We knew that we would have coverage galore from both Allen and Craig Worrell but it was a pleasant surprise to uncover a ” Gamer ” from Mr David Broyles ! David and Allen share an office down on Main Street, having done so for years and years. But if you have been fortunate enough to sit in said office 🏢 with them, its easy to appreciate how much they mean to each other.

Allen and his bride 👰 Crystal were on a planned vacation when Chancellor High School came to town on June 1st. David headed over to Cavalier Park and while there was plenty of drama in regards to whether or not the game would get postponed due to storms in the area, there was very little drama as to which team would win the game.

  Carroll County squeaked out a 12-0 victory, advancing to the Win and you’re In Game at Fluvana. The Lady Cavaliers were now 23-0 on the season with Mother Nature about to become an additional opponent going forward.

  There was speculation about the fact that Allen Worrell knew Carroll County High School Softball was on the cusp of something great and he just wanted to share the journalistic Spotlight with his partner in crime. If this was a fiction story, that would be a great movie 🎥 scene.

Worrell would be watching the game from a rental car 🚗, parked in the lot at the nursing home, maybe with a fake mustache…

Seriously, I now have spent 50 years around Newspapers 📰 and I cannot remember working with a duo that care about each other in the manner that Allen & Plucky do. Great to add one more reporter to the list, especially one as skilled as David Broyles !

Scoreboard in Rochester, New York during Timmy’s year of AAA Baseball.

  Everything that I am trying hard to accomplish is a very scaled down version of what I watch Tim Tebow do with his foundation. We are proud to be small part of the Tim Tebow Foundation and I could not make my way to Columbia, South Carolina fast enough to watch Tebow play a game for the Fire Flies.

The next time our paths crossed again was in Lexington, Kentucky when they were playing against the Lexington Legends. Anytime we were in a park at the same time as Tebow, there was such an energy in the air !

The Rumble Ponies were the AA stop ✋ for Tebow and his jersey from there is one of my prized  possessions, in regards to clothing.

Tebow had his best season at AA and was on his way to getting a September call 📞 up before an injury to his hand derailed his season.

The following year Tebow headed up to Syracuse and we found him on the road in Rochester. Syracuse would prove to be the final stop on the journey and the highlight of the night 🌙 was seeing Timmy remove my Strasburg Express hat off my Grandson’s head

Retracing the steps 🚶‍♂️during this process 🙏 will bring back such fond memories!

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Everyone who was in Lynchburg on June 13th, 2015 knows that it was Hannah Dalton (Bourne) that was instructed by Coach Rick Nester to wonder off the base to create a rundown. A rundown that would lead to the only run in the Lady Cavaliers 1-0 victory over Woodgrove.

  Coach Nester was quick to talk about his initial reaction to meeting Dalton, a sophomore at the time who was hoping to make Varsity in 2013. The meeting took place during the off-season workouts ahead of Coach’s rookie season and Dalton had Nester at Hello 👋!

” Hannah is top class young Lady, one that makes everyone around her better,” said Nester. ” She is the type of person that you want on your team, a Coach is fortunate to have players of her caliber from time to time. Hannah made me a better coach.”

My first conversation with Hannah took place earlier tonight and trust me when I say that it came at a great time. We are looking forward to seeing which part of the 2015 journey means the most to her and after the endorsement from Nester, I am already looking forward to the next time we connect.

One of the four Seniors who led the way back in 2015, we are thrilled to welcome 🙏 Hannah Dalton Bourne to our story !

Every season of High School Softball has a game that is the Win and you’re In contest in regards to the State Tournament. The game takes place in the Regional Semi-finals and in 2015 for Carroll County, it had the Lady Cavaliers trying hard to make their way up to Fluvana County.

The record book 📖 shows us that Carroll County prevailed by a final score of 3-0 after the team scored one run for every day that they tried to play the game. It would be awkward enough to need three tries to get to play a regular season game, let alone the contest that would send the team on to the State Tournament.

There was a Community send-off on Day 1 and then another one on Day 2 before the weather forecast triggered a postponement. Finally, on the third attempt, the team made it up to Fluvana and history shows us that Sydney Nester pitched a shutout, the defense sparkled and there was enough timely hitting to carry the Lady Cavaliers onto the Final Four !

Modern day, that victory translates to the Elite Eight of State but back in the day it landed a team in the Final Four.

The twice delayed game pushed Carroll County High School into the need to head up to Woodgrove for the Regional Championship from Fluvana. The team jumped back on the Bus 🚌 and drove another 120 miles North.

  Third time was the Charm will be the subtitle for the game versus Fluvana and the first game against Woodgrove will be labeled – The Bait and Switch….

One cannot have a Softball program maintain a degree of excellence like has taken place at Page County High School over the past 40 years without a slew of folks that step up and accept the baton from the people before them.

Dennis Zimmerman is one of those people and just being in the vicinity of ” Preacher ” can raise a smile. The combination of energy and passion is the key to his disposition. Years after his daughter, Caroline,  graduated 🎓 (Class of 2019) with the third State Championship in 5 years, Dennis can still be found at Lady Panthers Softball games, keeping the scorebook.

Zimmerman was one of the main people who helped us in our Raise A Barn project at Page County High School Softball Complex. There are so, so many roles that Dennis has played over the past decade or so and we look forward to rehashing them all !