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.
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