Tonight we have 7 games of Basketball πŸ€ and 1 or 2 reasons why we care about each one of them! Here for the Night πŸŒ™

Carroll County JV Boys (4-13)

JV Boys πŸ‘¦ off to a red hot start, leading the Cougars. 13-5!

More to follow !

Cavs 18 – 13 after 1st

Why do we care about this game ? Ryan Phillips is an up and coming young Coach and belongs to a fine family πŸ‘ͺ Tree 🌳 of Paul Nester. This is the first time that Ryan Phillips has held the position of Head Coach at the High School level.

  Win or Lose, we are Big Fans of EVERY Coach at the Middle School and High School level.

JV Cheerleaders

Halftime score at 3:56 MT time is Patrick County 36, Carroll County 29.

End of 3rd, Cougars 52-44 as the 3rd was a story of two runs πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ. Cavaliers start with 12-2 as Sam made his third and fourth 3-pointers but then the Cougars closed with a 14 – 3 run of its own.

Final from the Boys JV Game.

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Game #2 of 7 – Alyssa Ervin and the Furman University Paladins! ESPN +.

Why do we care about this game ? Miss Ervin will always be part of our story and seeing her having fun on the Basketball court again is a blast !

1st Media TO – Furman 7, WCU 3 (4:50)

End of 1st – WCU 10-9

The announcer just called Christy’s Girl πŸ‘§ ” Scrappy “

Scrappy has 7 points as we near the half. Halftime score is Paladins 30, Catamounts 19.

Scrappy had her own highlight reel in the 3rd quarter. Moved her point total from 7 to 20 !!! ‘ Dins lead 52-33!!

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Game 3 of 7 that we care about is being played in a Gymnasium where cell phones πŸ“΅ go to die. Hailey Cushman and her Cavaliers are 9 – 5 on the season. Tonight they played at Patrick County High School in Stuart. The Cougar Den has minimal to no cellphone coverage so I will be dependent upon hearing from someone later.

Cushman is in year 2 of working with Howard Mayo and Coach does a tremendous job with her troops. This is important because if the Lady Cavaliers are going to regain some of their past glory all roads run through Cushman.

Game 4 of 7 – Carroll County Boys Varsity
Bill Gallimore pic !

Head Coach Anthony Barnes and his Cavaliers are hosting Patrick County tonight. The Cavaliers are in the middle of five games in six days…

Patrick County opened with a 10-0 run πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ so the Cavs have some ground to make up.

My, oh, My ! Down 10-0, the Cavaliers lead 21 -16 after the opening 8:00 !!!

End of 3rd, Cavs lead 53 -45…

Thursday, February 12th is here and its stuffed full of Basketball πŸ€ with seven games to keep an eye on !

Morning πŸŒ„ Brew
Alyssa Ervin and Furman University hit the road.

Locally here, both Utah Tech and Southern Utah University will host games tonight so we know how the day will end.

Mens game at 7 MT
Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget will appear here shortly.
Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Have yourself a Blessed Day πŸ™Œ

Senior Night for Patrick County High tonight versus our Lady Cavaliers

For Anthony Barnes and our Cavaliers its time to Circle the Wagons and win a couple for the Gipper ! Five games to play across the final week await CCHS Boys πŸ‘¦

Radford – Carroll County High School was able to run πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ with the homestanding Radford Bobcats (13-4) for the first 15 minutes before falling 55 – 41 on Tuesday night. Playing on back to back nights after a 17 day break is going to favor of the more athletic team and that was the group in the home locker room.

Isaiah Easter is closing in on the final stretch of his four year career and once again he led the way with 18 points. The difference between the match-up with Radford and some of the other games on the schedule is he was the lone Cavalier in double figures.

”Β  Tough too go back to back against really good defensive teams, for years Radford always puts alot of pressure on the ball, forces you to be uncomfortable and forces you into mistakes,” said Head Coach Anthony Barnes.

Β Β  “(unforced ) we turned the ball over 18 times, alot of them trying to secure rebounds which turned in to easy put backs for them . I felt like at times we were really heading on right track defensive stops, forced them into turnovers with a run midway in the third, close to cutting it to 5 , Then on a layup drive made by Easter was not counted and called in the floor , then several shots doesn’t fall or way, we miss easy put back couple layups and drives.”

The team did make one final late push at the start of the fourth quarter, pulling within eight at 49 – 41 with 3:30 left on the clock. But Radford slammed the door πŸšͺ closed with a 6-0 run to close out the night. Colton Gravley scored four of his six points during the final push before his night ended early due to an injury.

”  We as a Team still struggle to score consistently which you seen that with them too also.(too many days out of the gym) Isaiah 18pts ,5 Reb, 2 assists and Game leading scorer earning every point he gets , alot of them in contact or free-throws after
contact and Trace has really stepped up 8pts ,6 rebounds 3 assitts.”

” Hopefully back in the gym today we can get a ton of shots in and back on track,” added Barnes.

Due to the large number of postponed games, Carroll County will now play on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. A day of rest on Sunday and then the final two contests on Tuesday and Wednesday to finish up the regular season. The latest rankings had Carroll County in the Top 8 in the Region but just inside the margin.

Carroll County 11Β  13Β Β  10Β Β  7 – 41

Easter 18, Reavis 8, Gravley 6, Motley 5, Reed 4.

Last year, after the six Seniors led the team to the State Tournament, the group moved on to College. Long time lead Assistant Coach and close friend, Kris Richardson crossed over to the Girls side of the Cavalier Hoops Tree 🌳 and Barnes was just named Coach of the Year in the greater Roanoke Valley.

Wow, it would have been the perfect time to pull a John Elway by riding off into the Sunset πŸŒ‡. Not our Coach Barnes, not the way he believes in our Youth. The choice to return for another season was the definition of unselfish.

Why write ✍ that now ? The team has now lost seven of eight games, going from 6-4 to the current 7 – 11. Five games in seven days and three of the opponents defeated us by double figures.

Chris Berman of ESPN has a great saying that nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills. There has never been a better time to be proud of who we are and everyone involved with the program needs to dig just a little deeper so we can Finish what we started and do it in a Cavalier Way !

Do it for the quartet of Seniors, do it for the Cheerleaders, do it for the name on the jersey or do it for the Coaches. Every player, Every parent, Every Coach, Every Fan, Every AlumniΒ  and yes, Everyone writing ✍ about the team – dig just a little bit deeper because after we ran over some folks for the past few years, ain’t nobody going to feel sorry for us.

Borrowing the money πŸ’° scene from the movie πŸŽ₯ about Marshall University, in my loudest voice, WE ARE….CARROLL COUNTY…

Last Night πŸŒ™ on The Hill through the eyes πŸ‘€ of Little House 🏠 on the Prairie… The tale of Pa and Half Pint versus the Bobcats.

The Hill – Carroll County High School Girls Basketball πŸ€ hosted the Radford Bobcats Tuesday night. The Lady Cavaliers JV opened the evening with their ninth victory of the season and later on the visitors evened the match-up.

JV Final, team now 9-5, Photo πŸ“· from Bill Gallimore.
Inside the Numbers of the Varsity setback

Now you have the official results from both games, its time to get creative with the fact that with just a handful of Varsity Basketball games left to play, Callie ” Half Pint ” Harris scored a career high, 21 points.

Harris and fellow Senior, Madison Coleman have seen the gauntlet of Lady πŸ‘© Cavaliers Basketball over their four years. They have played for two Coaches and two Athletic Directors, experiencing both the highs and lows along the way.

Here in a couple of weeks they will part ways as Coleman will cross the Boulevard to play softball for Coach Nester while Harris will lace up her cleats for one of her older Sisters on the Soccer ⚽️ pitch.

Harris is a smidgen over 5 feet tall but what she lacks in size she more than makes up for it with 🧠 and determination. Tough as Nails, this one is.

Yesterday afternoon, after plowing the fields, Pa washed up and told the Mrs that he was going to head to The Hill early because he had an idea πŸ’‘. Ma just shrugged as they loaded up the buggy.

” What’s your Big Idea πŸ’‘, anyway,” asked a skeptical Shelia.

” I have figured out a way to help our little Half Pint tonight with her ball game!”

” What do you even know about basketball …..”

” Don’t you remember that I was the one that used my Jedi magic on that little Ervin girl,”. ” I just need her to be able to hear the sound of my voice.”

At the game, Pa went Courtside and for the first time in 30 years he picked up a bull horn and started to influence the youngest of his three little girls. Half Pint had the night of her young life by scoring 21 points. The only way it could have been better was if the team had won the game.

After the game, Pa headed back to the farm with a noticeable grin on his face. This irritated his Bride πŸ‘°, leading her to ask the one burning question – if you knew you could do that, why in the world 🌎 did you wait to the very end ?

The Lady πŸ‘© Cavaliers have one day off then play on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The final five contests include two of the three teams they have defeated this season.