D’s tightening
TO – 1:54…. score is 2-0 since 6:16
1:09 – same, 1:01 – EMU scores on another follow-up and calls 📞 a quick TO, leading 55-51.
0:34 – Foul, FT’s – Yes + Yes, TO for EMU, now leading by 6. Greensboro hasn’t scored in a long, long time.
Another Pride turnover at 0:23, more FT’s coming….Yes ➕ Yes, 59-51..
Great Game, despite the fact that Greensboro did not score over the final 6 plus minutes.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 