Upon Further Review

Just when you thought you’d have an easier road to a long or triple jump championship, along comes another Jenkins and, well, we’re sorry about that feeling you have in your gut right now. You know what it is, that feeling that you’re going to have to wait a little while longer if you ever hope to sniff gold in either of those events in the Southern Valley District.

Sure, Alicia and Angela Jenkins tore up Group A over at Buffalo Gap and saved the Southern Valley (or “old” Valley ... geez people, let it go!!) from any embarrassment. But the five-school district won’t be so lucky now that Karissa Jenkins is in the mix. 

Will the Southern Valley DoesStink ever get it right? I mean, dropping the bottom seed from a five-team district entering the tournament is ludicrous. But, then again, so is making sure R.E. Lee and Waynesboro boys basketball play the same night as the girls, but at a different site.

Come on, how hard is it to give the top dog a bye entering the tournament?

Is it so hard to grasp that, um, I don’t know, R.E. Lee baseball would like another shot at somebody? Didn’t this team almost beat Turner Ashby and no-hit Wilson Memorial?

Wouldn’t Rockbridge softball like another shot at somebody—anybody—in a do-or-die situation?

Gee, I don’t know, wouldn’t that be fun?

TNV Sports Editor Robert Sisk answers the Q-Cards and NBC29’s Joe Downs cleans the sports desk.

So Jeremy Hahn serves up a hanging curve ball to the one guy in the Valley that’ll make you pay for that pitching gaffe every time—Turner Ashby’s Daniel Bowman. Of course Bowman made him pay, placing the ball somewhere on Hopeman Parkway to give the Knights a quicker-than-lightning 2-0 lead in the final regular-season meeting between the two teams.

So, what does Hahn do? Well, he follows mom’s advice, who stood up along with that Golden Retriever so large you could strap a saddle to him and ride off into the sunset and screamed, “Shake it off.” Next thing you know, he strikes out the final two batters to end the damage in what could have been a devastating inning for the Little Giants.

You can’t use cell phones in school. But schools can use you to fill up their pocketbooks with ducats. Yeah, nice lesson there.

At Waynesboro, you can’t walk around at football games. The administrators in Giantdom would rather let a few rotten apples spoil the whole darn pie and, in an effort to make their jobs of policing you easier, they force you to sit in the stands. An announcement made over the PA system at the football field repeats this rule to the point of hysterics. But schools can walk four extra state champs to the podium because it brings in more money. Again, good lesson there.