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The support for our girls at RC was amazing from throughout Scott County.  Even though we didnt win the last game the welcome home is something that will last with them a long time.  I know it will me.

I did get to call it from the 2nd floor of the tower!  We tried a new setup that unfortunately resulted in much vocal interference from those around us.  Very nice facility, likely the nicest I’ve called a game from that’s not Emory & Henry.  A great experience and a lifetime of memories!
 
Region D flooded the place.  Even though it was essentially a hop-skip-jump for James River, they only outnumbered Tazewell fans about 70/30.  Saw Lightning-Rs and G-Stars aplenty too.  It makes SWVA special, to see that turnout from all over.

Parade time!  😎

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

Definitely parade worthy! In true Tazewell fashion they showed up to support the team. 
We have been represented really well in our end of the state this year. 

Parade time!  😎

Parade time!  😎

Parade time!  😎

Parade time!  😎

Congratulations to the Tazewell softball, Lebanon baseball, and Marion girls tennis teams on your well-earned state championships. You represented SWVA well and made your communities proud. 

Congrats to the Lady Bulldogs on your championship!!!!
Your hard work and tenacity made it possible. 
Awesome!!!!🏆

Congratulations Lady Bulldogs!!! Way to represent your school and our region.

Tazewell Bulldog Radio Network will indeed be broadcasting!
 
First pitch is 1:00 PM, but we will come on the air around 12:30 PM to delve into some statistics and storylines before the action begins.  As always, there are 3 ways to listen:
(1) TazewellBulldogRadio.com
(2) Facebook Live
(3) Bulldog Radio app (Android or Apple)
 
I’d be honored and humbled if you’d join me!

Patrick County has been building this baseball program for a few years now. They have a pipeline of kids that have grown up playing travel ball in North Carolina and are extremely competitive when doing so. They are very good and will be for the foreseeable future.
Living in a community that borders Patrick County, and having worked with the former Mayor of the Town of Stuart for the past 16 years, I can assure you, nobody in this area was surprised by the outcome. 

I remember being a young child out in the dusty coal fields, just tossing a softball into the air, hoping for a chance one day to play meaningful games.
One day my father walked up to me, straight glare, breath smelling like Miller Lite, and said, "if you work hard and continue to get better, me and your momma will uproot us to the city of Clinchport to give you the opportunity you deserve."
One tear ran down my cheek as I looked to the sky and saw an eagle. I knew at that moment that I would soar with the Rye Cove Eagles one day.
I never got that chance though.
I think about it daily. 
 

“A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep.”
- Pete Seeger
 
For everything in life, there is a season, and that includes message boards devoted to high school sports in an oft-forgotten part of Virginia.  For the 19 or so years I was here, I’m deeply thankful.  I’ve seen the brightest and best in people I once questioned, and I’ve seen the darkest and nastiest in people I once considered allies.  I’ve seen cause for celebration, and I’ve seen reason for sadness.   I’ve celebrated new additions to families, and I’ve mourned members who left us far too soon.  The sun will continue to rise, but I’ll remember this site fondly, both good and bad.  
 
For every time I made a real-life friend through this website, and for every time someone attempts to sabotage my career and my family’s livelihood for taking a principled yet unpopular opinion.  For every underdog I cheered, for every cupcake schedule I questioned.  For every touchdown, basket, run, point, goal, ace, lap, and birdie over the past 20 years.  I bid adieu, SWVASports.  
 
 

I never felt King Solomon got the credit he deserved for Turn! Turn! Turn!

“A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep.”
- Pete Seeger
 
For everything in life, there is a season, and that includes message boards devoted to high school sports in an oft-forgotten part of Virginia.  For the 19 or so years I was here, I’m deeply thankful.  I’ve seen the brightest and best in people I once questioned, and I’ve seen the darkest and nastiest in people I once considered allies.  I’ve seen cause for celebration, and I’ve seen reason for sadness.   I’ve celebrated new additions to families, and I’ve mourned members who left us far too soon.  The sun will continue to rise, but I’ll remember this site fondly, both good and bad.  
 
For every time I made a real-life friend through this website, and for every time someone attempts to sabotage my career and my family’s livelihood for taking a principled yet unpopular opinion.  For every underdog I cheered, for every cupcake schedule I questioned.  For every touchdown, basket, run, point, goal, ace, lap, and birdie over the past 20 years.  I bid adieu, SWVASports.  
 
 

Taz 6
Lee 2

Even though I have migrated to Tennessee high school sports in the last several years as that's where I live now, I still keep up with and follow the Virginia side on a regular basis as well.  This site gave me the idea to create the Mountain Empire High School Sports group on Facebook as a way to talk high school sports in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia.  Well, as it turns out, most of, if not all of the 368 members are mostly SWVA folks anyway, including some of the folks from here, so if y'all want a place to come and chat sports, the door is open over there as well.  Just send me or the wife a request.  We'd be glad to have you.
Thank you @GMan for everything you've done to maintain this site and for being a friend outside of this site too over the years.  I'm sure we'll continue to have the occasional chat over on Facebook as well.

“A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep.”
- Pete Seeger
 
For everything in life, there is a season, and that includes message boards devoted to high school sports in an oft-forgotten part of Virginia.  For the 19 or so years I was here, I’m deeply thankful.  I’ve seen the brightest and best in people I once questioned, and I’ve seen the darkest and nastiest in people I once considered allies.  I’ve seen cause for celebration, and I’ve seen reason for sadness.   I’ve celebrated new additions to families, and I’ve mourned members who left us far too soon.  The sun will continue to rise, but I’ll remember this site fondly, both good and bad.  
 
For every time I made a real-life friend through this website, and for every time someone attempts to sabotage my career and my family’s livelihood for taking a principled yet unpopular opinion.  For every underdog I cheered, for every cupcake schedule I questioned.  For every touchdown, basket, run, point, goal, ace, lap, and birdie over the past 20 years.  I bid adieu, SWVASports.  
 
 

Oh wow... I joined this site as a spry high school sophomore in 2005. It's seen me graduate from Richlands, battle clinical depression, lose a relationship after a miscarriage, pick up the pieces and figure a way back out of the darkness, enroll and graduate from SWCC, transfer and graduate from VT, re-meet my wife (the same woman who I drifted from when she miscarried all those years ago), have a son, buy a house, cars, and learn that life is more than our flaws and our mistakes. 
The end of this site feels like the death of a close family member. This place has been the one constant in my life. It's led to what will be lifelong friendships and some fun "rivalries." 
Thanks for giving us this place to talk and spend our downtime, GMan. I appreciate it more than I could ever put into words!

Tazewell boys upset Central 1-0

I've seen him coach multiple games and never have I seen a penis make an appearance.

Word is VA High decided not to reup with Central and in a round about way replaced them with the mighty Jenkins Cavaliers. They always play a tough schedule over there in Bristol