August 5, 2020
Powhatan, Virginia
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His career continues Powhatan alum, catcher Waters making transfer to Georgetown College By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor POWHATAN – Trevor Waters had initially joined Longwood’s baseball team as a walk-on his freshman year. But before the spring season started, they let him go. So during that season, the Powhatan High School Class of 2019 alum worked on his own, then came back out to play for American Legion Post 201’s team this summer. Waters got into the transfer portal, and he ended up hearing from Georgetown College in Kentucky. Waters recalled them saying that they liked what they saw based on both the Longwood fall ball games he played and the see WATERS, pg. 2B
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American Legion Post 201 baseball’s Connor Woodel throws a pitch in last Tuesday’s game at Shepherd Stadium.
A committee of excellence By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor
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Trevor Waters catches for Post 201.
A hole in one Staff Reports Eric Childress Sr. last Sunday hit a hole in one at the Mill Quarter golf course in Powhatan. He achieved the feat using his 7 iron on the 16th hole. He has now hit two aces on two different holes while using the same 7 iron.
COLONIAL HEIGHTS – Going into Tuesday night’s game at Shepherd Stadium, American Legion Post 201 coach Eric Mead had made up his mind that his team would pitch by committee. It paid off. Four Post 201 pitchers held host Post 284’s bats to four hits and one run through the first six innings – a stretch that ultimately proved crucial for the visitors when 284 took advantage of a couple of fielding errors and tightened the lead to 7-5. With a teammate on base, Post 284 standout and Thomas Dale alum Drew Camp, who’s been a home run threat all summer, stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the seventh, representing the home team’s tying run. Carter Dawson took over the mound to face him. “Don’t put it down the plate” was the thought that he said
American Legion Post 201’s Caleb Kersey beats the tag from the catcher to score a run on the slide home in his Seniors’ game at Shepherd Stadium.
went through his mind. He was trying to work outside – his two-seam was working well – and he used commentary from the dugout to fuel himself. His last throw to Camp was a 3-2, two-out pitch. Camp skied it high and deep into right field. It fell into the waiting glove of Caleb Kersey.
Post 201 endured to win it 7-5. “Those pitchers did a really good job all night long,” Mead said. Goochland’s Billy Thackston, who attends Christ School in Arden, North Carolina, got the start for Post 201 on Tuesday night. He said the key was to “just throw strikes and let them hit it and let the defense do the work, knowsee POST 201, pg. 2B
Racer Jackson wins Wally trophy Staff Reports
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Eric Childress Sr., seen hitting his first hole in one two years ago, hit his second last Sunday in Powhatan.
Carter Jackson hoisted a Wally trophy on July 18 when he won the 2020 NHRA Jr. Drag Racing Eastern Conference Finals championship in his 6-9 age group at zMAX Dragway in Concord, North Carolina. He also led Dinwiddie-based Virginia Motorsports Park Team 1 to the track’s third team championship. Jackson, who with his family recently moved to Powhatan from Cartersville and will be a fifth grader this fall, outpaced Erin Willing in the final, 11.923 (11.90 dial) to 11.970 (11.97). The Eastern Conference Finals make up one of two national events in the NHRA Summit Racing Jr. Drag Racing see JACKSON, pg. 2B
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Junior dragster racer Carter Jackson, who recently moved to Powhatan, won the Eastern Conference Finals Championship in his age group.
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WHO: COLBY CHEATHAM WHAT HE DID: The Powhatan High School Class of 2019 alum and Mary Baldwin University baseball player crushed a grand slam over the left field fence
in the bottom of the first inning of a July 21 home game at Powhatan High School to help his American Legion Post 201 team fend off Post 137 6-3, with the game shortened to a little less than five innings due to weather. “I think he’s been looking for that at-bat since he’s gotten back and started playing,” Post 201 head coach Eric Mead said, adding: “Certainly in that first inning, the bats were certainly alive.”