Tag: West Virginia Tech

Kudos to the folks at the Kingsport Hampton Inn for making us feel at Home 🏡 even when we travel to be Home

The sign above was waiting for us in the lobby this evening and anytime someone goes out of their way for no other reason than they can, we salute them. They even added a touch in the Rooms

Last week the calendar 📅 showed us hosting games in Beckley on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with our guests being Point Park ( Pittsburgh ) and Bluefield State.

Just like the VHSL did with Wrestling, we continued to try and find ways to play games this weekend

We found the answer 167 miles from Campus and across two State Lines.

Welcome to Kingsport, Tennessee and Hunter Wright Stadium 🏟.

This will be a first on two accounts with the one being us needing Hotel 🏨 rooms for a Home game and the other being calling Tennessee home.

The team departed Beckley just after 5pm and should be arriving here shortly. Kingsport will be our home base for right at 43 hours. This means six or seven meals, plenty of energy food and water 💧 ➕ two nights 🌙 lodging.

The actual games will take place Sunday at 11am, Sunday between 4 and 5 pm, then Monday morning. We will then pack up the Vans and head back to WVU-T early Monday afternoon. The rough estimate for unloading in Beckley will be right at 48 hours from departure.

Fortunately we have both a Wendy’s and a Hardee’s within 100 yards for some food options. The Hampton Inn will cover the two Breakfast meals so that leaves three team meals to plan between now and then.

The ballpark is the same one that belongs to the Kingsport entry in the Appalachian League.

We will do the opposite of Ranger Smith from the days of Yogi as we will absolutely FEED THE BEARS 🐻..

Kingsport, Tennessee is our home away from home 🏡, atleast until Monday night🌙….

Just like that, Saturday becomes wide open !

WVU TECH-Lourdes Baseball 2/15/25…
-We are canceling today’s games

Text message making it official…

It was pretty much a forgone conclusion that we would not be able to squeeze in games 3 & 4 of our weekend series but we still have to wait until its official and now it has !

The team could have built on the sweep of Friday’s double header but Mother Nature had other plans.

Next up on the schedule 📅 is a home game on Tuesday versus Kentucky Christian ✝️ University but there’s no guarantee there either.

It’s a Great Day to be a Golden Bear 🐻, even when its no longer a Game Day !

Before Friday night 🌙 becomes Saturday morning 🌄 we call it a Day with a Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball ⚾️ double header sweep up in Charleston, WV !

A planned four game series on Saturday and Sunday was crunched down into a makeshift Friday double header in a Stadium 🏟 one hour up the road.

But the great news is we swept the twin bill !

We were set to host Kentucky Christian University ✝️ in Beckley on Tuesday afternoon but Mother Nature is saying Not So Fast. It’s funny that Mother Nature sounds like Lee Corso.

Life in NAIA baseball ⚾️ moves at a rapid pace. When the day started on Thursday I had five home games in Beckley to plan for and just like that, poof, what was five looks like Nill.

But tonight we celebrate wins #1 & 2 on the season !

Weekend plans continue to change by the minute as Golden Bears 🐻 Baseball ⚾️ moves from Saturday and Sunday in Beckley to just Friday DH up the Turnpike in Charleston

The things one stumbles across at 4:30 am…. The greatest challenge to playing NAIA Baseball ⚾️ in February is finding away to get the games played.

Our four game series set to begin tomorrow afternoon at Linda K Epling Stadium 🏟 has been traded out for a two game set today up in Charleston, WV.

Go-Mart Park is another top notch facility with astroturf so it provides a back up plan.

The weather forecast for the weekend makes the hope of playing four games almost impossible so the next best thing is to try and salvage two of the set.

Stay tuned….