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Sorry Lynchburg paper dropped the ball on VT@LU games

The announced crowd for the VT-LU softball game was 1114, I believe, or something close. Supposedly second to a Tennessee game several years ago.

On Tuesday, the Lynchburg paper could have had an article about the #2/#3-ranked softball team coming to town and the ranked baseball team coming to town. Maybe the "marginal" fans would have come to the game, thereby helping break the record which was only about a hundred more. (Plus, I didn't see as many local HS/younger players there, at least behind the VT dugout.)

Yet, there was another article on Scottie Scheffler winning the Masters (could've waited a day), Washington Nationals might be sold (could've waited a day), and other routine MLB stuff.

The LU baseball stadium was crowded. I believe an hour is not enough difference--felt some people made the decision to go to the BB game instead of starting with the SB game. I stayed to the end, then went to the BB game. Made me realize why I like SB much better. (But the Hokies were launching rockets there too. Multi-shots in same inning!)
Posted: 04/13/2022 at 05:17 AM ET

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Sorry Lynchburg paper dropped the ball on VT@LU games
Forest VA Hokie 04/13/22 05:17 AM ET
I'm not a defender of newspapers ...
Will StewartAdmin 04/13/22 11:03 AM ET
Yep..you are 1000% right...its a struggle to staff local 'papers'
HokieNerd 04/13/22 07:55 PM ET
What you describe for the future is likely going to be very true. The
kennedyvt 04/13/22 12:12 PM ET
The Lynchburg News&Advance is a Hoo and Liberty paper-only carry Tech
sacramento hokie 04/13/22 10:00 AM ET
Well Masters is just news service I presume...
`lag 04/13/22 09:42 AM ET
Baseball game lasted about 3 hours and 40 minutes. Was hard for even me to
Nortazhokie 04/13/22 08:54 AM ET
Midweek games seem to drag a lot
Vienna_Hokie 04/13/22 09:53 AM ET
And Emma is a local product. **
IB4TECH 04/13/22 08:49 AM ET
Baseball crowd was twice the size of the softball crowd**
VTCC 65 04/13/22 08:43 AM ET
The Lynchburg paper is a joke anymore. Its daily addition is 2 pages long.
GBOHokie 04/13/22 07:40 AM ET