Here’s a game story that will hopefully get picked up by a few outlets…
Galax, Virginia – Isaiah Easter took charge in the second half and his effort allowed Carroll County to pull away from a pesky Galax team, 60-38
The sophomore finished the first half with just four points and the team leading just 22-13. Ethan Richardson kept the team above water in the first half with a trio of 3-pointers but the rest of the team was struggling with the defense Galax was playing.
” Welcome to coming to Galax to play, they play tough, as usual alot of contact, we started out slow not finishing at the rim,” said Head Coach Anthony Barnes. “Overall our stats were not terrible 41% from floor, 38% from 3pt line, only 7 turnovers, I will take up for them , Glenvar pushed us hard and home 2nd game in a row, not much down time with school too. :”
The combination of trying hard to make up all of the games lost to the weather and the contest being the second of three straight might of had the team a half step off their best game. Easter was the one to step up in the second half and started to dominate the contest. Seven points in the third quarter followed by seven more in the fourth left Easter with a career high 18 points.
If Easter was Batman on the night then Cody Reece was his Robin. The junior spent the first half sacrificing his body in the post before dropping a career high 10 points down the stretch.
The defensive intensity was there from the get go and allowed the Cavaliers to limit a talented Galax team to 38 points on the night. They saying of speed never goes into a slump can be extended to neither does the ability to play in your grill defense
” Davis nor Bryce could get going , but great thing about us we are a TEAM, 18 pts from Easter and 12 from Richardson which had a good night on both ends and 10 from Reece,” added Barnes. “Sometimes games look odd when not scoring the way we can in 2:00 min like crazy. Now onto a third one in a row , thankfully at home hopefully with the pedal to metal.”
Davis Reitzel finished with nine points and Bryce Smoot netted seven so once again, even on an off night the team finished with five players scoring at least seven points.
Galax went on a mini run in the third quarter, trimming a 30-18 lead down to just six points. The next sixty seconds is when Easter put his stamp on the game, starting with a hard drive to the basket on one end and a poster level block shot on the other. He ended any doubt with another drive down the lane for two and then teamed up with Jabin Talley after stealing the inbounds pass. Just like that the Cavaliers had scored 21 points in the third quarter after finishing the opening half with just 22 points on the board.
Reece went into the fourth quarter with just two points before dropping eight more in a flurry. CCHS, as they had the night before versus Glenvar, simply wore down their opponent. Brayden Smoot didn’t score in the game but he looked like the energizer bunny out there, especially on the defensive end.
Friday night the team is back on The Hill to finish off three games in three nights. James River will make the trip down I-81.
Here are some notes – I would normally add a paragraph about the JV game in this spot but tonight I gave them their own gamer.
What happens from here is Allen will take the story, tweak it and then add the official box score that Coach Barnes sent him. After that NewsBreak will pick it up and before you know it 20,000 people have read it.
This group of young men has done everything their Coach has asked of them and their record reflects that.
Hopefully we made some folks smile today !
A.S.P.N on The Hill 