Month: November 2022

It’s getting Cold 🥶 outside so its time for Carroll County High School 🏫 to go Indoors for the Winter

Both Boys Basketball 🏀 squads take to the road tonight to challenge Bland High School with the action getting underway at 6pm and 7pm

The Girls teams will divide up to host Abingdon High School at 2pm the day before Thanksgiving. The games will take place at the same time with the Varsity squads playing in the gym at CCHS and the JV teams playing at Hillsville Middle School

Hidden Valley advances to State Championship Game, giving local Volleyball 🏐 fans a “Home” team in all 3 Title games on Saturday

One night after Class 1 Auburn and Class 2 Glenvar punched their tickets 🎟 to the State Finals Roanoke’s Hidden Valley completed the Area Hat Trick by defeating Fort Defiance in the Indians gym just South of Harrisonburg.

The Old Dominion or Commonwealth as its properly called is massive in size so the fact that three schools of three different sizes in such close proximity to each other would reach the equivalent of the Volleyball 🏐 Promise Land is rather impressive.

On Saturday afternoon in Salem the building should be a jumping for each of the three matches as not only are close to each other they are almost as close to the host site for the Finals.

The triple header is set to get underway at Noon with matches to follow at 2:15 & 4:30.

More to follow

Glenvar Highlanders are back on the Volleyball 🏐 Court

Carroll County High School held on to their Top Four spot in the Max Preps Class 3 rankings released today and to further back up just how strongly the Cavs competition was this year both their District Champions and their Regional Champions have reached the Final Four in the Class 2 and Class 3 competition 👏.

In Salem tonight the Highlanders host the Gate City Blue Devils 😈 while an hour plus up the road Hidden Valley faces the Fort Defiance Indians.

Both teams that advance from these semi-finals will be favored on Saturday afternoon in Salem.

Legendary High School Coach Alan Knight is in the gym up near Harrisonburg for the Class 2 showdown which has the rest of us in the Gym just South of Salem.

The Times News (timesnews.net) is on hand from nearby Gate City is one place to look for a game story.

Possibly the most impressive part of the Highlanders season is the fact that no player on the roster stands taller than 5’9. The Coach is off the charts passionate about his squad and his energy spills over to his Senior led squad.

Ronald is here covering the match for the Roanoke Times. You should be able to read his gamer both on line and in tomorrow’s printed edition.

Just received word from Coach Knight that the Hidden Valley – Fort match has been pushed to tomorrow night 🌙.

GAME #1

Gate City 5-1 early

Gate City 7-1, TO Glenvar

Both teams well represented here tonight despite day long downpour.

Just like tthat it’s 9-8 Glenvar!

Glenvar 13-11 , both teams are past any jitters

Glenvar 20-18 , TO Gate City

Barn burner meets Slugfest !

21 ALL

Glenvar finishes with a flurry and takes Game 1, 25-22

GAME 2

5-5

Glenvar 9-5, 9-6, 10-6

Glenvar 13-7, TO Gate City

Break in the action with Glenvar leading 14-8

16-10 Highlanders, 16-11, 16-12, 16-13, 17-13

Glenvar 20-15, Time Out Gate City

22-18 , 22-19, 22-20

Game #2 to the Home Team

Max Preps updated, on to Game #3 (7:27)

GAME #3, 3-3

Glenvar trailed 6-4, now leads 7-6

Break to mop up the floor

10-7 as Claire Griffith with a kill from the back row

Glenvar 13-8 , timeout Gate City

Both matches scheduled for the Shenandoah Valley tonight have been pushed back due to inclement weather.

Glenvar 14-11

17-14 Glenvar, Time Out

Gate City calls TO after lead for Glenvar reaches 20-15

The Home Crowd is feeling it now, 23-16

Next stop ✋ Saturday

Easy to point out my favorite part of the evening, when the match was over there were 3 newspaper reporters and a TV 📺 cameraman were waiting to conduct interviews. You have to Love the Ladies getting their proper coverage 👏.

Volleyball 🏐 🏐 takes center stage Tuesday Night 🌙 as its time for the Final Four

Hidden Valley takes to the road on the Class 3 side while Glenvar gets to enjoy some more home cooking in its chase to defend its Class 2 Championship from last season. The winners 🏆 advance to their respective State title games on Saturday in Salem.

The winner of the Gate City at Glenvar match should have a sizeable advantage on Saturday against the winner of East Rock vs Poquoson semifinal match being played in Elkton.