The Cavaliers fell behind early and trailed after the first quarter, 20-10

The second frame was much more to the Cavs liking, especially on the defensive end. JRHS drained a 3-pointer at the horn to push the lead out to 27-19 after CCHS had trimmed the deficit from 10 down to five.

Cavs trail by 46-37 with 3:09 left to play. Bryce Smoot with a driving lay-up cuts ✂️ it to 7

CCHS playing hard until the Clock ⏰ reads 0:00.

54-45, 1:06 to play

The10 point hole from the opening 8:00 minutes proved just a bit to much for the Cavaliers to overcome. But to their credit they had a number of possessions where they could have trimmed the Knights lead to 2 or 3 points but couldn’t get the shot to drop.

Elijah Cox led the team in scoring with 13 points and was joined in double figures by Bryce Smoot (12 points). Eight of the 10 players made their way into the scoring column and the squad will have two more opportunities this week with road games at Galax on Thursday and at Alleghany High on Friday.

The Friday night contest will be a rematch from this past Friday afternoon when the Cavaliers tied it at the buzzer before winning it in Overtime.

Photo credit on Jump Ball – Marion Harris

Liken Burnette scored five points and the Lady Cavaliers played tight defense in the opening frame, leading 7-4 after the first quarter.

17-0 was the score for the Cavaliers JV Girls in the second quarter, 24-4 at the break.

7 Cavs have already scored and at least 12 have seen action 🎬 as of Halftime

Corrie Delp scored both the Cavs baskets in a 4-3 3rd quarter. 28-7 headed to the final seven minutes.

All 15 Cavaliers played and 10 scored points for Coach Nester tonight.

Unofficial Scoring : Cavaliers 39

Laiken Burnette – 7

Corrie Delp – 6

Madison Coleman – 6

Callie Harris – 5

Mackenzey McMillan – 4

Natalie Burress – 3

Savanna Swecker – 2

Kaci Young – 2

Laynie – Jo Leonard – 2

Faith Clontz – 2

It’s worth noting the amount of joy that was shared each time points were scored in the fourth quarter for the Lady Cavaliers !

CCHS ….. 7 17 4 11 – 39

JRHS ….. 4 0 3 7 – 14

34-4 Lady Cavaliers at the break !

19-3 in the first quarter, 15-1 in the second quarter.

52-10 after 3rd quarter (18-6)

Lady Cavaliers with a wire to wire 60-12 victory.

Unofficial Scoring :

Alyssa Ervin 15

Kalee Easter 14

Lauren Alley 10

Katie Lam -8

Jaclyn Hagee – 5

Ashton Richardson – 4

Bella Crotts – 2

Madison Lyons – 2

Cavaliers are now off until Friday night when they are home 🏡 to Alleghany High School.

The tip on Friday will be moved up to 6:00pm due to the night 🌙 once again being Varsity only.

Jay Burnette has scored the first three baskets of the contest and Isiah Easter has since added 3 points to give the Cavs a 9-0 lead with 2:45 remaining in the first quarter.

Cavs lead 11-0 after the first seven minutes.

Burnette with 6 and Easter with 5

2ND QUARTER

James River scores its first basket with 5:47 remaining in the period and managed 5 straight to trim the deficit to 11-5. Easter added 5 more and Dane Leonard scored a basket to make it 18-5.

Easter with 14 at the break and the Cavaliers lead is back to 15.

32 – 10 Cavs with 3:47 (3) remaining

32-11 TO – 3:25

Balanced scoring for Cavs in the 3rd

Headed to the 4th – 38 to 13

4TH QUARTER :

43-18 with 3:40 remaining in the contest. Plenty of action for most of the dressed Cavaliers

Final Score – Cavs 52, Knights 20

Unofficial scoring :

Isiah Easter 16

Colton Gravely 11

Jay Burnette 10

Hayden Jackson 6

Dane Leonard 4

Kyle Bunn 3

Landon Puckett 2

Congratulations 👏 on a wire to wire victory !

Both buses have arrived and we are just over 30 minutes away from the opening tip-offs. 5:30 in the Main Gym will be the Varsity Girls and the JV Boys will start at the same time in the Old Gym.

All four teams competing under the same roof and the hope will be to catch some action 🎬 from each of the contests tonight.