Day: April 24, 2024

Martin McKenzie is fast becoming a Hero of mine and that’s not easy to do!

One of the biggest obstacles in trying hard to create a user friendly site that shares all the results available on a given night 🌙 is getting scores and information from folks after one of our teams comes up on the wrong end of the scoreboard.

I am coming at this from the standpoint that even when we don’t win a game the following things still happened – our Student Athletes still put on their uniforms / jerseys, gave of their time.

The parents still blocked 🚫 off their day to watch their beloved children. They pay admission costs, eat Concession Stand food and arrive back 🏡 late.

There’s no need to breakdown the game, match or meet in great detail or point to a player or Coach as the reason the team didn’t win. But not even acknowledging the game took place isn’t the answer, at least not in my mind.

The most read story on the site yesterday came from Alleghany, where the JV Softball team dropped a double header to a talented Lady 👩 Cougars team. Even though we lost both games, young Bayliegh Allen connected on a pair of Home Runs and that in itself makes for a story.

Obviously I am fighting an uphill battle on this one but its a battle worth fighting in my mind.

Tonight , I celebrate our new friend, Coach Martin McKenzie !!! In our very first conversation last week I encouraged him to use the platform we have provided as often as possible, win – lose – or draw.

The number of tennis 🎾 matches that have been postponed will make the playing of double headers a very common thing for the balance of the Spring. Both of our teams played twin bills today and the Girls came up short in their efforts but their Coach still was comfortable with the efforts of his squad, enough to put pen 🖊 to paper 📃 and that Sir, makes you my Hero !

Coach McKenzie checks ✔ in after a double dip with Pulaski County on The Hill…

Well, it is a post no coach wants to put on, but here we go. We played Pulaski in a doubleheader this afternoon. We played one full match and the second was a condensed version. Our girls tried their best, but it was not our day. I am still proud of each one of them for the class that they showed in the loss.

The Pulaski coach told me, after the match, that his girls only had compliments for our girls in how they played today. He also said that they enjoyed playing us because of the class our girls showed them even in defeat.

That brings our record to 2-2 for the season.

Match 1-Singles:
Seed 1-Emma lost 8-2
Seed 2-Alexis lost 8-2
Seed 3-Khloe lost 9-7
Seed 4-Maiya lost 8-2
Seed 5-Tiffany lost 8-1
Seed 6-Hallie lost 8-0

Doubles:
Seed 1-Emma and Alexis lost 8-6
Seed 2-Khloe and Maiya lost 8-2
Seed 3-Tiffany and Hallie lost 8-0

Match 2, first to 5 wins.
Sigles:
Seed 1-Emma lost 8-3
Seed 2-Alexis lost 8-1
Seed 4-Maiya lost 8-0
Seed 5-Tiffany lost 8-3
Seed 6-Hallie lost 8-0

Coach, Thank You for sharing 🙏 the results. We like to acknowledge the effort of our Student Athletes every chance we can, even when the end up on the short end of a scoreboard.

Year #1 of assisting Coach Montgomery has drawn to a close after our Senior Day Track 👣 & Field Meet…

Elias Sample

Escorted by Adam & Tonya Gardner

Favorite Track Moment : Brayden Smoot falling while trying to hurdle a hurdle backwards.

Future Plans – To attend Wytheville Community College…

That is what it would have sounded like if read correctly and without interruption.

Happy Birthday 🎂 once again to Miss Sarah Alderman !

Radford, Carroll County and part of Floyd County participated in today’s Three River District Track 👣 and Field meet. The ceremony for the 14 Seniors took place just before the start of the meet.

Will add the results once they are readily available !

Girls Team Scores

1.  Carroll  76

2.  Radford  20

3.  Floyd 16

Boys Team Scores

1. Carroll 74

2  Radford  33

3.  Floyd   14

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Boys 4 x 800 Relay  1st 11:50.92 (Rui Miyashita, Samuel Collins, Luke Watson, Ethan Dalton)

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Girls 100 Hurdles

Savannah Swecker 1st 18.84

Alexis Montgomery 2nd  19.78

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Girls 100

Corrie Delp  2nd 13.32

Bristol Delp   3rd  13.57

Reagan Mankins  4th   14.21

Amelia Dalton  5th  15.0

Carleigh Willard  6th  15.55

Abby Osbourne  7th  18.09

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Boys 100

Brayden Smoot 2nd  11.42

Davis Reitzel   3rd     11.80

Sean Staples  4th      11.87

Samuel Collins 6th   12.13

Brendan Farris  7th  12.30

Branson France  8th  12.69

Nathanael Dalton 9th  12.83

Mohammad Monsour  10th  12.95

Glenn Heiston  11th  13.58

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Girls  1600

Amelia Forsyth  1st  7:03.85

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Boys 1600

Rui Miyashita   1st  5:29.12

Ethan Edwards   2nd  5:40.12

Samuel Collins  3rd  7:01.32

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Girls 4 x 100

Team A  1st 54.85  (Savannah Swecker, Alexis Montgomery, Alyssa Ervin, Corrie Delp)

Team B 2nd   59.58  (Bristol Delp, Reagan Mankins, Alivia Hanshaw, Amelia Dalton)

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Boys 4 x 100

Team A 1st  47.81 (Elias Sample, Nathanael Dalton, Brayden Smoot, Sean Staples)

Team B   51.29  (Mohammad Monsour, Brendan Farris, Glenn Heiston, Branson France)

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Girls 400

Alyssa Ervin   1st  1:09.15

Alivia Hanshaw  3rd  1:17.31

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Boys 400

Brayden Smoot 1st   54.11

Davis Reitzel   2nd    54.94

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Girls 800

Amelia Forsyth   2nd  3:09.22

Alivia Hanshaw   3rd  2:51.35

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Boys  800

Micah Gwynn 3rd  2:51.55

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Girls 200

Corrie Delp  1st  29.49

Amelia Dalton  4th  33.53

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Boys 200

Sean Staples  1st  25.28

Mohammad Monsour  3rd  27.38

Casen Love   4th     27.72

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Boys 3200

Micah Gwynn  14.07.69

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Girls High Jump

Alyssa Ervin  1st  4′ 10″

Savannah Swecker  2nd  4′  2″

Amelia Forsyth      3rd   4′ 2″

Attempted:  Abby Osbourne,  Amelia Dalton

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Boys High Jump

Brendan Farriss 1st  5′ 0″

Sean Staples    2nd   5′ 0″

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Girls Triple Jump

Amelia Dalton  1st  26′  11″

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Boys Triple Jump

Nathanael Dalton  2nd  37′ 1″

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Girls Long Jump

Corrie Delp  1st  14′  5″

Savannah Swecker  2nd  13′  10″

Amelia Dalton   3rd     12′  4″

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Boys Long Jump

Nathanael Dalton  2nd  17′  2″

Sean Staples    5th    15′  3″

Brendan Farris  6th  15′ 2 “

Mohammad Monsour  7th  15′ 2″  

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Girls Discus

Sarah Alderman  4th   73′  6.75″

Neila Steart   7th   70′  1″

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Boys Discus

Davis Reitzel  1st   128′  11′

Glenn Heiston  6th  95′  2″

Dalton Norman  7th  92′  3″

Ashton Coe  12th    86′  11.5″

Branson France  14th  83′  10.5″

Carter Rodriguez  16th  75′  0.5″

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Girls Shot Put

Sarah Alderman  1st  27′  8.75″

Neila Steart   6yh  23′  1.75″

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Boys Shot Put

Davis Reitzel  2nd  41′  2.5″

Branson France  5th  36′  8.25″

Dalton Norman  9th  33′  4″

Ashton Coe  10th  32′  1.25″

Carter Rodriguez  14th  27′  8.5″