Low Moor – Not sure how large of a crowd we will have tonight for a number of reasons.

First being there is only one contest which eliminates the crossover cheering.

Second – we are a long way from home 🏡 on both a work night and a school 🏫 night.

Third – the weather outside is less than desirable as it has been most of the day.

Fourth – the locals have the option of listening to a broadcast. I am thinking radio but could be something else.

But instead of focusing on the folks not here let’s applaud 👏 those who are !!!!

Warm up clock ⏰ down to under 4:00

Paul’s daughter has the less than official CCHS count at 16 and let’s start by APPLAUDING each and every one of them for making the trek!

Nightly attempt to capture the Opening Jump

The score was 20-10 early in the second quarter when the Cavaliers went on a run 🏃‍♂️ of 13-0 allowing the team to take a 33-12 into the locker room.

Kalee Easter started the spurt and Alyssa Ervin finished it off after a quiet first quarter. Ervin has 11 points and the break while Easter tallied eight. Both Jaelyn Hagee and Lauren Alley added five with Bella Crotts scoring four.

The first half did have a comical moment when one of the referees tuned a block into a charge and then gave the foul to Hagee. The second error on the call was the funny part as Hagee was sitting on bench at the time.

Ms. Hagee had herself a quarter! After scoring the first 10 points in the second half for the Cavaliers before assisting on the next three baskets during an 18-1 run 🏃‍♂️. AhS added three points near the end of the frame but the ship 🚢 has sailed.

Cavs 53-17 with 8:00 to play.

Tough call on the better story – another convincing victory or the 18 people around me that will now make the drive 🚗 back to Carroll County in the dark.

Hagee 15, Ervin 14, Easter 13, Crotts 6, Alley 5, Richardson 2……(55)

Safe Travels home 🏡 for All !

Raise your hand if you’re Carroll County High School fan and you can’t wait for the next trip up and over to Covington….

If you give it some thought I am sure that others schools feel the same away about traveling to our place but this is our story so I’m not sure we really care about that part of things ?

Google Maps answered the question this morning as to how much longer my trip would be if I stopped by the Baseball ⚾️ office in Beckley on my way from Laurel Fork to Alleghany High ???

We (West Virginia Tech Golden Bears 🐻 baseball) open our season this weekend down in Johnson City, Tennessee and I needed to play catch-up before the weekend gets here.

I will be heading over to Alleghany shortly to do my normal Live Blog of our Girls Varsity Basketball 🏀 game but I wanted to share a last thought about the Swim 🏊‍♂️ meet coverage from last night provided by Marion Harris. Here’s another reason the effort was priceless – last week I attended one of our meets up in Daleville and quickly realized just how different Swimming 🏊‍♂️ is from say, Basketball.

Basketball is a very public event that takes place in a Gymnasium full of people and the Athletes wear jerseys with their numbers on them so they are easy to identify. The environment involved with a swimming 🏊‍♂️ (I can’t help myself, I love that emoji) meet is the complete opposite.

While I was able to take some photos and tried to describe the atmosphere it was far from “covering” the event. For someone to truly accomplish what Marion did last night 🌙 they would either have to be a Parent or a Coach that is already involved with the team. To try and get the same level of coverage from outside of the group would be incredibly difficult.

The other option would be to just try and find the results and do a Copy and Paste. This can work too but not nearly as well as what we teamed up to post did!

Anyone that enjoyed the Coverage from last night please mention that to Mr. Harris next time you see him.

I need to get some baseball ⚾️ stuff done so I can get over to AHS…..

I wanted to take enough time to list the three sites that are part of our Non-Profit Organization, OneofUs.Care

You are reading this on the site that is built for as much coverage that we can provide about the Student Athletes that represent Carroll County High School. We fund this site out of our Non-Profit and it shall always remain a free site that is intended for the residents of our home County and family members that live elsewhere.

The second site is the actual OneofUs.Care site which we use for the foundation and the third site is www. aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com

http://www.aroundthevalleyin60days.blogspot.com

The third site acts as a go between for the Organization and the Sports Report or as I like to call it – a look inside my brain. The goals we are trying to achieve will take a while but fortunately my Wife and I are in this for the duration.

Some of the other’s things we are connected to include being part of the West Virginia Tech University baseball program, the Appalachian State University Field Hockey program and the Page County High School Softball program. There are a number of sports programs that we are connected to with the latest addition being the Athletic Department at Carroll County High School. The participation to the Golden Bear Baseball program goes back to 2008 as does the PCHS softball. Two of the three sites are built on sites I created roughly 15 years ago when we resided in the Shenandoah Valley.

I started writing back in 1978 and while I didn’t make my money with a pen or a keyboard its where I have found the most joy. I believe that the number of publications I have written for is somewhere in the 20-25 range with my favorite being my own sites because it allows me to choose the topics. One writer from a competing newspaper when I was covering Sports for the Northern Virginia Daily in Strasburg, Va. asked me after a game we both covered, ” Why do you try and cover every game like it’s the 7th game of the World Series?” The answer is because it is that important to the people I write my stuff for – the Student Athlete, the Parents, the Grandparents and the Coaches.

It’s that level of dedication to my thought process that will have me get in the car and drive to Covington here in a few hours. Yes, there should be very little drama in the Girls Varsity Basketball game tonight against Alleghany High School but if our Coaches, players and a handful of dedicated family members make that trek then they deserved to have it written about. The last trip up there ended with a pair of hard-fought exciting wins for our Boys Varsity and JV teams that thankfully people can still read about on our site.

The drive up tomorrow will be easier because of the performance of Marion Harris last night down in Abingdon!