Upon Further Review

“We have a very solid team here,” said Waynesboro boys soccer coach Bill Meicke on Monday after his Little Giants beat Stuarts Draft 4-1.

Solid? You bet. You can call your team whatever positive you want after you dismantle — and let’s be honest here, when you win 4-1 in soccer it qualifies as an official “dismantling” — a Cougar squad that features more seniors than a Thursday night bowling league.
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Seriously, next time all the yokels that run the Virginia High School League get together (you know, the administrators at schools that split the “money” sports like basketball and football into divisions so more Johnny and Susies can get state trophies, but give the proverbial middle finger to the other sports because, well, they don’t bring in money) they should talk about moving baseball and softball to the fall.

The weather is better and, by that point, there’s no issue with rain because Virginia is the midst of yet another drought for the umpteenth straight year. 

Anyway, that idea will never float (even if it’s on the caked red-clay of a dried up lake), so we deal with the rain. And how does a local sports blogger deal with rain, you may or probably may not ask? We’ll he dips into the comments again with the hopes that, for the second time in as many weeks, it can carry the blog.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Stuarts Draft’s first home track meet in five years, so go ahead and give the school a Bozo Button

and all.

So, sure. The Cougars have two dominant high jumpers in Caitlynn Filla and Christina Fenske, yada, yada, yada.

And, blah, blah, blah, Waynesboro’s 4x100 relay team of Tim Brown, Will Walter, Terrell Thompson and Ian Henneman ran in their first meet of the season and finished with the gold.

We all know the formula when it comes to Stuarts Draft football coach Rod Bowers. It involves holding the Bible in one hand and a playbook in the other. Of course, this is Bowers we’re talking about and that means, much like the American flag in a state color guard, the Bible is held higher than his on-field version of the state colors. But what a lot of people don’t know is that, when you sit down and talk to the humble Bowers, he also puts his kids on a pedestal as long as they work hard and work right. And, when the don’t work right, there’s heck to pay. (Remember the Cougars’ lone unsportsmanlike showing of the season in a win over Wilson Memorial? A win that had Bowers ready to pull his team off the field and forfeit any game the rest of the way if his boys acted in the same manner? Yeah, that game.)