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Four Seniors in one star studded Class and three of them having been chasing Ghosts 👻 of Carroll County High School 🏫 history while the fourth is saying, just like Ray Parker Jr, I ain’t afraid of “Know ” Ghosts.
We were fortunate enough to spent the Winter months watching 👀 Alyssa Ervin chase down Erin Gibson for the prestigious honor 🎖 of being the All-Time scoring leader in School history. Ervin didn’t stop there as the Elon University bound player crossed the 2,000 point barrier before finishing her four year career.
Ervin put the record at a point where it will be interesting to see if its ever broken! Ghost 👻 Busted !
Ashlyn Newman had a different Ghost 👻 to chase down in her pursuit of the title as the schools All-Time scoring leader in Soccer ⚽️. While Gibson and Ervin were separated by decades, the chase in Soccer was a family 👪 thing.
The Newman family 👪 and the Harris family 👪 have combined to place five daughters in the Girls 👧 Soccer program in the past decade so when Ashlyn Newman surpassed Adrienne Harris with her 72nd goal this week it felt like a natural thing to have happen.
Callie Harris, the youngest of the trio of Soccer players raised by Marion and Shelia, leads the current team in assists with the majority of the feeds leading to a Newman goal. Ashlyn closed out her chase with a pair of unbelievable six goal games in the past two weeks. Allen Worrell of The Carroll News is currently working on a feature story about the younger of the Newman sisters. It should be an enjoyable take on the four year effort from Newman to track down a Ghost 👻 that she actually grew up around.
Moving to our third Ghost 👻 Buster, or actually still a Ghost 👻 chaser for now, Emma Leath. Leath currently sits 49 strikeouts behind the School record held by possibly the Biggest Ghost 👻 of All in Sydney Nester.
Nester finished her extended College career last season at Marshall University. Starting out at North Carolina State before heading up to Huntington, Nester led the Country in K’s for part of her final season. Nester also was a major part of the program that captured the very first team State Championship in CCHS history. The purpose of the story is not the size of the Ghosts, as Gibson also went on to play College Basketball at Virginia Tech.
Carroll County has seven regular season games remaining and the gap is currently 49 to tie, 50 to break. Leath will get her next chance to hang some more K’s later today when the team plays at Floyd County. Averaging 7 strikeouts a game the rest of the way would put Leath on the doorstep of Nester’s mark.
The final member of this Mount Rushmore of 2024 Cavaliers is our Tennis 🎾 player Jabin Talley. Talley teamed with Ethan Richardson in doubles Wednesday at Patrick County High School 🏫 to capture his 58th match while playing for CCHS.
Sadly for Talley, the tennis 🎾 stats aren’t readily available as they are in other sports. This fact robbed Talley of his Ghost 👻 to chase down but that simply should not dimminsh the story of his four year career.
This fall Talley will make Cavalier history again when he starts his college career at Southwest Virginia Community College. Talley will become the initial alum to play tennis 🎾 at the next level when he plays for the Flying Eagles.
Talley chased down a Ghost 👻 and will continue to add to his impressive total with a number of matches left to play. The fact that we cannot correctly identify said Ghost shouldn’t change the narrative.
Success at the next level is never promised or guaranteed but its safe to say that even 10 years from now folks will be comparing Senior classes to the Four Ghostbusters that played together from 2021-2024!
A.S.P.N on The Hill 