Bolt's Illustrated Gameday Program (2022) - Issue 8

ISSUE 8 2022

JULY 22-24

live for those winning moments

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ANSLEY DISHER

Tasha Springs is a wife, mother, grandmother, and advocate against distracted driving.

Her upbringing brought with it many challenges. Having been raped, kidnapped, and growing up with an abusive father all made it difficult for Tasha to succeed academically as a child.

“It’s like coming out of the mud.”

Tasha Springs

Because of Tasha’s experience with distracted driving, she has become more determined to help others avoid the same outcome when they get behind the wheel.

“I want to be the person I needed.”

Tasha Springs Tasha now does keynote speaking to raise awareness about distracted driving and inform others. She hopes to save lives by educating others about the problem and bringing it into the light.

An article in the Fayetteville Observer Tasha is now set to graduate with (2021) states that “Distracted driving is honors having earned a bachelor’s the cause of one in five accidents on degree in Childhood and Adolescence North Carolina roads and highways”, Psychology and after all the trauma, showing the danger of distracted she is more determined. Every day she driving is becoming an ever-increasing celebrates herself and is increasingly problem. As phones and technology thankful for all the opportunities she become more necessary for has. communication, the more eyes are taken off the road and onto the screen.

Tasha became a speaker and The good news is that the issue is transformational coach after an preventable: Tasha states that it is accident which would change her life important to use mindfulness and to forever. As she was driving her SUV be aware of what you are doing when from Greensboro to Mebane, she your phone is in the car and having received a text from her daughter self-awareness and self-control could regarding her cell phone bill. Tasha lead to fewer accidents and fatalities quickly responded to the text letting when operating our motor vehicles. her daughter know that she would pay the bill once she made it to her destination. Another text message from her daughter appeared on her phone. By the time Tasha had time to look up from the screen, she saw sparks flying as her car drifted across the overpass. After hitting another vehicle, her head slammed into the steering wheel of her own car, and she was knocked unconscious. Her car began to flip, knocking her out of the vehicle and causing her to start bleeding severely. Upon waking up, Tasha was placed in a helicopter and rushed to the hospital.

ROME BRAVES

His year wouldn’t begin in NOAH MONROE Winston-Salem though, it would start on March 17 in Mesa, Arizona with the Yoelquis Céspedes, Luis Robert and White Sox in spring training. In the Yolbert Sánchez. one game he appeared with the team, Ramos went 1-for-2, hitting a home All three being Cuban players to have run that just went over the left-field achieved success recently as a part of wall before being sent down to minor the Winston-Salem Dash league camp. He would continue where he left off in the Dash’s first It’s time to add another name to that game of the season against Hickory list though. with a home run to right field in his first at-bat.

Bryan Ramos.

The Havana, Cuba native Ramos was named the April Player of the Month for the South Atlantic League after hitting .403 with 4 home runs and 16 runs batted in.

Ramos is the third Winston-Salem player in the past four years to win player of the month, joining Robert, and former Dash outfielder Micker Adolfo.

Then two games later, Ramos would hit another home run, beginning a stretch of six straight games in which he’d bring in a run. Not only would that game start the run of runs batted in for Ramos, but it would also begin a 19-game on-base streak, 15 of which, he recorded a hit. The 19-game streak would stretch across April and May and would see Ramos batting .362, hitting 3 home runs, and bringing in 16 runs while leading the Dash to a 14-9 record.

To say the success he’s had with the team was unexpected would be wrong, If this production continues, you’ll be but few expected him to perform on seeing Ramos playing in Birmingham the level he has quite this fast despite sometime soon. being the White Sox’s No. 8 prospect according to MLB.com.

Ramos spent all of the 2021 season playing for the White Sox’s Single-A affiliate, the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers. He was one of the bright spots for the team in what was an otherwise down year for Kannapolis.

In 115 games, Ramos hit .244 and got on base in over a third of his at-bats, including having 13 home runs, 57 RBI, and 6 triples, leading the team in all three categories.

After spending the entirety of 2021 with Kannapolis, he was assigned to the Dash for the 2022 season.

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