Found somethings in the Mailbox 📬 after the drive 🚗 from Alleghany to Durham. Big weekend planned out here for the Iron Dukes as ESPN makes a historic visit to Durham during 🏈🏈🏈 season!
#11 – Notre Dame vs. #17 – Duke at 7:30pm on Saturday night 🌙 (ABC Primetime). Exciting times spread across the next 48 hours….
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The photo 📷 up top came from our Tennis 🎾 Coach / Basketball 🏀 Dad 👨 – Mr. T
Coach Barnes surprised the Boys that came to open gym this evening with a scrimmage
With Fort Chiswell.
Varsity boys won 3 of the 4 contests .
Congratulations 👏 to Coach Barnes & Company on their efforts !
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Back in Alleghany Cindy Edwards and our Lady 👩 Cavaliers Volleyball 🏐 team won 🏆a highly spirited match over their host Alleghany Cougars.
CCHS (10-5, 5-2) dropped their opening set 25-23 before stringing together three straight sets of 25- 18, 25-23 & 25-15. The team will return home 🏡 to host Glenvar on Tuesday night 🌙 on the Hill.
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Our Cross Country teams competed down in North Carolina Thursday and Coach Montgomery sent us all of the results for each of his teams. I posted them in the middle of the incredibly busy post 📫 that covered seven events last night but wanted to list them one more time –
The Varsity Boys 👦 competed as a squad and placed in fourth out of a 9 team meet. Davis Reitzel led the way by placing 4th overall and now the complete list of ALL Carroll County runners 🏃♂️
Results from Fisher River Park in Dobson.
Ethan Edwards-19:32.68. 13th
Luke Watson. 21:08.98. 34th
Avery Hart. 21:33.76. 41st
Garrison Wheatley. 22:26.89. 53rd
Ethan Sechrist. 22:48.00. 56th
Elijah Willis. 22:49.86. 57th
Jarib Cruz. 22:50.26. 59th
Micah Gwynn. 22:58.1. 61st
Preston Farmer. 26:32.39. 77th
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Varsity Girls-out of 60Amelia Forsyth. 25:53.46. 19thNahirana Cruz. 28:40.67. 39th
Katelyn Wheatley 30:03.88. 48th
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Middle School Boys-out of 67 : Wyatt Burian. 15:07.91. 32ndBrandon Lowry. 19:20.59. 59th
Diego Banegas. 21:22.64. 64th
Congratulations 👏👏👏 to All the competitors
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JV Volleyball 🏐 Coach celebrated his Birthday 🎂 💙 with his team in the Gymnasium last night.
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JV Football won 40-0 over James River on the Hill.
We were able to shine a light on 9 events — 3 Cross Country teams, 2 Fall Ball Softball Games, 2 Volleyball 🏐 matches, Boys 👦 Basketball 🏀 and JV 🏈🏈🏈 last night and this was made possible by Greg Talley, Shawn Montgomery, Kevin Burress, Donna Nester and yours truly.
I encourage you to go backwards to the as it was happening Post 📫 to soak it in. So what if I went from Laurel Fork to Durham by way of Alleghany.
It’s only crazy if you don’t believe in what you’re looking 🤷 to accomplish!
One final reason to smile 😃 was as I was checking in to the Hotel 🏨 my phone buzzed one last time with this nugget from Seattle
The M’s were down to the last couple of outs in their season when the plated two for a Walk 🚶♂️ Off ! Live to fight another Day !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 