Clay Softball Excellence- Carol and Clay vice

The pictures show a few of the excellent Clay area softball girls with Carol and Clay Vice.  These are probably the best performance teams from the area in any sports activity. These pictures were in my "Excellence in Athletics in the Portsmouth Area" book.   I just ran across them in searching my books.




My latest book "Acquaintances with Integrity II"(2011) should be available shortly on Kindle-Amazon and I will be trying to get other books like Excellence on a little later. They come to you quickly for your e-readers and are much less expensive.

Back: Clay Vice, Kellie Vice, Kris Vice, Teresa Ruby, Carol Vice

Front: Mindy Winters, Beth McCullough

Carol coached the Clay High School softball team from 1978 to 1988. Clay was also her softball sidekick.  Their remarkable record was 262 wins and only 20 losses (93%). Highlights include:

3 State Championships

3 State semi-finalist teams

2 State Runner-up teams

and 8 regional championships

And their Clay Little League and Senior league teams were also excellent. The Clay Senior League All Stars advanced to the 1978 World Series in Baxter, Kansas and finished fourth in the tournament.

Beth McCullough summarized this information which I have paraphrased a little.


Carol was inducted into Ohio High School's Softball Hall of Fame A couple of years ago.

Please show a little love to these outstanding coaches, Carol and Clay, and to any of their Clay girls for bringing girls' softball fame to our area when you see them!


And they are both really nice people!  

SamKat aka Sam Kegley