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.

Tuesday quietly turned into Wednesday on the way back from BYU so let’s start the Cavalier Morning πŸŒ„ Brew !

The Athletic Calendar πŸ“… takes a 1 Day break.
Four of our five College Cavaliers will take to the hardwood tonight ! The exception being Alyssa Ervin and Furman, who play tomorrow.
Regular seasons are winding down
Howard Mayo and his Motovational Nugget will appear here shortly.
Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day will appear here shortly.

Have yourself a Blessed Day πŸ™Œ

Bobcats x 4 tonight and Bill Gallimore kicks things off from The Hill !

Lady πŸ‘© Cavaliers JV leading at the break !

Here until we have four final scores !

End of 3rd
KV Girls πŸ‘§ win #9!!!

Varsity Boys have reached the Half, trailing the homestanding Bobcats 30-21.

Cavs matched baskets in the opening 8:00 minutes, trailing just 12 -11 after 1st

Switching back to The Hill and Bill Gallimore

Halftime score for the Lady Cavaliers

Varsity Boys πŸ‘¦ Final

Cavs pulled within 49 – 41 but couldn’t get any closer.
JV Boys hung in there until late in the fourth quarter.

Varsity Girls wrapping up now…

We will have the fourth final here in a few minutes.

It’s time for me to pack up and head inside for the Iowa State at BYU Women’s Basketball πŸ€ game but the coverage will continue.

Four Varsity captures from Mrs Velvet Leonard πŸ’–
Two from the Girls πŸ‘§ Junior Varsity game!
Girls Varsity Final

We will see who all we here from after the dust settles and create some stories.

Also, Marion Harris was calling the games on the Network tonight. Maybe he will share a thought.

The fifty foot curtain was truly impressive πŸ‘!

The Student section is starting to fill up as the Men’s team was / is playing down at Baylor University

Play ▢️ Ball !!!

Cyclones 21, Cougars 20 after 1st

Getting to see πŸ‘€ #55 Crooks is a bonus ! 5 points, 1 board and 2 assist in the opening 10 minutes for Iowa State

Cougars 43 – 42 at the Half..

#7 Hamlin has 19 for BYU (Olivia )

Media TO in 3rd has BYU pulling away, 59 – 46 after 16-4 run πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ

End of 3rd, BYU leads 69 – 52 after a 26 -10 blitz over the 10:00 !! Impressive!!!

Time out BYU at 3:14 (4), lead at 80 – 65.

83 – 69 is your final score at 10:45 / 8:45

With one eye looking forward to The Classic on February 22nd, Vickey Ritchie takes us through our Big Day in Roanoke this past Sunday !!+

Sun Feb 8, as invited guests at the Area 8 Special Olympics Basketball Tournament at Roanoke College, Carroll County Special Olympics took 3 teams and played 6 games against opponents from Roanoke (Area 8), New River Valley (Area 9), and Marion (Area 10).  The CCSO HotShots lost one (12-16) and won one (31-14, a scrimmage with teammates because the other team was a scratch), the CCSO SureShots lost two by slim margins (14-18 and 22-26) and the CCSO Cavaliers won two (17-14 and 36-24).  Coach Vickey Ritchie reported that a large entourage of family members and caregivers accompanied the group and pitched in to help at every opportunity.  β€œI’m fond of saying that we simply could not do all we do without all the helpers, and that was certainly true on Sunday” said Coach Ritchie, β€œWe truly are ONE TEAM.”

Also, this was the coaching debut for two of our parents.  Debi Rein coached the SureShots and Samantha Lark-Smith coached the HotShots.

The busy , busy stretch continues with Night to Shine, The Classic and three more College experiences !!!!