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Virginia Tech head football coach Justin Fuente addressed his brief flirtation with the Baylor coaching job at a national signing day news conference on Wednesday. Liberty Flames head football coach Hugh Freeze also spoke about the end of the 2020 season recruitment process:
Dan Bremner – Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs photo
Better goalie play is one reason the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs have been winning more lately. Now Dawgs goaltenders Henry Dill and Austyn Roudebush have been named the SPHL Players of the Week. The Rail Yard Dawgs have home games versus Knoxville tomorrow night and against Macon on Saturday at the Berglund Center. Hear much more from head coach Dan Bremner below:
Photo: Maura Sheridan Facebook
NEWS RELEASE: On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the Lynchburg Hillcats are pleased to announce the hiring of Maura Sheridan as the first female broadcaster in team history. Sheridan, 23, will serve as the Hillcats’ play-by-play voice for all 140 games and as the media liaison for the club.
“I’m excited to welcome Maura to the awesome team here in Lynchburg,” said Hillcats’ President and General Manager Chris Jones. “Her wealth of broadcasting experience and familiarity with the Carolina League made her the perfect fit for this position.”
Sheridan makes her way to Lynchburg having already spent a year in the Carolina League, acting as the assistant broadcaster with the Fayetteville Woodpeckers (A-Adv., Houston Astros) in their inaugural season. With the Woodpeckers, she called all 70 home games, including Fayetteville’s run to the Mills Cup Championship.
Born and raised in the Northeast, Sheridan keeps warm in the winter as the voice of University of Vermont women’s basketball. With the Catamounts she handles all aspects of the live basketball broadcast, while also calling a myriad of other sports for UVM and in the New England area.
A 2018 graduate of Syracuse University, Sheridan got her first taste of working in baseball in the summer of 2017 while interning in the prestigious Cape Cod League, calling games and reporting field side for the Brewster Whitecaps.
After two stellar years in Lynchburg, former Hillcats’ broadcaster Max Gun is set to pursue other broadcasting opportunities in Seattle.
For tickets or more information, visit lynchburg-hillcats.com, call 434-528-1144, or visit the City Stadium box office.
A Virginia Tech product had his moment in the sun at the end of Sunday’s night’s Super Bowl win for the Kansas City Chiefs over the San Francisco 49ers – defensive back Kendall Fuller. Among the ex Hokies teammates and coaches saluting Fuller on Twitter – Isiah Ford, Terrell Edmunds, Greg Stroman and just retired Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster. And the Salem-Roanoke Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its Class of 2020 last week:
Basketball fans and many others are still reeling from the death of NBA icon Kobe Bryant, who died along with his daughter and 7 other people in a helicopter crash on Sunday. In 2016 veteran NBA writer and Salem resident Roland Lazenby released “Showboat- the Life of Kobe Bryant.” He sat down with WFIR’s Gene Marrano then to talk about Bryant; here is a “Longer Listen” from that session: