Daylight Savings time begins this Sunday and spring is officially here on March 20th, but spring sports practices are well into the second week for high school athletes. Several scrimmages are on the schedule this week for Lord Botetourt and James River athletes.
At LB, the boys’ baseball team will be competing in a jamboree at Brookville Saturday while the softball team will host Brookville for a scrimmage in Daleville, beginning at 11 am. The boys’ soccer team is in the annual Cave Spring Jamboree at Bogle Field Saturday with scrimmages at 9:30 and 11:30 am. The girls are scheduled to scrimmage at Cave Spring tonight, Wednesday, at 5:30 pm.
The Cavaliers tennis teams will scrimmage Salem next Tuesday, March 10. The boys are at Salem and the girls will host the Spartans.
At River, the baseball team has two home scrimmages in the next week, this Friday at 5:30 pm against Stuarts Draft and next Tuesday, March 10, at 5 pm against Rockbridge. The softball team is in the Cave Spring Jamboree on Saturday.
In soccer, the River boys will be at Abingdon for a scrimmage on Tuesday evening of next week and the girls are in the Blacksburg Jamboree this Saturday with scrimmages at 11 am and 1 pm.
The first high school regular season games begin the week of March 16.
