Robservations: Alumni to be honored at WCHS
Three spring sports teams at Warren County High School are keeping in touch with their roots this season.
Today at WCHS, members of the 1992 state champion baseball team will be on hand for special recognition at Ramsey Field. Meanwhile, the Pioneer soccer team will be celebrating Homecoming during its match against White County.
On the diamond, today’s special event includes a special opponent. The Pioneers, whose game is set to begin at 4:30, will be taking on Chattanooga Arts and Sciences, a squad coached by 1992 team member Brandon Lowry.
Next door at the soccer field, the men’s soccer team will honor all of its former players, who are invited to come to the game, free of charge. The night even includes a free dinner at the concession stand — which, in itself, is a pretty good reason to come out to the game.
The alumni activities don’t stop with today’s events, however.
Next month, former members of the Lady Pioneer softball team are invited to actually hit the field against this year’s squad.
In a special all-day event at the school’s new on-campus field, the Warren County Middle School team will face the high school’s junior varsity squad early in the day, followed by a game between the WCHS varsity and an alumni squad.
While it’s great to always be looking to the future, with new facilities, expanding feeder systems and the like, it’s also pretty classy to see teams respect their past with events like these.
• Rapid-fire quick hits coming up. Hang on.
— Engel Stadium is a great, historic park in Chattanooga, where countless hall-of-famers played back in the glory days of the game.
If you don’t believe it’s historic, just look at the “Historic Engel Stadium” signs they’ve got leading up to the place.
On the other hand, it’s starting to look pretty run-down. The playing surface itself is second-to-none, but the outfield walls and areas surrounding the stadium are beginning to show the results of neglect, which has come since the Chattanooga Lookouts moved across town to new digs.
You hate to see something like that happen to one of this area’s most well-known stadiums.
— Sometimes I wonder if the wire connecting my brain to my typing fingers has a short in it. Because where in the world I came up with the notion that Scott Dunham played football for WCHS, I’ll never know.
In fact, there were so many gaffes in that recent article — all of which were the fault of yours truly, your friendly neighborhood blockhead — that, just like a backyard football game, we’ve called a “do-over” on that entire story. Check it out today on page 3-B.
— Prediction: Beth Underhill is going to do great things for the women’s golf team at Tennessee Tech.
Another Prediction: I’m going to set the game back 100 years when I play at the Country Club Saturday.
— Speaking of golf, Tiger pounced again last weekend, picking up his third green jacket at Augusta.
A lot of people don’t like Tiger Woods, and I’ve used this very space before to question their motives.
Could it be jealousy, since he does so well what so many of us struggle for decades to accomplish? Could it be the fact that even at his young age, he’s already been referred to by some as the “greatest golfer of all time?”
Let’s hope, for everyone’s sake, that in this day and age any ill feelings toward the man have nothing to do with the color of his skin.
But finally there is a legitimate reason to dislike Tiger Woods — and her name is Elin Nordegren.
Come on, Tiger. You’ve got the game, you’ve got the cash. Do you have to have the Swedish models, too?