Congratulations to the Rye Cove
War Eagles out of Clinchport Va (home of Natural Tunnel, which puts Natural Bridge to shame) for winning the class 1A softball state championship)! School’s first ever.
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My HS alma mater.
There were around 350-360 students grades 8-12 in late 90s. My graduating class had 53(ish?).
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I know CBurg has a bunch of wrestling titles but got their first softball one yesterday
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between around 2000 and 2010 (not sure about those years), maybe winning 5 or 6 state championships. They are also (someone correct me if I’m wrong) the only school to win 2 state championships in the same sport in the same calendar year (VHSL volleyball used to be played in the winter/spring and girls basketball was played during football season; they swapped them a few years ago so girls basketball could be played concurrently with boys basketball; RC won the Vball ship that spring and then again that Fall). The only other sport they have won it all is in girls basketball I believe.
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in the spring, when volleyball was played in the winter months, and then again in November when volleyball was played in the fall for the first year in Virginia.
Rye cove finished runner-up for the state championship four times prior to that, and each time the winning school had a 2A enrollment, and played in the 2A division the next year.
The volleyball coach, Donnie Qualls, is in the Virginia High School League sports Hall of Fame.
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what the coach’s name was that took over for Donnie Qualls when he retired.
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Greg Gilliam.
I have officiated more Rye Cove matches than any other twenty volleyball officials added together.
Since Greg, there have been two new coaches - Brittany Lawson Salyer and Heather Jones Peterson -- the current coach.
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commitment to be a HS ref.
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foggy memory about the total no. of championships. I knew I got the fact about winning 2 in one year right though.
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we won state titles in football, basketball and chess.
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Title in class 3 yesterday too!
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Sounds like a team that is easy to pull for
Link:
Times News story
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VA needs to do a better job of publicizing its state parks!
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Big Stone Gap and Appalachia. Been a long time but as I remember its only maybe 20 ft long. Also, there is a smaller Natural Bridge in Lee County, I think in the Flatwoods area.
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The tunnel and park are not far from the Virginia/Tennessee state line. The tunnel itself has a Norfolk Southern rail line running through it and is a very large naturally formed cave.
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(Stock Creek) that made Natural Tunnel. Here is a pic of the north side of the tunnel.
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I had work to do in the general area.
When I was a kid in the 50’s a friend of mine from the Duffield area resided in our neighborhood in Charlottesville for a couple of years. His father was one of the construction managers when U Va did a major expansion of their hospital in the late 50’s. His name was Dude W. Bowen, nicknamed Bo. Had a younger sister, but don’t remember her name. They owned a farm near Duffield. If Bo is still alive he would be around 75 years old now. Last time I did some work in that area, about 8 years ago, I believe he and his father were still “kicking”.
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