Both Marc Motley and Anthony Barnes will look to take the next step 🚶♂️in their quest to finish on top of the Three Rivers District standings. The Coaches both took care of business earlier in the week by winning at Floyd County, where the action is guaranteed to be physical from start to finish.
Patrick County moved into the Three Rivers District at the start of the school year, guaranteeing a pair of contests with our closest US-58 neighbor to the East.
The Lady 👩 Cougars have picked up a couple of District wins in the early going before recently falling to Floyd County.
On the Boys 👦 side the team fell to 2-10 last night after falling to Alleghany. Both squads will be looking to protect their home court tonight against our Cavaliers.
Floyd, Virginia – Veteran Coach Marc Motley challenged his team at halftime to stick to his game plan and the Lady Cavaliers responded with 16 impressive minutes that carried the team to a Three Rivers District victory over host Floyd County, 71-54.
Carroll County had stumbled out of the gate, falling behind 12-5 in addition to Alyssa Ervin being saddled with her second foul in the opening quarter. Ervin avoided foul number three for the remainder of the contest but FCHS netted three straight 3-pointers late in the second quarter to tie the contest at 28-28 at the half.
The second half defense from the Cavaliers kept the pressure on the home team the rest of the way and a number of steals left to door open for the team to rack up 43 points in the second half.
Ervin led the offense with a game high 33 points (spread out evenly across the four quarters -8,9,8,8) but her ability to feed the basketball to open teammates was equally impressive. Both Katie Lam (19 points) and Sarah Alderman (10 points) joined Ervin in double figures before the games end. Alderman, playing highly energized down the stretch netted eight of her points in the fourth quarter.
Alderman sank four of five free throws down the stretch and Ervin added seven of nine from the stripe, leaving the team at 78% for the game.
Corrie Delp (4 pts), Callie Harris (3 pts) and Madison Lyons (2 pts) each added to the offense at critical times in the second half, keeping the home team from getting back into the contest.
The knockout blow came in the thirty seconds that overlapped the end of the third and start of the fourth quarter. With the lead at 42-37, Delp swiped a pass under the basket and converted the lay-up ahead of Harris sinking a 3- pointer before the horn and then Ervin finding Alderman alone for an And One on the opening play of the fourth quarter. The lead was suddenly in double figures and would remain that way until the final buzzer.
Coach Motley was quick to praise the defensive effort of Lam throughout the contest in addition to the effort he received across the board in the second half of play.
Carroll County will have a limited amount of time to celebrate the victory as they are scheduled to cross Lovers Leap for their initial District contest with newest member Patrick County at 5:30 pm Friday.
In the Junior Varsity contest Kayla Young netted 21 points to lead the Lady 👩 Cavaliers into Overtime in the opening contest. Floyd County prevailed in the extra period, 46-43 in a highly spirited game from beginning to end. Laynie-Jo Leonard added 10 points to join Young in double figures.
Both Faith Clontz and Raylee Goins finished with four points while Natalie Burress and Kenzey McMillan both scored a basket for the Lady Cavaliers in overtime.
The Junior Varsity team is finished for the week as the Friday games at Patrick County are Varsity only.
Two photos 📷 sent in by Deb…
Shout out to Marion Harris for his efforts 👏 with the live stream on Facebook
Floyd scores the first 5 but Carroll answers back with five of their own.
End of the 1st Quarter – Floyd County 12, Carroll County 9.
Plenty of energy and hustle from both sides. Number of jump balls forced is approaching double figures.
Great tidbit from Brandi Cochran – Mitchell, one of the two referees working tonights JV game worked one of Brandi’s games in College and is now working her daughters (CC) game tonight!
T.O. – (4:03) 2nd, Floyd 19-12
Halftime break – Floyd 23, CCHS 20
The official in the story
Getting ready for 2nd half
7 jump balls in second quarter alone.
Cavs take 1st lead, 24-23 on Raylee Goins follow shot. Cavs on a 12-4 run 🏃♂️…
TO – 1:13 (3) – Cavs lead 27-25!
Carroll County takes the third quarter by a score of 11-2, now lead 31-25.
Great play near the end of the 3rd when Faith Clontz finds Laynie-Jo Leonard under the basket 🧺 for a lay-up.
Floyd County scores 6 straight to cut it down to 2, 33-31. Kayla Young stops the streak.
Floyd County retakes the lead, 39-37 after the ever so rare four point possession. Cavs TO @ 0:37.4, down 39-37
Floyd TO, 0:22.6, up 2 with ball.
Cavs ball with 0:14.2 left….down 2
Kayla Young goes end 2 end a hits a floater to tie the game with 0:3.4 on the clock ⏰!
6:50 pm – we are headed to OT
39 All – 3:30 on the Clock for OT
Cavaliers call 📞 TO at 0:11.5 in OT, down 46-43.
Kayla Young launches a tying 3-pointer from near mid Court that bounces of the rim. (7:04pm). Floyd County 46, Carroll County 43 (OT)
Kayla Young finishes with 21 points and is joined in double figures by Laynie-Jo Leonard with 10 points.
Raylee Goins (4), Faith Clontz (4), Kenzey McMillan (2) and Natalie Burress (2) rounded out the scoring.
20:00 on the Clock now for the Varsity warm-ups.
Overtime Jump Ball…..
Captains meeting….
The Band is back in the House 🏠 once again !
Jump
Early TO, 5:29 – Cavs trail 7-3 and then 12-5 but finish out the quarter on a 9-4 run 🏃♂️. End of 1st – Floyd 16 -14..
Carroll County 23-19, Floyd TO (5:15)
We have reached halftime, tied at 28-28. Floyd County connected three straight 🔥 from deep to retake the lead before the Cavs tied it up at 28-28
A.S.P.N on The Hill 