Clemson, Duke and Florida State will be hosting Regionals â a slew of other teams will be attempting to advance to the Super Regional play.
Virginia Tech will play at Alabama, Georgia Tech travels to Florida, Stanford University heads North to Oregon, California has the ever so tough task of playing at Oklahoma, North Carolina over at Tennessee and Virginia heads down to South Carolina.
Nine teams chasing one dream, of making it to the Final table in Oklahoma City for the College World Series…
The Flying Eagles opened a close out four game set on Sunday afternoon and Carroll County graduate đ Macie Adkins collected four hits, four runs and five RBIS on the day. The team ended up on the short end of the scoreboard in both contests but by the slimmest of margins.
Adkins pitched in the opener and played centerfield in the second game.
The two teams will play again on Monday to close out the season and for Adkins, her two year career in Cedar Bluff.
USC-B started playing Softball just over a decade ago and while the campus is in Bluffton, the team plays its homes games in nearby Hardeeville.
Spartanburg Methodist is in town for a mid-week double header and Game 1 just concluded with a much needed victory for the Home team, 8-4.
Softball is in the air as Alan Knight and Rick Nester both begin their 40+ season at the High School level and Duke University is hosting Florida State in Durham this weekend.
The Sand Sharks đĻ entered the day trying hard to snap a losing streak and did so in the opener. The focus will now be on building a winning streak in the back end of the twin bill.
Game #1 Box đĻ Score
Game 2 coming soon…
Side note đ – 82° is warm
First Pitch – 3:56
Game Time Temp – 82°
Play âļī¸ Ball !
Spartanburg Methodist plates one run đââī¸ in the top of the first.
Sand Sharks đĻ (cool name) answer back with a three run Triple to right center. Busy first inning … Home team adds a two run đââī¸ double to left centerfield, now 5-1 and we have a pitching change for the Pioneers. 24 minutes into the first inning.
30 minute first inning highlighted by following a foul ball that found its way into the snack bar. USCB leads 6-1 after 1 inning.
Pioneers go quietly in the top of the second inning.
Ethan Edwards has finished creating his Podcast of our Banquet Town Hall chat and there’s now a link taking you to it on our site!!
USC-B has quickly added two more runs đââī¸ here in the bottom of the second inning and now lead 8-1. The Pioneers will now go to their bullpen for a third pitcher…
We are now minutes away from first pitch on four separate diamonds đ back home. Rick Nester, Casey Burcham, Adam Nester and Alexis Dalton are each dialed in and ready to lead their versions of the Cavaliers !
9-1 here as we move to the Top of the 3rd.
Senior starting pitcher, Abigail Ramirez from Houston, Texas took a line shot off her body in the top of the first inning but remains in the game. Ramirez has limited the Pioneers to just one run through three full and it was unearned.
5:00 PM – Play Ball x 4 back home !!!!
5:09 – end of 3rd inning here, score 9-1
Donna Nester with proof that we are playing now in Bassett!
We r up 1-0 After top first in baseball. Softball scoreless. From Mr DeHaven !
Ramirez strands two runners here in the top of the fourth inning. It will be interesting to see đ how the Mercy rule plays out.
The Sand Sharks are in their second year of the three year transition to NCAA Division 2. End of 4th, still 9-1
Next update from our AD – Baseball âžī¸ tied 1-1, Softball trails 2-0 (5:25) after 1st
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5:33 – Sand Sharks đĻ complete the sweep, 9-1 in a game shortened to five innings. (4+ hours in the Sun đ)
Now it will be CCHS updates from here out…
5:40 – Donna Nester reports Varsity Softball up 4-2 now, Top 3rd !!!
6:12 –
Baseball up 3-1 top of 5 Softball up 7-6 bottom of 5 – Mr DeHaven
Donna reports 9-9, Top 6th in Softball
6:40 from our AD :
Baseball up 6-1 top of 6 Softball in a barn burner 12-9 top of 6
Donna reports 14-6, Bottom 6th…wild one for sure ! Now its the Top of the 7th…
7:00 – Mr DeHaven reports :
Baseball up 6-1 bottom of 7 Softball up 21-9 top of 7th
7:04 pm – Baseball âžī¸ wins, 6-1 !!!
Lady đŠ Cavaliers add 3 more in the Top of the 7th, lead 24-9 – FINAL Score đ
The script for Emma Leath to exit Cavalier Park could not have played out any better if Aaron Sorkin penned it himself. Leath was honored before the game, alongside fellow Senior Tennis player Jabin Talley and then she led Carroll County (17-3, 10-2) to the outright Three Rivers District Championship by defeating Radford 9-1 Tuesday night.
Leath recorded 11 strikeouts, pushing her career total up to 713 while scattering seven hits as she finished the game for the 20th straight time for the Cavaliers.
Head Coach Rick Nester started eight players that were either Freshman or Sophomores with three more out do to recent injuries. Short stop Addie Greene is rehabbing from an ankle sprain suffered last week and Nester plugged in another Freshman Kenzey McMillian into her spot in the starting lineup.
To call this team young is doing injustice to the word young. That brings us back to Leath and her fellow Senior, Katherine Lindamood. The fact that Leath pitched so effectively isn’t Breaking News as she has made a career of it but against the Bobcats she went full on Beast Mode at the plate.
Both teams went down in order for the first two plus innings but that changed when Brooke Webb led off the bottom of the third by getting hit by a pitch. Madison Coleman bunted her over to second ahead of a walk to Laynie-Jo Leonard. Holly Miller reached base on a fielders choice and promptly stole second base, bringing Leath to the plate with an opportunity to help her own cause.
Leath laced a 2 run single to plate both Coleman and Miller. Coleman reached on a walk to lead off the fifth inning and it was Leonard that laid down the perfect sacrifice bunt to put Coleman in scoring position. One out later the 5’1 Leath laced a RBI single to push the lead out to 3-0.
In the top of the sixth inning Leath found herself in a rare bases loaded jam with only one out. The next batter popped out to Emma Harman at second base, bringing Kyra Rollins to the plate as the go ahead run.
Rollins timed up a pitch and sent a rocket đ to the deepest part of the ballpark. Miller combined a great jump on the ball and her blazing speed to make the catch just short of the fence. The loud out ended the threat and in the bottom of the inning CCHS broke the game open with a six run rally.
Carlie Beamer pinch hit during the rally and picked up a RBI with a ground out. Leath added a third single to push her RBI total up to five for the night. Harman capped the frame with a RBI single.
” I am so proud of this group of young ladies, they give us their best every night,” said Nester. ” In regards to what Emma Leath has meant to our program is close to undescribable. She has led us both on and off the diamond.”
Showing respect to assistant Coach Jeff Tobler by choosing him to be her catcher for the Ceremonial First Pitch started the evening. Then there was 11 more strikeouts and victory #61. Don’t forget the career high five RBI’S.
Leath will have an encore performance this Friday night when the Lady Cavs welcome Lord Botetourt to The Hill for the Regional tournament opener for both teams.
The road less traveled ! 