Two games being played 68 feet apart – challenge accepted ! Mr. Marion Harris captured the one jump ball for us. The Boys actually started playing seven minutes ahead of the Girls after the Varsity Girls made quick work of their counterparts.
CCHS Boys with an early lead before the start of the Girls game.
10-0 start for the Girls, Boys down at the Half.
Girls still pitching a shut out !
Line change on the upper right. All 13 healthy players have recorded multiple minutes.
Third quarter played to a 7-7 draw.
Boys trail by 7 in the final 90 seconds
Linda reports that the Boys are now just down 2 points with 0:12.7 to play !!!!
Final from the Boys contest. Great comeback falls just a bit short.
Glenvar is the Goldie Locks road trip of the Three Rivers District for the Cavaliers – not as close as Floyd County or Radford but not as far as James River or Alleghany High.
Tonight all four basketball 🏀 teams will brave the strong winds and trek up I-81 to face the Highlanders of Glenvar. 5:30 tips for the Varsity Girls and the JV Boys with the JV Girls and Varsity Boys set to follow.
Should be 3+ hours of Cavalier Hoops coming your way and we will bring you as much as possible !
We are living in an era where players playing Basketball 🏀 at the highest level are dealing with rest management and many are sitting out the second contest on back to back nights.
Coach Barnes and his team are in the middle of four games in five nights and in High School you play through the games with everything you have.
Three games became four games when the postponed contest at Grayson County was added to the schedule on Monday night. The week draws to a close Friday night at Glenvar in Salem.
A road victory on Monday night was followed by a high energy contest at home versus Floyd County on Tuesday night. The Cavs came up short in that one but played the 32 minutes with a level of intensity that would make any Coach proud.
Thursday night was a Non-District match-up against our neighbors up U.S. 52, Fort Chiswell. The best thing that could have happen would be for CCHS to jump out strongly which would allow Barnes and his staff to spread out the minutes in a big way ahead of a key District contest at Glenvar.
Ask and you shall receive – Ethan Richardson scored 6 points before the game was one minute old and both Brayden Smoot and Bryce Smoot added two points the score was 10-0 and the Cavaliers never looked back. All five starters scored in the opening 25-5 run 🏃♂️, allowing the team to relax a bit and have some fun playing the game.
Credit the Pioneers for how hard they played the game from start to finish but the victory was never in doubt after the opening six minutes.
Leading 42-24 at the break the Cavaliers put on a fast break clinic throughout the third quarter, capturing the frame 25-8.
Mario Meza Campbell was on the receiving end of back door passes, first from Elijah Cox and then from Davis Reitzel. Next up it was Reitzel finding Jabin Talley and then Smoot finding Reitzel.
The only thing that didn’t work during the quarter was an attempt at an Ally Oop to Reitzel but even that play was fun to watch. Also worth noting that the Student section remained engaged from start to finish.
The Cavaliers needed a light night during a busy stretch and that was exactly what they provided for themselves.
One could sum up the entire night with the final possession of the third quarter. The Cavs were trying to run down the clock ⏰ before taking a final shot. It worked to perfection and concluded with Bryce Smoot draining an off balance 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Smoot followed the basket with a great version of the Shimmy that Steph Curry does when he ends the quarter with a similar shot. The lead was 67-32 after three quarters and the starters received some rest heading down the stretch.
Nine Cavaliers scored atleast four points with Richardson leading the way with 14.
CCHS (72)
Ethan Richardson 14, Bryce Smoot 11, Elijah Cox 10, Mario Meza Campbell 8, Davis Reitzel 7, Jabin Talley 6, Justice Bowden 6, Nathan Reed 6, Brayden Smoot 4.
Hillsville – Carroll County and Fort Chiswell were exchanging runs Thursday night until Isaiah Easter did his version of getting into a Steph Curry Zone.
The Pioneers erased the Cavs 25-18 halftime lead , scoring six straight to pull within 25-24 when Easter found the bottom of the net with a 3-pointer and two possessions later the next 3-pointer came from NBA range, also finding nothing but the bottom of the net.
The Cavaliers defense forced an immediate turnover and you guessed it, Easter fired away with a look in his eye that he knew it was going in before it left his hands. Three 3-pointers in a matter of 90 seconds and just like that the lead was back to eight at 34-26.
Paul Marshall, playing the role of Klay Thompson- the fellow Splash Brother, calmly drilled the next 3-pointer after an Easter steal. Easter would come up with another steal and converted into a lay-up that pushed the lead to 39-26 by the quarters end.
Both offenses were clicking over the final 7:00 minutes with the Cavaliers outscoring the Pioneers 20-16. Easter and Colton Gravley connected on 3-pointers and the team went 6 for 8 from the free throw line to close out the 59-42 victory.
CCHS – (59)
Isaiah Easter 23, Paul Marshall 10, Landon Puckett 7, Jay Burnette 6, Kyle Bunn 4, Colton Gravley 3, Dane Leonard 2, Blake Reed 2, Landon Kinder 2.
All 14 Cavaliers played and 10 scored for Head Coach Jason Stockner.
The JV team returns to action tonight in Salem vs Glenvar.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 