February 4th was the last time that the CCHS Girls faced another team, which meant for the past 17 days they only had each other to chase around a Gymnasium. This fact didn’t bode well for whichever team drew the Lady Cavaliers in the #1 vs #8/#9 Winner.
Staunton River drew the short straw after winning their play-in game last week and the score was 28-4 after the opening 8:00 minutes. Kalee Easter led a very balanced attack with a season high 25 points while fellow Senior Jaelyn Hagee flirted with a triple-double. Hagee finished with 16 points, 13 rebounds and 7 steals.
The next 6 scorers landed between 6 and 9 points for Coach Mark Motley in a contest that was over almost from the opening minutes. Ashton Richardson and Lauren Alley tallied 9 each with Alyssa Ervin adding 7. Curdy Gardner, Katie Lam and Madison Lyons scored six each with the final two points going to Bella Crotts.
Carroll County will return to its home floor on Thursday evening to host the winner of the #4 vs #5 contest at 6pm. Will see how quickly we can determine the next opponent for the Lady Cavaliers
Magna Vista would appear to be the opponent on Thursday.
31:44 on the countdown clock ⏰ as we are getting ready to play !
Will be back at Tip ! Should be 6pm
Tip @ 6:04
We’ve survived the opening 8:00 minutes, trailing by 11-7
Back on the Hill – Girls up 28-4 after the 1st quarter !
@ The Half – Cavaliers trail by 11. Encouraging part is that we are getting some great looks inside but a number of those opportunities bounced off the rim.
Defensively when we get back we are holding them in check but when they beat us back down the court we are having a tougher time defending them.
Marion has it 30-4 in the second quarter back home.
Marion has it as 52-9 @ the Half
Girls advance 85 -16
Boys fall short 73-48 but they chased it to the final buzzer and then some !
Ridgeway, VA – Last week two send offs occurred at Carroll County High School, one for the Swim 🏊♂️ Team and one for the Wrestling team. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend both and capture the moments the best way that I could.
In a send off you are escorting a team away from the school 🏫 in what’s guaranteed to be their final competition for the School year. Both the Swimmers and the Wrestling team were guaranteed to complete their season when they left CCHS last week.
Today there was another departure time (12:30) set for when Bus #35 was going to pull away from 100 Cavs Drive. The Boys 👦 Varsity Basketball 🏀 team was heading over to Dry Fork for a 6:00pm contest against the #2 Tunstall Trojans.
Knowing the departure time in advance I pondered ever so shortly as to making the drive 🚗 to the High School for another send-off????
The answer came quickly in that it would be doing a disservice to Coach Barnes and his squad to make a big deal out of them leaving school. In some way it felt like it would be surrendering on the team, to not believe that they could once again be loading a Bus on Thursday afternoon.
Plan B was to jump in front of them on their trip and create a moment on the side of the Highway. I hoped it helped ease the moment for these 11 young men and the Coaching Staff.
Now sitting in Ridgeway I am equally convinced that this is not the Last Supper for the 2022-2023 Boys team but just a nice meal before a Big Game.
If it does turn out to be a Last meal as a team then its well deserved 👏 as these young men have left it on the floor everytime out there this season.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 