The Boys and Girls Swim teams will head up to Roanoke (Northside HS) Wednesday night while the Wrestling team will cross over the County Line to the West for a match with the Grayson County Blue Devils.

We will do our best to track down some Cavalier results !

The final score reads Floyd County 65, Carroll County 56 and that is how the game will be recorded but the Cavaliers simply gave the Buffaloes everything that they could handle and then some.

The Cavaliers were forced to play catch up throughout the evening after Floyd recorded 9 points before CCHS could catch its collective breath.

Let’s start out by giving credit to the Student section for having the teams back for 32 minutes despite the slow start. Every time the Cavaliers cut ✂️ into the early deficit the gym would get a little louder.

Jumping to early in the fourth quarter the Cavs had once again fallen just short on a comeback bid and suddenly trailed 48-40 with less than five minutes remaining. In a blink of an eye Elijah Cox wrapped two sets of free throws around a put back basket by Davis Reitzel. Just like that the lead was 48-46 and Floyd knew they were going to be in a battle until the end.

Sadly for the home team Reitzel picked up his fourth foul in a very physical contest and Floyd ran off the next 12 points to push the lead to 60-46.

Once again the Cavs were down but far from out of it and managed to score 10 more points before the final horn. Cox finished the night with 23 points , scoring 19 after the break. Reitzel joined Cox in double figures with 11 points and Bryce Smoot added 10 more.

Jabin Talley scored 7 points and Ethan Richardson tallied 5 points as the Cavaliers finished their second of four games this week with a very gritty effort that left them just short on the score sheet.

If the Cavaliers can continue to play as hard as they did tonight you have to like their chances in every contest the rest of the season. We can test that theory quickly as Fort Chiswell comes down US-52 Thursday night.

While we will always call our scoring Unofficial when we post it there was cause to smile late Tuesday night when we had the Varsity Girls team scoring 22 points in the 3rd quarter but the score board only credited the team with 20.

When the post game handshake took place the score showing was 78-30 and it wasn’t until shortly after that we received an email that showed the final score as 80-30. It turns out that both official books also showed a total of 80 for the home team.

Once again a Huge round of applause for Alyssa Ervin 👏 reaching the 1,000 point milestone tonight in that above mentioned 3rd Quarter !

The Lady Cavaliers will return to action on Friday night 🌙 when they visit the Highlanders up in Salem.

While I was over at the Middle School 🏫 with the JV Boys both my wife Linda and Mr. Marion Harris were keeping me up to speed on our JV Girls contest with the visiting 🐃 Buffaloes.

Mr. Harris captured the opening jump ball and Lin tracked the scoring so that we could offer up the results of the contest before the end of the evening.

After falling behind 9-3 over the opening 7:00 minutes of action the Cavaliers battled back throughout the contest behind the scoring of Corrie Delp (11 points) and Laiken Burnette (10 points).

Delp scored at the buzzer to end the first quarter to trim the deficit from 9-1 to 9-3 and the Cavs continued to fight back, pulling within 16-13 and eventually 18-14 before the visitors went on a 10-4 run to close out the third quarter.

Delp scored six of the Cavs eight fourth quarter points to allow the team to capture the quarter 8-3 to finish up on the short end of a 31-26 decision.

CCHS battled to the end but came up just short of digging out of the early eight point deficit.

The JV Girls will return to the court on Friday night in Salem vs Glenvar in a rematch of one of the more impressive victories for the season when the teams played at home earlier in the season.

Unofficial Scoring : Corrie Delp 11, Laiken Burnette 10, Savanah Swecker 4, Natalie Burress 1.

Carroll County 80, Floyd 30

Floyd

Harman 9, K. Thompson 5, Snavely 4, Hamlin 1, Wade 2, Hylton 9.

Carroll County (14-1, 5-0)

Ervin 31, Easter 11, Richardson 2, Lyons 2, Lam 12, Hagee 8, Crotts 2, Alley 10, Alderman 2.

Floyd 9 3 7 11 — 30

Carroll County 25 19 22 14 — 80

3-point goals: Floyd 4 (Harman 3, Hylton), Carroll County 9 (Ervin 4, Easter, Lam 4). JV: Floyd won.

Alyssa Ervin scored her 1,000th point.

Congratulations 👏 to Alyssa Ervin and the Lady Cavaliers !