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From THS FB Post:
 
Congratulations to Tazewell Softball players and coaches. 1st team All State accolades for Alayshia Griffith, Hannah Hayes, and Carly Compton. 
Carly Compton is the 2A player of the year. 
Tom Keene is the 2A Coach of the year!!!!
VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE
NEWS RELEASE
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                          
June 16, 2023
 
VHSL Announces 2023 Class 2 All-State Softball Team
 
Tazewell’s Carly Compton named Class 2 Player of the Year; Tazewell’s Tom Keene named Class 2 Coach of the Year
 
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — The Virginia High School League announces its 2023 Class 2 all-state softball team. Tazewell’s sophomore pitcher Carly Compton is the Class 2 Player of the Year, and Tazewell’s head coach Tom Keene is the Class 2 Coach of the Year.
 
The right-handed Compton finished the season with a 19-3-1 record pitching 143 innings, striking out 303 batters with an ERA of .098, and only allowing 14 earned runs, 48 hits, and 24 walks. She dominated Southwest District and Region 2D batters in 2023, throwing six no-hitters, two perfect games, six one-hitters, and 12 shutouts. In just two seasons, Wright has a pitching line of 36-8-1, 288 innings pitched, 125 hits, 37 earned runs, 598 strikeouts, 51 walks, and a .128 ERA. Additionally, she has thrown eight no-hitters, three perfect games, eight one-hitters, and 21 shutouts. She is a two-time Southwest Director POY, Region 2D POY, and a second-team all-state selection as a freshman.
Keene, the Class 2 coach of the year, who credits his outstanding coaching staff for any individual awards he receives and the wins to their players, guided the Bulldogs to a 20-4-1 record and the program’s first-ever state title with a 5-2 victory over James River (Buchanan) in the state finals. Tazewell reached the state finals with a 2-1 win over two-defending state champion Appomattox County in the quarterfinals and a 5-0 win over 2018 state champion Page County.
 
The all-state softball team consists of three pitchers, one catcher, four infielders by position, three outfielders, one DP-flex, and two at-large players from any position Only those players selected first-team all-region are eligible for selection to the sll-state team. The all-state selection committee comprises eight coaches, with two from each region.

Congrats to Lebanon bring the title home. Congrats to lady dawgs bring the title home. 

I’ve been around for 20+ years. I started swva sports.com back when I started swvaol.com which was a dial up internet device. Roughly in 2001 or so. At that time gman had the old swvafootball message board going.  My idea was to bring it all under one roof at swvasports so we could have one place to visit and talk about everything year round and not 15 different pages that were dedicated to each sport. Gman liked the idea and this place was born. At some point years later I got busy with kids, life, family etc etc. and kinda faded in to the background. Gman has kept it rolling along but he’s ready for a break. Instead of closing doors here I told him I’d just come out of semi retirement and keep it rolling. So here we are. Getting ready to move it to a new server, clean up a few things, and on down the road we go. Together. 
 
gman will still be around I’m sure. 
 
not much should really change. I’ll try to do a few things to make it better. 
 
anyway … it’s all good. Enjoy. 

Parade time!  😎

It's going to be hard for any team to beat the Pioneers due to their depth. The Pioneers won't beat themselves. They've got 3 strong arms and a rock solid defense  behind them. If they are hitting consistently watch out. Keep it going Pioneers, bring it home. They could won 2 titles in 3 years when all is said and done. 
 
 

Good lord

This Lebanon team seems hungry for another state title. Next up Middlesex for a chance to play for the State Crown. 
 
Go Pioneers!

Lebanon 16
Narrows 0
F

James river 3
John Battle 2
F

Top 6th
John Battle 2
James river 1

Taz 6
Lee 2

Taz 6
Lee 2

Tazewell 13
Central Wise 3

I miss my green helmet with white stripe with dawgs on side of the helmet.

Copied from FB post by Erik Robinson TCSB : 
“Huge THANK YOU to Richlands High School for feeding the G-Men football team today. We appreciate your generosity! 
#bettertogether #WeAreAllOneFamilyInTazewellCounty”
Awesome gesture by Ricky Vencill & RHS. 

Radio team from Central’s area here- check out our podcast on Centrals last game and a brief look ahead at the State Championship. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sports-dogs-podcast/id1651944660?i=1000589248442
Looking forward to the call, should be a great game!
Join us at theriver953.com or streaming on the TuneIn Radio App, search The River 95.3 to listen to the broadcast. Coverage starts at 4:10. 

I'm thinking of coming to support the gmen. 

I'm thinking of coming to support the gmen. 

Tazewell is out. Move on. 

I wasn't impressed by tazewell. I was down right pissed. It seems that since week 1 they have went down. I'm not blaming the boys. I blame coaches. This team is good. But if they ain't prepared and ready to go. It was going be blow out. 

Everybody has their opinions. Yes tazewell lost. But wasnt impressed by ridgeview. Y'all may make funny of us tazewell people. Good luck rest of playoff. Y'all will need it. 

Since tazewell is out. I be pulling for graham. Go gmen!!!

Agreed. They have speed as well.

This has most dirtiest play I have seen. It looks thru out game. They was looking hurt creasy. I seen couple hits to head of creasy. 

And that would be a solid bet.  It's easy to get behind an all star team.  I'll be the first one in the gate at the Graham game the following week, if Tazewell loses.  I didn't grow up as a Bulldog, but I'll tell you one thing for sure:  the people in Tazewell are humble and they treat you with respect.  The saying "Once a bulldog, always a Bulldog" is a perfect way of summarizing that community.