12 teams comprise Region 3C :

Abingdon, Bassett, Carroll County, Cave Springs (Roanoke), Christiansburg, Hidden Valley (Roanoke), Lord Botetourt (Daleville), Magna Vista (Ridgeway), Northside (Roanoke), Staunton River (Moneta), Tunstall (Dry Fork) and William Byrd (Vinton).

The sports that CCHS will play in the Region are Baseball, Softball, Boys and Girls Soccer, Boys and Girls Tennis and finally Boy & Girls Track/Field. Each sport has their own tweaks to how the Region is contested and the formula that is used in the seeding process is just this side of NASA math.

Tennis is one of the sports where individual athletes can advance in singles and doubles separate from the team as the top single seed and the top doubles seed from each team have two opportunities to move on to the State level.

Soccer, Baseball and Softball are much more straight forward in regards to Win and advance as a team in a single elimination tournament. Track & Field is more about the individual results but team scores are kept at every level through the State Meet.

The starting point for the Sports is completely different with Soccer being one of the Sports getting a jump start on play here shortly.

Carroll County also has three Junior Varsity teams and two of the sports (Baseball & Softball) hold a one day District Championship between the top two teams and those contests are slated to be played this Friday. Softball will be Carroll County versus Alleghany while Baseball will be between Alleghany and hopefully CCHS.

Looking at the Region – starting with SOFTBALL

The 12 Softball teams compete across five Districts with four teams coming from the Blue Ridge – Staunton River, Lord Botetourt, William Byrd and Northside. Three teams play in the River Ridge – Cave Springs, Christiansburg and Hidden Valley. Another group of three come from the Piedmont – Tunstall, Bassett and Magna Vista. The final two teams are lone wolves with our Cavaliers (3 Rivers) and Abingdon (Mountain 7).

Without trying to guess at the formula that is used we can take a look at the won-loss marks as of this morning to attempt to gauge just where the Lady Cavaliers might fall.

Cave Springs is 11-1 in the River Ridge and 17-3 overall

Staunton River is 8-2 in the Blue Ridge and 17-3 overall

*Carroll County is 7-2 in the Three Rivers and 15-2 overall

Northside is 8-4 in the Blue Ridge and 14-8 overall

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Christiansburg is 8-4 in the River Ridge and 11-8 overall

Bassett is 5-7 in the Piedmont and 11-10 overall

Abingdon is 3-5 in the Mountain Seven and 8-8 overall

The remaining five teams all sit below .500 overall

Notes – Carroll County is 2-0 in the Region with a pair of victories over Bassett and is also 2-0 in games played up a level as they went 2-0 versus Pulaski County (4A).

Carroll County will once again try and play a double header today with visiting Tazewell and will wrap up the regular season Wednesday at Radford. The playing of theses three games will allow the Lady Cavaliers the chance to cement a first round game at home and possibly put them in position to claim a Top 2 spot which gets a team two home games. If / when the Cavaliers would travel the most likely landing spots look like Cave Springs or Staunton River

The last scheduled game for the Lady Cavaliers Soccer Team vs Glenvar took place tonight in Salem. The first 28 minutes both teams had their chances but the score stayed 0-0. Glenvar is the defending 2A state Champion and is the only team to beat the Cavs by more than one goal. In the 28th minute of the match Glenvar took a 1-0 lead when a corner kick was cleared from a cavalier defender and went off a Glenvar striker to reach the back of the net. 3 minutes later Ryan Harris scored off a high arching shot that beat the cavalier Keeper for 2-0 lead.

In the 37th minute Callie Harris found her sister Natalie on a great through ball after Glenvar was playing a very high line and the pass allowed her to get behind the line and have a one on one with the Glenvar keeper. Natalie beat the keeper and helped the Cavaliers to pull within one right before halftime. The 2nd half was a totally different than the first half or at least on the scoreboard it was. Glenvar scored three goals in the 2nd half but the game was so much closer than the final 5-1 score showed!!!

The Cavaliers gave up another own goal and another goal saw the Cavalier keeper and a Glenvar striker collide and the ball got through for a goal. We played a great game but the bounces just did not go our way. Even with this loss the Cavaliers finished the season with the best winning percentage in program history. With a record of 10-3-1 the cavaliers will be waiting on a game that should be a forfeit to play out but at the current standing we are in the 6th place by only .15 point from 5th place. If we stay in the 6th spot we will play LB but if the forfeit comes through the Cavaliers will move to the 5th place match and play Abingdon. Either way this is the highest seed the cavaliers have earned since moving to 3A. Stay tuned for the final standings for regional play.