As we go further down the path of Post Season Volleyball 🏐 with our Carroll County High School Cavaliers it has become more than obvious that the bracket for the Group of 12 has been sworn to Secrecy.

Maybe locked 🔒 in a vault somewhere for safe keeping 🤔 so with a little help from Marion I started to try my best to make sense of it all.

This is what my research has turned up – there are 12 High Schools 🏫 in the Grouping.

The post season bracket reduced the Group to ten with Staunton River (Golden Eagles) and Northside (Vikings) being on the outside of the playoffs bubble.

#7 – William Byrd of Vinton (Terriers)

#8 – Abingdon Falcons

#9 – Magna Vista Warriors of Pearisburg

#10- Cave Springs of Roanoke (Knights)

These four teams squared off this past Saturday with Abingdon(8) and Cave Springs(10) winning those matches to advance to the Quarterfinals.

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The Quarters were held last night in four gyms.

#1 Hidden Valley Titans advanced over #8 Abingdon, 3-0

#2 – Tunstall Trojans advanced over #7 / #10 winner Cave Springs, 3-0

#3 – Carroll County Cavaliers advanced over the #6 Bassett Bengals, 3-0

#4 – Lord Botetourt over #5 Christiansburg Blue Demons 😈 in a match that went the distance.

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Moving forward to Thursday night :

#2 Tunstall hosts #3 Carroll County

#1 Hidden Valley hosts #4 Lord Botetourt

Just received the update from Marion that Tunstall also swept its match tonight so the Lady Cavaliers will board the bus 🚌 Thursday and head across Lovers Leap to Dry Fork.

The two schools now have a common opponent in Bassett. Tunstall played them twice and won those matches 3-0 & 3-1. CCHS just swept Bassett 3-0 which should translate to a highly competitive match.

What’s another 172 miles on the Bus, especially if you return with a victory !

The results from the #1 vs #8/9 have finally been posted.

Three of the Four have now been recorded with the Higher seed winning in 3 straight.

The teams have taken the floor and the match is underway at 6:05

CCHS 5-4 early

Winner advances to Thursdays semifinal round.

Tied up 9-9

Bassett leads 14-13 , Carroll County calls a timeout.

The visitors are doing a great job early with their digs.

15-15, CCHS 16-15

19-18 BHS, both squads are playing relatively error free games.

Trailing 21-19 the Cavaliers score three straight hard-fought points to retake the lead and BHS calls T0

Six straight 🔥 impressive points to end Game #1

GAME #2……

Cavs out to a 5-2 lead and Bassett calls a TO

CCHS 9-4, second TO called.

10-5

16-9 Cavs

20-10, mojo is showing

21-14

Don’t be alarmed , they just erased the 25 really, really quickly. Cavs now up 2-0!

GAME #3….

CCHS. 4-0

8-1, 9-1 and finally a TO called.

Lead at 14-6

21-9, four points away now

23-12

The Cavaliers live to play another day (Thursday) versus the winner of the #2 /#7 match.

I will do my best to track down the winners of the 3 other QF matches tonight.

Carroll County High School welcomes Bassett High School to the Hill tonight in the Quarterfinals of the Class 3 Region D tournament. The field has been reduced to 8 from 10 with tonight being the #3 seed hosting the #6 seed.

A Cavaliers victory would propel the team to a Thursday night showdown with the winner of the #2 versus #7 match being played tonight at Tunstall High School in Dry Fork.

This post will be updated throughout the day and then there will be a live blog from the Gym at 6pm.

GO CAVALIERS !

#1 seed Hidden Valley (25-0) hosts the winner of the #8/#9 contest, Abingdon (10-14)

#2 seed Tunstall (22-0) hosts the #7/#10 winner William Byrd.

#4 vs #5 rounds out tonight’s matches.

Thank You goes to Marion Harris for his assistance in chasing down the match ups as coverage of the bracket has been limited.