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Brittany Westfall of Roane County defends a George Washington player heading to the basket during a scrimmage last week in Charleston. The Roane girls and boys will host Meet the Team Night today (Thursday) at 5:45 p.m., followed by a girls scrimmage against Herbert Hoover. |
By JIM COOPER
Sports Editor - It’s time for a few tasty tidbits from the local sports scene left over, appropriately enough, for this week after Thanksgiving.
Spencer’s own Derek Hardman and his Eastern Kentucky Colonels fell 31-14 to host Richmond in an FCS (formerly I-AA) first-round playoff game Saturday evening.
Hardman, the starting right offensive tackle, was still a part of a huge 9-3 season for EKU that saw the Colonels win the Ohio Valley Conference and qualify for the playoffs for the first time in 11 seasons. The ’04 Roane County High grad has two seasons of eligibility remaining.
RCHS senior Brad Parsons probably has more football in his future. The 6-2, 325-pound lineman is scheduled to be at Papa John’s Stadium in Louisville, Ky., tonight (Thursday) to watch the Cardinals take on Big East rival Rutgers in an ESPN game.
Parsons, who attended the Louisville camp last summer, received one of the invitations to the game reserved for top Cardinal recruits.
Speaking of high school football, I cast my Kennedy Award ballot for running back Jordan Roberts of Scott High. He was hands-down the best player I saw this season, and it’s about time someone from a Class AA school won player of the year honors. We’ll see if the other voters agree with me.
Three former RCHS players are on college basketball rosters this fall in the WVIAC.
Shandi White returns for her junior season at West Virginia State while Marie Hedges at West Virginia Wesleyan and Justin VanHove at the University of Charleston are in their first year of college ball.
Another former RCHS cager, James Carpenter, is working as a strength and conditioning coach for the Fairmont State men. Carpenter used up his eligibility at FSU last season.
Some information has come in about the Lady Raiders’ trip to the Charleston Catholic tournament on Dec. 26-27.
Coach Frank Farrar’s team will play Greater Beckley Christian in a 7 p.m. game to open the tournament. They will then face either Valley Fayette or the host Irish the next day, with the consolation game set for 5 p.m. and the championship to follow.
And finally, there’s really no accounting for taste. Orders have been coming in from far and wide for what is fast turning into this season’s hottest Christmas gift — the official Old Perdictor Fan Club T-shirt.
No kidding. Three shirts were recently shipped to a reader in Tempe, Ariz., and 11 more were purchased by Armacell executives who receive the paper each week at their American headquarters in Mebane, N.C.
So, if you’re still searching for that special Christmas gift for the sports fan that has everything, you’d better get that form in the mail or come into our office soon, because the T-shirts are going fast.
