Carroll County Sports Report Team Storyline –

Carroll County shook off any Holiday rust after the first quarter, cruising to a 71-48 victory over East Wilkes High School in the opening round of the Danny Jonas Invitational Tournament Wednesday night at Fort Chiswell High School. Davis Reitzel led the Cavaliers in scoring with 27 points, including his first game with two crowd pleasing dunks. Bryce Smoot joined Reitzel in double figures with 18 points for Head Coach Anthony Barnes.

The team raced out of the gate by scoring nine quick points with four players contributing but cooled off long enough to allow EWHS to pull within 20-14 by the end of the first quarter.

” I Felt like first 4 min ,

we looked good, had high energy,” said Barnes. ” Ifeel like we got satisfied and comfortable, then we turned it back up,”.

Once the team became fully engaged they were flirting with perfection on both ends of the court. The Cavaliers matched their 20 point first quarter with 20 more in the second frame but this time limited EWHS to just nine points over those eight minutes. Leading by 17 at the break, Carroll County kept the pressure on coming out of the break. The Cavaliers netted the first 10 points of the third quarter to eliminate any doubt (50-23) in the outcome minus the final margin of victory. Reitzel added both of his dunks in that five basket window, much to the delight of both the crowd and his teammates.

Barnes once again was able to spread the minutes across all 11 members of the team and eight of the group broke into the scoring column before the final buzzer.

 Carroll County was joined in the winners bracket by Narrows, Radford and Pulaski County with the Bobcats being the Semi-final opponent for the Cavaliers. The match-up will allow CCHS to get a sneak peak at one of the teams that figure to challenge for the Three Rivers District championship.

” We took really good care of the basketball, 10 turnovers for the game, ” Barnes added. ” We really looked impressive in transition, big night for Davis with 27, Bryce with 18.”

Sitting at a perfect 7-0 with new challenges awaiting his team the next two days has Barnes enjoying the moment but staying equally focused on the next ballgame.

“We have a ton of weapons and too be off for Christmas and not playing for couple weeks all in all I’m happy with results for tonight” Barnes added. “We will face off with tough Radford team tomorrow at 7. On too the next one hopefully with gas on the peddle to the floor.”

The Junior Varsity team also opened play against a 5-2 squad from EWHS. The younger Cavaliers also prevailed, 51-42 behind the scoring combo of Dane Leonard and Hayden Jackson. The Cavs has won three straight now and will play in the Semi-finals Thursday afternoon.

What should happen from here is this story goes to both Coach Barnes and Allen Worrell. Hopefully Coach will add a complete Box Score to it and Allen can run 🏃‍♂️ 🙏 with it !

The Junior Varsity Boys 👦 are about to tip off at 1pm – EST up at Fort Chiswell High School 🏫 and this post will stay open until we have provided the Final Scores and all of the information we get sent in.

Plus ➕ one update on a story we shared before Christmas about a local tragedy. It’s encouraging to see the Community rallying around one of their own !

 On to the Hoops !

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JV Boys 👦 continue on their Hot 🔥 Streak with another victory !

Coach Stockner relayed the Book to Kris Richardson and now we can share the Joy !!!

Our JV won 51-42. They move forward in the Winner’s Bracket !

Next Game – 1pm tomorrow versus winner of Radford – Tazewell !

Congratulations 👏👏👏

6-17-18-10= 51, quarter breakdown

Strong 💪 middle quarters, led by Dane Leonard and Hayden Jackson but plenty of other Cavaliers joined in the scoring !

 Greg Talley has checked in early and reports that Fort Chiswell leads Narrows 19-8 near the end of the 1st Quarter.

Radford 52-46 over a winless Tazewell (0-7) team earlier today. Carroll County will face one of those teams tomorrow (Day 2).

Narrows has tied it up at 25 (still 2nd)

Narrows 28 – 27 @ the Half

Fort regains the lead at the end of the 3rd, 46-43.

 Carroll County Boys have next !

Fort leads by 2 with 1:07 to go, 59-57

San Diego rental car center with a Bee Hive design made with F-150 side view mirrors!

Narrows closes out strong to edge Fort

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Carroll County –

Cavs up 7-0
4 different players scoring
Jabin opened with a 3 , Isiah
Ethan and Bryce with 2 =9!

Cavs, 11-9 & 20-14 @ end of 1st quarter

You know that you’re Married to the Right Person when you’re enjoying Dinner at her favorite restaurant in San Diego and she doesn’t mind me posting about Basketball back Home !

 Pictures from Donna Nester

Next batch will be from Greg Talley…

Cavs now lead 29-18!

Boys Varsity trying to keep the Cavaliers perfect for the Holidays. JV teams are 4-0 & counting !

 Lead out to 35-18

Varsity Girls should be getting ready to Tip !

40-23 cavs at the half . We still
A little rusty per Greg

Another set of Pictures from Donna

50-23 after a pair of Davis Reitzel slam dunks !!!

Cavs 56-25 !

57-34 as the Cards rally 9-1.

Win 71-48, will face Radford tomorrow night back at the Fort !

 More coverage still to come !

Out here its 7-7, start 9f the 2nd quarter. Still hoping to hear from someone who is down in South Carolina.

Greg showed up early and stayed late

Pulaski leads the nightcap, 10-8

@ Half – Pulaski County 23, Grayson County 19

Looks like Pulaski County held on for a 45-42 victory over Grayson County in the final game of the evening.

Narrows vs Pulaski County &

Carroll County vs Radford in the Winners 🏆 Bracket tomorrow.

Carolina Lowcountry Invitational – 2023

The schedule 📅 for the Girls 👧

Game #6 of 6 has the Ladies of Carroll County square off with First Baptist of Charleston. Exactly 20 years ago our three younger Children all played Basketball 🏀 against First Baptist !

 Friday they play at 3pm and 9am on Saturday. Marion will be in the building for Game 2 & 3, keeping us in the loop!

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JV Boys 👦 – @ Fort Chiswell High

1pm – The Boys 👦 JV opens play at 1pm on Wednesday against a tough Cardinals team and their next game depends on an opening Win or Loss.

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Varsity Boys 👦 get underway at 7pm and the team has been placed in the upper half of the bracket with Radford.

CCHS owns Wins against 3 of the 4 teams in the lower half of the bracket with Narrows being the exception.

 Exciting Times for three squads at the same time and we will do our best to shine an equal light on all of them !

 #GoCavs !

 The JV Girls 👧 set the bar fairly high last week when they completed a perfect week in the event at Fort Chiswell. Starting tomorrow our three remaining teams will each start their journey. Both of the Boys 👦 teams will be heading up US-52 to play in the event being played at Fort Chiswell while the Girls 👧 are set to compete in a 64 team event down in Charleston, South Carolina.

 All information is welcome, including easy things like Start times & opponents for any of the Wednesday games. What we do know is that Both of the Varsity squads sit at 6-0 on the season and the JV Boys 👦 are riding a two game winning streak.

 Hopefully everyone 🙏 was able to spend Christmas with someone who they 💘 !

Our first update comes curtosey of Kris Richardson !

Tomorrow, the JV plays East Wilkes at 1:00 pm
Varsity plays East Wilkes at 7 pm.

The Cardinals enter the game with a record of 3-3, having most recently fallen to Mt.Airy.

 The Cardinals JV Boys 👦 are 5-2.

Hand ✋ Modeling !

JV Bracket ! Each team guarenteed three games in three days.

Varsity Bracket – also 3 games in 3 Days !

 Thanks Kris !