CCHS early run 🏃♂️ Spotswood with a solid middle and Cavs close it out…..21-9
We have reached Halftime and our Cavaliers lead 39-16.
Ashton Richardson leads the way with 12 points after dropping 9 in the second quarter. Both Lauren Alley and Alyssa Ervin added nine each and Jaelyn Hagee scored seven as well. Bella Crotts added an early bucket to total out the Cavs 39.
Davis Reitzel was heading down the court in the fourth quarter last night in a Three Rivers District contest versus James River High School. In a blink of an eye the Junior raised up in a manner that is my favorite part of his game – young fella can sky!, and finished with the perfect flush of a dunk that sent the already happy crowd into a state of bliss.
Many people have dunked before for that point Reitzel has dunked before but this FINISH was different. If I was a Hollywood Director he would have made the play in slow motion and there would have been clips of past endings to recent contests where the Cavaliers had fallen just short.
Barnes and the gentleman to his right ( who smiled after the game when it came up that he was the actual person running the team and that folks just let Coach B think he was in charge). See that line as an example of good natured humor that comes when a script goes your way from start to finish.
Back to the Dunk – the Dunk didn’t win the game, in fact it made the score at the time 76-50. A moment later Nathan Reed flirted with a follow-up dunk that was just as fun to watch and if he had finished it the amped up crowd might have lost it.
Every team has its own story or at least that’s how it should be. The story I try to frame for this group of young men is that they are well coached – play hard for 32 minutes and do our school proud!
Barnes might still be wondering why he is stuck with some old guy he doesn’t know following his team around and writing nice things about them??
I feel fortunate to not know the inner working of the unit – things like who hangs out with who or which player struggles with Algebra. I get to watch them play the game in the right manner from start to finish in a way that should make a Coach proud, a Parent proud and a School proud!
The main live blog from last night has much more from the game and after the trip to Lexington today I will actually write ✍ a Gamer about the 80-54 victory but I wanted to type this one before we head North – sometime a Dunk is more than a just a Dunk and in this case it was a team exclamation point that that capped a much needed joyful ending for a group of hardworking young men.
Next up – unlocking that who’s 👀 really Coaching the team ???? See, its easier to make jokes when the script plays out to perfection.
P.S. – I have to admit that I had my head down writing on the live Blog when Davis did his version of Air Jordan there at the end but the reaction from the crowd in general and my wife in particular let me know what had happened.
We will pick this up once the train 🚆 makes it to Lexington.
Being that I have two stories still to write from last night I won’t add much here yet. I will say that I’m looking forward to seeing our Ladies get an opportunity to go at it for longer than the first quarter. Much more to come from Lexington but for now I need to finish up from last night – next story up…..Boys Varsity had some fun at the end of a Game
A.S.P.N on The Hill 